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An existing treatment for stroke is much more useful than previously thought. How much more useful? "“These striking results will have an immediate impact and save people from lifelong disability or death,' Dr. Walter J. Koroshetz, director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, said in a statement. 'I really cannot overstate the size of this effect.' A thrombectomy is an operation to remove large blood clots from the brain. Traditionally, the operation's effective time window was thought to be six hours. A recent clinical trial has determined that the window is actually up to sixteen hours for certain types of strokes. The study was terminated early due to its unambiguously good results.
posted by storybored at 9:23 PM PST - 16 comments

The lost art of looking at plants "Plant biologists hope that, by combining new approaches to botany with data from genomics and imaging labs, they can provide better answers to questions that biologists have asked for more than 100 years: how genes and the environment shape the rich diversity of plants’ physical forms. "
posted by dhruva at 8:07 PM PST - 9 comments

samandmax.co.uk has the Sam and Max Hit the Road design document (PDF)
posted by juv3nal at 3:01 PM PST - 29 comments

The Global Heat Map, published in November 2017 by the GPS tracking company Strava (FitBit, JawBone, Vitofit), used satellite information to map the location and movements of subscribers to the company’s fitness service - including subscribers who were active-duty troops patrolling sensitive sites. WaPo picks up the story:

Nathan Rusen ... was inspired to look more closely, he said, after a throwaway comment by his father, who observed that the map offered a snapshot of “where rich white people are” in the world. “I wondered, does it show U.S. soldiers?” he said, and immediately zoomed in on Syria. “It sort of lit up like a Christmas.” (WaPo article by Liz Sly.)

posted by RedOrGreen at 1:35 PM PST - 106 comments

Melissa Etheridge's second album, 1989's Brave And CrazySide A: No Souvenirs [video], Brave And Crazy, You Used To Love To Dance, The Angels [video], You Can Sleep While I Drive [video] [more inside]
posted by hippybear at 11:42 AM PST - 5 comments

BBC: Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad dies in Sweden at 91. [more inside]
posted by ZeusHumms at 11:11 AM PST - 85 comments

'Fame proved toxic for the relationship': when comedy double acts split
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 6:20 AM PST - 34 comments

Scientific Victory [Games by Angelina] “Last week a few games sites covered the fact that the Cambridge Center for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER), a lab which investigates safety issues associated with things like artificial intelligence, had released a Civilisation V mod about the risk of superintelligent AI. Here’s what Rock, Paper, Shotgun quoted designer and CSER researcher Shahar Avin as saying about the project:

“We want to let players experience the complex tensions and difficult decisions that the path to superintelligent AI would generate,” said the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk’s Dr. Shahar Avin, who managed the project. “Games are an excellent way to deliver a complex message to a wide audience.”

This is a blog post about why games are not always an excellent way to deliver a complex message to a wide audience.” [more inside]
posted by Fizz at 5:39 AM PST - 36 comments