Notices by Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org), page 18

Behind the scenes, literally

Some person in my little region of the world has been diagnosed with ~locally transmitted~ dengue fever carried by the invasive mosquitoes that have become endemic here.

What a thrill!

It's ok. Touch it.

Estrogen plays many important roles in health and fertility, but monitoring its levels in the body requires a patient to have their blood drawn.

A new wearable sweat sensor aims to change that, and can provide the user with real-time monitoring beamed to a smart phone.

The secret to making it work? Synthetic DNA.

It's my latest for work:

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/wearable-patch-wirelessly-monitors-estrogen-in-sweat

I love that a product as specific as a single-button radio that*only* picks up the NOAA weather radio station was ever sold

I passed the ham radio license test. Ugh, I'm officially registered as a nerd with the government now

I can't believe I've grown up to be bad at sleeping. You literally just have to unconscious and not do anything for eight hours.

This is my favorite color

I found some extremely good fabric at the thrift store right now

A cute VHS rewinder

It would be nice if we still had local news coverage so I could find out what this is all about

The grocery store has "catfish chunks" on sale so I got a wild idea and made a po'boy for dinner

A growing family

@amy tongue used to be cheap here, too, but now it's obscenely expensive. i don't know what happened!

@amy No, demographics here haven't changed much. I started poking around online right now and it looks like prices tripled to quadrupled around 2015-16, but I haven't found out why.

@amy I do recall seeing a capital C chef kind of guy on Food Network cooking one in a sous vide machine and then slicing it and searing it to make a fancy sandwich. White people here would eat that.

@amy Ah, here we go. The Japanese developed a taste for beef tongue and they import a lot of it now.

https://www.columbian.com/news/2014/dec/21/japan-soaring-demand-cow-tongue-drives-us-exports/

Does anyone else on here sometimes get the notification sound but no notification to go with it?

I love to accidentally brush a cactus

Duct tape works well for removing these, btw