Agreed, the drops under the tongue are a lot easier to do at home than the needles. Though I’m not sure about delivery - for whatever reason my allergist always required me to pick them up in person from his office. Not sure if that’s regulation or just a quirk of that one practice.

You are not permitted hot coffee, warm milk, or a yogurt drink. You are permitted 750g of cottage cheese, each day, for a month.

Aerodynamic drag increases with the square of velocity so the math checks out. Every additional 10mph is going to have a far greater impact than those before.

Those vehicle warranty ads are so insidious. The ones I get use packaging that’s typically reserved for official government mailers and sometimes include the name of a govt agency that has nothing to do with them.

Whenever I throw one out I imagine how many elderly people must be mistaking them for govt business and getting fleeced out of their money.

A name is a noun, not a pronoun, but the site seems to allow “none/use name” as an option.

Also an important factor in preventing birth defects during pregnancy

The Red Mars series of books by Kim Stanley Robinson includes a range of measures that humans take to terraform the red planet, one of which is building robots to drill “moholes,” or holes that reach the Mohorovicic discontinuity between crust and mantle layers. Yes, they are giant volcanoes, and in the books the outgassing from these volcanoes is a strategy to increase the density and particularly the infrared absorption of the Martian atmosphere.

Duolingo isn’t especially good for Japanese. It works better for languages more similar to English in sentence structure where you’re making more simple substitutions between English and foreign words.

I second WaniKani as being good for learning kanji, but for grammar I think an old-school textbook/workbook is really helpful in learning the basics. I like Genki I & II as a grammar tutorial but there are others like Minna no Nihongo that others like more.

Illiteracy in developed countries usually refers to functional illiteracy, not a complete unfamiliarity with letters and words.

Functional illiteracy means your ability to read and write is insufficient for you to function effectively in society. Functionally illiterate people may be able to read to some limited extent, but might read too poorly or slowly to process the types of written information they encounter on a day-to-day basis. These people would not be able to understand forms at the doctor’s office, the instructions on their taxes, the terms of credit card agreements, the contents of important mail, and other material that might be important for them to understand.

They shut my BaconReader off this evening so I’m also a refugee. Also just learning the ropes!