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  • The fact that they are devoting two hours to tell the first part of the story gives me a lot of confidence that they are taking the time to tell the story in a deliberate way. I have written elsewhere that this series really reminds me of Mushishi and everything I liked about that show, so I am super excited that they seem to be giving it the pacing that it needs to help the story hit.





  • This is interesting and I wish that he went into some more detail on how they spray dry without destroying protein activity. I actually have some first-hand experience trying to develop a spray drying method for antibody solutions for immunotherapy products. Ultimately, I left that company, but the real big problem was that most antibodies can’t survive the temperature needed for spray drying. For this reason, usually freeze drying is used instead (there are even techniques for spray freeze drying). They claim that the process inactivates viral capsids, but preserves antibody activity and having worked with both in the past, that seems like a bold claim.


  • I don’t think they have given a complete list of what will be included. For the first two episodes it is as follows based on a quick scan of the manga. I don’t really have the time to go through the whole first season, but as you can see from episode 1, they are likely to jump around a bit.

    Episode Manga Chapters
    Episode 1 6, 40
    Episode 2 47-50

    Edit: I did go back through some of the first season, but I ran out of time, so here is the first half the season (roughly):

    Episode Manga Chapters
    Episode 1 1-3
    Episode 2 4, 7, 9
    Episode 3 10-13
    Episode 4 16-20
    Episode 5 21-24
    Episode 6 26-27, 29-30
    Episode 7 34-37








  • Yeah, even comments here haven’t seemed to read the article. As somebody that used to install BOINC on all my machines back in the day, the reason I stopped is that many of the projects I ran (SETI being one) aren’t active any longer. Also, like the article mentioned, I just don’t have a desktop anymore and I am not about to run something like this on a laptop that doesn’t have things like user-serviceable or replaceable parts.


  • I think that @saccharomyces@mander.xyz provided a great response for the specific case of flow in a pipe.

    I just want to add that if you look beyond the restrictions of flow in a pipe, there are many other types of behavior that non-Newtonian fluids exhibit. We measure this in the lab on instruments called rheometers. Basically, we put some liquid in the instrument and then deform it and measure the resistance to that deformation. One of the most common ways to apply that deformation is to do so back and forth in an oscillating manner. Depending on the frequency at which you apply this strain, the solid/liquid-like behavior can change. If you have some background in physics or want to get a decent understanding, I found this paper that, on skimming it, seems to be pretty consistent with the way I was taught this stuff in grad school.

    One graph I want to point out is Figure 13 which shows what would be a “typical” viscoelastic polymer solution. An easy way to understand this graph is that as we go from left to right, we are applying strain back and forth quicker and quicker, essentially shaking it faster. When the G’ value is higher than the G" value, then the material is behaving more like a solid and conversely, when G" > G’, then it is behaving more like a liquid. You can see that the material goes through different phases of behavior as the strain frequency changes. Just for you I went and dug up an old graph from my thesis to show a real-life example of this happening too.

    My favorite demonstration of this is to put Oobleck (or something similar) onto a speaker and then change the frequency and see what happens.



  • Happy to answer questions in my field (Physics/Material Science PhD, currently work in pharma R&D). I don’t tend to see the pinned posts beyond the first day or so since I usually just browse subscribed/hot rather than checking out individual communities (also currently on vacation). So, for visibility’s sake, I think it preferable to keep questions as separate posts. If the volume of question posts grows too large, that could facilitate the creation of /c/askscience perhaps.

    With that said, if a pinned post is the decision, I don’t mind somebody pinging my username to answer a question I might not see. Perhaps building a list of volunteers in different fields that are willing to answer?








  • So, it has been a while since I read the manhwa (I haven’t read the original webnovel), but I am overall pleased with how the adaptation has gone so far. You could definitely tell that there were very limited budgets. There are so many instances of slideshow animations or just still images, but they seemed to invest heavily in making beautiful stills and backgrounds.

    My major complaint about the show is that, in general, it has gone very slowly. I expected them to be further along in the story after 12 episodes, but the pacing has been plodding at best. If my memory serves, I think they adapted 3 of the 7 volumes of the manhwa. I understand that a lot of shows tend to go too quickly, but this show just seems to drag out every conversation like it is padding for time (maybe to help stretch the animation budget too).

    Overall happy with the show so far and hope that if it gets a second season it gets a bit more resources thrown its way.


  • Posted this below, but the fine is from an unrelated, earlier incident in Alabama. From what I found on jalopnik:

    Earlier this year, a worker was killed by being sucked into an airplane engine in Alabama on New Year’s Eve. The employee in that scenario was warned several times that the plane’s engines would be on, however. Still, OSHA hit the small airline Piedmont with a fine of $15,625 in the workers death.

    This incident with Delta that happened in Texas is under investigation. I would be surprised if no safety procedures were violated in this incident. Well-written safety procedures that are followed should make this almost impossible to happen.







  • That’s fair. I couldn’t find much info on their website, so I assumed this was another make insulin cheap using “biohacking” deal. I don’t have any experience with small molecule synthesis or dry powder manufacturing, so I can’t really speak to how feasible this may be. However, having seen first-hand all the ways simple manufacturing steps can go wrong, the risk of consuming a medication that hasn’t been through rigorous QA/QC makes me very wary.