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How my daughter ended up figure skating with Nathan Chen in an Xfinity ad

How my daughter ended up figure skating with Nathan Chen in an Xfinity ad

"\"TweetShareShareThe 2022 Beijing Olympics opening ceremony is happening now. My daughter is not an Olympian. But she recently skated with one in an Xfinity ad. It’s here: Lily 18, is in her first year at UCLA studying chemistry. She has...

February 3, 2022 toddneff #Figure Skating, #Nathan Chen, #UCLA, #Xfinity #Lily Neff 2401

A look inside opioid addiction and how to address it

"\"TweetShareShareThe central act of Larry Harrison\\u2019s day is to tip back a couple of ounces of liquid that tastes like pink cough...

January 6, 2022 toddneff ARTS, MAT, methadone, Opioid addiction, substance use disorder 195

COVID-19: What we’ve learned since the beginning of the pandemic

"\"TweetShareShareI wrote this one for UCHealth Today; it posted a couple of weeks ago. With the Omicron variant, we’re going to have to keep learning. As of this writing, the big question is whether this highly contagious variant (R0 of...

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UCLA Parents’ Weekend: A few impressions

UCLA Parents’ Weekend: A few impressions

"\"TweetShareShareA dad’s experience gets him to thinking about his own college life — and lasting...

October 29, 2021 toddneff #KappaKappaGamma, #ParentsWeekend, #UCLA 886
Don’t fear the “mu”

Don’t fear the “mu”

"\"TweetShareShareThe most-read story on the Washington Post website yesterday (Friday, Sept. 3) was about the “mu” (pronounced “myu,” like what a cat says when it can’t be bothered to fully meow) COVID-19 variant....

September 4, 2021 toddneff #coronavirus, #Covid-19, #muvariant 456

The coronavirus booster shot is, ethically speaking, meat.

"TweetShareShareI recently had a conversation with a vegan friend of mine. The conversation was drifting into the ethical and moral arguments for and against the consumption of meat. This sometimes happens with vegans. I’m not a vegan, nor a...

August 23, 2021 toddneff #booster, #coronavirus, #Covid-19, #vaccine, #vegan 723

Going to Greece? Crib off me.

"\"TweetShareShareBeen back a week from a long-planned two-week trip to Greece. This was a risk \\u2013 booked in April before the coronavirus Delta variant had emerged with ferocity. I\\u2019ve written dozens of articles about covid and believed...

August 22, 2021 toddneff #Athens, #Delphi, #Greece, #Nafplio, #Olympia, #Otontotos, #Santorini 464

Maria’s cousin is dead because Republicans are a bunch of pussies

"\"TweetShareShareI occasionally volunteer as a COVID-10 at the Salud Family Health Center in Commerce City, Colo. It\\u2019s a nice change of pace from my day \\u201cjob\\u201d at the keyboard. I use the only complete sentence in my Spanish...

May 28, 2021 toddneff #Gunlobby, #KevinMcCarthy, #MitchMcConnel, #Republican, #SanJoseMassShooting 647
So you’re chaperoning a soccer team in Las Vegas

So you’re chaperoning a soccer team in Las Vegas

"\"TweetShareShareFirst of all, my condolences. But then, you will have the pleasure of watching several youth soccer games in succession, most likely under a ridiculously hot sun. That aside, here are a few tips to make your stay more pleasant...

May 17, 2021 toddneff #chaperoning, #LasVegasMayorsCup, Colorado Rapids Youth Soccer Club 1139
A glimpse of the future on Galveston Island

A glimpse of the future on Galveston Island

"\"TweetShareShareHead a few miles up the beach from downtown Galveston and you can see the future. Galveston Island, like much of the Texas coast, is a spit of sand. Along its eastern flank runs hard-packed, broad beach more suited to strolling,...

April 6, 2021 toddneff climate change, Galveston Island, sea level rise 1199

Podcast recommendation: Revolution at Sea

"\"TweetShareShareI was watching an episode of the truly insane, brilliant Cartoon Network Adult Swim mainstay \\u201cRick and Morty\\u201d last night. As Rick, Morty, and Summer approached an alien planet too strange to recount here (though...

March 13, 2021 toddneff 856

A Brief History of Automotive Lidar

"\"TweetShareShareMost of this brief history went unchanged, being history. But lidar\\u2019s been a continuing story, so some updates were in...

February 22, 2021 toddneff #lidar, #lidarhistory, Carnegie Mellon, DARPA Grand Challenge, David Hall, Field Robotics Center, Red Whittaker, Velodyne 897
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10 May

Study Finds Flying On Airplane Far Safer Than Flying In Car https://www.theonion.com/study-finds-flying-on-airplane-far-safer-than-flying-in-1848704592?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=_twitter

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21 Apr

May @jaredpolis veto a waste-of-time idea that enshrines inflexibility and consigns kids to waiting for school buses in the winter darkness. https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/local-politics/permanent-daylight-saving-time-colorado-bill/73-a29f5b75-5eae-447a-852e-69b1e2d164c8

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13 Apr

What happens when a group of Fox News viewers watch CNN for a month? https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/apr/11/fox-news-viewers-watch-cnn-study?CMP=share_btn_tw

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