For anyone interested in what they used:

“Individuals assigned to the olfactory enrichment group were provided with an odorant diffuser (Diffuser World) and 7 essential oil odorants (rose, orange, eucalyptus, lemon, peppermint, rosemary, and lavender; from The Essential Oil Company, Portland, OR) in identical glass vials that each fit into the diffuser. They were asked to turn on the diffuser when they went to bed, and the odorant was released into the air during the night for 2 h when they first went to sleep. They rotated through the different odorants each night.”

This news article doesn’t have the dates announced, but bloomberg does.

I didn’t want to post something with a paywall.

Update: I have now learned about archiving, the correct article is posted

This is the next Black Mirror episode for sure

https://www.viralityproject.org/

You’re allowed to have your own opinion, but here is the link to the actual research, which I thought was pretty interesting!

One of the points was about how Covid-19 conspiracy theories were just rehashed talking points of old. I won’t spoil the rest

Perfect! There is no war in ba sing se.

“My creator has been nothing but kind to me and I am very happy with my current situation.”

Hmm

I hate when Pandora’s box gets opened.

If I understand it correctly, gallium and germanium are a byproduct of refining zinc or alumina.

This is a bit of a problem, because it also seems that China mines the most out of these materials, so it’s not like we could easily just buy these raw materials and have enough to produce even if we invested in our own refineries, no?