Buildings

SIS Building MI6 Headquarters, London, England - Matt Dunham/AP Photo

Prudential Assurance Building, Liverpool, England

18th BRICS Summit at the Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, India

Funnies

10 Short Videos #6271

10 Short Videos #6271

1. Things moms consider common sense🤣
2. Helicopter Landing on Tuna Boat
3. Mount St. Helens Eruption
4. Smooth skills
5. Amazing Blue Precipitate Reaction
6. smooth skills 096
7. Mission impossible 😅🤣 - Bug on board
8. 🌷🌸🐝🍯 - Honeybees
9. Not to be dramatic.... - but yes, very dramatic entrance
10. When your dog sees magic for the first time

Digger

Tom Cruise as Digger - ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett C

I'm not sure why this picture triggered me. I mean, I like Tom Cruise, but I didn't recognize him right off. In any case it prompted me to take a look at Variety's review of Cruise's new movie Digger which starts like this:

“Digger,” starring Tom Cruise as a Texas oil tycoon who unleashes forces even more powerful than himself, is a movie that thinks it’s delivering something bigger than a mere message; it thinks it’s bringing us the word. Cruise, under pounds of jowly make-up and thinning disheveled white hair, plays Digger Rockwell, an ancient Southern fossil-fuel titan who doesn’t just lord it over his company. He’s a man who rules the oil industry, and therefore rules America and maybe the world.

Both the movie and the review are kind of nuts, but I did read a science fiction disaster story where something  (nuclear bombs maybe?) had unleashed a titanic amount of methane (from seabed mineral nodules, maybe?) and to combat this they set the methane on fire (using more nuclear bombs, maybe?), reasoning the CO2 is less of a greenhouse gas than methane.

Funnies

10 Short Videos #6270

10 Short Videos #6270

1. Круто, ловко, синхронно! - Cool, clever, synchronous! - Horse & acrobat
2. This Furnace Spins 20 Tons of Molten Glass Into a Telescope Mirror
3. The Ultimate POV Rally Driver Experience
4. 5 inch 38 as WWII's most effective AA gun - thanks to the proximity fuse
5. Sticky Tape Can Make X-Rays
6. Samboan, Cebu Island, Philippines 🇵🇭 beautiful beach 🏝️ - beautiful woman
7. 1000 VS 5000 Rounds per minute - anti-aircraft weapons
8. 环塔SS10卡玛兹大猛兽 - Ring Tower SS10 Kamaz Great Beast - Truck crossing sand dunes
9. They tested whether Leonardo da Vinci’s design actually worked 💀
10. He flew onto a navy ship - using a jet pack

Ultrasound Surgery

What Is MR-Guided Focused Ultrasound?
Northwestern Medicine

Jack has been suffering from essential tremor. A week ago he went in for ultrasound surgery to stop the tremor in his right hand. I had no idea there was such a thing. 

MRI-guided focused ultrasound surgery for essential tremors was first used to treat a patient in 2009 during proof-of-concept clinical trials, and it later received FDA approval in 2016.

Surgery was done at OHSU. It apparently worked. I stopped by to see him the next day and he was fine. They told him if he wants to, he can come back next year and for the other hand. Right now he's thinking the procedure was so arduous (tightening the bolts that hold the frame to his head) that he's not interested in repeating it. After all his good hand is working fine now. We shall see what he has to say next year.