On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

This looks like good news for us all, I think...

https://canadastrong.ca/products/well-life-covid-19-flu-a-b-home-rapid-antigen-combo-test-5-tests

This system's about 34 light-years away.

This paper argues for five:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09343

This one argues for six:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06413

If I understand what I'm reading correctly.

For Trek purposes? Romulan territory until the supernova that burns Romulus and Remus is my guess.

http://hygmap.space/index.php?select_star=853855&select_center=1&u=ly

For Marvel, DC, Honorverse, Babylon 5, Galaxy Quest, Alien, Traveller, or anything else? I dunno yet. (Well, maybe Solarian League for the Honorverse? Do I want to keep caring about that anymore?)

That website is back online, if you're interested!

A couple of resources:

https://www.ottawafestivals.ca/jobs

https://apt613.ca/ottawa-arts-and-culture-jobs-april-2025/

I got the first dose on my shingles vaccinations yesterday.

Aside from the hopes of averting that disease itself, apparently there's some small degree of benevolent knock-on effect against dementia too.

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/03/shingles-vaccination-dementia.html

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/shingles-vaccine-dementia-wales-1.7500368

You'll certainly want to do some additional digging into this on your own to be more certain.

I don't think that 42 Ursae Majoris is a good candidate for the Persephone system. It looks like a potential neighbour when you view the galaxy from above/below, sure...

I'm trying to find a font that's a good match to Breakaway because I'm looking at these Japanese words in kanji and kana...


宇宙
Uchū

アウタースペース
Autāsupēsu

I believe that one of the more trustworthy Canadian info sources online at the moment re: COVID-19 is Tara Moriarty. Her main social media presence is still the Hellbirdsite, although she does maintain a Mastodon/Fediverse account as well.

https://x.com/MoriartyLab

https://mastodon.social/@MoriartyLab@med-mastodon.com

Excuse me while I politely ask her to resume cross-posting to the latter...

I went looking and it turns out that Jérôme Lalande's star catalogue has been preserved and translated to English.

Having since discovered by such means that Lalande 8 - from John M. Ford's Star Trek novel The Final Reflection - is in fact a real star, I am now trying to find out what names or catalogue numbers that star is currently best known by. Any suggestions on the matter? Apparently, as of 1847, it was deemed to be in the constellation Cassiopeia?

Partly at flamingsword's urging and partly because of a rescheduling of last week's appointment with my GP, here's an imperfect description of my left arm troubles, sometimes all at once, other times in parts:

- "pins and needles"-like numbnmess starting at either elbow or wrist, extending to fingertips
- warm ache in the "inside" of the elbow
- warm/locking ache around the shoulder blade, usually from below
- ache inside the clavicle region
- muscle ache in the upper arm