As headlines scream "Silver soars 8%" or whatever the single digit number was, and I'm thinking "so?" along comes this, which for the life of me looks like it could be straight outta The Onion:
Spike in silver means everyone should take the Reddit traders seriously, El-Erian says https://t.co/MBBOcXL2gU
— CNBC Pro (@CNBCPro) February 1, 2021
By the bye, natural gas settled +11.1% but you don't see me trotting out a 2011 repost:
Scientists Coming To The Aid of Panicked Stock Traders
From Harvard's own Improbable Research:
Headline of the day: Engineering a better anal sphincter
Today’s Headline of the Day comes from the science blog called ScienceBlog reports:Also at Improbable Research:
Researchers use human cells to engineer functional anal sphincters in labThe study’s senior author, Kahlil N. Bitar, is pictured here.
Researchers have built the first functional anal sphincters in the laboratory, suggesting a potential future treatment for both fecal and urinary incontinence. Made from muscle and nerve cells, the sphincters developed a blood supply and maintained function when implanted in mice. The results are reported in the medical journal Gastroenterology….
(Thanks to investigator Mark Dionne for bringing this to our attention, and for suggesting a more-or-less unprintable way to paraphrase that headline.)
Why casinos might ban gamblers who have tatoos
which also looks as though it could be from The Onion (but isn't)
And I guess I did trot out the 2011 post but you know what I mean (for I fear I may not)
Silver down -0.723 (-2.46%) at 28.695.
