It's Complicated? It's possible that if a teen commits an offence heinous enough to be tried as an adult, they'd also be sent to an adult prison. There won't be under-twelves in a prison of any sort, since they can't be held criminally responsible for their actions under Canadian law. Teens guilty of sex crimes certainly do get thrown in with other teen criminals (and often aren't adequately monitored and reoffend while they're on the inside).

But in this case, I think whatever idiot posted the message meant "there might be kids in houses next door to the prison". Which begs the question: how many prisons and jails are actually in residential areas? I'd bet it's uncommon, but not unknown.

Did PP's wife (who is present in way too high a percentage of his publicity material) know about this in advance? 🤣

Not quite. 16% are in the government . . . or are lobbyists . . . or are among the wealthy whose interests are represented by lobbyists . . . or have spent their entire lives living in a cave.

Based on his track record, Ford loves to pass laws that later get smacked down by the courts. (I voted orange. It didn't help.)

test takers are [only] told which of four tiers they fall into, from highest to lowest — relative to other people taking the test at the same time

Which means that you could theoretically take the test twice, give exactly the same answers, and score in the highest tier one time and in the lowest tier the other. How is this a useful tool for evaluating anything?

There are alternative sources for these . . . but the US has pissed all of those countries off too.

The cause of Sophie's APD diagnosis is unknown, but her audiologist believes the overuse of noise-cancelling headphones, which Sophie wears for up to five hours a day, could have a part to play.

Other audiologists agree, saying more research is needed into the potential effects of their prolonged use.

That looks to me like, "audiologists have no bloody clue where this issue is coming from, and are therefore throwing shit at the wall in the hope that something will stick."

We've known this was coming for a while now . . . but I suppose not everyone reads tech news.

Not that long gone—the last relict population on Wrangel Island only died out about 4000 years ago. That's (barely) within historic time. There are probably islands in the Canadian and Siberian Arctic that could still support them (and have no or few human inhabitants).

I see two big issues. First of all, not all knowledge among elephants is transmitted genetically, and I expect mammoths were the same. Who will the new ones learn from? They'll have to redevelop best practices for dealing with their environment from scratch.

Secondly, global warming. This seems like about the worst possible time to bring back an ice-age-adapted critter. We'd be better off transferring the effort spent on this project into de-extincting the thylacine, a more recent loss which doesn't have that specific issue.

Would everyone who is surprised by this please raise your hand? . . . That's what I thought.

I seem to recall that scarring around the electrodes, which eventually causes them to stop functioning, is a known failure mode of older experiments along similar lines. It's one of the reasons I didn't hold out much hope for this iteration.

I just hope the patient doesn't take any long-term damage from the implant.

Y'know what's worse? When there's no dot. Worse than that, it's an undotted directory used to store a single config file. Ugh, unpleasant memories. 😒