After watching Endeavour, I longed for something similar. And I hit upon Dalgliesh (acorn). There is enough of the same elements for you to imagine where some of the inspiration of Endeavour came from. Though it’s older, it’s well done enough to be competitive with more modern mysteries. I thought I’d post for those that lament the end of Endeavour.
I have liberty dental insurance and lane & associates says a crown would be $3000 out-of-pocket. A google search says the top cost of a crown is $2500 (not including an insurance contribution). There will be some extra costs, I’m sure. There must be some less expensive dentists in central nc. Any recommendations?
I use the noaa hourly with weather elements to plan my dog walks. I have noticed that when the preceding daylight hours have cloud cover, the comfort level is underestimated by the numbers that are reported. Is there a weather element I’m not looking at?
As a bonus shoutout, my two favorite one liners:
That’s not the legal loophole you think it is.
Whatever makes them happy: lie your pants off.
Pls add in ur favorite quotes.
What I’m loving about Ludwig is the reliance on delivery/timing/facial expression. I sense the cast is acting their but off. I predict Ludwig is going to have as many acting launches as foyles war.
I’ve been binging mysteries/procedurals in the last 12 mos and really enjoying it (program formula and all). There is one thing though: even the modern day episodes demonstrate the protagonists soaking up alcohol at a prodigious rate to cope with stressors and using it as a vehicle for socializing. They actually scorn or marginalize the non-drinker characters that don’t join in (very bad form!). You have to imagine it promotes drinking in some that watch them (some who are alcoholism susceptible). It feels irresponsible. Some may laugh at the idea of those who create entertainment acting responsibly, but this is 2026 zeitgeist. Substance abuse is no longer laughed at or normalized.
And just one last thing that makes me almost shout out loud: when a person has passed out or is losing blood you position them with their head down and their feet up to avoid stroking them out. Putting their head up can cause brain damage. Again, this is 2026, writers/directors, get with it.
Moss Is Generating Electrical Waves That Look Startlingly Like a Neural Network
NATURE
22 July 2026
By JESS COCKERILL
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A different type of moss to the one studied. (Oliver Strewe/Getty Images Plus)
Mosses are some of the earliest plants that appeared in the fossil record, but they're anything but simple.
A new study, published in Royal Society Open Science, reveals that moss cushions produce surprisingly complex electrical activity, with patterns that undulate across the velvety patch in dynamic waves.
The study's sole author, Andy Adamatzky, is actually a computer scientist, whose fascination with unconventional 'computing' systems like slime molds, crowds, and mycelium networks has now led him to a new subject: the humble moss, Brachythecium rutabulum.

Brachythecium rutabulum is a common species of moss. (dr Barmely/iStock/Getty Images Plus)
"Plants and bryophytes display diverse forms of electrical activity, yet the organization of endogenous signals in mosses has received little attention," Adamatzky writes in his new paper.
His findings suggest that "moss cushions behave as spatially distributed excitable systems potentially capable of coordinating and integrating electrical signals across both space and time."
Moss cushions are actually many individual clones of the same teensy tiny plant.
If you look really, really closely at a mat of moss, you can see it is made up of simple, minute leaves on stems, similar to those of their larger plant relatives.
But the stems of mosses are actually much less useful at moving water and nutrients around the body of the plant.
Mosses actually never developed the vascular systems that we see in other more complex plants, which is why they cannot grow much taller than a few centimeters. Their leaf-like structures are just one cell thick; they don't even have roots.
But that doesn't mean they're not potentially capable of transmitting information across the colony by other means.
For the study, Adamatzky collected cushions of the common moss species B. rutabulum from natural outdoor environments in North Somerset in the UK.
Back in the lab, he poked electrodes into the moss clumps to track any electrical activity that might be passing across this soggy green matrix.
Figures a) and b) show the experimental setup, with electrodes inserted into moss on a wet substrate. Figure c) shows the moss's electrical activity, with recordings from each electrode pair represented by a distinct color. (Adamatzky, R. Soc. Open Sci., 2026)
Like many plants, moss lives life in slow motion, so to get on its level, Adamatzky recorded its electrical behavior across multiple days.
This revealed "a rich repertoire of electrical events, including components consistent with both physiological activity and slower drift-related processes: fast oscillatory spikes, slower rhythmic fluctuations and very slow depolarization waves," he reports.
"In addition to these described classes, we also observed spikes resembling high-amplitude action potentials and neuron-like spike trains."
Some of the moss's electrical waves were rapid, while others undulated slowly. They tended to spread across the entire cushion rather than remaining confined to a particular region, and followed patterns across different timescales.
Are there podcasts where ppl describe their own near death experiences? Where some is clinically dead and come back: not survival stories.
A GSO news.
The specialist I was sent to rule out/rule in myalgic encephalomyelitis mispronounced it and giggled about it. I’m a physician who has railed against proper disease names that are not descriptive of the illness. In this particular case, I think the medical community has done a disservice to itself and to the general public. Myalgic encephalomyelitis is an entity marginalized by medical professionals and ancillary caregivers (!what’s a doable diagnostic/treatment algorithm! they reasonably complain). This term has further pushed it aside to all but researchers, and those who suffer from it (I put in that camp, committed caregivers). I propose a colloquial name that gets right to the point. Most ppl dismiss the symptoms of this illness with thoughts of how they personally have experienced fatigue before. However, they know nothing of “The Big Fatigue “. The reverse of climbing Mount Everest: few know of it and you can’t claim knowing of it til you’ve done it.
I’m sharing this mesmerizing illustration of dogs at the start of the article: enjoy!
At last, the ways and means chair takes hospitals to task over facility fees. https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/04/28/congress/jason-smith-hospital-affordability-00896335
I’m a physician on disability and was hit with $365 facility fee to see a sleep MD in a clinic miles from the hospital. I loved this MD but switched to the next closest sleep MD on the preferred list in the NEXT state over.
Some background: NC was humiliated by the state of its WWII recruits disqualified based on poor healthcare due to poor access (a rate far worse than the next state at the bottom of the list). The governor at the dedication of the university of NC at Chapel Hill hospital put a plaque in the lobby saying: never again! We dedicate ourselves to the health of NC citizens. Now that hospital gouges disability/medicare patients with a per visit facility fee of hundreds of dollars. These exec’s are shameless.