Because label printers use heat instead of ink to print, Dymo has turned to a different printing method to exploit more profit: paper. Dymo’s latest printer models now authenticate label rolls using RFID technology that lock out customers from using anything other than their rolls. Although they claim to offer quality-of-life improvements like auto-sensing and auto-counting of labels, it’s hard to swallow when Dymo labels are two to five times more expensive than their competitors. Read full article here
Oddities
The Curious Case of the Ancient Brain
In 2008, archaeologists examining the University of York discovered something strange: the decapitated head of an Iron Age man and his very shrivelled but very much intact brain. How a centuries-old brain was preserved is still unknown, but research suggests that it could have been because of brain diseases like dementia. The Yorkshire man’s brain’s proteins were bunched up together, much like how dementia causes brain proteins to bunch up into plaques. This bunching up, or aggregation, could continue even after death, turning regions of the brain into hard masses. Read full article here
Merv
September 30, 2022
