public spaces, immune suppression, and thesis projects

Today I learned that there are a bunch of public spaces in and around buildings in San Francisco, and the Chronicle made a map. Then I learned that corticosteroid injections, which suppress your immune system, used to be a popular way to keep from having hayfever, but the side-effects sound icky. Also icky is that thing where you take steroids to suppress your immune system. I mean, those readers who have had organ transplants have a pretty good reason to have doctors fiddle with their immune systems, but retraining your immune system to avoid allergies seems like a much better idea than taking a shotgun to it.

And in bummer news, budget cuts are going to curtail the Mars rovers' activities instead of age, and we hope those readers whose theses are affected will still get killer theses out of it.