Hello and welcome to Mac Power Users. My name is Stephen Hackett and have the pleasure of being joined by my friend and yours Mr David Sparks.

Hello Stephen returning from your Triumphant Week at the St Jude Podcastathon.

How you doing, buddy?

Kidney Sleep?

Yeah, I'm catching up on sleep, slowly but surely everyone's left town now back to myself in the pod cabin and yeah quite the week.

Yeah, so let's talk about a little bit.

What was, I mean, we're gonna do more of this and more power users,

but where's the number stand as we record?

Yeah, as we record this, we passed $830,000 on Tuesday at the 24th, which is, that's so incredible.

The current record was 776,000, so we have just blown past that and who knows where it'll be by the time this is out or the end of the month.

But this is the last MPU episode that will be out before the campaign closes so it is your last chance to go support

St Jude this year through our campaign and you want to go to St Jude.org slash relay.

One of the really cool things in the Picassathon this year was Mike got to interview a researcher at St Jude who works on microscopes.

And then when Mike was in Memphis Memphis we got to take a tour of this

guy's lab and his team was not satisfied with like off-the-shelf microscopes. They're looking like into cells right like I mean yeah

it's not a microscope you remember from like high school science lab. This thing looks like it's like there's a

laser bouncing around it's it's wild.

Anyways, Dr. Stabling his team wanted more power and more flexibility than

when they could get off the shelf and so they're building their own and that includes both 3D

printing and resin printing custom parts to like quickly prototype things

just yeah fascinating and that sort of research like they're going down a rabbit hole that they wouldn't be able to in traditional funding methods and with traditional grants and that sort of thing.

That's because people people like our dear listeners

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