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I was reminded this morning, walking outside, that -10 F. is roughly where my nose hair freezes and crackles if I don't put on a face mask or neck gaiter and there's some breeze. We are headed to minus 20 tonight, and possibly minus 22 tomorrow, which is about as cold as I've personally experienced since Dec. 3, 1970, which was minus 29 in Lincoln, NE. We children were out that day, but since it was a week night (and school was rarely cancelled there for just cold), the parents vetoed staying up into the wee hours to have the full Shackletonian experience. The windchill tomorrow night could reach that magical number that is the same temperature in both Celsius and…

Could be much worse next time... 🙄

Having been rapped over the knuckles by the mods for referring to Brazil as "where the nuts come from", I suppose I should explain that this is a reference to a catchphrase from "Charley's Aunt". This is a late Victorian farce, subsequently made into more than one film, with a plot involving an Oxford undergraduate in drag, pretending to be an aunt returned from Brazil, "where the nuts come from". https://www.comedy.co.uk/film/charleys_big_hearted_aunt/about/

It is the experience of all my family and friends that curry, casserole and cottage pie all taste better the second time around. So my question is Is there any way to skip the first day ?

Hi, I understand there is computational research as well as completely theoretical research compared to experimental research. I was curious about what they are like. Could anyone point out some good papers? Thanks.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/09/asia/japan-zoo-gibbon-pregnancy-mystery-intl-hnk/index.html Japanese zookeepers believe they have solved the mystery of how a gibbon became pregnant despite living alone in her cage. Momo, a 12-year-old white-handed gibbon, shocked her keepers at the Kujukushima Zoo and Botanical Garden in Nagasaki in February 2021 when she gave birth despite having no known male companionship. Now two years later, following a DNA test on her baby, the zoo has worked out who the father is – and even has a theory about how the gibbons mated....

On another note, have any of you forum goers done an IQ test? What are your IQs? I'd be curious to know. Anybody with IQs in the 180 range, for instance?

Hi. You have a lucky face. Is this a good place in the forums to introduce myself? I am reading the Great Books of the Western World, which has a lot of important books in the history of math and science. But the strange thing is that the great books people that I've known are not really proficient in the grammar and therefore cannot talk to me much about the issues of sciences and maths. The other thing is that when I want to talk about these things from an historical perspective, the scientists and mathameticians kind of think it's a waste of time to talk about a 100 or 500 year old piece of writing. So, I'm wondering if I can communicate here? Lately I have been s…

A bit of what I do. Is to figure the impossible like freedom. This is on my c.v The spider diagram. It is the best problem solving tool I know. If you or a friend at the pc shop has a laptop with a good program. A to z and add words together every language in every history. And every problem you can think of. Even freedom. A new age First thing on my list. Is move to a better country. My c.v is on LinkedIn mo ranger Picture of a shuttle. Check about. Just the heads up I'm being tracked heavily by corrupt plain clothed cop. Causing a problem in serciety it is just treason or high treason. Not good for them.

Cool. But don't come all at once. Bonaire’s laid-back beauty might blow you away. The food will, too. - The Boston Globe

Hello In your opinion, what is the most important thing that the humans should work together to try to achieve ? Is there a list/poll answering this somewhere ? IMO I think about being able to create artificial brains to upload the minds of biological ones into them, to have more time/less weaknesses to try to understand how the universe works. I also think about creating a website to suggest and vote for rules to apply to communities/countries/world

Hello Do you have some movies or series to suggest please ? I think about the movie Transcendence (2014) and Chappie And about those/these series : Prison Break and Chuck

You reach out to an eminent person in your field whom you don't know with a question, they respond with a brief, but polite answer. Their answer does not call for a response from you. Do you leave it there or do you respond with a "thank you" email?

Hi. Have a good '23 Uneven results, some stay hard, some are enjoyable soft. What differs? The chestnut 'quality' itself, or soaking, or its size, or the time boiling, the depth of scaring, or else ? Read the pointy ones are edible and the rounded ends are not Some recipes call for boiling in an extra large pot with a huge amount of water compared with the volume of nuts in. I do not get what is the effect* Your expertise to obtain then very buttery soft, please ? *( as to boil pasta, why suggested in huge amounts of water and not simply submerged ? )

For your perusal and pontification. Various short essays on Adam Smith, Scottish enlightenment thinker and humanist. https://www.adamsmithworks.org/documents/just-sentiments And if this is a topic of interest to you, but podcasts are more accessible (or just supplemental) then this 3-part series from the fine team at Freakonomics was well done, too: In Search of the Real Adam Smith https://freakonomics.com/podcast-tag/in-search-of-the-real-adam-smith/

Recently I read this story that sounds hard to believe but may be true. According to John Callahan and verified by the photographer on board in 1999 a boatload of surfers anchored off the notorious North Sentinel Island and had an encounter with the generally hostile natives. The following song was playing on the boat's sound system when the natives approached in their canoe, holding spears, bows and arrows. They paddled around their boat listening to the music for a while and then left them alone. Good thing the music was mellow, contemplative instrumental. Seems to me if it was heavy metal the surfers may have been murdered. Here was the music that was playing…

Merry Christmas hope everyone has a wonderful joyous day

First before anyone loses their mind, I'm not saying it was aliens or anything like that but for real WTF is in this video!

I have some polyester fleece sniper_type gloves for fishing that I want to stop getting damp. Has anyone any experience of doing this from scratch. What would be the most appropriate UK-available preparation for this?

Sorry but I have a line of text that I need it to be translated into German language. It's important and no time to explain. Sorry and wish a German or someone who knows German language will help. Thanks so much and highly appreciated! ----Text below---- End of year special offer All orders placed before Dec 31 are applicable to free international shipping and free express production which is worth up to EUR 130. Exclusive to long term customer. All terms are subject to change without notice and we reserve the right of final decision in case of any disputes. Thanks

the fact that we can not even edit our posts and much less delete them is a pretty big deal to me, never seen any other site doing this, I don't feel safe posting here.

hi, are there any university for international candidates providing remote master programs specifically in any of fields given below with suitable scholarship: ** cyber security ** software (I would get expertise in oop) ** data analytics ** linguistics target countries: egypt , china , russia or other countries* preferred languages: english, arabic. * any country wherein english is 1st spoken language. Thanks.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/10/kfc-apologises-for-kristallnacht-chicken-and-cheese-promotion

I often find myself watching clips of people doing some amazing feats, the diversity of talent and skill is astounding! From drawing/painting images, making music, to death defying stunts... humans are so talented. This then got me wondering about life in general, especially animated life and how special it really is. That a bunch of basic atoms arranged in certain ways, can form massively complex mechanisms that can perform such a diverse and unimaginable number of feats is quite remarkable. I was watching a young lady perform on a violin on the streets just the other day, she was no older than 13 and produced a sound from the instrument that just activat…

Can one hear a magnet? And does the shape of the sound change when there are two magnets proximal enough to noticeably interact?