exchemist

Oh I see. Comparing a temperature of 10C with one of 30C and applying the gas equation pV=nRT, the change in concentration of oxygen would be 283/303 ~ 93%. So yes there would be 7% less oxygen in the air at a given altitude in a county with an ambient temperature of 30C, compared one of 10C. This is about the same change as you get by climbing 600m above sea level, i.e. a bit over halfway up a munro in Scotland. For comparison, the British rowing squad does its altitude training at 2000m (in Austria). I doubt that 7% makes much difference. You are ignoring by far the most obvious effects, which are diet and lifestyle. What the UK and the US have in common, sadly, is a rather sedentary lifestyle and bad diet, driven by the disappearance of the the culture of eating home-cooked food at family mealtimes, and the pervasiveness of soft drinks.

So you think there is less oxygen in the air in hot countries? That's untrue. Where did you get such a weird idea?

I think your metaphor about the little pigs overlooks a crucial point. This is that industry will only move when pushed by legislation. And legislation on climate mitigation measures will only become a priority when the voters treat it as such. So one has to pursue twin tracks: yes, the technocratic one you advocate to implement changes, but also a PR campaign to keep the pressure on legislators to act urgently. In the UK, the electricity transition is well under way and the shift on vehicles is starting to build momentum (though more help is needed on the charging network and associated electricity infrastructure). But the government is still ducking the issue, completely, on domestic heating and insulation. So we need to keep the pressure on our elected representatives.

Ah I see. Firstly, what's your evidence for that? Secondly, by what mechanism do you think better breathing would avoid weight gain?

I can't make much sense of this. In a sentence, what point are you trying to make?

Yeah. Bye.

Yes, it's an answer. Bye. 😄

OK so you would not want the freedom to work anywhere in the EU, then. It is still helpful when moving around Europe, I think, to countries not within the Schengen area, and for things like health cover when visiting. But not game-changing.

Can you try to rephrase this? It appears meaningless.

No, it's the electromagnetic interaction.

EU citizenship, if you do not already have it, is definitely worth having. But I think they have quite tough requirements for fluency in Dutch, familiarity with Dutch customs etc. But you may already speak it of course, living where you do.

I would think it will be a measure of the elasticity in the arteries, which are supposed to act as dampers, absorbing the shock of the pulse by stretching and then progressively returning to the unstretched state. If your arteries have hardened, the pulse pressure will go up higher because there isn't so much "give" in them.

Yes I've occasionally wondered why he had a Low Countries name: van rather than von and Beethoven pronounced Bayt-hoven are very Flemish.

Well it's fairly obvious he wasn't black. That's a ridiculous idea, given the time, place and circumstances of his life. God preserve us from people trying to shoehorn identity politics into everything. The identification of this Ashkenazi woman is interesting though, as it was that strand of hair that gave rise to the lead poisoning hypothesis. They think he had hepatitis B, I gather, though his wine drinking will not have helped.

Many are dissolved by organic solvents. There's a simple compatibility chart here that gives you an idea of what various polymers resist and what they are attacked by: https://www.calpaclab.com/chemical-compatibility-charts/

On the Obamas' bed, if I remember correctly.

Quite funny that he's hoping to be put in handcuffs, thinking it will rile up the MAGA blackshirts and make him a martyr. I think he's delusional. More interesting will be whether this lack of reaction makes the craven Republican party realise he's not the vote-winner they assume.

I started on the first one, was underwhelmed by its careful language and lack of conclusions, and didn't go any further.

You don't really encourage other people to take this seriously by linking a YouTube video, with a silly opening shot of little green men landing in a clearing in a forest. This stuff has been going on since the 1950s, with zero progress to show for it. Wake me up when somebody actually discovers something.

Seems at the protest rally Trump called, the journalists outnumbered the protesters 5:1 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-arrested-today-indict-stormy-daniels-manhattan-b2304990.html

Yes I was a bit baffled by this idea. It may simply be that cooking masks a bit of cork taint. But if it's really bad then I imagine one has to tip it down the drain.

Szplugg.

In any mass <-> volume conversion you always need to take into account density. The density of water happens to be 1g/ml, strictly speaking at 4C but close enough for most purposes at most temperatures. I spent my career in the oil industry, where we handled a variety of oils all with different densities. This made it very important to use the correct figure when using volumetric meters, drum filling scales etc. and also to correct for the way density changes with temperature. Liquids tend to expand with rising temperature, so the density decreases. Many organic solvents have densities considerably below 1g/ml. For instance n-hexane has a density of 0.66g/ml at 25C. Others are considerably denser than water, e.g. carbon tetrachloride has a density of about 1.5g/ml.

I've heard that one can use a corked wine for cooking, as the cooking allegedly gets rid of the cork taint, but this seems to be disputed.

Ask your parents.