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Do you know anything about GA toxicity, before you proceed? Maybe Pirrung's Handbook would be helpful. Vogel is also good, for procedures. Looks like GA has a lower vapor pressure than formaldehyde, so that's probably a good thing. You can make it by oxidation of ethylene glycol - use hydrogen peroxide in the presence of iron(II) sulfate. Might want to review this, too: https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Glycolaldehyde

Yep. Are you interested in its theoretic role in abiogenesis?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2024/04/19/daniel-dennett-philosopher-atheist-darwinist/ Daniel Dennett, the American philosopher, who has died aged 82, was, with Richard Dawkins, a leading proponent of Darwinism and one of the most virulent controversialists on the academic circuit. Dennett argued that everything has to be understood in terms of natural processes, and that terms such as “intelligence”, “free will”, “consciousness” “justice”, the “soul” or the “self” describe phenomena which can be explained in terms of physical processes and not the exercise of some disembodied or metaphysical power. How such processes operate he regarded as an empirical question, to be answered by looking at neuroanatomy – the engineering involved in brains. Darwinism, to Dennett, was the grand unifying principle that explains how the simplest of organisms developed into human beings who can theorise about the sorts of creatures we are. In Consciousness Explained (1991), he argued that the term “consciousness” merely describes “dispositions to behave” and the idea of the “self” was nothing more than a “narrative centre of gravity”. In Darwin’s Dangerous Idea (1995) he went further than any other philosopher or biologist in arguing that the whole of nature, including all individual human and social behaviour, is underpinned by a Darwinian “algorithm” – a single arithmetical, computational procedure. Borrowing Richard Dawkins’s notion of “memes” (“bytes” of transferable cultural ideas encompassing anything from a belief in God to an individual’s fashion tastes), Dennett argued that the Darwinian algorithm also explained, for example, the musical genius of JS Bach, whose brain “was exquisitely designed as a programme for composing music”. Dennett’s philosophy undercut any idea of teleology or “purposive” creation....

I am sorry to report a brief period of backsliding. A canister of honey coated almonds. Our eyes met across a crowded room, at the home of Sam and Janet Evening, and I felt a sick rush of almond lust that I had assumed was long ago consigned to my distant youth. I stumbled across the room, my mouth filled with saliva, and began to pack my cheeks like a squirrel at the peak of acorn season. Fermentable oligosaccharides! I moaned. Not the easiest phrase to moan with a full and avidly chewing mouth. California aquifers be damned! (also a challenging word string to enunciate while masticating) A beautiful woman who bore an eerie resemblance to the Santitas Corn Chip lady walked past, and I took advantage of the distraction, the substitution of one sensual delight for another, handed her the canister and said please keep these away from me! Pobrecita! she said, with a silken yet husky voice only a corn chip lady could possibly manage. Later I walked home, my feet pounding the hard macadam, back to the macadamia nuts to whom I had pledged my life and my sacred honor. One of the hardest journeys of my life.

Where weight gain is a chronic issue, it seems to work better to take the draconian step of just eliminating sweets. That seems to go better than repeatedly venturing out on the slippery terrain of moderate sugar intake. There are lots of delightful flavors in this world that are not sweet. Savor them. JMO.

Thread seems real similar to another thread started Sunday by same poster, with some of the same questions raised. Just curious why two threads needed.

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Seems like doing it the hard way, and deceleration takes a lot more newtons than deflection. I would favor a high energy laser that strikes one side to form a jet of vaporized material. Depending on the mass of the rock and its distance, a few hundred newtons of thrust could steer it off its collision course.

The musician finally gave up and began to erase all the lines of notes. His wife walked into the room and asked, "what is that smell?" "I'm decomposing," he replied.

When people see a magnet doing work it is actually (e.g. a salvage yard crane) electric forces in the electromagnet and motor that do work. Could one say that magnetic forces are used to redirect and apply those electric forces? So you have to have an electric current for the magnetic forces to be instrumental in doing work. Sort of like a smooth ramp that is redirecting a lateral force (me pushing on a heavy appliance) to lift my appliance several feet upward. The ramp does no work, it only redirects my force.

Yes there is clear evidence, and "small quantities" is not a safe option. Your post contains dangerous misinformation. Ephedra was killing people. Shame on you!

However, he cautions that it remains to be confirmed whether the regulation of gene expression through interventions that enhance self-awareness is the mediating factor in the association between self-awareness and well-being. Good caution there.

I agree but was going with the OP usage, which seemed to include diminutives. They exampled Chris. And yes, nickname makes me think more of Shorty or Pigeye or what have you. For reasons never clear to me, I was "Newt" for a few weeks while working as a teenager on a corn detasseling crew. This bears no relation to my RW name, an affinity for Fig Newtons, or amphibious creatures. It can be short for Janus, a name which has come into usage in the US in recent years. But yes, it's often a full name.

A lot of G-N nicknames can be derived by shortening a name, e.g. Mel (Melissa, Melanie or Melvin). Or Alex (Alexander or Alexis or Alexandra). Or putting an "ie" on the end of a stub, e.g. Ollie (Olivia or Oliver). Other shortener examples are Pat, Jo (as exchemist mentioned), Jan, Kris, Sam. In the US, Nick is sometimes used for Nicole, though as @exchemist said Nicky is more common.

Sometimes slick jokes are a way to drum up support.

Poland may offer a lesson to would-be Far Right autocrats. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/14/abortion-poland-maga/ The United States is not alone in confronting a right-wing authoritarian movement that, in addition to undermining democratic institutions and lashing out at the news media (“enemy of the people”), makes curtailing women’s reproductive freedom central to its agenda. The experience of Poland, in which a right-wing government virtually eliminated access to abortion and later paid for it at the ballot box, is instructive as Republicans try to flee from the harsh implications of their antiabortion ideology.... ...Polish voters last year threw out the right-wing government after eight years of authoritarian rule. Women disproportionately carried pro-democracy forces to victory. “Almost 75% of eligible women voted — a 12% increase over 2019,” wrote political scientist Patrice McMahon for the Conversation. “The election also saw a record number of female candidates (44%) and the largest percentage of women (30%) voted into Poland’s Sejm.” Their activism largely centered on abortion. When the right-wing Law and Justice party (PiS) took office in 2015, McMahon wrote, “Poland had one of the strictest abortion laws in Europe. After the ruling government tightened abortion restrictions further, Polish women took to the streets.” Lo and behold, “A breakdown of the women’s vote finds that many women voted for leftist and centrist parties that made women’s rights and liberalized abortion laws a priority.” The democratic coalition leader Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s party is now proposing loosening (albeit not eliminating) abortion restrictions.

You would think this would be blindingly obvious. iNow might be right - possibly a way to set a cookie. Embedding videos on a forum can result in cookies being set by the video hosting website, potentially collecting information about the user's browsing habits. I would advise everyone do a cache/cookie clean after watching.

I thought chitinases were pretty heat-stable. Cabbage is boiled and still retains chitinases. Bananas are fried, and also retain chitinases. (ethylene gas will increase chitinase production in some plants, like bananas) Are you sure heating agar, which is derived from red algae, would destroy the chitinase? btw, Does your name mean "meth, a neon Titan" or "methane on Titan"? 🙂

Hog/was/h.

Your friend should consult with her physician. Not you.

For sure. I saw a good review of the current published material on this a few years back. Found it. June 2020. Here is abstract and link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7333005/ The Influence of the Gut Microbiome on Obesity in Adults and the Role of Probiotics, Prebiotics, and Synbiotics for Weight Loss The link between the gut microbiome and obesity is not well defined. Understanding of the role of the gut microbiome in weight and health management may lead to future revolutionary changes for treating obesity. This review examined the relationship between obesity and the gut microbiome, and the role of probiotics, prebiotics, and synbiotics for preventing and treating obesity. We used PubMed and Google Scholar to collect appropriate articles for the review. We showed that the gut microbiome has an impact on nutrient metabolism and energy expenditure. Moreover, different modalities of obesity treatment have been shown to change the diversity and composition of the gut microbiome; this raises questions about the role these changes may play in weight loss. In addition, studies have shown that supplementation with probiotics, prebiotics, and synbiotics may alter the secretion of hormones, neurotransmitters, and inflammatory factors, thus preventing food intake triggers that lead to weight gain. Further clinical studies are needed to better understand how different species of bacteria in the gut microbiome may affect weight gain, and to determine the most appropriate doses, compositions, and regimens of probiotics, prebiotics, and synbiotics supplementation for long-term weight control.

Similar points seem to recycle in this thread. 12 days ago I posted And a person's weight relates to more than one cause. Faster metabolism can be one, balance of intestinal microflora and efficiency of gut absorption can be another. Autoimmune disorders can also factor in, through inflammatory response in the small intestine and induced lesions. Also, hormone levels, environmental toxins, fiber consumption, sensitivity to fermentable polysaccharides, etc. Many studies have shown that the usual suspects in weight control are consistently factors - overall average level of physical activity, total calorie intake, proportions of fiber and anti-nutrients (like lectins, phytates, agglutinins, raffinose, protease inhibitors, alpha-amylase inhibitors, et al), types of protein consumed (fish takes less energy to catabolize than red meat, e.g.) and as oft-repeated....balance of gut bacteria. My career intersected with this area of study for about four years and I learned again and again how complex is the matter of metabolizing food and how little we still know. For example, I learned that Caesarian birthed children often diverge considerably from their parents in metabolism because their gut bacteria are less derived from the maternal gut colony. (I'll spare you the details) Generally, based on what we've found so far: walk everywhere, eat lots of plants with lots of fiber, and skip desserts and sweet juices. If you have a choice between ultra processed food and something yanked from the ground, pick the latter. Rakes not leaf blowers. Stairs not elevators. Etc. It's mostly sticking with the game plan and getting a little closer to the hunter -gatherer that is your DNA blueprint. Good luck.

Relax, NSA monitors! He's just joking!

That is a whole different ball game.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/09/world/peter-higgs-physicist-nobel-winner-dies-scn/index.html Physicist Peter Higgs, whose theory of an undetected particle in the universe changed science and was vindicated by a Nobel prize-winning discovery half a century later, has died aged 94, the University of Edinburgh said on Tuesday. The discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 at the CERN research centre near Geneva was widely hailed as the biggest advance in knowledge about the cosmos for over 30 years, and pointed physics towards ideas that were once science fiction. “For me personally it is just the confirmation of something I did 48 years ago, and it is very satisfying to be proved right in some way,” the British scientist told Reuters at the time. “At the beginning, I had no expectation that I would still be alive when it happened.” Edinburgh University, where Higgs held a professorial chair for many years, said he had passed away peacefully on Monday at home following a short illness.