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I am speechless! And in need of duct tape myself* before I say something excessively flattering about your niece. But really, that is serious talent, and skillful prestidigitation. * Not that duct tape is terribly effective at stopping keyboard use.

That IS interesting. I knew it was standard in the smaller and domestic species (leave a new empty box sitting anywhere in our house and there will be a member of Felidae there within five minutes), but hadn't thought about the big cats. Leave a refrigerator box out on the savannah, see what happens...😀 TIL the origin of "bellwether." A wether is a castrated sheep. Put a bell around the neck of the lead wether and you can hear where the herd is going even if they're out of your line of sight.

Yes, that can he a big adjustment. In my neighbor state of Minnesota, there's a large Somali diaspora and, aside from the overall climatic shock of being in one of the USA's coldest and snowiest locations, an issue with vitamin D absorption. (Generally, my impression is that the places with forbidding winters are often the most welcoming in the US - perhaps because the winters reinforce the idea that we all depend on each other and general good will in order to survive?)

Also a huge problem here. I call them "border problems." With fifty states so many people are only an hour or two from another state with potentially different restrictions. In one state I lived in, the border was fifty minutes away from the two largest cities and there were enormous stores right on the border selling dangerous (as in, children regularly losing fingers and eyes) fireworks that were illegal in our state. This is the sort of craziness that eventually spurs Washington to step in and make a federal law.

Because it's a site setting and not a global one. Probably somewhere back there in the mists of time you got some prompt or query that asked if you wanted to have an offline copy of the homepage. If you go to browser settings, there should be some kind of site settings menu choice - I think. I don't know much about Apple browsers. Speculating here.

Heehee. My interest is (harrumph!) purely scholarly and it's entirely coincidental that I happen to focus mostly on the traits of pretty women. When I observe these phenotypic traits, I do so to better understand the complex interplay between.....sorry, I forgot the topic.

Yeah, there is a lot of slop, when you have five types of RS, and then also half a dozen types of soluble fiber and insoluble fiber all interacting with the gut colony in various ways. I recently was aware of some friends who were swearing off FODMAPs, as if that was a longterm diet, and I had to warn them that a lot of FODMAP foods are really good for you and you curtail them only temporarily (working with a physician ) to get relief from serious IBS symptoms. After that, the strategy is to work with probiotics and prebiotics and mechanical roughage and vitamins, etc to normalize your intestinal colony and redevelop a tolerance for FODMAPs. I used to work with a food chemist and nutritionist who related an experience treating gut problems in an Alaskan population and finding that vitamin D supplements wrought improvements in people who weren't eating fatty fishes and so were especially deficient (Alaska not being big on sunshine) in a vitamin now linked to a healthy gut microbiome. That's just one example of another component in the complexity of gut health and where they're only beginning to understand the molecular signaling pathways with vitamin D, the gut barrier, microbiota, and the development of IBD. (Nigerians: you probably have less need to worry about vitamin D...)

It's downloading the homepage automatically because you have (inadvertently?) set the browser to create an offline page copy when you open a page. That's why the file is called Main Page. You can open your browser settings and turn off this automatic response.

We located a jade taco, Lew.

Yep. Some RS foods have a fair amount of galacto-oligosaccharides, which lead to really opposite outcomes depending on the gut - prebiotic for some, nasty irritant to others who are FODMAP sensitive and have IBS. Beans are a classic double-edged sword, among the RS foods.

Yes. I like how he would incorporate physics into his plays. The exploration of entropy in Arcadia, of course, and that scene's comic reference to a Newton's Cradle in RaGAD.

Wow! If only this thread had had a first page where this was extensively discussed.

Is the Kessler syndrome theory unpopular, or just that most people who haven't seen that Sandra Bullock movie are unaware of it? I would imagine that any theory that posits things can go to hell real fast would be quite believable to most humans. That said, I don't suppose many politicians are going to run on a Stop Kessler Syndrome platform if they hope to win. Hopefully there would be natural economic pressures that would eventually lead to safer sat deployments and maintenance - no one in the space biz wants a cascade nightmare.

Yup - probably related to alterations in our dentition and how food is chewed - some sort of leverage thing with the muscles. Also possible sexual selection involved. So it could have started out as a spandrel (in the SJ Gould, Lewontin sense) and then later on various cultures fostered an aesthetic of prominent chins in men as indicative of virility (also would make beards, a secondary sexual characteristic, stand out more). There's also the longer noses, which I've heard as relating to migration out of the tropics and finding it useful to have a longer nasal passage to warm very cold air. And again, there could be some sexual selection effect, too. What about moustaches? Soup strainer?

Green banana and cooled tatos are a tonic To our microbial friends colonic; Like Ruminococcus bromii, It's fatty acids show me why, Starch resistance is not mere histrionic.

A bit confused. Didn't you earlier say we'd all be healthy and happy if we submitted to Jesus? You seem to be strongly recommending one individual's ideas, specifically a Galilean carpenter.

Not a problem. The acidity of such wood pulp processing is low, and is only a residue sufficient to oxidize the paper/cardboard very slowly. That said, it never hurts to just put the electronics in a plastic sealed bag. This reduces dust, invasive humidity and/or urban air pollutants.

Psyllium seed is also a big help as a prebiotic and stabilizing fluid balance. Are you starting with a culture, some juice from other fermented vegs? Seems to me it goes better with a starter brine, as the good bacilli more easily outcompete the spoilage bacteria. Also, eye of newt, but that's just a personal preference.

Emily weighs in on mammals of the southwestern United States... Martyr, accept peccary tram. Er, God no, my armadillo doll, I dam Raymond ogre. Yo, Bret's no malign Gila Monster, boy.

The more interesting literature search might be rates of autoimmune diseases. And the intricate knot of separating change in detection rates from causal factors. Wiley is a good starting place... https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1756-185X.15426

Id say it's a question of practical ethics - how do societies stuff genies back into the bottles? Scientists can't generally claw back the tech consequences of their discoveries (a stern letter from Einstein or Fermi would not have stopped nuclear weapon development). And technologists are, like most people, needing a paycheck and inclined to rationalize their participation in the process. So that leaves...(Holds nose, suppresses gag reflex)...political solutions combined with global treaties. Things like the Megatons to Megawatts treaty were a start. Or the major legal and political victories against PFAS, which hopefully will continue. Ethical solutions on such technologies will be slow painful and ugly processes in courts and legislative chambers. Thanks to the extremely thick skulls of many in legislative chambers, incidents of massive death will probably take place before they awaken to some of these problems. Others are just corrupt, and that will mean getting corporate money out of political campaigns. Possibly, we're all f--ed.

Could be useful for new options for C sequestration, too. Peridotite is a good C02 absorber. Carbonates formed. MIT Technology ReviewCarbon-Capturing RockGeologists discover that certain rock formations could sequester large amounts of carbon dioxide. Anything that adds to our knowledge of element cycling between biosphere and asthenosphere is pretty important right now.

My wife is the music director for her church, and occasionally deals with Gregorian chants in the square-shaped neumes. Mainly for antiphons. But she converts to modern notation to them print them off. I guess neumes have ways to sorta imply rhythm, but standard notation makes it easier for her congregation. Chant, if I understand it, being unmetrical has rhythm loosely defined or implied by the words of Latin text (and basically, in her church, by watching the lady's hand gestures). Or they use Solesmes method. In any case they use a fluid and flexible lengthening of equal note values as chant calls for. I'm impressed at how a choir can achieve that fluidity so well in synch.

Can make neither head nor tail of this. What does "speed of light of the universe" mean and how is this different from the speed of light? Aren't we part of the universe? Isn't C a constant?

I am uncertain on this seeming paradox (the kind normally encountered in a story from Connie Willis' Oxford Time Travel Series), since I don't login to YT or use their app. It is possible that someone using the app can easily access a history list through their settings menu (which I think, in the app, you access by clicking on your face icon?). When I use it, anonymously and on the web, I sometimes encounter your problem, the same search yielding different results. The web version still gathers the history somehow, and then misguidedly "thinks" you'd like something a little different this time. Unless you deactivate history - then it will not react to your device address or anything in some sort of cache. One way out of this morass is toa just use the clipboard. The clipboard will store that URL as long as you want provided you use the pin option. Assuming you have something comparable to Chrome's clipboard.