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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.

YT has a setttings menu. You can shut off watch history. In theory, this would enable a duplicate result of a previous search. IIRC you click on the little gear icon and select Manage History.

Non culture biased cognitive tests for anyone running for high office (or cabinet appointees), and notably more rigorous than "I could read the teleprompter at Fox News, and memorize cocktail recipes easily..."

I wasn't sure what xenog was short for, unless it was xenogenesis, as in the Octavia Butler novels. Which would be, at this point, ironic given Butler's ethnic origins. Anyway, one can actually use your hillbilly reference to observe that no one has come up with a conjecture that rural folk of Scots-Irish descent in Appalachia have consistently shown lower IQ scores for many generations due to their ethnic origins. Funny how that works, eh? Please cite your sources for claiming fluid intelligence is not influenced by such interventions. This is not what I have seen. Especially where we are talking of early pre-K learning options. This is the fallacy of Argument from Incredulity. Many systemic biases have persisted long after legal/political remedies were put in place. See my comment about Appalachia. Long persisting lower scores there haven't led you or anyone else to posit a genetic lower intelligence in Scots-Irish and English ancestry. Hmm.

I was often Bob. Except one evening when I tried tequila. In the US, the rum baba is often served as rum-raisin baba (as if it weren't already sweet enough). This led to a National Lampoon magazine character (1970s) named Baba Rum Raisin, who was a satirical version of Baba Ram Dass, a popular guru who was born Richard Alpert, and was a Harvard colleague of Timothy Leary in his consciousness research. A chat which starts at Terry Riley and arrives at Timothy Leary has definitely circled back on itself. 😁

Out here in the fields, we fight for such meals.

Heh. Ah yes, the old minor triad major seventh matchup. I play that when the spouse walks in the door while I'm practicing. If she then pokes me in the ribs, I offer a lower register tritone. Hadn't heard "berserker" applied to C11, but it is pretty dissonant if you don't take the third out. It's the Cadd9 (CEGD) that's more bright and open and nicknamed a heaven chord. If you leave the Bb in there, straight C9, it's bluesier. More Leonard Coheny. Too complex for Heaven I'd imagine. 😉

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajpa.24216 American Journal of Physical AnthropologyVolume 175, Issue 2 pp. 465-476 AbstractObjectivesDebate about the cause of IQ score gaps between Black and White populations has persisted within genetics, anthropology, and psychology. Recently, authors claimed polygenic scores provide evidence that a significant portion of differences in cognitive performance between Black and White populations are caused by genetic differences due to natural selection, the “hereditarian hypothesis.” This study aims to show conceptual and methodological flaws of past studies supporting the hereditarian hypothesis. Materials and methodsPolygenic scores for educational attainment were constructed for African and European samples of the 1000 Genomes Project. Evidence for selection was evaluated using an excess variance test. Education associated variants were further evaluated for signals of selection by testing for excess genetic differentiation (Fst). Expected mean difference in IQ for populations was calculated under a neutral evolutionary scenario and contrasted to hereditarian claims. ResultsTests for selection using polygenic scores failed to find evidence of natural selection when the less biased within-family GWAS effect sizes were used. Tests for selection using Fst values did not find evidence of natural selection. Expected mean difference in IQ was substantially smaller than postulated by hereditarians, even under unrealistic assumptions that overestimate genetic contribution. ConclusionGiven these results, hereditarian claims are not supported in the least. Cognitive performance does not appear to have been under diversifying selection in Europeans and Africans. In the absence of diversifying selection, the best case estimate for genetic contributions to group differences in cognitive performance is substantially smaller than hereditarians claim and is consistent with genetic differences contributing little to the Black–White gap. A couple points: One, please provide citations rather than "what I recall reading," as our forum rules require you to do when requested. We need to see the data you're seeing and how it's being interpreted. Two, twin studies are prone to sloppiness in isolating causal factors. Adopted children generally, for example, receive somewhat differential treatment from biological children in a given family no matter how good the parental intentions or the degree of wealth. There can also be overseas effects for children adopted into richer Western families, where a shift in various environment features in the first year or two of life (ambient allergens or pathogens, for one) can affect the child's development. This is shifting the goal posts. No one has argued that environment is the sole determining factor. G comes from an interaction between many gene variants and the environment. The issue is whether genes are significant in differences in G between human groups. DNA analysis has found hundreds of genetic variants that each have a very tiny association with intelligence, but even if you add them all together they predict only a small fraction of someone’s IQ score. And heritability, whether low or high, implies nothing about modifiability. The classic example is height, which is strongly heritable (80 to 90 percent), yet the average height of 11-year-old boys in Japan has increased by more than 5 inches in the past 50 years. A similar historical change occurs for intelligence.