British have a long history of landing on newly discovered islands, figuring out what could be eaten, and then doing so until there wasn't any left. So depending on which Duke of Edinburgh you're talking about, he either didn't mean it as a slur, was a giant hypocrite, or was ignorant of his own history.
Several components of peppermint oil are absorbed through the skin. It's also volatile, so it's easily inhaled.
Contrary to today's "natural means nontoxic and 'I can't pronouce it' means toxic" memes, plants don't generally produce products so that you can smell good. They're pesticides and chemical weapons to discourage animals from eating the plant. They're often might be useful products, in controlled amounts, just like lots of other chemicals.
Would you be as pleased with your soap if it's ingredients list said: "menthol, menthone, menthyl acetate, menthofuran and cineol. May contain small amounts of limonene, pulegone, cargophyllene and/or pinene"?
I frequently go on long kayaking or camping trips. You don't take long baths in the Canadian ocean, or glacier fed lakes. In one particular place, the lodge that's the first sign of civilization when you get back has $1 showers. You want to make sure you take at least $1 with you, and don't lose it. Most people take two, one for them, and one for anyone who forgot that they have to share the boat home with.
There are a variety of eye trackers on the market, but those might be tiring to use. There are also some EEG devices coming out that might help you, with a bit of hacking.
We're too rich. Only a tiny fraction of the population actually has to do anything useful, so the rest engage in trying to sell each other stuff. Naturally when the majority of people are doing that, advertising gets out of control.
Go to a third world country. Barely any advertising, and what there is is from the first world, and either accidental or half assed. People are too busy making food to make ads.
Really? When I was a kid commercials were time to run to the bathroom, get something to eat, let the dog out, etc. I even remember when they were far enough apart that you'd sometimes be waiting for one because you really had to go. And short enough that you'd have to go fast.
That's actually not a bad idea - a barcode scanner in your non-cloud fridge so when you finish something you can just scan the barcode and it will add it to your shopping list.
Hunter gatherers had collectively quite good health. The story of poor, starving, malnourished hunter gatherers discovering agriculture and turning into gods has been largely discredited. For example, hunter gatherers were taller on average than all but the most modern agricultural humans.
A population can have collectively poor health if a large part of it is starving. Without industrialized agriculture our society would be composed of some rich individuals who might be healthier on average, and a very large number of people quickly starving to death.
Industrial food is good for keeping everybody fed. It's not ideal, at the individual level, but we can't afford anything better.
When most people say processed food, they mean engineered food. Processed/engineered food is (generally) good for civilization - it lasts long enough to be distributed, can be grown efficiently, etc. It's not generally good for the individual, compared to other things. There's considerable evidence that hunter-gatherers, eating minimally processed food (cooked, sometimes, but that's it) were individually considerably healthier than those in agrarian societies where food was more heavily processed. Modern engineered food has additional problems, in that there are economic pressures to use suboptimal ingredients and do things like add large amounts of salt and sugar to fiddle with the taste.
"Swelling" is an inflammatory reaction to damage. Exercise-related muscle (and bone) growth happens when microscopic damage happens to the tissue, provoking an inflammatory response. The repairs over do it, producing stronger post-repair tissue.
So yes, the "swelling" contributes to tissue repair and growth.
You're incorrectly defining theory to mean "truth" or some weaselly variation of that.
A theory is a descriptive framework, today usually mathematical. A hypothesis is a specific prediction based on a theory. The theory of QED describes how photons can create matter particles under certain circumstances. An experiment can be designed using that theory, with the hypothesis that if you shoot high energy photons into a chamber prepared in such and such a way, electrons and positrons will come out.
Wormholes involve extreme curvature of space-time. That means a large amount of energy. Energy is equivalent to mass, via E=mc^2, so a wormhole will have a large effective mass. That much mass in a small volume means an event horizon.
Or, if you prefer the geometric argument, extreme space-time curvature IS extremely strong gravity.
I don't really understand why a wormhole would have a smaller event horizon though. Perhaps something to do with the mass distribution. In a wormhole the mass would all be at the centre. In a black hole that grew through accretion it would be distributed throughout the volume.
It seems to vary depending on where you are. In the city I lived in previously, cyclists obeyed the traffic laws. If you were cycling and didn't, a fellow cyclist was likely to yell at you because you were giving everybody a bad name.
In the city I currently live in, cyclists either believe they have more rights than anyone else on the road or they don't care. They blow through intersections, crosswalks, whatever, when they don't have the right of way and when cars or pedestrians who DO have the right of way are trying to stop. On several occasions I've been walking across a street with the light and had an almost irresistible urge to shove the idiot cyclist racing through the crosswalk in front of me. If you're cycling and you have the gall to stop at a light, other cyclists will blow past you if there's space, or yell at you from behind if not.
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British have a long history of landing on newly discovered islands, figuring out what could be eaten, and then doing so until there wasn't any left. So depending on which Duke of Edinburgh you're talking about, he either didn't mean it as a slur, was a giant hypocrite, or was ignorant of his own history.
Several components of peppermint oil are absorbed through the skin. It's also volatile, so it's easily inhaled.
Contrary to today's "natural means nontoxic and 'I can't pronouce it' means toxic" memes, plants don't generally produce products so that you can smell good. They're pesticides and chemical weapons to discourage animals from eating the plant. They're often might be useful products, in controlled amounts, just like lots of other chemicals.
Would you be as pleased with your soap if it's ingredients list said: "menthol, menthone, menthyl acetate, menthofuran and cineol. May contain small amounts of limonene, pulegone, cargophyllene and/or pinene"?
I (and I'm guessing the OP) spent most of our TV-watching-with-family years long before DVRs. You could use the VCR if you wanted, but it was a pain.
The Internet replaced cable for me before DVRs got to be reasonably priced.
LD50 of peppermint oil is about 2.5 g/kg (for rats). Not terribly toxic, but in the same range as many commercial soap additives.
I frequently go on long kayaking or camping trips. You don't take long baths in the Canadian ocean, or glacier fed lakes. In one particular place, the lodge that's the first sign of civilization when you get back has $1 showers. You want to make sure you take at least $1 with you, and don't lose it. Most people take two, one for them, and one for anyone who forgot that they have to share the boat home with.
I had a hipster sit next to me on the bus today. He was a fairly clean cut, well dressed guy. I was surprised at the smell.
Slashdot is always remarkably helpful.
There are a variety of eye trackers on the market, but those might be tiring to use. There are also some EEG devices coming out that might help you, with a bit of hacking.
Quick google search turns up:
http://mindflexgames.com/ - game from Mattel
http://interaxon.ca/products.h... - input device, doesn't look like it's available yet
http://emotiv.com/store/headse... - this one looks like the most developed. A bit expensive, of course, but nothing like a clinical EEG.
http://www.transparentcorp.com... - Some software and another device (NeuroSky).
http://harteware.blogspot.ca/2... - DIY
Well played. I'll have to remember that response.
We're too rich. Only a tiny fraction of the population actually has to do anything useful, so the rest engage in trying to sell each other stuff. Naturally when the majority of people are doing that, advertising gets out of control.
Go to a third world country. Barely any advertising, and what there is is from the first world, and either accidental or half assed. People are too busy making food to make ads.
Really? When I was a kid commercials were time to run to the bathroom, get something to eat, let the dog out, etc. I even remember when they were far enough apart that you'd sometimes be waiting for one because you really had to go. And short enough that you'd have to go fast.
That's actually not a bad idea - a barcode scanner in your non-cloud fridge so when you finish something you can just scan the barcode and it will add it to your shopping list.
Hunter gatherers had collectively quite good health. The story of poor, starving, malnourished hunter gatherers discovering agriculture and turning into gods has been largely discredited. For example, hunter gatherers were taller on average than all but the most modern agricultural humans.
A population can have collectively poor health if a large part of it is starving. Without industrialized agriculture our society would be composed of some rich individuals who might be healthier on average, and a very large number of people quickly starving to death.
Industrial food is good for keeping everybody fed. It's not ideal, at the individual level, but we can't afford anything better.
When most people say processed food, they mean engineered food. Processed/engineered food is (generally) good for civilization - it lasts long enough to be distributed, can be grown efficiently, etc. It's not generally good for the individual, compared to other things. There's considerable evidence that hunter-gatherers, eating minimally processed food (cooked, sometimes, but that's it) were individually considerably healthier than those in agrarian societies where food was more heavily processed. Modern engineered food has additional problems, in that there are economic pressures to use suboptimal ingredients and do things like add large amounts of salt and sugar to fiddle with the taste.
"Swelling" is an inflammatory reaction to damage. Exercise-related muscle (and bone) growth happens when microscopic damage happens to the tissue, provoking an inflammatory response. The repairs over do it, producing stronger post-repair tissue.
So yes, the "swelling" contributes to tissue repair and growth.
So their rebuttal to the charge that they haven't demonstrated fusion is we didn't demonstrate fusion?
You can get high temperatures in lots of different ways. Fusion requires more than that. That response is more damning than anything else.
I was under the impression they reported the necessary temperature but NOT the necessary density. Big difference.
You could certainly run a regular aluminum smelter using solar panels or a wind farm. It's just electricity.
There are better options for smelting with solar power though:
http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2012...
Interesting graph he shows comparing fusion reactors with Moore's law.
"Something that is probably true but remains unproven is a hypothesis. It doesn't become a theory until it is proven."
You're using the term incorrectly. The way the "public" uses it is closer to the scientific definition.
You're incorrectly defining theory to mean "truth" or some weaselly variation of that.
A theory is a descriptive framework, today usually mathematical. A hypothesis is a specific prediction based on a theory. The theory of QED describes how photons can create matter particles under certain circumstances. An experiment can be designed using that theory, with the hypothesis that if you shoot high energy photons into a chamber prepared in such and such a way, electrons and positrons will come out.
Wormholes involve extreme curvature of space-time. That means a large amount of energy. Energy is equivalent to mass, via E=mc^2, so a wormhole will have a large effective mass. That much mass in a small volume means an event horizon.
Or, if you prefer the geometric argument, extreme space-time curvature IS extremely strong gravity.
I don't really understand why a wormhole would have a smaller event horizon though. Perhaps something to do with the mass distribution. In a wormhole the mass would all be at the centre. In a black hole that grew through accretion it would be distributed throughout the volume.
Not sure how you can make a low orbit satellite system that only covers one non-equatorial country.
Not that one.
He means blinking red lights that are the equivalent of a stop sign, NOT a red light.
Blinking yellow lights, which are the equivalent of a yield sign, are also an example.
It seems to vary depending on where you are. In the city I lived in previously, cyclists obeyed the traffic laws. If you were cycling and didn't, a fellow cyclist was likely to yell at you because you were giving everybody a bad name.
In the city I currently live in, cyclists either believe they have more rights than anyone else on the road or they don't care. They blow through intersections, crosswalks, whatever, when they don't have the right of way and when cars or pedestrians who DO have the right of way are trying to stop. On several occasions I've been walking across a street with the light and had an almost irresistible urge to shove the idiot cyclist racing through the crosswalk in front of me. If you're cycling and you have the gall to stop at a light, other cyclists will blow past you if there's space, or yell at you from behind if not.