TIL: Today I Learned

[Hrothbern]

Oh, I'm sure it's detected by the detection apparatus, then filtered. Just like I know that my eyes are picking up light reflected off my nose just like they are picking up light reflected off my keyboard, but I don't see my nose. I also don't hear the blood flow that vibrates my eardrums.

haha
well... i did a quick dig... experiments have been done... first of all rats ofc
They show that our saliva changes and on top (a real surprise) is that some changes are deliberately done to experience a different taste.

Roughly 99.5 percent of human saliva is water, but the rest is an important chemical mixture of compounds that help to break food down and protect our teeth – and even to taste food itself. This last part is key here.

Proteins released by our salivary glands are thought to bind to flavour compounds in food, and also to taste receptor cells in your mouth, which is why Running calls the fluid the "chemical media of the mouth".

The thing is, those proteins aren't static. Previous research with rats demonstrated that when the animals were fed a diet of bitter food, the expression of these flavour proteins in the rodents' saliva was altered.

"Saliva modifies flavour, which in turn modifies dietary choices."

https://www.sciencealert.com/you-can-modify-your-saliva-to-make-things-taste-better-study-shows

 

[Kaitzilla]

After I've eaten fatty food, food that I eat later with fat stops tasting so great.
Same with salty food and sweet food.

When I'm starving, food tastes great again.

Even liver can taste good after a few weeks of vitamin deficiency.


The best way to get food and drink tasting better is brushing and flossing teeth 100% clean.

Also, to properly appreciate wine, chew on white bread to remove any taste in your mouth.
http://altovineyards.net/how-to-cleanse-your-palette-between-wine-tastings/

High quality white bread is the very best food for cleansing the palette when wine tasting. Plain white bread or French bread are both ideal. Don’t put anything on it, including butter or jam. Plain crackers are acceptable as well. The reason that bread works so well is that it has an extremely neutral flavor. Professionals in the field always use plain bread and wash it down with water to cleanse their palettes. It should be a small amount of bread or crackers. After eating the piece of bread, wash it down with plain, unflavored water, and continue on to the next wine. Avoid drinking carbonated or spring water.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

When I was a youngster I always thought the best thing for cleansing the palate of wine was more wine.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

TIL that we currently have the capability to record an appropriate person reading a message to produce "stunt lips," and then have a vocal impersonator read the message to provide audio, so that we can put together a convincing video clip of a public figure saying basically anything we want them to say. I have to wonder if this will be used in 2020.

 

[Hrothbern]

After I've eaten fatty food, food that I eat later with fat stops tasting so great.
Same with salty food and sweet food.

When I'm starving, food tastes great again.

Even liver can taste good after a few weeks of vitamin deficiency.


The best way to get food and drink tasting better is brushing and flossing teeth 100% clean.

Also, to properly appreciate wine, chew on white bread to remove any taste in your mouth.
http://altovineyards.net/how-to-cleanse-your-palette-between-wine-tastings/

The bread is neutralising indeed !
But I must say that I will always be tempted to dip that bread in olive oil and add some salt (and pepper).

I learned to buy wine after a bite of apple, and to sell wine after offering the buyer a piece of cheese

 

[Broken_Erika]

TIL that we currently have the capability to record an appropriate person reading a message to produce "stunt lips," and then have a vocal impersonator read the message to provide audio, so that we can put together a convincing video clip of a public figure saying basically anything we want them to say. I have to wonder if this will be used in 2020.

Breaking News! AOC caught on camera pledging allegiance to Satan and admitting to eating christian babies!
See the full story tonight on Fox News!

 

[Cutlass]

TIL : You should not attempt eating a coconut without proper power tools - man I got so tiret banging that thing with a hammer, trying to pry it open Man ! Eating coconuts sure is exhausting, they taste great though.

Don't remember if they show it in the video, but the method I've learned is to take the screwdriver, and hammer (the screwdriver) into the three depressions/eyeholes, then take the hammer and tap in a straight line around the coconut, which creates fissures and eventually pops the coconut open.

My father used to tell this story, there was a sale on a 5 pound lobster, and as it was a lot cheaper per pound than several 1 pound lobsters, that's what they bought. So after cooking, they found that their normal lobster disassembly tools wouldn't work. So father being father, he got bigger tools.

He said that afterwards they had to wash the walls, floor, ceiling, light fixture, essentially every surface of the kitchen.

 

[Takhisis]

Thanks for the like @Birdjaguar, but please tell me that we are not the only ones...ahem...with sufficient temporal perspective...to get the reference.

Some people don't get Princess Bride references, so don't hold your breath.

TIL that we currently have the capability to record an appropriate person reading a message to produce "stunt lips," and then have a vocal impersonator read the message to provide audio, so that we can put together a convincing video clip of a public figure saying basically anything we want them to say. I have to wonder if this will be used in 2020.

Ray Bradbury foresaw that decades ago.

 

[Hrothbern]

TIL that there are indications that Alexander the Great died of the Guillain-Barré Syndrome, a neurological disorder.
If so... this could mean that Alexander was 6 days in a paralysed condition before he really died.

Dr Katherine Hall, a Senior Lecturer at the Dunedin School of Medicine and practising clinician, believes the ancient ruler did not die from infection, alcoholism or murder, as others have claimed. Instead, she argues he met his demise thanks to the neurological disorder Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS).
In an article published in The Ancient History Bulletin, she says previous theories around his death in 323BC have not been satisfactory as they have not explained the entire event.

"In particular, none have provided an all-encompassing answer which gives a plausible and feasible explanation for a fact recorded by one source - Alexander's body failed to show any signs of decomposition for six days after his death.

"The Ancient Greeks thought that this proved that Alexander was a god; this article is the first to provide a real-world answer," Dr Hall says.

Along with the reported delay in decay, the 32-year-old was said to have developed a fever; abdominal pain; a progressive, symmetrical, ascending paralysis; and remained compos mentisuntil just before his death.

Dr Hall believes a diagnosis of GBS, contracted from a Campylobacter pylori infection (common at the time and a frequent cause for GBS), stands the test of scholarly rigour, from both Classical and medical perspectives.

Most arguments around Alexander's cause of death focus on his fever and abdominal pain. However, Dr Hall says the description of him remaining of sound mind receives barely any attention.
She believes he contracted an acute motor axonal neuropathy variant of GBS which produced paralysis but without confusion or unconsciousness.

His passing was further complicated by the difficulties in diagnosing death in ancient times, which relied on presence of breath rather than pulse, she says.

These difficulties, along with the type of paralysis of his body (most commonly caused by GBS) and lowered oxygen demands, would reduce the visibility of his breathing. A possible failure of his body's temperature autoregulation, and his pupils becoming fixed and dilated, also point to the preservation of his body not occurring because of a miracle, but because he was not dead yet.

"I wanted to stimulate new debate and discussion and possibly rewrite the history books by arguing Alexander's real death was six days later than previously accepted. His death may be the most famous case of pseudothanatos, or false diagnosis of death, ever recorded," she says.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190122115006.htm

 

[Kaitzilla]

TIL that there are indications that Alexander the Great died of the Guillain-Barré Syndrome, a neurological disorder.
If so... this could mean that Alexander was 6 days in a paralysed condition before he really died.

His body didn't decompose until after they started the sharp and pointy funeral embalming procedure.

Obviously he was a deity of some sort.


For regular people, this minor problem of premature funerals was later solved with safety coffins fitted with a bell.
If buried alive, ring the bell and someone would be along shortly.

 

[The_J]

I had to make a few checks online here. Campylobacter pylori was renamed to Helicobacter pylori in 1989. I wouldn't even have known that it was once upon a time Campylobacter. Somehow casts a doubt on the competency of that woman. Hasn't updated their knowledge in that region in the last 30 years, and she doesn't even seem to be that old.

EDIT: Still interesting though.

EDIT2: since I only know Helicobacter pylori from stomach ulcers/cancer, I checked the wikipedia page of the syndrome, and according to that the causative agenti is Campylobacter jejuni. EDIT3: CDC says the same, https://www.cdc.gov/campylobacter/guillain-barre.html .
While the descriptions could fit, I am not believing that there's more than a half hour of "research" in that article.

 

[Kyriakos]

There is also the rather glaring error of claiming alex died when he was 32. Ffs he was born the same year as the burning of the massive temple of artemis at ephesos; 356 bc. He died at 323. That is simple arithmetic.

According to popular myths at the time, the reason herostratos was allowed by the goddess to burn her temple was exactly because she left it to be around and watch alexander be born
Herostratos is a famous case of what later was termed by the romans as "damnatio memoriae"; the city state of ephesos banned all references to his name. Cause herostratos burned the temple out of calculation that only this way would his name mean something to future generations. Burn a wonder, live in fame/infamy

 

[Birdjaguar]

TIL that Celsius and Fahrenheit scales cross at -40.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I can't see the video (being at work and yt is blocked ) I got a straw in the eyehole, drank the milk and hammered away . I haven't thought about a screwdriver. I have thought about putinng it in the fire for it to crack or using an electric saw. I wonder if it would explode like a grenade if not open'd before

If you're a contestant on Survivor, you're supposed to hack them open with a machete.

TIL that Celsius and Fahrenheit scales cross at -40.

You didn't know this? That's basic.

 

[riddleofsteel]

TIL that there are indications that Alexander the Great died of the Guillain-Barré Syndrome, a neurological disorder.
If so... this could mean that Alexander was 6 days in a paralysed condition before he really died.

Mmm, I read the article too. Cool theory, but it sounds like its purely a wishful guess.

 

[Hrothbern]

Mmm, I read the article too. Cool theory, but it sounds like its purely a wishful guess.

yes
the idea is nice... the evidence crucial.
I did learn though that this riddle about Alexander is there

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Today I learned of two more rock bands from Nova Scotia.

 

[Zkribbler]

Alert, Canada, is the northernmost permanent habitation in the world.

 

[Kaitzilla]

TIL that microwaving a bowl of water with lemon juice for 3 minutes and then letting it sit for 5 minutes produces a miracle.

All that burnt splatter on the inside of the microwave that takes 1 hour to scrub out can instead be wiped out in 5 minutes.

 

[Synobun]

TIL that microwaving a bowl of water with lemon juice for 3 minutes and then letting it sit for 5 minutes produces a miracle.

All that burnt splatter on the inside of the microwave that takes 1 hour to scrub out can instead be wiped out in 5 minutes.

I just soak a sponge with vinegar. Cleans the sponge and the microwave.