Today I Learned #3: There's a wiki for everything!
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I am not convinced. Alcohol is hard to digest, in that there is the alcohol dehydrogenase bottleneck before it can be used for energy or converted into fat.
I think the booze you drink after the meal is more dangerous. Our bodys are pretty good at working out when we have had about enough calories, and we stop eating. If we then carry on drinking into the night those are all extra calories.
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so what happens if you drink alcohol on an empty stomach
Broken_Erika
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Simple. Drink enough on an empty stomach and....
If you do that enough, you might even lose weight....Simple. Drink enough on an empty stomach and....
Unlocking the ‘gut microbiome’ – and its massive significance to our health
Scientists are only just discovering the enormous impact of our gut health – and how it could hold the key to everything from tackling obesity to overcoming anxiety and boosting immunity.
https://www.theguardian.com/society...me-and-its-massive-significance-to-our-health
Scientists are only just discovering the enormous impact of our gut health – and how it could hold the key to everything from tackling obesity to overcoming anxiety and boosting immunity.
https://www.theguardian.com/society...me-and-its-massive-significance-to-our-health
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When Shakespeare was my age, he'd been dead for twenty years. 
Today I think I learned that there exists an industry making completely unbelievable fake jewish artifacts supposedly smuggled out of Syria. They may have fooled such people as the Turkish police and the Times of Israel.
It came from this stack exchange question. The whole thing could be fake though, this is the internet.
It came from this stack exchange question. The whole thing could be fake though, this is the internet.
Spoiler Pictures :
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TIL that Eric Adams, Democratic Party candidate and favorite to win the office of Mayor of New York City, is a retired police officer. Not just a 'beat cop' either, he retired a captain. I remember reading elsewhere that he favored bringing back an improved version of the "stop & frisk" approach that NYPD used for a while, and which proved racially biased. Adams is Black, and presumably he intends for his police department to not be racist, or less so. Nevertheless, I was struck by the fact that "stop & frisk" was ineffective in addition to being implemented with a racist slant. That is, for a time NYPD officers were essentially allowed to stop anyone they thought was suspicious and search them for drugs or weapons, and generally found... not much. I don't have the numbers at my fingertips, but iirc, seizures of illegal drugs and weapons did not rise appreciably when officers were allowed to indulge their own instincts about who was criminal and who wasn't. Anyway, Adams is a former NYPD officer. I don't know what his relationship is with his former profession or his former colleagues.
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TIL that Phuket, Thailand is an island. For some reason I thought it was a city. I know it's immensely popular with tourists, and I read that the government declared the entire island to be a kind of Covid quarantine zone. Visitors who remain on the island are relatively free to move about. I suppose it probably has its own airport, so visitors can come and go without ever stepping foot in the rest of the country.
Oh my God, I would kill for some Thai food right now.
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TIL that Phuket, Thailand is an island. For some reason I thought it was a city. I know it's immensely popular with tourists, and I read that the government declared the entire island to be a kind of Covid quarantine zone. Visitors who remain on the island are relatively free to move about. I suppose it probably has its own airport, so visitors can come and go without ever stepping foot in the rest of the country.
Oh my God, I would kill for some Thai food right now.
It is a beach resort island. By isolating it from the rest of the country, I guess they think that they can collect tourist dollars with less risk.
TIL that 3 years ago we found a new organ in the human body, and it is already giving us cancer:
A newly discovered network of fluid-filled channels in the human body may be a previously-unknown organ, and it seems to help transport cancer cells around the body.
This discovery was made by chance, from routine endoscopies – a procedure that involves inserting a thin camera into a person’s gastrointestinal tract. Newer approaches enable doctors to use this procedure to get a microscopic look at the tissue inside a person’s gut at the same time, with some surprising results.
One team had expected to find that the bile duct is surrounded by a hard, dense wall of tissue. But instead, they saw weird, unexplained patterns. They took their findings to Neil Theise, a pathologist at New York University School of Medicine.
When Theise used the same endomicroscopy device to look under the skin of his own nose, he saw a similar result. Further investigation of other organs suggested that these patterns are made by a type of fluid moving through channels that are everywhere in the body.
Theise reckons that every tissue in the body may be surrounded by a network of these channels, which essentially form an organ. The team estimate that the organ contains around a fifth of the total fluid volume of the human body. “We think they act as shock absorbers,” says Theise.
This organ was likely never seen before because standard approaches for processing and visualising human tissue causes the channels to drain, and the collagen fibres that give the network its structure to collapse in on themselves. This would have made the channels appear like a hard wall of dense protective tissue, instead of a fluid-filled cushion.
But as well as protecting organs, the network may also aid the spread of cancer. When Theise’s team looked at samples taken from people with invasive cancers, they found evidence that cancer cells that had worked their way out of their original tissues could find their way into these channels, which took them directly to the lymphatic system. “Once they get in, it’s like they’re on a water slide,” says Theise. “We have a new window on the mechanism of tumour spread.”
New Scientist writeup PaperThis discovery was made by chance, from routine endoscopies – a procedure that involves inserting a thin camera into a person’s gastrointestinal tract. Newer approaches enable doctors to use this procedure to get a microscopic look at the tissue inside a person’s gut at the same time, with some surprising results.
One team had expected to find that the bile duct is surrounded by a hard, dense wall of tissue. But instead, they saw weird, unexplained patterns. They took their findings to Neil Theise, a pathologist at New York University School of Medicine.
When Theise used the same endomicroscopy device to look under the skin of his own nose, he saw a similar result. Further investigation of other organs suggested that these patterns are made by a type of fluid moving through channels that are everywhere in the body.
Theise reckons that every tissue in the body may be surrounded by a network of these channels, which essentially form an organ. The team estimate that the organ contains around a fifth of the total fluid volume of the human body. “We think they act as shock absorbers,” says Theise.
This organ was likely never seen before because standard approaches for processing and visualising human tissue causes the channels to drain, and the collagen fibres that give the network its structure to collapse in on themselves. This would have made the channels appear like a hard wall of dense protective tissue, instead of a fluid-filled cushion.
But as well as protecting organs, the network may also aid the spread of cancer. When Theise’s team looked at samples taken from people with invasive cancers, they found evidence that cancer cells that had worked their way out of their original tissues could find their way into these channels, which took them directly to the lymphatic system. “Once they get in, it’s like they’re on a water slide,” says Theise. “We have a new window on the mechanism of tumour spread.”
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Ferocitus
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TI thought I learned something. Then I didn't. Now I don't know.
How Many Numbers Exist? Infinity Proof Moves Math Closer to an Answer.
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Most importantly, the result strengthens the case against the continuum hypothesis, a hugely
influential 1878 conjecture about the strata of infinities. Both of the axioms that have converged
in the new proof indicate that the continuum hypothesis is false, and that an extra size of
infinity sits between the two that, 143 years ago, were hypothesized to be the first and second
infinitely large numbers.
“We now have a coherent alternative to the continuum hypothesis,” said Ilijas Farah, a mathematician
at York University in Toronto.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-...roof-moves-math-closer-to-an-answer-20210715/
How Many Numbers Exist? Infinity Proof Moves Math Closer to an Answer.
...
Most importantly, the result strengthens the case against the continuum hypothesis, a hugely
influential 1878 conjecture about the strata of infinities. Both of the axioms that have converged
in the new proof indicate that the continuum hypothesis is false, and that an extra size of
infinity sits between the two that, 143 years ago, were hypothesized to be the first and second
infinitely large numbers.
“We now have a coherent alternative to the continuum hypothesis,” said Ilijas Farah, a mathematician
at York University in Toronto.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-...roof-moves-math-closer-to-an-answer-20210715/
Zardnaar
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New mass transit trains in NZ.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/travel/experi...-tour-inspired-by-sir-edmund-hillary-launched
https://i.stuff.co.nz/travel/experi...-tour-inspired-by-sir-edmund-hillary-launched
I read it. There are no details :/
Other than the rather limiting (
) statements in the end of the article, about issues between *+ and similar (no, I don't get what *+,*++ etc are, since I don't know what * is just by reading the article, although of course the article couldn't be about that), there is this bit:article said:
from which I imagine that it should be possible to arrive at very specific conclusions about whether this type of recursive sequence would be beneficial to turn into part of the set theory axioms - which seems to be all that Aspero aspires to?
Ferocitus
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^ As I said, I thought I had learned something.
TIL a new word - thoberry.
TIL a new word - thoberry.
Berzerker
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Zanadu wasn't just a bad movie, or a pleasure palace, it was Kublai Khan's eastern fortress for conquering S China. The Mongols abducted Persian artisans and trebuchet builders and the Xanadu palace was constructed with a southern gate that was open leading right to the main temple. Why? Because they weren't worried about an army entering Xanadu, they designed the south entrance as a straight line so Mongolian cavalry could exit quickly to attack approaching armies.
Mongol horse archers were trained to fire their arrows when the horse's 4 feet were off the ground giving them even greater accuracy. If you've ever played baseball and caught fly balls, the player would ideally leave the ground to catch the ball to avoid any jarring movements created by contact with the ground. This isn't always possible but the softer the landing the better, so coming down to the ground with a thud increases the chance of dropping the ball, or missing the target with your arrows. Archers would also have different kinds of arrows depending on both the target and its distance, skinny arrows with smaller feathers flew further.
at its peak Xanadu was home to 120,000 people
Mongol horse archers were trained to fire their arrows when the horse's 4 feet were off the ground giving them even greater accuracy. If you've ever played baseball and caught fly balls, the player would ideally leave the ground to catch the ball to avoid any jarring movements created by contact with the ground. This isn't always possible but the softer the landing the better, so coming down to the ground with a thud increases the chance of dropping the ball, or missing the target with your arrows. Archers would also have different kinds of arrows depending on both the target and its distance, skinny arrows with smaller feathers flew further.
at its peak Xanadu was home to 120,000 people
To set the record straight about Xanadu:
1215 AD Mongols capture Peking
1227 conquest of the Hsi-Hsia and death of Jenghiz Khan
1234-1276 conquest of the Song
1260 Kublai Khan begins his reign
1263 Xanadu established as Mongol capital
The city is 170 miles north of modern Beijing and in 1260 it would have been very far from the war in Southern China. In the spoilered picture from Google Earth you can clearly see the outlines of the city.
Spoiler :
Berzerker
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According to the docu I saw tonight it was a hybrid city (Mongol-Chinese) with the central temple in the Chinese style of a layered sky/heaven. But Karakorum was the Mongol capital, so I dont know how they dealt with the problem of 2 capitals.
If they took Peking decades earlier I'd think they would use it instead of building a city (Xanadu) to the north. I suppose Kublai wanted a city of his own, but the docu did claim it housed the Mongol cavalry used to take S China. Maybe it was the staging point, far enough from Chinese armies to freely operate but close enough to invade the south. The show did say it looks like the city was destroyed in 1358 by the Chinese.
your article mentions its military purpose
If they took Peking decades earlier I'd think they would use it instead of building a city (Xanadu) to the north. I suppose Kublai wanted a city of his own, but the docu did claim it housed the Mongol cavalry used to take S China. Maybe it was the staging point, far enough from Chinese armies to freely operate but close enough to invade the south. The show did say it looks like the city was destroyed in 1358 by the Chinese.
your article mentions its military purpose
TIL about white boy summer. However messed up you expect it to be, it is worse. I am not sure I should post any of it, but the image below is less overtly offensive than some, but highlights the recently discussed link between the far right and the religious right.
Spoiler Some right wing martyrs :
Berzerker
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violinist for Kansas Robby Steinhardt died of sepsis at 71
Dust in the Wind
and here he is jamming at the end of Cheyenne Anthem
Dust in the Wind
and here he is jamming at the end of Cheyenne Anthem
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