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I bet you didn't know that this thread would have a part 2

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    #2492
    Capt'n Midnight
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    New Home wrote: »
    Frogs are beautiful and cats are misunderstood.

    . -- Somebody or other, circa 19something something.

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    #2493
    Capt'n Midnight
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    The longest time between two twins being born is 87 days.


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    #2494
    Mollyb60
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    Scheele's Green was developed in the 1700's and used arsenic as a main component meaning it was highly toxic. It was widely used as a paint, and dye for fabrics and papers at the time. I listened to a podcast this morning that mentioned that Charles Dickens saw the colour and loved it so much he wanted to paint his entire house in it. Fortunately, his wife hated it and refused.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheele's_Green


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    New Home
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    True, apparently.


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    #2497
    Capt'n Midnight
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    What is a pirates favourite letter ?

    A letter of marque and reprisal.




    A letter of marque is permission to cross over the frontier into another country's territory in order to take a ship

    A letter of reprisal authorizes taking the captured vessel to the home port of the capturer.


    With these a pirate becomes a privateer subject to the country that issued the letter(s) and technically isn't an "enemy of mankind". Even today any government that catches a pirate on the high seas can legally do pretty much anything they want to them.


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    #2500
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    You can clear dust off a solar panel by trickling sand nearby.

    Or at least you can on Mars if your lander has a robotic arm with a scoop on it.


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    #2501
    Vita nova
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    New Home wrote: »
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    This is a mechanical OR gate (with 20 inputs).


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    #2503
    New Home
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    Not sure if it's true, but it does sound plausible.

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    cdeb
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    First Google link says it's nonsense and is an old English term - https://vinepair.com/articles/origin-of-shot/


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    #2505
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    #2506
    Wibbs
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    New Home wrote: »
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    From what I remember Gaia wasn't the only primoridal deity in Greek myth. There were a few with her, off the top of my head;chaos(who everyone sprang from), tartarus, erebus and a couple of others .

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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    FrancieBrady
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    An amazing story if true.

    https://twitter.com/stethospeaks/status/1404408453246820352


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    ohnonotgmail
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    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    An amazing story if true.

    https://twitter.com/stethospeaks/status/1404408453246820352

    interesting story that seems to be true but this extra part added by somebody else doesn't quite ring true

    https://twitter.com/anmol_dhawan/status/1404410990716854277


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    #2509
    Capt'n Midnight
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    https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/images/53/399/medium_1930_0635__0001_.jpg

    Canary resuscitator Siebe Gorman and Company Limited
    The circular door is open while you explore the mine. If the canary keels over you shut the door and turn on the oxygen supply. While you run for safety, of course.

    This type of cage allows one to re-use the canary.


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    #2510
    Capt'n Midnight
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    There were woodlice things in Kilkenny 360 million years ago,


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    #2511
    Professor Moriarty
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
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    https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/images/53/399/medium_1930_0635__0001_.jpg

    Canary resuscitator Siebe Gorman and Company Limited
    The circular door is open while you explore the mine. If the canary keels over you shut the door and turn on the oxygen supply. While you run for safety, of course.

    This type of cage allows one to re-use the canary.

    Dunno. Buying a replacement canary would be a lot cheeper.


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    ohnonotgmail
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    BBC Sports presenter Gabby Logan represented Leeds in the 1991 Rose of Tralee . Yorath is her maiden name.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXyeycVt9Nw


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    #2514
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    The English language has around 15,000 potential syllables but we use less than half of them.


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    #2516
    mikhail
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    New Home wrote: »
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    It's a nice story, but I find it strange that people always stop there with the little just-so story of the lady who is kind of magic.

    If she can smell it, then there is a chemical marker secreted by Parkinson's Disease patients.

    That means that we can figure out what it is and build a machine to detect that chemical marker, and even maybe learn something about what PD changes in the body.

    There are clever people doing exactly that:
    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21669-4


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    mikhail wrote: »
    It's a nice story, but I find it strange that people always stop there with the little just-so story of the lady who is kind of magic.

    If she can smell it, then there is a chemical marker secreted by Parkinson's Disease patients.

    That means that we can figure out what it is and build a machine to detect that chemical marker, and even maybe learn something about what PD changes in the body.

    There are clever people doing exactly that:
    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21669-4

    That wasn't my point at all - of course there are markers of all kinds (just because we haven't found them all, yet, doesn't mean they're not there), just like there are markers for cancers, Covid, infections, etc. We've been using dogs' sense of smell to do detect them for years. The surprising fact, for me, wasn't that she's "magic", but the fact that a human could smell the marker at all, our olfactory system in general isn't that developed. It also means that something that doesn't look "scientific" enough (although there are scientific reasons behind it) should be more accurate than the current tests we have.


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    #2518
    mikhail
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    New Home wrote: »
    That wasn't my point at all
    Yeah, sorry; I didn't mean you specifically, really. It just annoys me that the brilliant follow-up work that's converting a quirky story into another medical miracle is constantly ignored.


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    Realt Dearg Sec
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    mikhail wrote: »
    It's a nice story, but I find it strange that people always stop there with the little just-so story of the lady who is kind of magic.

    If she can smell it, then there is a chemical marker secreted by Parkinson's Disease patients.

    That means that we can figure out what it is and build a machine to detect that chemical marker, and even maybe learn something about what PD changes in the body.

    There are clever people doing exactly that:
    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21669-4

    She's heavily involved in Parkinson's research and activism herself, first discovered the smell thing when her husband got Parkinson's, and is a nurse etc. Her Twitter account is very active too, so it's possible to go beyond the Ripley's believe it or not part as well.


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