RoyalHenOil

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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
Trees effectively behave as a buffer for the water cycle. Under conditions of high rainfall, they absorb a lot of water from the ground. Under conditions of low rainfall, they must nonetheless continue to release moisture via evapotranspira
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
That is very true. And even in cases where it was not true, families tended to have more children, so older siblings could help look after younger siblings while the family worked.
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
Not even the same human possesses equal amounts of consciousness! There are times when I am particularly conscious because I am concentrating, there are times when I am less conscious because I am in a flow state, and there are times when I
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
The Great Oxidation Event was caused by cyanobacteria — which are an extremely far cry from the intelligent, multicellular animals that are under discussion here. Saying that chimpanzee cognition is categorically different from human cognit
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
This is not a definition I have ever heard anyone use before, and I suspect that's because the definition is so constrained that it's not useful for scientific or philosophical discussion. If you reserve "consciousness"
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
Historically, Christians believed that animals had souls. The soul was a necessary requirement for animate life. This was the idea behind spontaneous generation, for example: souls find their way into rotting meat and maggots are born.
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
It's not that we as a society devalue childcare. We just don't live in an economy where it is safe for families to put all their eggs in one basket like that. In post-WWII US, it was generally easy for fathers to find stable, life
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
Some people have much stronger and more nimble tongues than others due to physical differences (e.g., tongue size, the length of the tongue frenulum, etc.). But this is the case for the hands as well, which is why people have different inpu
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
What percentage of interviewers actually work alongside the employees they hire?
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
It's the exact position of anyone who studies ecology and conservation. Bees are certainly being killed by pesticides. However, the claim is not about bees. It's about Earth's biodiversity in general. Pesticides are certainly
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
It should be addressed, but it is not addressed. Even though this is a serious issue that intimately, negatively affects nearly every American citizen at some point in their life, there is still not enough pressure on the government to enac
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
Horses mostly stand and occasionally lie down, but they do not naturally sit. If a horse sits (except very briefly in the transition between lying and standing), it can indicate that something is physically wrong with it.
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
There are over 300 pigeon/dove species, and nearly all of these are wild and have never been domesticated. However, when people say "pigeon" without specifying a particular species, they are almost always referring to feral r
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
Pesticides are a factor in insect loss, but they are VERY far from the major cause of lost biodiversity in general. The major causes are overwhelmingly environmental destruction (e.g., the clearcutting of virtually all old growth forests) a
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
Exposure to bright light is the key factor. It is especially important during childhood, when the eyes are still growing and developing. Once elongation of the eyeballs sets in during childhood and the teen years, there is generally very li
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
Correlation is not causation. There are many ways that these two traits could become correlated. For example, poverty is associated with both poor childhood nutrition (which is possibly the biggest cause of low IQ) and with more outdoor act
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
The brightness of light is actually believed to be the main factor now. This seems a supported by animal studies, where animals are fitted with light-filtering goggles. Animals that receive brighter light develop normally, while animals tha
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
From what I have gathered, the leading hypothesis is that bright light induces dopamine production, and dopamine regulates the development of the eye. When these dopamine levels are too low, the eyeball elongates and becomes myopic.
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
Even of he's only paid the same, the cost of living is lower in the small town than in the big city. Even doctors get priced out of expensive areas.
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
The problem is that it is a competition. If socializing is difficult for you, you can still get better at it with plenty of practice, but you are up against other applicants who had the same amount of practice as you and got more out of tha
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
I know a large number of people who commute by bike in Melbourne. Every single last one of them has at some point been hit by a car or has suffered serious injuries trying to avoid being hit by a car. Many of them have had this happen multi
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
I have accidentally signed up for Prime trials three different times, even though that is something I actively try to watch out for. It is very frustrating, and so I've swapped over to other sites for the great bulk of my online purcha
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
My partner always tells me that if something happens to me, that's it for him. He doesn't want a relationship with anyone else. To me, that is the saddest thought in the world. My sincerest hope is that he would find someone else
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
No, there was not a point in history where Americans all said "autumn" and then switched over to using "fall". "Fall" (along with its counterpart "spring") was commonly used in Britain when America wa
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
Attention isn't necessarily always a good thing. Negative attention can cause people to decide to actively avoid that company and switch to a competitor. Just ask Firestone.
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
Absolutely agreed. Even foster care itself is inherently traumatizing, no matter how good the foster parents are. I was wrongfully taken into foster care for a couple months (due to police being called in a false accusation; the police took
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
"Autumn" was never replaced with "fall". "Fall" (referring to leaves falling down) and "spring" (referring to leaves springing up) both come from Middle English. The United States was colonized by Eng
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
"Fall" (referring to leaves falling down) has been in use since Middle English, along with "spring" (referring to leaves springing up). Why did so many English speakers stop using "fall", a proper English word
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I'm not seeing it.
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Fruit is an area where growing is typically more economical than buying. I have found that berries in particular are absurdly easy to grow in large quantities (if you are in the right climate) yet very expensive to buy from a shop.

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