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by panglott 9y ago
I'm in my 30s, but get most of my exercise from cycling, which doesn't exercise the back much. My back pain problems have been increasing over recent years, but I've had good success in the last few months with 15-20 minutes
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by panglott 9y ago
Laying on a hard floor with my arms above my head has been my near-term way of coping with back pain. But a little isometric back strength exercises like a nightly plank have helped with prevention over the past few weeks.
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by panglott 9y ago
It's not mere availability of food. Obesity rates vary quite widely across OECD countries; the US is at 35%, France/Italy/Spain are at about 5-10%, Korea is below 4%. Overeating is a stress response for a lot of people, and o
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by panglott 9y ago
English is less than 1,000 years old in its identifiably modern form.
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by panglott 9y ago
Your Wikipedia link disagrees that all of the Dravidian languages are derived from ancient Tamil. It describes them as common descendents of Proto-Dravidian. It cites the attested literature of Tamil as being 2,000 years old.
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by panglott 9y ago
It's interesting that cat breeding happened among colonies of wild or feral cats, and it wasn't until the Middle Ages that cat fancy began developing breeds. There are large colonies of self-sustaining feral cat populations in nea
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by panglott 9y ago
Our cats are not the best mousers, but since we have an old house and the mice try to move in in the fall, their hunting instincts definitely keep the house free of vermin. This is quite good. We keep them inside, so they don't bring i
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by panglott 9y ago
Domestic cats raised among humans and feral domestic cats have very different personalities. Feral cats can be quite wild, although we have tamed a few. They are very quiet and very secretive, quite unlike house cats.
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Pebble-tables are fine for that, but don't leave a persistant record. Mostly when I hear "writing system" I think "linguistic writing system", a writing system for language, rather than "mathematical writing sy
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by panglott 9y ago
Most people find it hard to read books with long s, for example, or even know what long s is or where it occurs. "Why are all the s's replaced with f's?" people will ask. It's fine if it's "ash-tray"
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by panglott 9y ago
Those don't seem related to me at all. Quipu was an Incan record-keeping system that we don't understand well. Abaci are very ancient calculation devices that don't use writing. The oldest Mesopotamian and Roman versions were
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by panglott 9y ago
A James Baldwin history of the FBI in the South sounds like an amazing book.
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by panglott 9y ago
It's hard to read a ketogenic diet page that begins with a long disclaimer about you only you are responsible for your health and diet and "we can't take any responsibility for the consequences", and then conclude that t
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by panglott 9y ago
The actual study (linked above) examined subcutaneous and subfascial fat distribution, not weight loss or muscle mass.
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by panglott 9y ago
"The aim of our study was to compare the effects of a vegetarian and a conventional diet on thigh adipose tissue distribution in subjects with type 2 diabetes (T2D)." The broader conclusion seems plausible to me, since a healthy v
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Silicon Valley’s basic income fans should defend the actual safety net(vox.com)
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by panglott 9y ago
There's a whole Wikipedia article on this, interestingly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_studies_on_Turkish_peo...
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by panglott 9y ago
Interesting. The Afroasiatic languages are attested from long enough ago that the date of their divergence can be estimated at ca. 10,000 BCE or earlier, orginating probably somewhere around the Red Sea. https://en.wikipedia.org
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by panglott 9y ago
Can't understand all the negative comments here (I'm definitely in shut-up-and-take-my-money mode): this looks like an amazing toy. It is only a puzzle toy, but I know that as a kid I would have had a blast with this thing. Physic
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by panglott 9y ago
The Georgist argument is that the problem is property taxes aren't based solely on land value, and this creates excessive deadweight loss from taxation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism Under a system of pu
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by panglott 9y ago
This comment remind me of Michael Lewis's profile of Greece during the 2008 financial crisis... http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2010/10/greeks-bearing-bonds-... 'The easiest way to cheat on one’s tax
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by panglott 9y ago
"Who owns land is one of England's most closely-guarded secrets." This seems really strange to me. Why should this be the case? Some interesting information at their blog https://whoownsengland.org/2017/0
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by panglott 9y ago
The Seasteading Institute had some pages about concrete oceanic structures that captured my imagination a while back https://www.seasteading.org/2010/11/green-float-the-botanica... https://www.seasteadi
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by panglott 9y ago
Thanks. I must have been thinking of Miss W's story there. Miss A's account is even more serious: clear sexual assault.
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by panglott 9y ago
It's a widely known myth, but I'm pretty sure that Inuit absolutely has 100+ words for snow: it's just that's a meaningless and unsurprising assertion. The Inuit languages are polysynthetic and can say in a word what Eur
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by panglott 9y ago
My understanding is that he had consensual sex with them, they went to sleep, then he had nonconsensual sex with them while they were sleeping. They were individually disturbed by these events, but did not decide to file charges until they
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I linked the NY Times story above, but at least one of the women remains adamant that she was raped, and is shocked by the decision to drop the case. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/world/europe/j
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No mention of the alleged victims in the OP? Here's the NYTimes story: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/world/europe/julian-assan... 'Elisabeth Massi Fritz, who represents the woman who
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by panglott 9y ago
That was Assange's claim, but there are two women in Sweden who say that he sexually victimized them. The details of their claims have been out for a while: IIRC they had consensual sex with him, and later that night he had nonconsensu
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by panglott 9y ago
"To show just how complex this can get, let’s take a simple English phrase – “I love you” – and dissect the many ways in which it can be said in Japanese. Spoiler alert: it’s not such a simple phrase in Japanese. One of our course cont

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