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by panglott 10y ago
Most people get a lot of information from their environment from passive sonar...how "echoey" a room is, for example. People can take this ability much further. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH0aihGWB8U
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Well, under terrestrial Earthlike conditions, anyway. In the deep ocean, the evolutionary pressure towards sight is so slight that most animals gradually lose it (there is too little light).
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My Firefox on Windows shows no languages available, as does Edge on Windows, while Chrome on Windows shows a handful of languages available. Edit to say: what a fantastic and useful little tool! It is small focused, and very useful.
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Some of the early telegraph messages resembled text messaging: From 1890: The First Text Messages http://sundaymagazine.org/2010/08/from-1890-the-first-text-m... LOL in the Age of the Telegraph https://
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etymonline cites it as an English dialectal word from 1809 http://etymonline.com/index.php?term=hike Almost all American English words are originally of English origin, of course ;) However, Google Ngrams shows that the te
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There is no Wikipedia page for "Sanathan Dharma". The closest I can get is Sanātanī, but it appears this term does not cover significant elements of Hinduism. Wikipedia says that this term was popularized in 1921, but etymonline
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by panglott 10y ago
It's essentially cognate with "Indian" or "Indo-". But "Hindu" has religious connotations in English that "Indo-" does not.
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It's a followup to the Map of Physics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZihywtixUYo
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This comment about his wife's pubic hair prompted me to read the original article; but alas, pubic hair is not mentioned there, but brought up only in this comment.
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Where are you going to sleep and store your tools?
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"James S. goes on to point out that while you can achieve the percentages suggested by Craig using modern barley, malting techniques, yeast, and equipment, such ‘show-stopping’ figures were unlikely to have been achieved by even the co
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by panglott 10y ago
Racialism is is the idea that Homo sapiens can be divided into separate social categories or "races" based on a variety of relatively arbitrary society-specific markers: religion, kinship, skin color, and so on. The ideas of race
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by panglott 10y ago
The US is a racist society: "race" has no valid biological basis, but is a salient social category which impacts social and economic interactions in a wide variety of ways, producing inequalities of privilege and injustice. Whethe
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by panglott 10y ago
Evernote is my commonplace book. I started with TiddlyWiki and Wiki on a Stick before Evernote, and I might use a different app or methodology if I was starting now. The ability to link notes together was very useful in the Wiki, and part o
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by panglott 10y ago
There are several stands of genetically-pure American chestnut on the West Coast that remain because they were isolated from the blight. These were trees imported by settlers and arborists in the 19th century—they should remain protected!
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Much of the economic history of economic exploitation has been "take what you can" rather than free exchange. It leads to the liquidation of a valuable long-term resource for a quick short-term gain. A fishery that would be worth
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by panglott 10y ago
Louisville Slugger has started shifting to yellow birch and maple. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/baseball-bats-mad...
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Well, American chestnut grew on upland sites with thin soil in oak-hickory forest. Many of the surviving trees are on inaccessible mountain slopes and other places unsuitable for agriculture. After they died, the canopy space was overtaken
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Maybe, but the decline in commerce captured there is eyepopping. Projected GDP growth cut 1% so far. Vegetable prices dropping 42-78% due to falling demand. Small-scale services industries cut staff 35%. Job losses in auto manufacturing and
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The entire natural range of the American chestnut was east of the Mississippi.
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The American chestnut is not extinct. Every single passenger pigeon is dead. Whereas there are genetically pure, blight-resistant trees still living in the wild, but they are so widely distributed that they couldn't breed naturally—eac
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This article almost criminally understates the amount of success the restoration program has had in the last few years. The American Chestnut Foundation's effort to backcross the American chestnut with blight-resistant Chinese chestnut
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In the U.S., chestnuts were one of the cheapest foods in the 19th century. They were gathered up in huge amounts and sent into the cities. Like passenger pigeon meat, which was so cheap that it was regarded as a food for the poor.
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No one said it was surprising, but the article's argument is that the subsidies to the outlying suburbs are so large that they are overwhelming the tax revenue generated by the core. People find different things pleasing, and some peop
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The top DuckDuckGo result was the Museum of Modern Art (moma.org).
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The auto is at the center of what's unique about American towns. The chart in the article essentially says that the urban core generates surplus revenue that is used to subsidize low-productivity outlying areas. The car is at the heart
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micropodcasting
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What is the revenue-maximizing rate of taxation under the Laffer curve?
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This is the problem with "mental health" as a metaphor from bodily health. It's better than simply moralizing about addiction, sure, but leaves people with very muddled thinking about the topic through taking the metaphor too
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Isn't this true of any large, profitable company, like Microsoft in the '90s? But surely the cultures these companies create are very different. Or is Google secretly a lot like Microsoft in the '90s?

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