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by teslabox 5y ago
The year 1816 was known as "The Year Without A Summer" because it was 3°C cooler (in France) than normal. Crops failed, and there was much misery throughout the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Withou
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Twitter kindly gave me a heads up on the UK CO2 shortage a few days ago, maybe on account of the algorithm being aware that CO2 is one of my interests. This carbon dioxide shortage, experienced by a beverage company, is caused by fertilizer
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by teslabox 5y ago
While it's a good to think about childcare, something more constructive needs to be done about growing up in the modern world than extending the caging of modern children. John Taylor Gatto (iirc) advised keeping kids out of school as
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As best I can figure that one's in a box of books. If I ever get a chance to unpack them all, it's one of the books I'm looking for. I'll favorite your comment here, and try to get back to you. :) This is not the referen
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This is a nice review of one of the problems with LED lighting, and how the color output can be 'tuned' to provide a better experience. Another problem is that too much light is commonly used, and that blue light is both overpower
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The dairy cow is the most efficient means of turning grass on a rocky hillside into human-usable protein [0]. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20061802
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I think volcanic winters deserve more preparation than the possibility that the climate scientists are right. If the climate scientists are right, it'll be a slow moving disaster , and we'll have to gradually abandon all the buil
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MCA (manufactured citric acid) is on my list of ingredients to avoid, as it seems to cause sores on the inside of my mouth. I don't get the same reaction from lemons/limes, so I figured it's the fungus contaminants. Juices ar
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She was trapped with hunger cravings, and would try to satiate herself with sugar-free (stevia/etc) junk foods. At one point she came up to me with my haagen daz ice cream container and asked, "why does my brain work, when I eat h
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Many stores have Bob's Red Mill Organic Masa. A friend was visiting, I was trying to get her to give up on her no-carbohydrate ambitions. She scarfed down her flour tortillas that were included with the meat she'd purchased earlie
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I have the report behind Phoenix, Arizona’s early-1980’s lighting ordinances. Orange sodium lights had many advantages over the lights they replaced beyond the energy improvements. There are LEDs that retain most of the benefits of the sodi
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Ask HN: What prevents the automotive industry from using safe LEDs?
6 points by teslabox 5y ago|2 comments
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Our modern standard of living is as precarious as it's ever been. > Solar storms have their roots in an 11-year cycle that shifts the polarity of the sun's magnetic field. The magnetic forces at work on the sun get tangled duri
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by teslabox 5y ago
I avoid refined oils that are high in polyunsaturated oils. This mostly means seed oils from non-tropical seeds: canola, soybean, corn, cottonseed, grape seed, etc. Palm oil has a significant percentage of Omega-6 oil. If it's in whate
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I use polyunsaturated oils to attempt to preserve the wood used for my raised garden beds. While vegetable-oil preserved wood might not be as long-lasting as a modern chemical stain, modern stains have various amounts of heavy metal, which
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Flagstaff makes an effort to enforce their lighting ordinances, Prescott makes no effort whatsoever. I think the problem is that all the people who knew why the lighting ordinances were passed retired. Because Prescott doesn’t have Lowell
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by teslabox 6y ago
'Why do I have a tab with a search about NovaMin open already?' NovaMin was mentioned in a comment by @dannyw two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26642987 The author of this Medium post mentioned th
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by teslabox 6y ago
Probably more of a geopolitical survival strategy. The Republic of China and the People's Republic of China don't get along too well: > The political and legal statuses of Taiwan are contentious issues. The People's Republ
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by teslabox 6y ago
Matt.Might.net has had many submissions to HN [1]. Professor Might pivoted from CS to medicine on account of his family's success figuring out Bertrand Might's (their first-born son) medical problem. Further context for this link
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Bertrand Might: Life, legacy and next steps(bertrand.might.net)
95 points by teslabox 6y ago|14 comments
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Bones grow in response to the stress placed on them? I think that's a general principle... The article makes a point about recent generation of Japanese people having gained 5 inches height since adding more protein and dairy to their
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by teslabox 6y ago
My Aunt's friend's liver had failed - I think she was going to get fluid drained off her liver semi-regularly [0], and was getting worked up for a liver transplant. Eventually she started hospice care. This woman tested negative f
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by teslabox 6y ago
I found this to be an Interesting article on the origins of an early microprocessor, before even the Intel 4004. I wonder what else from that era is still classified. I accidentally clicked on a link and found myself looking at the Weston A
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by teslabox 6y ago
Public schooling started with Pennsylvania providing a teacher for every community. One-room schoolhouses provided enough structure to help the kids learn how to learn, without giving the system space to indoctrinate children. John Taylor G
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by teslabox 6y ago
Matt.Might.net has had many submissions to HN [1]. Professor Might pivoted from CS to medicine on account of his family's success figuring out what was wrong with their first-born son, Bertrand Might. Further context for this link is p
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Bertrand Might: Life, legacy and next steps(bertrand.might.net)
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I think the primary disadvantage suffered by c-section births is related to not having the cranium compressed on passage through the birth canal. The cranium has 8 bones. In an infant these are separate and somewhat mobile, eventually fusin
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It's very hard to get control of invasive species. In a story here about tumbleweeds I said these were an invasive species from Russia, wondered what from the Americas had invaded the rest of the world, and a bunch of responders provid
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> It's intriguing what data is considered to be the most title-worthy in cases like this. I would have taken the title from this quote: > In the Antarctic, sea ice extent is now well above average and within the range of the ten
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It's a good video, but it's also a case study in being 'almost right'. The almost-correct interpretations cascade and result in a faulty conclusion: that blue-white LED streetlights are better than orange-white streetlig

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