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by vixen99 4y ago
Along these lines let's not forget the Kon Tiki expedition. In 1947 Heyerdahl & crew wanted to show if, using a simple raft, South Americans could have reached Polynesia in the era prior to Columbus in 1492. Modern genetic analysis
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by vixen99 4y ago
And swimmers have lower mortality rates than walkers and runners. "After adjustment for age, body-mass index, smoking status, alcohol intake, and family history of cardiovascular disease, swimmers had 53%, 50%, and 49% lower all-cause
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by vixen99 4y ago
> Do we want to live in a world where you have less opportunity because of characteristics you were born with? How do we know that those fewer opportunities are necessarily linked to the characteristics you were born with? For example: i
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by vixen99 4y ago
'mass * velocity' means it's a truism that heavier cars are more dangerous if they hit you. All factors being equal the question of car mass is indeed a significant issue. But if you compare road deaths in (for instance) Bri
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by vixen99 4y ago
It would be helpful to offer some examples for those who have doubt on this matter.
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by vixen99 4y ago
Is this incorrect information?
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by vixen99 4y ago
"A call for an independent inquiry into the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus" https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2202769119 One of the authors is Jeffrey Sachs https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by vixen99 4y ago
This kind of suggests that if only there had been readily available coal in location X (a statement copied over in a majority of history websites) then the industrial revolution might have started in X. [ there was such availability in many
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by vixen99 4y ago
Perhaps when make a similar comment in future you could expand a bit and sketch out a possible alternative to that of people being free to to trade things of value with other people under the aegis of a dynamic regulatory system? I guess yo
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by vixen99 4y ago
As with spiders' k. domains it seems. More limited than I thought. My garden orb weaver found a dried leaf as large as herself in her huge web and proceeded to truss it up as nicely as she could before belatedly realizing that the oper
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by vixen99 4y ago
With respect, 'More we have, the better it is' is not a sensible idea to follow with diet. Hold on I'm being too polite. It's dead wrong. Better to Look for optimum intake according to best advice you can glean. As the p
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As you say, the significance of the 3/6 ratio is still not clear; however we should note that all nutritional authorities (US, EU and Australian & others) confirm both types as essential components of our diet with a 'general
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by vixen99 4y ago
Please - 'their legs back'.
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by vixen99 4y ago
And so? Death awaits us all; it's what do we do while we're waiting that matters, at least for some.
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by vixen99 4y ago
I think you have a bit of a point though you know very well that most people will never voluntarily choose your lifestyle and you make some contentious statements. However - we do have the largest population of humans ever, often located in
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by vixen99 4y ago
You may be right, you may be wrong but with respect, if you can't supply references to peer-reviewed studies to support your contentious assertion then why should anyone believe you?
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by vixen99 4y ago
Here's some interesting data from Japan. It's the Tokyo weather record from 1876 to 2022. No change at all to speak of over the entire period. https://www.data.jma.go.jp/obd/stats/etrn/view/mont
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by vixen99 4y ago
But not so likely with the upcoming generation. The GCSE (a vital qualifying exam in the UK taken at more or less the US 10th grade level) syllabus has now been adjusted not to include Philip Larkin or Wilfrid Owen in a 'diversity driv
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by vixen99 4y ago
If you need even more, try Aubade.
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Romania is first in Europe, 5th worldwide at International Math Olympiad(romania-insider.com)
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Better according to the article.
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by vixen99 4y ago
So if it isn't plastic made from fossil fuels, what do you suggest? Apparently the global human mass excluding humans themselves who comprise 0.01% of the global biomass but including our constructions in concrete, asphalt, aggregates,
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by vixen99 4y ago
Many consider glyphosate as the most heavily used weed-killer in history. If 'internal documents show concern', what should we conclude? https://theecologist.org/2016/feb/03/glyphosate-most-heavily..
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And ...?
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Their conclusion 'Being physically active indeed appears to be associated with a higher life expectancy. [some authors] reported a mean reduction of mortality of 31% to 35% in persons who participate in regular leisure-time or daily li
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The artificial intelligence hype is getting out of hand(telegraph.co.uk)
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British Foreign Minister Agrees to Extradite Julian Assange to the US(telegraph.co.uk)
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Bloomsday June 16(en.wikipedia.org)
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Simply dreadful stuff.
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by vixen99 4y ago
No but I think HarveyWi might try them on our behalf.

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