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by vixen99 6y ago
Tomorrow? Of course animals make conscious decisions. This orangutan had, prior to implemention, made a conscious decision to build a hammock by tying a sheet to the cage bars. https://roaring.earth/orangutan-builds-a-hammoc
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by vixen99 6y ago
In all fairness, the words are 'in your life' not everyone else's though I suppose that might not be what was meant.
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by vixen99 6y ago
Needs to be repeated again & again: "Governments have no money of their own, it's citizens' (past, present and future - mostly the latter these days) who provide the cash via taxes".
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by vixen99 6y ago
I.e., tax payer funded either directly or via debt servicing.
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by vixen99 6y ago
Sure but you'll almost certainly only ever going to be able to play in your own home. Though - if Alicia de Larrocher (one of the 'greats') 'at less than five feet tall and with small hands for a pianist spanning an inte
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by vixen99 6y ago
Be interesting to hear comment from a statistician on: >the method of significance testing and the reputations of the people who invented it are crumbling simultaneously. >a letter signed by over 800 scientists called for an end to th
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by vixen99 6y ago
Is there any evidence that people who regularly meditate live longer? Healthier people have longer telomeres but does a lengthening of the telomeres after they've presumably got shorter, then necessarily extend longevity?
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EU and US block protections for nearly extinct shark(ecologyaction.ca)
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by vixen99 6y ago
It would be more interesting if in general it was impossible to downvote (any comment) without providing a reason.
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by vixen99 6y ago
Why not double down? Go on - a few more clicks and you won't even see be reminded anymore of what everyone has seen over the summer in many US cities. And it worked!
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by vixen99 6y ago
Try not to imagine everyone sees the world through your eyes.
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Three key questions on the Pfizer Covid vaccine(spectator.co.uk)
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by vixen99 6y ago
Why haven't we had a similar onslaught against remdesivir? (patented by one company) https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/very-very-bad-look-r... On HCQ (no patent; used for decades for malaria thus t
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by vixen99 6y ago
By the same logic that must be a smear on Carlson as well. Undeniably both men do have talent and they do have followings. A simple fact & not a political statement. Your evident dislike of Carlson doesn't enter into it.
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by vixen99 6y ago
Here is a poem Haldane wrote when he found out he had cancer:- http://nsmn1.uh.edu/dgraur/Texts/Cancerhaldane.htm
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by vixen99 6y ago
Deplorables, redux.
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by vixen99 6y ago
Not quite so difficult if you live on an island.
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by vixen99 6y ago
I trust we won't need a century to see this digusting business for what it is. This is what we do with our advanced brains?
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by vixen99 6y ago
Not quite such a rosy prospect given the short and long terms problems with LED lights. They have a phototoxic effect on the eyes causing macular degeneration after chronic exposure to lower-intensity sources - the blue light relationship.
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by vixen99 6y ago
Of course the US has a pole position in Covid deaths. It has pole positions in countless statistics because of its 330 million population. Belgium,UK, Peru,Spain,Italy,Sweden and Chile all have higher per capita deaths from Covid.
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by vixen99 6y ago
(Fox) 'It isn't news at all'? You mean you watch it regularly and can therefore vouch for its zero news content? Why would you want to do that and if you don't, how can you make such an evidently uninformed comment? What
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by vixen99 6y ago
If you ignore the extensive literature describing vitamin D's multi-pronged involvement in metabolism then your final sentence is entirely reasonable. Here's a very short summary of some of the effects whereby vitamin D may may be
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by vixen99 6y ago
The instigator and driving force of the supposed 'Fox News equivalent' is Andrew Neil. Try putting it to him that he's 'hyper-partisan'! Neil is anything but that, as unprepared politicians across the spectrum from
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by vixen99 6y ago
Apparently unavailable in Europe
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by vixen99 6y ago
Your comment is entirely word play.
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by vixen99 6y ago
On the other hand, just keeping to the observation, we can at least say that countless pathologists and others over a very long period have failed to identify this anatomical entity. In the main it seems that experts see what they expect to
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by vixen99 6y ago
What a magnificently generous gesture! Thank you Tom Lehrer.
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by vixen99 6y ago
The wording of the title could be better. Isn't there an implication here that if in the minds of a sizeable public, X theory gains the label 'conspiracy', it's wrong by default ? A significant number of conspiracy theo
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by vixen99 6y ago
Can we have a break from the thought-terminating cliches that abound on HN? Just like Pavlov's dogs: mention the word or phrase and the subject salivates. To suggest that medical expertise as such has a decided opinion on the covid cri
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by vixen99 6y ago
I wonder how many present-day luminaries will be ignominiously dumped in a future era. As to the rapidly extending list today, I think we can expect London's Royal College of Art to rename the Darwin Building shortly. The full title of

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