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- Comment on Friends matter 3 weeks ago:
You ever play the video game Inside?
- Comment on nerves 3 weeks ago:
Sure. It all kinda has to connect to the brain somehow, or our naturally occurring meat suit wouldn’t work either, lol. But i think your proposed “adapters” may have to do more postprocessing of the signal for some senses more than for others:
In vertebrates, the CNS also includes the retina and the optic nerve (cranial nerve II), as well as the olfactory nerves and olfactory epithelium. As parts of the CNS, they connect directly to brain neurons without intermediate ganglia.
Which kinda makes me think we should put a nose on the image in the post, while we’re at it.
But i’m also just reporting back from a Wikipedia rabbit-hole. I don’t really know much at all about anatomy.
- Comment on nerves 3 weeks ago:
The Retina Wikipedia page seems to agree with you:
In vertebrate embryonic development, the retina and the optic nerve originate as outgrowths of the developing brain, specifically the embryonic diencephalon; thus, the retina is considered part of the central nervous system (CNS) and is actually brain tissue.
- Comment on It is truly magic 4 weeks ago:
It’s not about size. It’s the fact that the United States of America has the word “America” in it. And I don’t refer to the US as “America” (unless I’m being cheeky, though in those cases, I spell it 'Murica), but I do refer to people from the US as “American”.
And I know this is all kinda pedantic. I just think it’s fun to talk about words. I get the feeling you read some snark into my pervious comment, but that really wasn’t my goal.
- Comment on It is truly magic 4 weeks ago:
Ok. I get it. There are people in the Americas that are not from the US. But do you call people from the United Mexican States “Unitied Mexican Stateans”? No, that sounds ridiculous. I think that it’s silly anyway to call everyone from either Americas “American” anyway; they are two different continents! “North American” or “South American” would be better, if you must get so broad with your adjectives (but really, continent-wide generalizations of people are rarely useful anyway). Sorry for the rant.
- Comment on space 4 weeks ago:
I’m traveling forward in time right now.
- Comment on life pro tip!! 1 month ago:
Tetraethyluranium
- Comment on somewhere a postdoc is crying 1 month ago:
The particular acid (sulfuric acid) in the graph is especially complicated b/c it has three different protonation states that are favored at different pHs. Other acids (like nitric, for example) at least only have two protonation states to worry about…
- Comment on They just suffered a sudden death, that's all 2 months ago:
with another deposition scheduled for Saturday… don’t forget that part. he wasn’t even done giving evidence.
- Comment on Plastic tea bags 2 months ago:
I agree that it’s nonsense, and thanks for pointing out that I can look up European nutrition facts – i’m gonna start doing that. I wish we’d do the per 100g thing, but we don’t which makes it easier for companies to game the system. My point was that nutrition facts don’t always tell the whole story, especially if your country’s regulatory bodies have been lobbied into submission by the companies they are supposed to be regulating, so finding out if your tea has added sugars may not be as simple as looking on the box.
- Comment on Plastic tea bags 2 months ago:
Tic Tacs say 0g sugar in the nutrition facts, even though they’re mostly sugar. They can do this because they aren’t required to report quantities of sugar below 0.5g, but the serving size is 1 tic tac or, conveniently, 0.49g.
- Comment on This was actually a thing btw 4 months ago:
i think it’s a play on the word “bisque”, which is a type of soup.