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- Comment on Delicious rocks 2 weeks ago:
There were arsenic in Styria
From the English Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic_trioxide?wprov=sfla…
In Austria, there lived the so-called “arsenic eaters of Styria”, who ingested doses far beyond the lethal dose of arsenic trioxide without any apparent harm. Arsenic is thought to enable strenuous work at high altitudes, e.g. in the Alps."
(The German Wikipedia has a whole article on this: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenikesser?wprov=sfla1)
- Comment on How did far-west era US dealt with "Male loneliness" 3 weeks ago:
well there’s prairie madness
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
proper archiving is surprisingly difficult, esp the time capsule idea. maybe this gets you started
- Comment on A cuppa Jill 6 months ago:
kenne noch Hahnenquelle
- Comment on Unfortunately, this is science too. 7 months ago:
well yeah, but there is money in knowing what to avoid. in academia it’s more like “why can’t i reproduce this effect i read about in this fancy paper, am i stupid or what”, when maybe, they just got lucky, or had plenty of very reasonable analysis options to choose from, or simply fudged the numbers. i fear that in much of academia there is a huge incentive to publish at whatever cost
- Comment on Anon studies Buddhism 8 months ago:
Late to the party, and no offence to buddhism, but i always loved this quote from Terry Pratchett
“Master, what is the difference between a humanistic, monastic system of belief in which wisdom is sought by means of an apparently nonsensical system of questions and answers, and a lot of mystic gibberish made up on the spur of the moment?"
Wen considered this for some time, and at last said: “A fish!”
And Clodpool went away, satisfied.” ― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
(copies the quote from www.goodreads.com/work/…/46982-thief-of-time?page… but i’m rather sure its correct, so i didn’t check my copy).
- Comment on Seeing a lot of copium but am I fucking crazy? The market would have to do more than just recover for people to recoup their losses? 8 months ago:
yes, generally it’s l/(1-l), where l is the loss (ranging from 0 to 1). Example: if you loose 10%, your portfolio needs to grow 11.11% to compensate just for the loss. go figure how long that is gonna take
- Comment on ehh 11 months ago:
this is stupid, of course you can en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birnen,_Bohnen_und_Speck
- Comment on Petrichor 1 year ago:
i Kind of doubt it. in a video i saw if the process they were using hardfired bricks. i don’t believe any organic compounds would survive the heat.
(dung might be a better term for what you were referring to. i seem to remember that because of the way they feed their cattle the dung has a very high fibre content which makes it a good source for building material. it’s nowhere as gross as the diarrhea like consistency we get from cows in Europe)
- Comment on Petrichor 1 year ago:
I’ve never smelled the stuff but apparently the smell of rain is something people try to bottle.
- Comment on Owl Pellets 1 year ago:
what’s with the femur? is it on purpose?
- Comment on Did something about mass produced ice cream change like 10 years ago? 1 year ago:
there is a segment on German public TV if that’s any help zdf.de/…/zdfzeit-tricks-der-lebensmittelindustrie…
(Starts at 13:15 min). from what i remember it shows the same pattern mentioned by other commenters. vegetable fats instead of milk, thickeners, stabilizers, artificial flavors.
- Comment on Excuse me? 1 year ago:
the abstract of the PDF provided in the link has more commas. (not sure if any of the terms mean anything though. i know jackshit about any of this)
- Comment on Excuse me? 1 year ago:
someone fucked up the commas
- Comment on MDPI 1 year ago:
this is my impression. back when i still was in academia it would pop up from time to time but i never published there since i never cited any of their journals in the first place. (why would one publish there when all your peers are somewhere else). nowadays i sometimes get requests from them to my personal email for special issues which i just ignore. (it’s academic spam essentially).
have a look at retraction watch retractionwatch.com/?s=mdpi
- Comment on MDPI 1 year ago:
some might regard it as a predatory publisher
- Comment on Mod Post: Sorry for spam! 1 year ago:
thank you for your work. although i don’t post here i really appreciate the community and the work that involves. thanks a lot