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- Comment on Life pro tip for friends of pharmacists 5 hours ago:
That was the theory and how it works in a petri dish, however that’s not how it works in the body.
Antibiotic treatment doesn’t have to kill all of the bacteria. It needs to kill enough so the immune system can catch up and finish the job.
There been evidence for more than 50 years that overly long antibiotic treatments cause resistance to build up faster. That’s why they have limits on the first place.
So there’s a balance between too few days, and to many.
- Comment on Humans rank between meerkats and beavers in monogamy ‘league table’, but sheep are sluts. 6 days ago:
Nope, that’s not what it means at all
Genetically linked behaviors follow distribution curves. There is always variation in every population for any behavior. When a behavior is highly selected for, alternative behaviors become more rare…but they still happen.
A good example of this is homosexuality, evolutionarily speaking this behavior is highly selected against (reduced babies). It still occurs in all sorts of species.
What this means is that around 2/3rds of humans are strictly monogamous. Around 1/3rd of humans are promiscuous or partially promiscuous. These are instinctual behaviors that can be overcome somewhat by cultural norms. On an individual basis, for every 3 people you meet, one instinctually finds sleeping around to be their “normal” behavior.
- Comment on >:3) 1 week ago:
The actual plant in the picture is poison oak.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 1 week ago:
It adds flex to the container for variations of atmospheric pressure. It’s what they mean by the fill levels.
Milk containers are filled by weight. The exact volume of the liquid can vary slightly based upon the atmospheric pressure.
If the container has no flex the top will pop off or the sides will crush in with pressure changes say when a truck drives over a mountain pass to deliver the milk.
- Comment on You nomster! 2 weeks ago:
My favorite was to take a screenshot of the desktop and set it as the desktop Then put all of the icons into a folder. Most people I left the folder on the desktop. The IT guys, the folder was then hidden.
- Comment on You nomster! 2 weeks ago:
Non-destructice hijinks were highly encouraged at my first job. It was a way to encourage people to remember to lock up their computers when they stepped away.
So mouse button settings were often reversed, hotkeys were mapped, desktop backgrounds were modified, and basically every other non-destructive computer prank was pulled.
- Comment on earth, fire, water, wind - it's not hard 3 weeks ago:
My wife has a couple graduate degrees on this subject. This is one that I got to be the unwilling editor on her papers for.
Its a lack of understanding how students need to learn the information: memorization by usage versus memorization by rote.
Memorization by rote: This is the old school method of teaching. You memorize random facts figures with no context or usage. Its a bit of standalone information that is often not useful. Memorization by rote leads to kids that can say all of the letters but not recognize the symbols or associated them with sounds and words.
Memorization by usage: This is a much more effective method to teach. Its also much harder. This requires teaching the concepts and systems and linking the information together. You memorize the same information by repeated usage but it’s in context. It takes a ton more skill to teach this way because you have to engage the student through the entire process, repeatedly.
- Comment on Don't touch my corn asshole..... 3 weeks ago:
He’s also a dust mop for the warehouse.
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- Comment on Fair's fair. 3 weeks ago:
The USDA-NASS is responsible for making an estimate of the number of corn cobs in the U.S. Most other countries have similar organizations.
To do so they send surveys out to ask farmers what they think. The farmers answer completely truthfully because lying would inflate the prices they get on their corn cobs.
- Comment on ( ^-^)ノ∠※。.:*:・'°☆ 3 weeks ago:
doi.org/10.4161/21645698.2014.945883
Here’s a paper discussing the issue.
Corn to teosintes GMO contamination is also huge issue especially in southern states.
20+ years after a failed introduction of GMO RR wheat, they are still finding it in fields.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
A form of sexual dimorphism. Honestly compared to real examples like the angler fish it’s not even that weird.
- Comment on ( ^-^)ノ∠※。.:*:・'°☆ 3 weeks ago:
The so called terminator gene was developed in and to attempt to limit the spread of GMO genes into the wild populations. It was a USDA-ARS program. Not their best work but it would have prevented today’s clusterfuck of contamination.
- Comment on Gotta commend them for the effort 3 weeks ago:
When I worked in unloading package trucks in college there was always a few idiots who would ship dangerous stuff in totally unacceptable ways.
That looks like a repackage job. Somebody put an axe into a regular box and shipped it. The axe came cutting out of the box somewhere along the journey. This is the type of repackaging that we would do if it didn’t endanger anyone. We’s also put a no belt sticker on it and put a hold on the shipment until the asshole paid for shipping an dangerous object. Everyone then knew what it was and it was shipped safely.
I once had a box fall off a tier and 10 sharp unsheathed bayonets stabbed into the deck less than 1cm from my foot. Some idiot had stacked a whole bunch of lead bullets for reloading on one side of the box and placed the unsheathed bayonets on top of them at an angle. Since all the weight was on one side, it tipped over off of the stack and fell. The blades came out on on impact and stuck 2cm into the deck next to my foot.
We returned the box to the sender, after using a bunch of bubble wrap and several rolls of clear tape to turn each bayonet into a ball.
- Comment on It's really ugly but it's a sign of a healthy environment for soil microbes. 4 weeks ago:
Trichoderma is the genus, there is currently 89 different species classified.
That being said, they did use the species that became a primary pathogen as an antifungal for many years. As soon as the species was identified as a primary pathogen the suppliers changed to another related species. They also claimed to have mislabeled the species on what they sold before (bullshit of course).
- Comment on Alright you fucking degenerates. It's time to get your edumacation on about corn smut. 4 weeks ago:
It tastes like a corny mushroom. Do not try them from a jar. Those taste more like a slimy snot rag.
It’s an obligate parasite that enters the corn plant via tiny wounds when it’s the plant is small. The most common source of wounding is insect damage or wind. Sandy soil + wind creates the highest incidence. Once you find some hotspots it’s easy to find.
- Comment on Alright you fucking degenerates. It's time to get your edumacation on about corn smut. 4 weeks ago:
Since corn is a critical crop in many regions its one of the most studied species on the planet. Even a post about shitty corn is interesting.
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- Comment on Time to plow 4 weeks ago:
Nobody spreads corn seed. It needs to be planted at least 1.5" deep.
It needs to be DRILLED in 2-3".
- Comment on Wanna get in shape? Bar bell corn is the answer. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Alright you fucking degenerates. It's time to get your edumacation on about corn smut. 4 weeks ago:
I would sent you pictures of it but I don’t save smut to my phone.
- Comment on Alright you fucking degenerates. It's time to get your edumacation on about corn smut. 4 weeks ago:
It doesn’t just grow on the ears either. It often grows on the stalk or tassel.
Wait a bit until that little fella matures and then produces spores. It will be about 4x the size in those pictures. Bumping into them covers you in dark black spores that sticks around on your clothing.
- Comment on It's really ugly but it's a sign of a healthy environment for soil microbes. 4 weeks ago:
Damnit I forgot to mention that the trichoderma rot causes the kernals to suffer from premature-germination. The stress causes them to pop off too soon.
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- Comment on A lovely 98 Day variety for your viewing pleasure. 4 weeks ago:
Not bad for a cell phone picture. Eventually I’m going to get myself a decent camera.
- Comment on The ugly side of corn 4 weeks ago:
Huitlacoche is quite tasty. I’ve had it several times in Mexico.
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