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That was my first reaction, to ask you why. So, being stymied in that regard, I will just congratulate you and your brothers on your apparent prescience. I remember liking the series, though some of the humor (from such scriptwriting eminences as Robert Towne and Harlan Ellison) went over my young head. Later had a GF who was mildly obsessed with Ilya Kuryakin, whose buttock shiftings seemed to also affect respiration albeit among his female admirers. Don't entirely follow this, but some instinct tells me to request no further explanation.

Yes, the article does make clear that these researches have value. The awards – which have no affiliation to the Nobel Prizes – aim to “celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative – and spur people’s interest in science, medicine, and technology” by making “people laugh, then think.” As for enteral ventilation, I think politicians could find this useful: if you talk through your ass, it would help to be able breathe through your ass.

Not necessarily. Dogs, unlike cats, or their ancestors wolves, are not obligate carnivores and are more omnivorous. Their GI tract will benefit more from roughage and some plant nutrients, so protein levels are just one part of the equation. One example is that dogs have the genes that produce amylase. Wolves do not produce amylase, which breaks down starch in the diet; modern dogs do, suggesting an adaptation to process plant-based foods as would be found in a scavenger diet. While a wolf or a cat can get all it needs from animal muscle meat and organ meats, plants provide dogs with beneficial fiber, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, enzymes and phytonutrients not found in meat. They help it maintain a gut biome that it needs for optimal nutrition. So rather than rely on protein content, you should look at the overall balance and type of plant materials in the dog food. When I was researching this for my dog (RIP), for example, I found that oats, millet and brown rice were better for him, while wheat and corn were best avoided. Of course, cheap dog foods tend to have a lot of corn and wheat (we used to call it "corn stink").

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/13/science/ig-nobel-prize-ceremony-2024-intl-scli/index.html CNN — The world still holds many unanswered questions. But thanks to the efforts of the research teams awarded the IG Nobel Prize on Thursday, some of these questions – which you might not even have thought existed – now have answers. We now know that many mammals can breathe through their anuses, that there isn’t an equal probability that a coin will land on head or tails, that some real plants somehow imitate the shapes of neighboring fake plastic plants, that fake medicine which causes painful side-effects can be more effective than fake medicine without side-effects, and that many of the people famous for reaching lofty old ages lived in places that had bad record-keeping...

Let me be your first data point on this (not that it would have personally made one bit of difference if we had had all boys). I recall some years ago giving off discouraging signals to a suitor who was rather proto-Trumpian. He soon disappeared, probably more owing to my daughter's powers of discernment than to my hints about the pick and shovel I kept in my car trunk. (there's a scene in the film Clueless that may illustrate this sort of threat) Anyway, I would guess such a poll might find a correlation there. To father girls does involve giving some thought to how men should respect women and what sort of role models men should and shouldn't have in that regard.

The flaw with this statement is that anything that can interact with a physical system, i.e. be somehow observable/measurable, would have to itselft be physical. That is pretty much the defining feature of physical entities. This is the core problem with dualism, that it seeks to make a false division between phenomena.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whelp If you intended that, it was quite clever.

For a woman any age. I'm not going to mince words on this: she's a hottie.

Harris had great reaction shots when TFG was making his various unhinged assertions, blending shock and amusement. And her ability, as a former trial lawyer, to bait people was on masterful display. She got him pretty riled up, to the point that he fell back on attacking a man he is no longer running against. While any undecideds (could there still be any?) may not be out factchecking stuff like "all of America and Congress wanted to get rid of Roe v Wade" they may be wondering about his fitness for any public office. Pass me a dog leg, wouldya?

It is concerning the way household pets are being eaten in our cities. Springfield was essentially destroyed by immigrants eating kittens. Also raises the spectre of pets who may be legally obtaining post birth abortions. They just leave the kittens in the basket while they decide what to do with them. Clearly Harris is okay with aborting the kittens after they're born and then eating them. When has she spoken out against this? NEVER. What did she do in 3 1/2 years? NOTHING. Puppies, kittens, hamsters, gerbils, aquarium fish...in one Ohio city they're all gone. All eaten by the immigrants, basically people released from insane asylums and prisons, the prisoners either there for political crimes or drugs or....eating pets, presumably. When you come to our big beautiful country, you know that our pets are bigger and healthier and mostly plump, just easy pickings for these human vermin.

Great story by Borges. I liked the religious cult that emerges in the Library which believes that somewhere must be a book which perfectly indexes all the other books.

The monkey/typewriter thing (have usually heard it as a roomful of monkeys, with them eventually typing Hamlet) is just a way to grasp some concepts about infinity and probability. I remember a prof invoking it in Evo biology, in re random molecular interactions leading to a proto-cell. Very low probability events become common, given sufficient time.

Oh what a tangled web we weave...

The first law of holes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_holes

Potayto, potahto.

Four years ago, I saw clearly that this trend in jokes was coming. It was 2020. You really can't compare Canadians and Americans. In two centuries, it's only been possible to draw one parallel between them. Canadians have more freedoms than Americans do. It's because we gave them more latitude. Things were simpler 1923 years ago. That's why we start with History 101.

Doubtful. A psychotic break changes one's orientation with respect to the world and the input coming from the world. It is about distortions of perception and delusions. One might come to believe, say, that it was okay to steal a car because it belonged to a demon who was riding about distributing brain worms into innocent people. Or steal because a dark force was coercing one to do bad things. But the underlying moral sense would be less likely to change. That kind of change would more likely be due to a stroke or head trauma (Google Phineas Gage case) especially affecting the frontal lobes.

A wee joke. You posted which struck me as somewhat less skeptical than what I've seen in other posts from you. I think you were kindly tossing Dim a bone there. No pun intended, and I was sorry to hear he lost a faithful 4-legger friend.

Where is Peterkin and what have you done with them?? 🙂

Well, for example, the brain as a musical instrument analogy seems muddled. It seems to imply an external player - clarinets don't get up and start playing themselves. Without perhaps intending to, you are inviting in some sort of metaphysical dualism. Also obscure is lines like (would imagine all brain processes involve metabolism, given that neurons are cells with the standard metabolic pathways to keep living) or You seem to have invented your own nomenclature which does not map well onto the definitions usually used in neuroscience.

Nice, haven't listened to Hindemith in a while. My wife, an oboist, played several Hindemith pieces including his famous oboe sonata. He was part of the Nazi brain drain, fled to the US. The US has always benefited from fascists, at least in how they drive many of their brilliant people to our shores.

Reads like word salad and cited no supporting research. And it's homeostasis not "hemostasis," which is an entirely different thing involving the treatment and healing of wounds.

iirc, De Tocqueville visited America and spoke of the "tyranny of the majority." It is this often well-meaning tyranny that calls for those distinctions many are so tired of. As The Onion's famous headline put it, Racism Over, White People Declare! We have to acknowledge the diverse aspects of humanity in order not to tread upon them - this is true both in civic life and in medicine. And, as @J.C.MacSwell notes, not exaggerate those differences to where we get a distorted view of individuals. Kind of a delicate balance, in America right now.

Might help engagement, as a newbie, to focus on one topic rather than starting a dozen new threads in two days? Also, the search function is your friend, as regards several of your topics, where previous discussions have already been started on them. Take your time, pace yourself, learn what interests folks at SFN.