When the great pyramids were being built there was still woolly mammoths walking the earth.
monads are monoids in the category of endofunctors.
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Multiple species have evolved into crab body plans, and only a subset of “crabs” are actually true crabs. For example coconut crabs evolved from a hermit crab ancestor. King crabs too.
The tendency to adopt the crab meta for your species is called carcinization.
There is also decarcinization for when a crab loses its crab body plan and becomes something else
And then some day there will be recarcinization where a species regrets being a shrimp and will become crab, destroyer of detritus, once again.
The gorgeous Lunar Moth exits the chrysilys fully formed, without a mouth or other structure for the intake of nutrients. It only exists to fly and breed at that point and expires around a week later.
Man, spends his whole life starving to death.
Humans can’t feel wet, what we’re actually feeling is cold. It’s why when you have a cold patch on a blanket or carpet you can’t quite figure out if it’s wet or not.
I feel like that’s like “you can’t see or touch the world or experience time, your eyeballs and molecules that never touch anything are just affected by magnetic and gravitational waves and translate that to feeling and experiencing those things”
Like I guess it’s technically true in that perspective, but effectively false
Somewhere bongos started to play…
Is that a Jumanji reference?
It’s actually an even greater level of abstraction: we feel the rate of heat flow through our skin. This is (kind-of) why plastic feels warmer than metal. Colder things don’t feel colder because they are colder. Colder things feel colder because they more efficiently sap heat from our skin. Wet things feel colder because water and other highly conductive fluids which have wet the skin (and are thus in direct contact with it) are much more efficient in removing heat, thus feeling colder.
This is so cool to know!!! Thank you!
Sorry these facts are actually useful, please leave. ;)
Oh yeah? Well menthol tricks your nerves into thinking they’re losing more heat than they are, so if you dissolve a tiny crystal of menthol in everclear, you can make a tincture to rub on a part of your body that’s sweating, and it will feel naturally cool for about ten minutes, reducing discomfort from both heat and sweat! How’s that for “actually useful”?
Mitochondria are actually parasites with their own genome and means of replicating. They will even actively defend their turf when other intracellular parasites appear.
Annoyingly, they can possess disease-causing genetic mutations which only appear in specific parts of the body, too. Making them harder to spot in genetic testing.
Dont do this.
You can hurt yourself if you grab the top of your thumb with the fingers of the same hand and make a motion like youre banging a hammer with your wrist.
Dont do this.
I think that’s also anold school orthopedic test when done gently for compression?
Does it injure the thumb if you do this? I can’t give myself another rock climbing injury
Sharks evolved before Saturn’s rings and the North Star existed.
The Appalachian Mountains are 2-3x older than sharks.
This is why they never visit. They’re bitter.
I read that as “Sauron”'s rings. 🙃
Those are pretty old too, that’s fair.
Sharks are older than trees.
The human brain is amazing and can predict the wildest things. You can look around a room and, without touching a thing, understand what it would feel like to lick random items.
Enjoy!
This only seems magical because you forgot your infantile experiences in doing just those things.
I bet you know what it would feel like to bite into a wooden desk.
a baby’s mission is to put pretty much everything they can into their mouth. we have trained long and hard to be able to make those predictions!
It’s probably why the primal brain inside is tempted to “lick it” when presented with a new texture.
Wait but this is useful.
Blue eyes in humans were the result of a mutation. Due to less pigment than average eyes are more sensitive to glare and bright light
My eyes are blue and I have to almost shut my eyes in bright sunlight.
Do your eyes adjust quickly when someone cuts the lights?
It takes about 5 to 10 seconds.
Popes and priests before the renaissance (I can’t remember the specific cut off) were told not to fuck, but all did as it was seen that no one was that godly to deny sex. Early bishops were a hereditary position passed from “celibate” father to son. Oh and the Avignon popes basically built the first European sin city because one of them really loved fucking and gambling.
Reading The Sparrow. There is a discussion between characters (one is a priest) about celibacy. He quips:
“When asking 400 honest priests if they still partake in self pleasure, 398 will say yes.”
“What of the other two?”
“Elementary Watson. Clearly we can deduce they have no hands.”
We doing orb books now?
During the medieval period there was no currency used throughout the whole of Germany. Most used the Silver Penny (Pfennig) but there were different types with a different value (amount of silver in them) that also changed over time (some were more stable, some changed every year). People were obligated to exchange old coins for the new ones and part of the exchange was held back by the people in charge (the so called Schlagschatz). Also people coming from a different location were obligated to exchange their coins or silver bars to the local currency at the time. The exchange rates were quite different.
It was a complete mess. But somehow it worked.
I think Spice and Wolf paints a pretty good depiction of the market (and world) of the early middle age’ europe.
To not offend anyone: please don’t get me wrong.
It is not the goal of the series to give a historical correct impression. But to create a nice and engaging story. Which is totally fine. But historical accuracy is not part of it.
I watched the first episode and have to say: it is not even close to give a proper impression of the medieval (especially early medieval) ages in europe.
- clothing completely wrong
- How villages and cities look like
- How trade is organized
- local law enforcement is completely missing
- how a village and social life was organized and the embedding into the local administration is missing
It is a nice show to watch. But a "… pretty good depiction of the market… "? Definetly no.
I do 13th century living history for museums. The show has more in common with a Hollywood movie then anything with history.
While their claim about the world is certainly off:
- 13th century is not what was being depicted in spice and wolf. It was a depiction of renaissance-era to age-of-reason mercantile trade.
- the point to which they were specifically referring was the gigantic plot arc that specifically focused on the debasement of currency and speculation thereupon, the markets for which were almost exactly as described, you seem to be taking their word “market” to mean “physical space and event”, when S&W examines basic market theory in a mercantile environment. Its depiction of economic speculation, debasement of currency, etc. Are nearly impeccable, aside from random bits like “make the fur smell like apples” (though I shouldn’t put it past some random merchant to try such a ploy, even if i think it unlikely to avail them), even down to the “money changers clinking coins together to try to hear differing purities of silver”, which you can do yourself with silver coins. While there are certainly many aspects which did not accurately reflect renaissance Europe, pretending that something has no historical basis because the costumes in a fantasy setting based on both Europe and Japan aren’t period appropriate to a period several hundred years off of the period it’s actually based on is absolutely ludicrous.
As far as organisation of the communities, you’re absolutely right. Though, I can’t think of a single work of fiction, ever, which accurately depicts the sheer level of societal interconnection in any period, so I think the criticism unfair, given how perfectly it nails the economic principles it tries to tackle.
As far as the local policing force, I’d like to see a source on the presence, efficacy and integration of local police forces in continental Europe during the renaissance. I am only familiar with London, but I distinctly remember that, at the time period roughly equivalent to that being depicted in S&W, London was barely into its “thief-taker” phase of policing.
Anyway, if you’re judging Spice and wolf off of the first episode, then you’re missing the entire first arc that the commenter is referring to, in which the show explores, in exacting detail, precisely the phenomena to which your original comment was referring
Tolkein came up with the broad strokes of the simarillion and other parts of his legendarium decades before thinking about hobbits.
He also had an incredible saga involving Santa, a talking polar bear, and the North Pole that he made for his children in letters.
The Mission Impossible theme, you know, the “Dun! Dun! DADA! Dun! Dun! Duhduh!” one, written in 5/4 time? That’s supposed to spell MI for Mission: Impossible, in Morse code.
--..dash dash dot dot, MI. The first two notes are dotted quarter notes, 1.5 beats each for a total of 3 beats, then two quarter notes for each dot, total of 2 beats, grand total of 5 beats per measure. 5/4 time.FIND A PRACTICAL USE FOR THAT SHIT.
It may not have that much of ause, but that’s exactly why we consider Music to be Art.
Hey! Same for Rush’s YYZ. The morse code for Y-Y-Z (the airport code for the Toronto airport where the band no doubt spent a lot of time) is --.- --.- --… which is a rhythmic motif that appears a bunch in the song in some ungodly meter I don’t care to look up right now.
So, I don’t know if it did it on your end, the reason why I put my morse code in a code block is it expanded the two dots into three. Don’t know if it does it on all UIs but on my end it made your Z into dash dash dot dot dot.
He says, as if it matters.
It does matter! And I noticed shortly after I posted it, was mildly annoyed, and didn’t bother to fix it.
Edit: until now
Practical use? None I can think of. But I love learning this. Thank you.
Ok that’s pretty genius.
Chronologically, Tyrannosaurus rex was closer to humans than to sauropods.
Closer? It’s standing right behind me isn’t it?
It’s closer than it appears.
