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I wonder how true this really is if you make an reasonable effort to keep yourself in shape. It wasn't until I hit 60 that I felt unquestionably different, and even then it wasn't …

I know little about farming or harvesting, but I’m curious what types of crops actually require manual harvesting? Do we really need to rely on stoop labor to hand-pick crops, or h…

One of the minor subplot points in Whit Stillman's movie "Metropolitan" was a couple of the characters' debate over the merits of "Mansfield Park".

I'm glad to see this material has a home, but I'm curious why it didn't end up at some institution in the Bay Area close to MMR's home

Unlike previous market turmoil (2008, 2020) where the U.S. at least had established global trade order to lean on for the recovery, this feels like the U.S. could be entering a per…

Anything that requires hard chewing like nuts, raw vegetables and tough meats. The first I ever heard of this topic was from reading the book "The Evolution of the Human Head" (201…

Even the Wikipedia entry on them has the classic bean-shaped diagram. If they are not really like that, why did that become the standard representation? Have they always been know …

An analog of the birthday paradox that gets me all the time is what I think of as The Locker Room Paradox. This is where when I go into the locker room after working out and the gu…

The first record Enid looks at is actually by "R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders" that Seymour directs her away from to another selection. Zwigoff was a member of that group.

FamilySearch (free registration) has the passenger manifest of her arrival in New York, 28 Nov 1838 aboard the brig Sofia Eliza: Americus Vespucius, female, age 26, Tuscany https:/…

1. There's a fun reference to this book in the movie "24 Hour Party People" 2. Chaucer's translation is referenced in the OED as the first use of the word "twitter" in the English …

Their “fame” certainly well pre-dated that movie. These were the ones I knew as a kid in the 60s and 70s, and would be featured in old stop animation movies even before my time.

There are a small handful of relatively well-know dinosaurs: stegosaurus being one of them. There’s also Tyrannosaurus rex, Brontosaurus (maybe you’re not supposed to call them tha…

That doesn’t seem particularly fast of a spin and I’m surprised it’s the fastest one observed. There is a moment in 2001: A Space Odyssey that I’ve always liked. It’s at about 1:13…

If I never saw another psychedelic-related link on Hacker News again it would be too soon (just my opinion)

That bridge also took over 2 years to complete at an absurd cost after the one it replaced was damaged. While it was under construction, there was a temporary red light installed a…

Could someone explain what is meant by "inflammation" in this context? What exactly is inflamed and is it manifested externally in some visible way? I feel like I constantly hear a…

Part of this may have been due to the Hunga Tonga eruption which injected an tremendous amount of water vapor into the upper atmosphere https://twitter.com/RARohde/status/168597165…

I like how the diagram is captioned "A hypothetical escape route ..." as if the frog's gut were a cave system with different potential passageways and not a single path out

I’ve read a bunch of his books and The Road is the only one I know of that actually ends with a glimmer of hope.

Why do these brain stimulation experiments always seem to result in some sort of benefit? Do these things ever result in a loss of capability?

I'm not necessarily concerned that I will be entirely without a job because of AI. What I am concerned with is that the aspects of my job that I derive pleasure from will be replac…