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Tamar Haspel, Oyster farmer, James Beard award-winning Washington Post columnist and general nuisance feels - I think - treated unfairly by a colleague. I needed to stop reading hi…

My experience is that meds take the symptoms away. You no longer feel sad, but you are still "depressed". Kind of like pain medication takes the pain away, but your leg is still br…

Stimulus generalization comes to mind. IIRC Pavlows dogs at some point reacted not just to the food, but even earlier on him entering the room. I doubt that they train dogs like "S…

Sick Societies by Robert Edgerton changed my view on pretty much all aspects of mankind. By giving vivid examples of failing or badly functioning and "maladaptive" (processes in) v…

Thanks, I’ll check that out. But otoh it’s another thing you’d have to carry around. I‘ll also try buying glasses online as suggested elsewhere. I do that with contact lenses alrea…

70$ for glasses in Germany? I have to pay about 200€ per glas. Maybe weaker glasses are cheap. After all you can buy glasses in the supermarket for a few bucks. Those modern glasse…

Sorry, but no: Don't keep cats indoors or on a leash. Cats are predators. And they need freedom. If you're concerned for birds et al. don't get a cat. Don't be cruel to cats to sat…

I paddled alot of these: The old wodden "Deltas" width the ridiculous beam width of 75cm as well as a monstrous version made out of composite that was near impossible to trim in wi…

My sister instead of her hand turns the page nearly 90° counter clockwise. She writes "upwards". I always thought that was pretty neat.

Well, transfers are "reversible". There's nothing technical stopping a bank to wire money back. But, banks are not allowed to mess with your funds. If it's in you account, then it'…

I usually just grab another paper towel or toilet paper to open the door. I also carry a small bottle of hand disinfection with me especially in the winter. I use it after e.g. gra…

> In other words, the perception of dissonance isn't musical, it's cultural. Very well said. As my prof for music ethnology said: There's no agreement on intervals in the world exc…

The guy dedicated a couple of pieces to my professor - a classical singer. What's your point?

> It doesn't sound wrong to hear tritones, or minor seconds, or diminished and altered triads, or stacked fourths. That depends on the composer. I'm doing Hollander currently. I go…

All but Peter and the Wolf maybe.

And as my top poster dharma noted: Jazz and "classical music" share many similarities. Definitely true. Think of Scriabin piano somata No 5 written in 1907. Or even go back to Beet…

I think you are oversimplifying this. Many classically trained pianists are excellent at improvisation. Wagner, Beethoven, Mozart were respected pianists. Wagner wrote the Hollande…

Professional orchestras can play the standards without a conductor and effectively often do in those cases where the conductor is borderline incompetent. I've sung Beethoven 9 for …

And the merchant needs to have a valid direct debit mandate that he has submit to his bank which in turn transmit it to your bank for it to check. After your bank has confirmed the…

Think of it this way: If we knew that star is going to go nova within the next 100 years, could we (science-fiction hat and faster-than-light travel on) send help? No, because it a…

It seems to me that humans can predict 3D spaces pretty good. I've done alot of construction work. After some practice you can measure quite precisely what does fit where and even …

I also do remember somewhat fondly when Dresden still had actual police officers regulating traffic by hand. It's been some time since I left Dresden and I don't remember the cross…

I am no physicist and I cannot make heads or tails from stress-energy tensor. However, I get suspicious when someone argues by analogy. Your "my car remembers a crash, furthermore …

You can apply Occam's Razor here. Which is more likely? That there's stuff that has a mass but doesn't interact well with light, or that space is able to curve itself without mass,…