Why does the article mention ketamine as a club drug? It's a terrible drug for clubs if anything.
Ketamine lifts rodents' mood only if administered by male researchers
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I suppose humans tend to underuse, or undertrain, their senses, so we fail to consider the possibility that other animals might be taking advantage of their senses in different ways. In elementary school, I used to listen to the sounds of people’s pencils scratching on the desk, and could accurately determine what they were writing, especially if my head was near the desk and I knew what their handwriting looked like…
That's amazing. What about chalkboard writing? I imagine that would be louder, have more protracted strokes and the patterns could become more easily absorbed through watching the board. I should add though, that "clean your room" would be a pretty safe bet in most parent/child relationships.
My point is more that it’s not amazing, just something most people wouldn’t notice or think to try. Chalkboards were possible but harder, I think because of the distance—you don’t get the frequencies that don’t carry as well across a room. I could never really do it with whiteboards because they’re much quieter. And yeah, “clean your room” was definitely a safe bet, haha, then again we rely on context all the time when listening to speech too.
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#134It's this xkcd, but with the rats generalizing about male scientists: https://xkcd.com/385/
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You might find being vegetarian easier than you think. It's a little more effort while you learn new recipes, and depending on where you live you'll have less choice when you dine out, but I have been (mostly) vegetarian for the last two years and found it surprisingly easy. :)
Some experience for me. Unfortunately, after a couple of years, it was also easy to relapse when my social circles changed.
I went vegetarian a couple of years ago, and friends keep asking me whether it's been hard to adjust.
Truth is, 99% of any difficulties have been social rather than related to my own appetite.
Giving up meat in itself was much easier than I expected, but I still haven't become comfortable with people quizzing me about my reasons.
Even when people are well-meaning and genuinely curious, they always end up asking these questions just when you're having a meal together. It's hard not to come off as preachy when you're talking about farming practices at the exact moment when steaming plates of meat arrive at the table!
Then there's the thing of going to someone's home and having them make different food for you. Even if they're super nice about it, I still feel like a bit of a burden.
It's reinforced my respect for vegans. Being a vegan while having an active social life takes a strength of character and bloody-mindedness that I don't think I have.
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Hardly new. Feynman was criticizing psych research for this sort of thing - inadequate controls - half a century ago in his talk on Cargo Cult Science. http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm
And what happens when you have more variables than you can control? It's naive to think all of them can be controlled, even in simple animals as mice
Then it's outright fraud to present your results as reliable when there's radically uncontrolled variables that dominate the results.
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I suppose humans tend to underuse, or undertrain, their senses, so we fail to consider the possibility that other animals might be taking advantage of their senses in different ways. In elementary school, I used to listen to the sounds of people’s pencils scratching on the desk, and could accurately determine what they were writing, especially if my head was near the desk and I knew what their handwriting looked like…
So true. When I learned to play guitar I was perplexed that my playing sounded bad, even when playing right. Later I started to listen better and heared stuff that wasn't encoded in the tabs, but still mattered. Also, I could smell different foods like cereals. When I was a floor above in my room I smelled people eating even uncooked stuff, and I knew exactl what. Couldn't do this anymore today
Absolutely, I found similar things studying linguistics & phonetics. You can read phonetic transcriptions of things and get the basic sounds down, but there’s no substitute for listening carefully & imitating a native speaker, just like studying performances of pro musicians. Sounds that are often transcribed the same may be pronounced differently in different languages.
I share your strong sense of smell too. I could tell you if someone was cutting cucumbers two rooms away. Dunno how long that’ll last, although my mom still has quite a nose in her early 60s, so there’s hope.
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#138Why does the article mention ketamine as a club drug? It's a terrible drug for clubs if anything.
I know people who do it in that context. Baffles me though.
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I bought some live lobsters to kill (humanely, with a knife to the brain) and steam. I only had him in my custody for a couple hours, but I got attached. I had a bad experience thinking about taking a life, and it kinda fucked me up. I don't think I'll be doing it again. If I had to kill everything I ate, I'd be vegetarian. But I have no problem buying it at the store.
You might find being vegetarian easier than you think. It's a little more effort while you learn new recipes, and depending on where you live you'll have less choice when you dine out, but I have been (mostly) vegetarian for the last two years and found it surprisingly easy. :)
I don't want to be a vegetarian.
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I bought some live lobsters to kill (humanely, with a knife to the brain) and steam. I only had him in my custody for a couple hours, but I got attached. I had a bad experience thinking about taking a life, and it kinda fucked me up. I don't think I'll be doing it again. If I had to kill everything I ate, I'd be vegetarian. But I have no problem buying it at the store.
Is that intellectually honest, to hide from the truth you know about your food?
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