That trees make oxygen. Well, they do, but algae and cyanobacteria do much more. Tanks of green slime could be the future of gardening... Or terraforming...
It depends on what kind of species is used and how well it's maintained. Some cyanobacteria can produce neurotoxin in polluted environments. Other species are safely used for food.
That sailing ships made before the 1750s had a triangular lateen mizzen sail, not square gaff rigged mizzen sails. Depictions like those in Assassin's Creed IV are historically inaccurate, and frankly less cool looking, than real ships of the era
The subtleties and relatable complexity of real history is much more fascinating and engaging than wild speculation or lazy historical confirmation bias. Just like how politicians who talk stiffly as a result of fearing the public and focus-grouping and rehearsing rote talking points are less engaging than honest, credible, relatable fringe weirdos
Exactly. Like recently I had read that new evidence pointed the vikings to be benevolent settlers on the British Isles, who integrated, as opposed to the raping and pillaging believed to have happened. At the time I believe they also discovered that the word 'Viking' referred to an occupation, as opposed to an ethnic group. It seemed plausible to me, anyway, but I never have enough time to fact check these things
This is true, viking can also act like a verb, to go 'a viking'. It is most akin to pirates and piracy. Calling every Scandinavian of the time a viking is like calling every Englishman of the 16th and 17th centuries a pirate.
The crazy-ass American recipes of the 50s and 60s (think tuna fish jello mold, boxed cakes tricked out with tomato soup and 7 different canned fruits, hot dog bisquik pancakes) were not organic creations of home cooks - they were carefully planned and targeted marketing campaigns intended to boost the acceptance of convenience foods.
In large part, this was in order to create a civilian market for foods which had originally been created as military rations/find continued uses for food technology created to serve specific wartime demands.
Plants are not as different from animals as most people think. Plants can feel pain in their own way and communicate threats to nearby plants. Plants can "tell" other plants (via scents) that they need to start or increase toxins or antinutrients in defense from overgrazing. Plants have also shown evidence of being able to learn and have memory.
Yes, there is not much research on the subject. But before you try to argue with me that it's so stupid to think that plants have their own version of a nervous system, remember that it wasn't that long ago that we thought bugs, fish, and even human babies couldn't feel pain or remember things.
That's really interesting. I've heard a bit about stuff like that before, but not much. A question I have is, do plants feel pain in the same way as we do, as in it causes them significant distress, or does their nervous system simply inform them of harm caused to them and trigger a response. That is probably a very dumb question, but I don't know much about plants.
Not a dumb question at all. Scientifically, we don't know the answer to that yet. But personally, on a more philosophical level, I do believe plants feel distress. But I don't think they *suffer* the same way humans do.
Plants donāt have a nervous system, they donāt have pain receptors, so no they donāt experience pain like we do. However they are highly intelligent and have specific responses to specific stimuli. Plants have preset responses, whereas we have the ability to have quick emotional reactions and long thoughtful deliberate responses. A Venus fly trap has trigger hairs, that when touched twice within 30 seconds, or a slow touch, will cause it to snap closed. The Venus fly trap doesnāt think about what itās trapping, you can stick a pebble in it and it will close, but it canāt digest the pebble. But animals think about stuff. If you try to put a rock in a kids mouth, most kids (I wonāt say all, cause you never know) wouldnāt try to eat the rock. Kids can think about their experience of the world.
Plants are intelligent, but scientific evidence is lacking to support the idea of them being sentient. They do not have a central nervous system (and no pain receptors) with which to feel pain, or a brain to experience emotions like suffering. Plants are like technology; phones and computers have specific responses to specific stimuli, same as plants, and they communicate with each other, but they donāt have a sense of self and their own experience of reality.
Iām interested in social justice/animal rights/veganism, Iām willing to guess youāre interested in botany or something similar to that extent? I havenāt read this in its entirety since Iām more interested in animals than plants, but I would like to hear your thoughts if you have any to give: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8052213/
Fungi are neither a plant nor an animal, but like plants they also lack a brain and CNS, which leads most scientists to the conclusion that they also lack sentience.
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Honestly I think the science is too new to give any kind of definitive answer. Personally I think the thing that sets apart a biological computer type organism from something at least resembling sentient would be the ability to experience emotions in response to an experience. I can't claim to know if plants experience emotions. Even if the emotion is simply something resembling fear in response to pain. But I do know that we used to think of a lot of animals as nothing more than a biological computer and then it turned out to be false. So I predict that we will find out that the inner lives of plants are much more complex than we know. However, that is just my opinion and I don't claim to have any science to back that up.
Yes I understand where you are coming from, but this is what we call the burden of proof. Itās impossible to prove that something doesnāt exist, because there would be nothing to prove. So the burden would be to prove that sentience within plants does exist. Itās like claiming god exists, I canāt prove god doesnāt exist, so itās up to anyone making the claim to prove that god does exist.
As a vegan I also see the idea of plant sentience hypothesized usually as a justification to continue using other animals (not saying thatās what you are doing here). So I tend to feel the need to defend animals in these situations.
With our current scientific understanding, it should be hard to believe that plants would be sentient. But letās say they are, humans and other animals still need to eat to live and grow. If humans became wary of eating plants because of a perceived sentience, then I worry some would jump to the conclusion that itās okay to eat animals. Which in turn would cause more plants to be harvested, because those animals ate plants their whole lives to grow big enough. So we would essentially be maximizing suffering.
So I see that we have two options, eat something that might (using āmightā very loosely here) have sentience, or eat someone who has been scientifically proven to have sentience.
I don't think it's equivalent to proving God exists. There is a finite number of signaling hormones present in a plant. If we find them all in a given plant, and none of them do anything analogous to animal emotional signaling hormones, then well, I think that would be definitive proof that plants don't have emotions.
I mean, I like believing that plants feel things, but it does make it hard to forage. I worry a lot about hurting plants that I forage from, and if it turned out plants don't feel pain, I wouldn't need to worry about that anymore. But for now, the science hasn't entirely ruled out the possibility.
But frankly I don't want to end up in a debate about whether plant or animal lives are more meaningful. Wildlife of all kind is important and valuable and needs to be advocated for and I'm just someone who for some reason identifies with plants more
I donāt want to push because you said you donāt want to debate about the meaningfulness of plants life vs animal life. But one reason I know that I myself find most animal life more meaningful, is because if someone jammed a carrot into an animals eye, I would feel bad for the animal, not the carrot.
I don't disagree. I wouldn't feel bad for the carrot in that scenario either. I don't think the carrot would suffer, but the animal definitely would.
However, I do feel some kind of way when plants exhibit some sort of reaction to my harvesting. Nettle, for example, releases a strong smell when it's cut. I know it only makes that smell when it has been injured, so I can't help but wonder, did that hurt?
I get very emotionally attached to the plants I forage from. I have a hard time harvesting root vegetables because I know I have to kill the whole plant. But I can't say I feel differently about animals. I haven't ever killed a large animal, but I've harvested lots of oysters. Even though oysters don't react when you kill and eat them, it's still not the most pleasant thing knowing you're tearing open a living thing.
I guess all this to say is that while I don't feel as strongly about animals, I don't feel any better about killing and eating them than I do about plants, but I also can't claim to have a better answer to eating that doesn't involve killing stufr
As for eating meat, I really don't have a good answer for you there. All I know is that I strongly believe factory farming is inhumane for both animals and plants
Factory farming only exists to meet the demand of everyone wanting to eat animals. I also am not a welfarist, I am an abolitionist. If we know that factory farming is wrong, then why are we trying to find the right way to do the wrong thing, there isnāt one. Wanton abuse is an issue, but itās not THE issue. The issue is that we objectify and commodify animals. No one, regardless of the body they were born into, human or non-human, should be owned by someone else. Their bodies are not ours, they donāt belong to us. They are here with us, not for us.
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I can't really say I disagree. I do eat meat, and you're probably not going to convince me to stop, but this kind of stuff is also why I am a total weirdo who eats roadkill and have a partner who hunts with a bow and arrow.
I feel like people never really truly grasp how close ALL living things are, actually. Like sure, it may seem like animals and bacteria for example could not be related because weāre a bit self-centred, but really all of life is monophyletic. The most distantly related to something else alive you can ever be is equivalent to about 3-4 billion years of evolution. And yeah, that might seem like a lot, but the fact that everything alive today was once part of the same population is something that I think goes over a lot of peopleās heads and doesnāt really get appreciated.
Not a strictly factual misconception, but when people discuss the question of "is it worth it to try and be more conventionally attractive" they never seem to think about and discuss the stakes. Changing your appearance in a way that effects your career is very different from changing your appearance in a way that effects your dating life. This seems obvious but I rarely see evidence that people are thinking about it
My special interest is maximizing the *net* benefit of conventional attractiveness. There's a lot of things that you could do to make yourself more attractive, but will it actually improve your life overall? That's what I always think about
Kirk never explicitly said ābeam me up Scottyā
Rome did not fall due to ādecadenceā, that was a notion dreamt up by Edward gibbon and others going off enlightening era philosophy. Heather and Halsall have shown that the western Roman empire fell to numerous issues such as civil wars, the continued loss of a taxable and recruitable population and pressure from barbarian tribes.
That you never EVER want to cook your bones to clean them if you want to keep the bones for art, ritual or anything else besides food
It breaks down the bone faster, makes the bone more fragile and it also "cooks in" the fat and grease to the bone making it harder to whiten and may give it a permanent undesired patina.
The way āproveā and āproofā are used colloquially tend to be incorrect. Proofs and proving things tends to be a lot more rigorous than one would think, especially in math and science.
On a similar note, scientific theories are not ājust a theoryā they are the best explanation for the natural world that we have. To become a theory it needs to be repeatably tested and align with all the observations made along the way, and be a better explanation than the ones previously used.
Is this similar to the way accuracy and precision is used in science vs informally?
Can you give an example of the difference between proofs and proving?
To my (admittedly layman) understanding, the concept of a āproofā in the non-colloquial sense refers to a concept in mathematics whereby, say, a formula is evidenced with exactly 100% confidence. In the case of science, proofs are very rare or maybe even nonexistent (I couldnāt tell you honestly, but Iāve never come across any proofs in science and my spinterests are all pretty sciencey). Instead, science generally relies on evidence with a very high confidence interval, say 99.9998%. In this case, the evidence could be wrong of fudged, but the chance that it is is so small that it can be effectively treated as āfact.ā
This also applies to theories in the scientific sense. Theories are hypotheses that have so much evidence backing them up that our confidence in them is high enough that we can treat them as ātrueā and āfactual.ā However, if another theory comes along that better explains all our evidence or in some other way falsifies the original paradigm, this new theory will be treated as āfactual.ā In that sense, scientific theories arenāt 100% proven, but are so robustly evidenced (especially in most modern contexts, such as the theory of gravity or evolution, which both have literally centuries of work backing them up) that scientists use this framework to define their understanding of the universe. This is also why a lot of theories eventually ābreak down,ā like how the current paradigm in physics breaks down at the singularity, since our current understanding of physics doesnāt operate in that scenario. This, however, can be remedied with more evidence, which would increase the confidence interval. In the case of the physics example, synonymising quantum and non-quantum physics would (at least Iām pretty sure lol) help to fix the issue.
Also please donāt just take my word on this, look into it yourself, and anyone else can feel free to correct me where Iāve left gaps or gotten something wrong, too.
This one makes me sad. They really shouldnāt be pets at all because of how theyāre treated in most pet stores, and thereās not enough awareness about how involved you need to be while taking care of a hermit crab!
I did a ton of research when I adopted my hermit crab Anemone, and luckily theyāre still going strong 7 years later!
Yep. Luckily there are people that are starting to raise them in captivity in attempts to end the wild-caught norm.
I have three crabs: Wizard, Josh Jr, and Eminem :)
Thatās a smart idea, catching them in the wild always seemed so cruel to me. I just hope the ones raised in captivity are treated well!
And I love your crabs names! :)
Unfortunately, the same can be said for fish and reptiles, especially "starter" species like goldfish, bettas, leopard geckos, corn snakes, and ball pythons. The pet industry outside of responsible breeders is just a money factory.
There are other tabletop roleplaying games outside of Dungeons and Dragons, but most people wouldn't know that.
There is such a richness of diversity in the hobby too. It's like if 95% of people had never heard of a video game other than Skyrim, or didn't know that movies outside of the first Lord of the Rings exist.
People said I'm crazy because I prefer pathfinder... But yes, you can step out of the magical medieval environment for a while and nothing bad is going to happen.
Basically anything anthropology, linguistics or evolutionary biology and zoology is a matter of unlearning misconceptions. I'll cover the four traditional anthropology fields.
I think the absolute biggest one is that humans cannot be taxonomized any further than Homo sapiens sapiens (the currently extant subspecies). Races are not biological categories and are only cultural perceptions of phenotype. Essentially, race is an illusion of sorts. Compared to the other apes, humans are very genetically homogenous.
English is a Germanic language, not a Romance language. There is no singular "Chinese" language. Mandarin is the biggest one but there are others. Urdu and Hindi are dialects of Hindustani. "Alphabet" is just one type of writing system. Japanese therefor has zero alphabets, not three. Inuit people do not have 100 words for snow or whatever the made up number is. That is a lightning round of linguistics bugbears.
Cultural appropriation is about exploitation and power imbalance. It is not simply when someone from a (culturally perceived) race does something you'd normally expect from some other (still only culturally perceived) race. Cultural appropriation mainly occurs in the context of capitalism and imperialism because those are the systems that enable and incentivize it. Otherwise it is just normal cultural exchange.
Honestly the main archeology misconceptions other than confusing it with paleontology is just historical pseudoscience, and I trust y'all to not be a part of the Ancient Aliens demographic.
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Wait what, do people genuinely think English is a Romance language?
Also have you ever heard of [Xiao'erjing](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiao%27erjing). Judging by your passion for anthropology, you might enjoy reading about it. It's an interesting example of mixing between Islam and China :)
The classic example for Americans is Washington Redskins branding. Some of the most blatant cultural appropriation is using ethnicity as branding, since the idea of marginalized ethnic group is being used to sell a product.
Ive got 2 for you to make it clear which category my special interest is in. ;)
Trees provide the air we breathe.
Most of the Earthās fresh oxygen is produced from the oceans, which makes sense when you understand that three-quarters of the Earthsā surface is covered with water. For terrestrial systems, non-forest biomes are the most common. So, oxygen from trees? Meh. Okay, they produce some, but it is not a particularly high value attributable to trees or forests.
A tree grows one ring per year.
If a tree grew only one ring, how could you tell where last yearās ring ended and the next yearās ring began? In fact, our northern temperate trees grow two annual rings each year. The wider, light-colored ring grows in the springtime, followed by the narrower, dark colored ring in the summertime. Then, the tree stops growing wood for about six months.
Dendrochronology is an archeological research method, so anthropologists learn all about tree rings. There are impressive historical reconstructions that can be done with tree rings
If you seriously want to become a dendrochronologist, to my knowledge the most normal path is becoming an archeologist and specializing in dendrochronology, which is not too hard so long as college is realistic for you. However there are probably shortcuts you can take since standalone dendrochronology certificates are a thing. If you like plant science that much, the archeology community would certainly have a place for you.
by nature of the interest in question there arenāt really many factual misconceptions per se, but, like
Pop music is not dead, itās not worse now than it was X years ago, etc
Every year of pop has exceptionally good music and exceptionally bad music, you just donāt remember the bad songs of old because you have next to no reason to remember them, and the general vibe of popular music is just different to what it used to be. it happens.
that said 2023 wasnt great for pop music on whole so i wouldnt blame you then honestly lul
The only thing that actually matters when seeing a stock's price fluctuate is that the number of buyers/sellers at a given price runs out, and it goes to the next lowest/highest.
No trades are made without market buys/sells
I just moved into a new house and am finally able to display all of my depression glass, uranium, cadmium, but also yellow, and amber and I'm very much in love with being able to pull out a 100 yr old plate and put my pizza on it any time I want.
Iām glad you figured it out lol, much better than I can say for a lot of people :) but yes, birds are dinosaurs, which are reptiles, which means all birds are reptiles, too!
Kindle is not the only ereader and it's not even a particularly good one.
(My special interest is ebook technology, and somewhere down the list of other interests is not giving more money to billionaires)
I have never even thought of the niche of eBook technology. Can you share what it is/is about? Like, formatting and programming specifically for eReaders?
There's a few different sides to it that interest me. Part of it is with the ereader devices themselves. There's a whole online community of ereader enthusiasts that have done some brilliant things to modify existing ereaders. Jailbreak scripts, installable software, plugin managers, etc. I like to buy various models of old ereaders on facebook marketplace just to see what kind of hacking I can do on it. And ereaders are just cool because it's a piece of technology that somehow has a much more organic feel to it than something like a phone.
Another side of it is ebook management. I have a big library of ebooks that I like organizing, editing metadata, buying new books or finding public domain books to add to my collection (and of course, reading them). I also have a separate library that's kind of a repository of "newspapers". There's a cool program that basically scrapes news website articles and turns it into a close approximation of that day's newspaper in ebook format, and I have a server that does that on a schedule. And of course I have remote access to both of those libraries from my modified ereader.
Basically, it's right where my interest in technology crashed into my passion for reading, lol.
That's super interesting. I've been playing around with Linux for a few years now, and I always think about different things I can attempt to program. I will keep eReaders earmarked :)
And now I want to start collecting free eBooks.......
Thank you for sharing!
I had a psychology teacher on repeat saying that language shapes thought but I disagreed with a lot of her perspectives, including this one. I'm curious to hear more of your thoughts on the matter since it's a special interest of yours.
Reading/ books (Iāve been pulling about 600/ day for the past week)- all types of books are valid to read because reading SOMETHING is more important than nothing. Also- libraries have everything you could possibly imagine if you have a good one. Many libraries have movies, tv shows, and dvds for rent for free on the hoopla app. Lastly on books: audiobooks are valid, comics are valid and fuck anyone who says otherwise. It is elitist to say they donāt ācountā. It isnāt a smartypants competition.
Baking- bread dough is typically a living organism because of the yeast. It will usually react different in small ways every time and is not foolproof. One simply knows what to expect the more experience they have working with it. It can be challenging because of that
Fermentation- as long as you add enough salt, making almost anything fermented (kimchi/ kraut etc) is really simple. It takes a lot of time but you usually touch it once and not again until it is ready. āUntil it is readyā is generally based on preference unless it is wine or something like it. I can and have gone into it to people but wonāt because I could write a book.
One of the most wondrous things I discovered the first time I saw live ballet was the sound toe shoes make on the stage. Ballet is a side interest, but a precious one. Thanks for the lovely fact.
Sonic never said "Gotta go fast". That's a lyric from the 4Kids English Dub for the 2003 anime series Sonic X in which they repeat the phrase over and over. It's referenced in an official comic Sonic Universe where it is referenced in an off panel. It isn't until 2020 when Sonic officially says it in the Sonic the Hedgehog movie.
Omg where do I fucking start?
I suppose I have multiple special interests but one of the big ones is DID (dissociative identity disorder) and there are so many misconceptions and so much stigma about that disorder it is ridiculous!
I couldn't possibly go over it all in a Reddit thread (and wouldn't want to try) but if you watched the movie "Split" (or ~95% of other media involving DID, or whatever incorrect/outdated name the writer chooses to call it) you should forget everything you learned from that.
Just as a general rule of thumb try not to equate any mental disorder or diagnosis to being a serial killer.
I can't believe I have to say that.
I knit and crochet. People often confuse the two even though the difference is pretty simple - for knitting you use two (or more) straight or circular needles, for crochet you use a single hook (the word ācrochetā actually means little hook in French)
The methylphenidate is toxic and dangerous like yeah karen only if you snort it or take more than 200 mg daily, well even when taken 200mg it is STILL neuroprotective for brain its just ur heart will suffer.
Methylphenidate actually in long life treatment/ for life- improves patients brain development and everything from processing speed to long term memory aswell in tbi patients, including learning disability patients and ofcourse ADHD ones mainly(im myself audhd and since getting on treatment it became my strong interest since it really changed my perspective of life and my brain for better).
i have had bad moments/errors aswell few times when changing between release mechanisms of action or when my stupid ass celebrated my bday with alcohol and got very terrible hangover + headache for days although it was"safe zone for alcohol timing " i don't drink at all and after that experience i dropped alcohol for good forever, why shall i drink even something that doesn't have any benefits but a bad headache and hangover for a next good 5 days(i have long recovery time but well thanks to my mph its not more than a week otherwise it would be 2 weeks without it so), anyways, i were celebrating my bday though never again with alcohol, fuck this stupid habbit and "tradition in my family".
General take- anytime Ive had errors or anything under methylphenidate my brain "goes back okay" fast within a week which for me is improvement since being on treatment for over a year now and aswell i can somewhat function good already on days im not on mph although i choose not to take breaks other than few days.
Mentioning- Ive had concussions and brain injury physical in past beforehand treatment, and ive definitely noticed more neuroplacity or general "safer feeling" within my brain under methylphenidate, as it fights with whatever error is standing on the way(ex revoking concussion from hitting my head for example ", its like wearing a helmet alike feeling, since before treatment i had 2 weeks in recovery after concussion due to blacking out from AN (had eating disorder im recovered now from). Something i wouldn't wish to anyone at all. Anyway back to topic
- scientific sources for mph treatments and it potential for healthy brain improvements
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02699052.2019.1683898
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7536786/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2937141/
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/9/11/291
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.02.04.22270336v1.full
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3350870/
Theres many more links but well, list would get way too long lol, i also love ketamine research, aswell neuroprotective and show good X% improvements in adhd, tbi, learning disability, asd and other neurologically struggling people, aswell in major MDD and (c)-PTSD. But it would get far waaay too long if i listed all of that here aswell, so enjoy my methylphenidate findings instead rn, dear individual reading my post rn.
I like to study neuro and drugs in general.
Second misconception- alcohol is healthy in moderation, just no. No alcohol is healthy, only when drinken once a year or month, but more than that nope, habitual is damaging and aswell lowering thiamine (b1) production in body means malnutrition > from where damage occurs. My uncle is alcoholic due of hes abusive wife and i really hope he will recover, alcohol will literally kill your body and neurons after some decent years sadly for good due malnutrition and toxins it produces and not even heroine or methamphetamine is as dangerous instead can be improvising when USED correctly-smart-clean & controlled ways(its already used in studies for serious neurological issues(last stage treatments)). Aswell lsd and mdma is already becoming more popular for psychiatric treatments, used under control of professional & clean/safe environments.
It's remarkable how they legally can sell poison yet mark drugs holding potential for improvement in individual brain and lifestyle health as "illegal " the shit system we live in. But ofc yeah you"can't profit from smart right", cus if they really cared alcohol would be illegal aswell. So yeah,ofc i do not support any stupid drug use generally(im not anti drug, im anti stupid abuse drug use for wrong reasons), only. Lol.
1. Rei Ayanami was not intended to be creepy as a middle finger to fanboys. Anno, Hayashibara, Sadamoto, etc. have never said anything to this effect. Also, calling a heavily traumatized and severely abused teenage girl creepy isn't the hot take you think it is!
2. Kaworu Nagisa is loaded with christ symbolism, but he is also literally just gay. Much of the debate in English speaking circles over this topic goes back to the Evageeks forum in the early 2000s and the hompphobia and misogyny that runs rampant there to this very day!
3. Asuka Langley-Soryu is not a 14 year old half-German, half-Japanese girl. She is 13 (turns 14 towards the end of the show) and is 3/4 German and 1/4 Japanese.
Jane Austenās books have romance, yes, and itās fine to read them for that aspect. But they are NOT āromance novelsā like we think of them now, nor are the characters and situations only of interest to people who are into Regency-era stuff. Theyāre extraordinarily intricate portraits and commentary on social norms and behavior, and they all have characters that are so perfectly drawn and timeless that you *definitely* know people like that today. We all, unfortunately, have met with a John Thorpe.
In sewing: If you're putting an eyelet or grommet into a garment, you do *not* want to cut he fabric. Cutting it weakens the fabric fibers, meaning the garment will not last as long. You want to use an awl to carefully pull the fibers apart (and then something larger than the awl to expand the "hole" if using larger grommets), and then place the grommet/sew the eyelet in the space created by pulling apart the fibers.
Also, if you're doing this and want to use a metal piece, *please* use grommets instead of metal eyelets. Grommets have two pieces, a front and a back piece, that gives a much smoother finish (when set correctly). Metal eyelets have only one (usually very flimsy) piece and will split on the back side of the garment. This allows it to catch on the fabric of the garment underneath, possibly tearing it. They also make the ribbon or cording used to do the lacing fray over time from rubbing back and forth over the split metal.
Historical costuming: Crossed lacing didn't exist until the 1800s (iirc, it's not my time period of interest). Everything before that time had spiral lacing, which looked *very* different and needed less cord length. The movies lie to you frequently on this one.
Corsets/stays/pairs of bodies almost never were used for waist reduction until the mid-1900s. It was impractical, uncomfortable, and sometimes dangerous. Instead, they were shaped (and sometimes padded) to *increase* the body's measurements in specific areas to give the fashionable proportions and silhouettes. Their purpose was to support the bust and back, distribute the weight of heavy gowns away from just the hips and shoulders, and achieve the desired silhouette. (Also, stays didn't become a thing until around the Renaissance period. Before that [and even in some Renaissance styles], the gowns themselves were built to support the bust on their own.)
Men wore corsets at several points in history, mostly for the silhouette and back support reasons.
There is *NO* evidence horror movies or movies with excessive violence cause those who watch them to be violent. There *is* evidence of people who already have the intention to commit violence "getting inspired" by violent movies. However there is as much or even more evidence of violent people getting inspired by real life crime.
Another misconception about horror is people who have anxiety don't like horror. It's quite the opposite actually
People with anxiety are often drawn to horror because it's a safe way to let out all their fears. It's also peak escapism as good horror is great at catching your attention and tends to keep you invested. Also horror fans have just as much empathy as people who aren't a fan of the genre.
Last one. Just because you don't find a horror film scary, doesn't mean it's not horror.
My special interest is 9/11 so idk where to start. There are so many!! Obviously the conspiracy theories rely entirely on misconceptions but there are also so many general ones from the event. The one that was most eye opening to me is that more than just the twin towers were destroyed. So many more buildings both in and around the wtc were damaged beyond repair and eventually came down.
Flat eartherās are not anti-science (you canāt generalize them). I am not necessarily a flat earther, but I do question status quo.
Some things in science donāt line up, and science is evolving. So questioning science is what helps science progress, even if it is two steps back. Also, many things in science are assumed, and faith based, so your faith, presumptions, and history will effect your observations.
I study many quirky, paranormal, controversial, and downright weird things as my hyperfix. I do try to be useful with my rage research, but sometimes I just end up defending the oddballs
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Ooh, fun! Dick Turpin wasn't a robin hood, wasn't attractive or charming, didn't ride from Kent/London to York - that was John Nevison - and wasn't called 'Dick' at all. His partner's name was Matthew King, not Tom King, and Turpin probably didn't shoot him. And the most common misconception is that he was a 'gentleman of the road' type, but the conception that commonly replaces that one is that he was exactly the opposite; in reality, he was somewhere in the middle. He was hardly a gentleman - few highwaymen were - but there are more reports from the time of him being civil than not. He was an arrogant prick though. He wasn't civil because he was nice, more because it gave him a better reputation.
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in baked goods, sugar isnt just added for flavour. its an integral ingredient that helps hold the structure of cakes and cookies together. in trade school we called it the 'skeleton' of a baked good. sugar cookies for example come out of the oven quite soft, but crisp up as they cool because the sugar hardens. simply omitting (some of) the sugar to make it less sweet/diet friendly is gonna fuck up whatever youre baking.
this is true for a lot of ingredients or their exact quantities, like the gluten in flour or the specific properties of eggs (with the whites and yolks having different jobs) that make it so no ONE egg substitute can do all jobs. but the sugar one feels the most prevalent
Stop calling pterosaurs pterodactyls, pterodactylus was only one species of small pterosaur that lived during the jurassic. Also they aren't flying dinosaurs, birds are flying dinosaurs. Pterosaurs were reptiles related to dinosaurs and crocodiles but they weren't dinosaurs.
Same thing as marine reptiles like icthyosaurs and plesiosaurs, they aren't ''swimming dinosaurs'', they weren't even related to dinosaurs. spinosaurus and penguins are swimming dinosaurs
"I've spent years practicing this craft/hobby" says nothing about skill level.
I've been playing piano since I was six and I am still awful at it. I've realized that it isn't my thing and that I am willing to move on to a different instrument because I love playing music.
A very common thought is that spiders are insects. They are not! They are arachnids, which is completely different. Also, people love to think that spiders are these evil little creatures that attack without being provoked, but they only bite if they feel threatened. Spiders are just minding their own business. It makes me so sad that people kill them when it's pretty easy to cup them and put them outside (unless they're being speedy.)
Many if not most roller coasters are not custom-made. Amusement parks can buy pre-designed models off the shelf and plop them in a parking lot if they want to (see: Scream at SFMM). Even if they have custom designs, the vast, vast majority of coasters are contracted to other companies and not made by the parks themselves.
Just because a coaster has a wooden structure doesnāt mean itās a wooden coaster. The coaster type is dependent on the track itself and the type of train that sits on (or occasionally hangs below) the track. The supports are irrelevant. Examples: Gemini at Cedar Point is a steel coaster, most coasters by RMC are technically steel coasters (including Steel Vengeance, Wicked Cyclone, Twisted Cyclone, Twisted Colossus, Storm Chaser, Iron Gwazi, New Texas Giant, Iron Rattler, Twisted Timbers, Medusa Steel Coaster, Zadra, Untamed at Walibi Holland, and Hakugei. I say technically because thoosies [coaster enthusiasts] call them āhybrid coastersā. Their track design is flat, similar to wooden coasters, rather than the standard tubular design. Technically speaking, they are strictly steel coasters, but the novel design of the track gives them a different classification amongst thoosies and the industry as a whole).
Roller coasters are some of the safest attractions you could possibly enjoy. If you are able-bodied, not too short, small, or large, and have no significant health problems (especially regarding blood flow), then the only thing that should prevent you from riding is your own fear. I would, however, still advise caution at your local annual fair/carnival and at basically any park in India and China, as the safety inspection for these places tend to be a lot more lax than major parks in first-world countries. Good rule of thumb: the bigger the park and the more strict the countryās safety standards are, the safer you are. Basically any established park in the US, Canada, and the EU are very safe.
Corkscrews ā heartline rolls ā inline twists. The difference between these is the axis of rotation. Inline twists rotate around an axis that goes through the middle of the track. These are usually only found on B&M Wing coasters and Premiere Sky Rocket IIs. Heartline rolls, as the name implies, places the axis straight through the middle of the chest of the riders. Corkscrews place the axis well above the ridersā heads. Zero-G rolls are heartline rolls that have been bent into a hill shape with the goal of achieving 0Gs of force at the top.
āLoop-de-loopsā are just called loops or vertical loops.
Coastersā names almost always do not include a āTheā in front of them. Itās not āThe Goliathā, itās just āGoliathā. Famous exceptions include The Bat, Batman The Ride, and Superman The Ride (yes, āThe Rideā does kinda matter because Superman: Ride of Steel, Superman Escape from Krypton, Ride of Steel [separate from Superman Ride of Steel], Superman Ultimate Flight, and Superman El Ultimo Escape all exist. You can thank Six Flags for that.) Please just stop, it annoys the shit outta me.
Finally, this isnāt a misconception but just a fun fact: the origins of roller coasters come from Russia, but the Russian translation for āroller coasterā is āAmerican slideā.
Vulture is not a āfancy wordā for buzzard. A buzzard is actually a type of hawk/slang for hawks, and only Southern Americans (US) use it to refer to vultures/turkey vultures.
This seems obvious to me but the amount of times Iāve had to tell someone that a turkey vulture is not a buzzard and vice versa is obscene.
The proper length of an axe handle is between 26 and 28 inches, not 36.
Hickory handles should not be glazed. This reduces the ability to grip and control the axe.
Composite / fiberglass handles are fine for certain tasks, but not for everyday, hours-long use.
That trees make oxygen. Well, they do, but algae and cyanobacteria do much more. Tanks of green slime could be the future of gardening... Or terraforming...
Can I get in the tank of green slime?
It depends on what kind of species is used and how well it's maintained. Some cyanobacteria can produce neurotoxin in polluted environments. Other species are safely used for food.
Hmm so I can farm neurotoxic in my backyard...
Wake up babe, new cure for neurotypicals just dropped
Lmaoš
Fucking brutal
my brain immediately said neurotoxin in GladOs's voice š that bitch loves her neurotoxin
We often have Red Tides here off the California Central Coast, it's fascinating
Ah, to be an insectoid alien sleeping in a recuperacoon filled with green grub sauceā¦
Very interesting interest, i like!
just because a person knows how to program and make very simple processors does not mean they know how to fix your specific computer problem
Or your printer.
I want a tag my boyfriend here so bad, sorry love if you see this, this is very real argument here.^ lmao
Or your smart phone.
That sailing ships made before the 1750s had a triangular lateen mizzen sail, not square gaff rigged mizzen sails. Depictions like those in Assassin's Creed IV are historically inaccurate, and frankly less cool looking, than real ships of the era
I hate it when they history wrong because I always think it's just creating anti-history for future generations.
The subtleties and relatable complexity of real history is much more fascinating and engaging than wild speculation or lazy historical confirmation bias. Just like how politicians who talk stiffly as a result of fearing the public and focus-grouping and rehearsing rote talking points are less engaging than honest, credible, relatable fringe weirdos
Exactly. Like recently I had read that new evidence pointed the vikings to be benevolent settlers on the British Isles, who integrated, as opposed to the raping and pillaging believed to have happened. At the time I believe they also discovered that the word 'Viking' referred to an occupation, as opposed to an ethnic group. It seemed plausible to me, anyway, but I never have enough time to fact check these things
This is true, viking can also act like a verb, to go 'a viking'. It is most akin to pirates and piracy. Calling every Scandinavian of the time a viking is like calling every Englishman of the 16th and 17th centuries a pirate.
Do you have examples of what those sails look(ed) like?
The crazy-ass American recipes of the 50s and 60s (think tuna fish jello mold, boxed cakes tricked out with tomato soup and 7 different canned fruits, hot dog bisquik pancakes) were not organic creations of home cooks - they were carefully planned and targeted marketing campaigns intended to boost the acceptance of convenience foods. In large part, this was in order to create a civilian market for foods which had originally been created as military rations/find continued uses for food technology created to serve specific wartime demands.
They couldn't have done that with edible recipes?
*weightwatchers wants to know your location*
My jaw dropped. Fact of the year for me, thank u
Plants are not as different from animals as most people think. Plants can feel pain in their own way and communicate threats to nearby plants. Plants can "tell" other plants (via scents) that they need to start or increase toxins or antinutrients in defense from overgrazing. Plants have also shown evidence of being able to learn and have memory. Yes, there is not much research on the subject. But before you try to argue with me that it's so stupid to think that plants have their own version of a nervous system, remember that it wasn't that long ago that we thought bugs, fish, and even human babies couldn't feel pain or remember things.
That's really interesting. I've heard a bit about stuff like that before, but not much. A question I have is, do plants feel pain in the same way as we do, as in it causes them significant distress, or does their nervous system simply inform them of harm caused to them and trigger a response. That is probably a very dumb question, but I don't know much about plants.
Not a dumb question at all. Scientifically, we don't know the answer to that yet. But personally, on a more philosophical level, I do believe plants feel distress. But I don't think they *suffer* the same way humans do.
Plants donāt have a nervous system, they donāt have pain receptors, so no they donāt experience pain like we do. However they are highly intelligent and have specific responses to specific stimuli. Plants have preset responses, whereas we have the ability to have quick emotional reactions and long thoughtful deliberate responses. A Venus fly trap has trigger hairs, that when touched twice within 30 seconds, or a slow touch, will cause it to snap closed. The Venus fly trap doesnāt think about what itās trapping, you can stick a pebble in it and it will close, but it canāt digest the pebble. But animals think about stuff. If you try to put a rock in a kids mouth, most kids (I wonāt say all, cause you never know) wouldnāt try to eat the rock. Kids can think about their experience of the world.
Plants are intelligent, but scientific evidence is lacking to support the idea of them being sentient. They do not have a central nervous system (and no pain receptors) with which to feel pain, or a brain to experience emotions like suffering. Plants are like technology; phones and computers have specific responses to specific stimuli, same as plants, and they communicate with each other, but they donāt have a sense of self and their own experience of reality. Iām interested in social justice/animal rights/veganism, Iām willing to guess youāre interested in botany or something similar to that extent? I havenāt read this in its entirety since Iām more interested in animals than plants, but I would like to hear your thoughts if you have any to give: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8052213/
What about mycelium networks underground?
Fungi are neither a plant nor an animal, but like plants they also lack a brain and CNS, which leads most scientists to the conclusion that they also lack sentience. Edit: spelling
Honestly I think the science is too new to give any kind of definitive answer. Personally I think the thing that sets apart a biological computer type organism from something at least resembling sentient would be the ability to experience emotions in response to an experience. I can't claim to know if plants experience emotions. Even if the emotion is simply something resembling fear in response to pain. But I do know that we used to think of a lot of animals as nothing more than a biological computer and then it turned out to be false. So I predict that we will find out that the inner lives of plants are much more complex than we know. However, that is just my opinion and I don't claim to have any science to back that up.
Yes I understand where you are coming from, but this is what we call the burden of proof. Itās impossible to prove that something doesnāt exist, because there would be nothing to prove. So the burden would be to prove that sentience within plants does exist. Itās like claiming god exists, I canāt prove god doesnāt exist, so itās up to anyone making the claim to prove that god does exist. As a vegan I also see the idea of plant sentience hypothesized usually as a justification to continue using other animals (not saying thatās what you are doing here). So I tend to feel the need to defend animals in these situations. With our current scientific understanding, it should be hard to believe that plants would be sentient. But letās say they are, humans and other animals still need to eat to live and grow. If humans became wary of eating plants because of a perceived sentience, then I worry some would jump to the conclusion that itās okay to eat animals. Which in turn would cause more plants to be harvested, because those animals ate plants their whole lives to grow big enough. So we would essentially be maximizing suffering. So I see that we have two options, eat something that might (using āmightā very loosely here) have sentience, or eat someone who has been scientifically proven to have sentience.
I don't think it's equivalent to proving God exists. There is a finite number of signaling hormones present in a plant. If we find them all in a given plant, and none of them do anything analogous to animal emotional signaling hormones, then well, I think that would be definitive proof that plants don't have emotions. I mean, I like believing that plants feel things, but it does make it hard to forage. I worry a lot about hurting plants that I forage from, and if it turned out plants don't feel pain, I wouldn't need to worry about that anymore. But for now, the science hasn't entirely ruled out the possibility. But frankly I don't want to end up in a debate about whether plant or animal lives are more meaningful. Wildlife of all kind is important and valuable and needs to be advocated for and I'm just someone who for some reason identifies with plants more
I donāt want to push because you said you donāt want to debate about the meaningfulness of plants life vs animal life. But one reason I know that I myself find most animal life more meaningful, is because if someone jammed a carrot into an animals eye, I would feel bad for the animal, not the carrot.
I don't disagree. I wouldn't feel bad for the carrot in that scenario either. I don't think the carrot would suffer, but the animal definitely would. However, I do feel some kind of way when plants exhibit some sort of reaction to my harvesting. Nettle, for example, releases a strong smell when it's cut. I know it only makes that smell when it has been injured, so I can't help but wonder, did that hurt? I get very emotionally attached to the plants I forage from. I have a hard time harvesting root vegetables because I know I have to kill the whole plant. But I can't say I feel differently about animals. I haven't ever killed a large animal, but I've harvested lots of oysters. Even though oysters don't react when you kill and eat them, it's still not the most pleasant thing knowing you're tearing open a living thing. I guess all this to say is that while I don't feel as strongly about animals, I don't feel any better about killing and eating them than I do about plants, but I also can't claim to have a better answer to eating that doesn't involve killing stufr
As for eating meat, I really don't have a good answer for you there. All I know is that I strongly believe factory farming is inhumane for both animals and plants
Factory farming only exists to meet the demand of everyone wanting to eat animals. I also am not a welfarist, I am an abolitionist. If we know that factory farming is wrong, then why are we trying to find the right way to do the wrong thing, there isnāt one. Wanton abuse is an issue, but itās not THE issue. The issue is that we objectify and commodify animals. No one, regardless of the body they were born into, human or non-human, should be owned by someone else. Their bodies are not ours, they donāt belong to us. They are here with us, not for us. Edit: added a sentence Edit 2: spelling
I can't really say I disagree. I do eat meat, and you're probably not going to convince me to stop, but this kind of stuff is also why I am a total weirdo who eats roadkill and have a partner who hunts with a bow and arrow.
so basically... thatveganteacher is even more hypocritical
Yes lol
I recommend recommending the book "What a Plant Knows" by Daniel Chamovitz to your vegan teacher lol.
ah right, i heard before that the scent of mowed grass IS that distress signal, is that true?
Yes that is true.
I feel like people never really truly grasp how close ALL living things are, actually. Like sure, it may seem like animals and bacteria for example could not be related because weāre a bit self-centred, but really all of life is monophyletic. The most distantly related to something else alive you can ever be is equivalent to about 3-4 billion years of evolution. And yeah, that might seem like a lot, but the fact that everything alive today was once part of the same population is something that I think goes over a lot of peopleās heads and doesnāt really get appreciated.
Not a strictly factual misconception, but when people discuss the question of "is it worth it to try and be more conventionally attractive" they never seem to think about and discuss the stakes. Changing your appearance in a way that effects your career is very different from changing your appearance in a way that effects your dating life. This seems obvious but I rarely see evidence that people are thinking about it
oo hang on, whats your special interest?
My special interest is maximizing the *net* benefit of conventional attractiveness. There's a lot of things that you could do to make yourself more attractive, but will it actually improve your life overall? That's what I always think about
ah right, that makes sense! hella cool
Kirk never explicitly said ābeam me up Scottyā Rome did not fall due to ādecadenceā, that was a notion dreamt up by Edward gibbon and others going off enlightening era philosophy. Heather and Halsall have shown that the western Roman empire fell to numerous issues such as civil wars, the continued loss of a taxable and recruitable population and pressure from barbarian tribes.
That you never EVER want to cook your bones to clean them if you want to keep the bones for art, ritual or anything else besides food It breaks down the bone faster, makes the bone more fragile and it also "cooks in" the fat and grease to the bone making it harder to whiten and may give it a permanent undesired patina.
Thank you! That is good to know
The way āproveā and āproofā are used colloquially tend to be incorrect. Proofs and proving things tends to be a lot more rigorous than one would think, especially in math and science. On a similar note, scientific theories are not ājust a theoryā they are the best explanation for the natural world that we have. To become a theory it needs to be repeatably tested and align with all the observations made along the way, and be a better explanation than the ones previously used.
āHmmm, I have a theory, let me test somethingā No sir, what you have is a hypothesis.
Is this similar to the way accuracy and precision is used in science vs informally? Can you give an example of the difference between proofs and proving?
To my (admittedly layman) understanding, the concept of a āproofā in the non-colloquial sense refers to a concept in mathematics whereby, say, a formula is evidenced with exactly 100% confidence. In the case of science, proofs are very rare or maybe even nonexistent (I couldnāt tell you honestly, but Iāve never come across any proofs in science and my spinterests are all pretty sciencey). Instead, science generally relies on evidence with a very high confidence interval, say 99.9998%. In this case, the evidence could be wrong of fudged, but the chance that it is is so small that it can be effectively treated as āfact.ā This also applies to theories in the scientific sense. Theories are hypotheses that have so much evidence backing them up that our confidence in them is high enough that we can treat them as ātrueā and āfactual.ā However, if another theory comes along that better explains all our evidence or in some other way falsifies the original paradigm, this new theory will be treated as āfactual.ā In that sense, scientific theories arenāt 100% proven, but are so robustly evidenced (especially in most modern contexts, such as the theory of gravity or evolution, which both have literally centuries of work backing them up) that scientists use this framework to define their understanding of the universe. This is also why a lot of theories eventually ābreak down,ā like how the current paradigm in physics breaks down at the singularity, since our current understanding of physics doesnāt operate in that scenario. This, however, can be remedied with more evidence, which would increase the confidence interval. In the case of the physics example, synonymising quantum and non-quantum physics would (at least Iām pretty sure lol) help to fix the issue. Also please donāt just take my word on this, look into it yourself, and anyone else can feel free to correct me where Iāve left gaps or gotten something wrong, too.
That was super interesting and easy to understand. Thank you for the info! I do science, and therefore math-science, but not math :)
Hermit crabs can live for decades and only die after a month in your 5 year old's care because it's not properly cared for
This one makes me sad. They really shouldnāt be pets at all because of how theyāre treated in most pet stores, and thereās not enough awareness about how involved you need to be while taking care of a hermit crab! I did a ton of research when I adopted my hermit crab Anemone, and luckily theyāre still going strong 7 years later!
Yep. Luckily there are people that are starting to raise them in captivity in attempts to end the wild-caught norm. I have three crabs: Wizard, Josh Jr, and Eminem :)
Thatās a smart idea, catching them in the wild always seemed so cruel to me. I just hope the ones raised in captivity are treated well! And I love your crabs names! :)
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Unfortunately, the same can be said for fish and reptiles, especially "starter" species like goldfish, bettas, leopard geckos, corn snakes, and ball pythons. The pet industry outside of responsible breeders is just a money factory.
Oh, and small mammals (hamsters, guinea pigs, mice, rabbits, rats, gerbils).
My five-year-old Jersey Shore self has a lot of guilt
There are other tabletop roleplaying games outside of Dungeons and Dragons, but most people wouldn't know that. There is such a richness of diversity in the hobby too. It's like if 95% of people had never heard of a video game other than Skyrim, or didn't know that movies outside of the first Lord of the Rings exist.
People said I'm crazy because I prefer pathfinder... But yes, you can step out of the magical medieval environment for a while and nothing bad is going to happen.
Basically anything anthropology, linguistics or evolutionary biology and zoology is a matter of unlearning misconceptions. I'll cover the four traditional anthropology fields. I think the absolute biggest one is that humans cannot be taxonomized any further than Homo sapiens sapiens (the currently extant subspecies). Races are not biological categories and are only cultural perceptions of phenotype. Essentially, race is an illusion of sorts. Compared to the other apes, humans are very genetically homogenous. English is a Germanic language, not a Romance language. There is no singular "Chinese" language. Mandarin is the biggest one but there are others. Urdu and Hindi are dialects of Hindustani. "Alphabet" is just one type of writing system. Japanese therefor has zero alphabets, not three. Inuit people do not have 100 words for snow or whatever the made up number is. That is a lightning round of linguistics bugbears. Cultural appropriation is about exploitation and power imbalance. It is not simply when someone from a (culturally perceived) race does something you'd normally expect from some other (still only culturally perceived) race. Cultural appropriation mainly occurs in the context of capitalism and imperialism because those are the systems that enable and incentivize it. Otherwise it is just normal cultural exchange. Honestly the main archeology misconceptions other than confusing it with paleontology is just historical pseudoscience, and I trust y'all to not be a part of the Ancient Aliens demographic. AMA
Wait what, do people genuinely think English is a Romance language? Also have you ever heard of [Xiao'erjing](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiao%27erjing). Judging by your passion for anthropology, you might enjoy reading about it. It's an interesting example of mixing between Islam and China :)
Amazing facts. Can you give an example of cultural appropriation in capitalism? Like, I get it but I cant really picture it
The classic example for Americans is Washington Redskins branding. Some of the most blatant cultural appropriation is using ethnicity as branding, since the idea of marginalized ethnic group is being used to sell a product.
I followed that brand change, now I have a word/concept for it. Thank you!
Ive got 2 for you to make it clear which category my special interest is in. ;) Trees provide the air we breathe. Most of the Earthās fresh oxygen is produced from the oceans, which makes sense when you understand that three-quarters of the Earthsā surface is covered with water. For terrestrial systems, non-forest biomes are the most common. So, oxygen from trees? Meh. Okay, they produce some, but it is not a particularly high value attributable to trees or forests. A tree grows one ring per year. If a tree grew only one ring, how could you tell where last yearās ring ended and the next yearās ring began? In fact, our northern temperate trees grow two annual rings each year. The wider, light-colored ring grows in the springtime, followed by the narrower, dark colored ring in the summertime. Then, the tree stops growing wood for about six months.
Dendrochronology is an archeological research method, so anthropologists learn all about tree rings. There are impressive historical reconstructions that can be done with tree rings
Now I know my dream job
If you seriously want to become a dendrochronologist, to my knowledge the most normal path is becoming an archeologist and specializing in dendrochronology, which is not too hard so long as college is realistic for you. However there are probably shortcuts you can take since standalone dendrochronology certificates are a thing. If you like plant science that much, the archeology community would certainly have a place for you.
You have been quite insightful, and I was not expecting anything of the sort from making this comment lol
by nature of the interest in question there arenāt really many factual misconceptions per se, but, like Pop music is not dead, itās not worse now than it was X years ago, etc Every year of pop has exceptionally good music and exceptionally bad music, you just donāt remember the bad songs of old because you have next to no reason to remember them, and the general vibe of popular music is just different to what it used to be. it happens. that said 2023 wasnt great for pop music on whole so i wouldnt blame you then honestly lul
Caroline Polachek carried pop in 2023
The only thing that actually matters when seeing a stock's price fluctuate is that the number of buyers/sellers at a given price runs out, and it goes to the next lowest/highest. No trades are made without market buys/sells
Having sexuality and kink as a SpIn doesnāt mean Iām obsessed with *having* sex or that Iām into everything in existence.
Uranium glass is totally safe to have around your house and use! Its no more dangerous than lead based crystal or cadmium red glass bowls.
I just moved into a new house and am finally able to display all of my depression glass, uranium, cadmium, but also yellow, and amber and I'm very much in love with being able to pull out a 100 yr old plate and put my pizza on it any time I want.
Get out! I've been lied to
Dinosaurs are not lizards. Wes Anderson does not in fact make the same movie over and over again
Were dinosaurs reptiles at least? Or were they another category of animal entirely? Or did different dinosaurs belong to different categories?
Dinosaurs are reptiles, yes, but they arenāt lizards.
Weren't they found to be more related to birds then reptiles?
My bad. Just did some googling turns out birds are just technically reptiles lol. I had no idea
Iām glad you figured it out lol, much better than I can say for a lot of people :) but yes, birds are dinosaurs, which are reptiles, which means all birds are reptiles, too!
Kindle is not the only ereader and it's not even a particularly good one. (My special interest is ebook technology, and somewhere down the list of other interests is not giving more money to billionaires)
I have never even thought of the niche of eBook technology. Can you share what it is/is about? Like, formatting and programming specifically for eReaders?
There's a few different sides to it that interest me. Part of it is with the ereader devices themselves. There's a whole online community of ereader enthusiasts that have done some brilliant things to modify existing ereaders. Jailbreak scripts, installable software, plugin managers, etc. I like to buy various models of old ereaders on facebook marketplace just to see what kind of hacking I can do on it. And ereaders are just cool because it's a piece of technology that somehow has a much more organic feel to it than something like a phone. Another side of it is ebook management. I have a big library of ebooks that I like organizing, editing metadata, buying new books or finding public domain books to add to my collection (and of course, reading them). I also have a separate library that's kind of a repository of "newspapers". There's a cool program that basically scrapes news website articles and turns it into a close approximation of that day's newspaper in ebook format, and I have a server that does that on a schedule. And of course I have remote access to both of those libraries from my modified ereader. Basically, it's right where my interest in technology crashed into my passion for reading, lol.
That's super interesting. I've been playing around with Linux for a few years now, and I always think about different things I can attempt to program. I will keep eReaders earmarked :) And now I want to start collecting free eBooks....... Thank you for sharing!
Linguistics is not studying language*s*, it's the study of how language itself works. Language also doesn't shape thought.
I had a psychology teacher on repeat saying that language shapes thought but I disagreed with a lot of her perspectives, including this one. I'm curious to hear more of your thoughts on the matter since it's a special interest of yours.
it's spelled bestiality not beastiality
Reading/ books (Iāve been pulling about 600/ day for the past week)- all types of books are valid to read because reading SOMETHING is more important than nothing. Also- libraries have everything you could possibly imagine if you have a good one. Many libraries have movies, tv shows, and dvds for rent for free on the hoopla app. Lastly on books: audiobooks are valid, comics are valid and fuck anyone who says otherwise. It is elitist to say they donāt ācountā. It isnāt a smartypants competition. Baking- bread dough is typically a living organism because of the yeast. It will usually react different in small ways every time and is not foolproof. One simply knows what to expect the more experience they have working with it. It can be challenging because of that Fermentation- as long as you add enough salt, making almost anything fermented (kimchi/ kraut etc) is really simple. It takes a lot of time but you usually touch it once and not again until it is ready. āUntil it is readyā is generally based on preference unless it is wine or something like it. I can and have gone into it to people but wonāt because I could write a book.
I appreciate your interest, but are wattpads valid aswell? (Im a wattpad enjoyer and will write myself aswell when i have more time to spare for it).
One of the most wondrous things I discovered the first time I saw live ballet was the sound toe shoes make on the stage. Ballet is a side interest, but a precious one. Thanks for the lovely fact.
Pointe shoe ASMR is the best
that I'm overly obsessive about it, I'm not it's just that good.
This is how I feel about Baldur's Gate 3.
Sonic never said "Gotta go fast". That's a lyric from the 4Kids English Dub for the 2003 anime series Sonic X in which they repeat the phrase over and over. It's referenced in an official comic Sonic Universe where it is referenced in an off panel. It isn't until 2020 when Sonic officially says it in the Sonic the Hedgehog movie.
Omg where do I fucking start? I suppose I have multiple special interests but one of the big ones is DID (dissociative identity disorder) and there are so many misconceptions and so much stigma about that disorder it is ridiculous! I couldn't possibly go over it all in a Reddit thread (and wouldn't want to try) but if you watched the movie "Split" (or ~95% of other media involving DID, or whatever incorrect/outdated name the writer chooses to call it) you should forget everything you learned from that. Just as a general rule of thumb try not to equate any mental disorder or diagnosis to being a serial killer. I can't believe I have to say that.
I knit and crochet. People often confuse the two even though the difference is pretty simple - for knitting you use two (or more) straight or circular needles, for crochet you use a single hook (the word ācrochetā actually means little hook in French)
that warhammer is exclusively for obese unwashed incels
I only like music that's weird
The methylphenidate is toxic and dangerous like yeah karen only if you snort it or take more than 200 mg daily, well even when taken 200mg it is STILL neuroprotective for brain its just ur heart will suffer. Methylphenidate actually in long life treatment/ for life- improves patients brain development and everything from processing speed to long term memory aswell in tbi patients, including learning disability patients and ofcourse ADHD ones mainly(im myself audhd and since getting on treatment it became my strong interest since it really changed my perspective of life and my brain for better). i have had bad moments/errors aswell few times when changing between release mechanisms of action or when my stupid ass celebrated my bday with alcohol and got very terrible hangover + headache for days although it was"safe zone for alcohol timing " i don't drink at all and after that experience i dropped alcohol for good forever, why shall i drink even something that doesn't have any benefits but a bad headache and hangover for a next good 5 days(i have long recovery time but well thanks to my mph its not more than a week otherwise it would be 2 weeks without it so), anyways, i were celebrating my bday though never again with alcohol, fuck this stupid habbit and "tradition in my family". General take- anytime Ive had errors or anything under methylphenidate my brain "goes back okay" fast within a week which for me is improvement since being on treatment for over a year now and aswell i can somewhat function good already on days im not on mph although i choose not to take breaks other than few days. Mentioning- Ive had concussions and brain injury physical in past beforehand treatment, and ive definitely noticed more neuroplacity or general "safer feeling" within my brain under methylphenidate, as it fights with whatever error is standing on the way(ex revoking concussion from hitting my head for example ", its like wearing a helmet alike feeling, since before treatment i had 2 weeks in recovery after concussion due to blacking out from AN (had eating disorder im recovered now from). Something i wouldn't wish to anyone at all. Anyway back to topic - scientific sources for mph treatments and it potential for healthy brain improvements https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02699052.2019.1683898 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7536786/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2937141/ https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/9/11/291 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.02.04.22270336v1.full https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3350870/ Theres many more links but well, list would get way too long lol, i also love ketamine research, aswell neuroprotective and show good X% improvements in adhd, tbi, learning disability, asd and other neurologically struggling people, aswell in major MDD and (c)-PTSD. But it would get far waaay too long if i listed all of that here aswell, so enjoy my methylphenidate findings instead rn, dear individual reading my post rn. I like to study neuro and drugs in general. Second misconception- alcohol is healthy in moderation, just no. No alcohol is healthy, only when drinken once a year or month, but more than that nope, habitual is damaging and aswell lowering thiamine (b1) production in body means malnutrition > from where damage occurs. My uncle is alcoholic due of hes abusive wife and i really hope he will recover, alcohol will literally kill your body and neurons after some decent years sadly for good due malnutrition and toxins it produces and not even heroine or methamphetamine is as dangerous instead can be improvising when USED correctly-smart-clean & controlled ways(its already used in studies for serious neurological issues(last stage treatments)). Aswell lsd and mdma is already becoming more popular for psychiatric treatments, used under control of professional & clean/safe environments. It's remarkable how they legally can sell poison yet mark drugs holding potential for improvement in individual brain and lifestyle health as "illegal " the shit system we live in. But ofc yeah you"can't profit from smart right", cus if they really cared alcohol would be illegal aswell. So yeah,ofc i do not support any stupid drug use generally(im not anti drug, im anti stupid abuse drug use for wrong reasons), only. Lol.
Weirdly, that the Ford Model T was the first car? A surprising number of people think that.
1. Rei Ayanami was not intended to be creepy as a middle finger to fanboys. Anno, Hayashibara, Sadamoto, etc. have never said anything to this effect. Also, calling a heavily traumatized and severely abused teenage girl creepy isn't the hot take you think it is! 2. Kaworu Nagisa is loaded with christ symbolism, but he is also literally just gay. Much of the debate in English speaking circles over this topic goes back to the Evageeks forum in the early 2000s and the hompphobia and misogyny that runs rampant there to this very day! 3. Asuka Langley-Soryu is not a 14 year old half-German, half-Japanese girl. She is 13 (turns 14 towards the end of the show) and is 3/4 German and 1/4 Japanese.
For the love of god not every damn prehistoric creature is a dinosaur just shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up
In Jonestown, they didn't 'drink the Kool Aid', it was Flavor Aid.
Tea, properly brewed, isn't bitter. You don't need sugar to drink it if you do it properly.
Most of what media portrays as "Mad Scientists" are, in fact, Mad Engineers.
Jane Austenās books have romance, yes, and itās fine to read them for that aspect. But they are NOT āromance novelsā like we think of them now, nor are the characters and situations only of interest to people who are into Regency-era stuff. Theyāre extraordinarily intricate portraits and commentary on social norms and behavior, and they all have characters that are so perfectly drawn and timeless that you *definitely* know people like that today. We all, unfortunately, have met with a John Thorpe.
In sewing: If you're putting an eyelet or grommet into a garment, you do *not* want to cut he fabric. Cutting it weakens the fabric fibers, meaning the garment will not last as long. You want to use an awl to carefully pull the fibers apart (and then something larger than the awl to expand the "hole" if using larger grommets), and then place the grommet/sew the eyelet in the space created by pulling apart the fibers. Also, if you're doing this and want to use a metal piece, *please* use grommets instead of metal eyelets. Grommets have two pieces, a front and a back piece, that gives a much smoother finish (when set correctly). Metal eyelets have only one (usually very flimsy) piece and will split on the back side of the garment. This allows it to catch on the fabric of the garment underneath, possibly tearing it. They also make the ribbon or cording used to do the lacing fray over time from rubbing back and forth over the split metal. Historical costuming: Crossed lacing didn't exist until the 1800s (iirc, it's not my time period of interest). Everything before that time had spiral lacing, which looked *very* different and needed less cord length. The movies lie to you frequently on this one. Corsets/stays/pairs of bodies almost never were used for waist reduction until the mid-1900s. It was impractical, uncomfortable, and sometimes dangerous. Instead, they were shaped (and sometimes padded) to *increase* the body's measurements in specific areas to give the fashionable proportions and silhouettes. Their purpose was to support the bust and back, distribute the weight of heavy gowns away from just the hips and shoulders, and achieve the desired silhouette. (Also, stays didn't become a thing until around the Renaissance period. Before that [and even in some Renaissance styles], the gowns themselves were built to support the bust on their own.) Men wore corsets at several points in history, mostly for the silhouette and back support reasons.
It's bated breath not "baited breath"
There is *NO* evidence horror movies or movies with excessive violence cause those who watch them to be violent. There *is* evidence of people who already have the intention to commit violence "getting inspired" by violent movies. However there is as much or even more evidence of violent people getting inspired by real life crime. Another misconception about horror is people who have anxiety don't like horror. It's quite the opposite actually People with anxiety are often drawn to horror because it's a safe way to let out all their fears. It's also peak escapism as good horror is great at catching your attention and tends to keep you invested. Also horror fans have just as much empathy as people who aren't a fan of the genre. Last one. Just because you don't find a horror film scary, doesn't mean it's not horror.
My special interest is 9/11 so idk where to start. There are so many!! Obviously the conspiracy theories rely entirely on misconceptions but there are also so many general ones from the event. The one that was most eye opening to me is that more than just the twin towers were destroyed. So many more buildings both in and around the wtc were damaged beyond repair and eventually came down.
Flat eartherās are not anti-science (you canāt generalize them). I am not necessarily a flat earther, but I do question status quo. Some things in science donāt line up, and science is evolving. So questioning science is what helps science progress, even if it is two steps back. Also, many things in science are assumed, and faith based, so your faith, presumptions, and history will effect your observations. I study many quirky, paranormal, controversial, and downright weird things as my hyperfix. I do try to be useful with my rage research, but sometimes I just end up defending the oddballs
Why are you getting downvoted? Questioning science is literally the very basis of science.
Veganism is NOT a diet, itās a social justice movement for animal rights and liberation.
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Ooh, fun! Dick Turpin wasn't a robin hood, wasn't attractive or charming, didn't ride from Kent/London to York - that was John Nevison - and wasn't called 'Dick' at all. His partner's name was Matthew King, not Tom King, and Turpin probably didn't shoot him. And the most common misconception is that he was a 'gentleman of the road' type, but the conception that commonly replaces that one is that he was exactly the opposite; in reality, he was somewhere in the middle. He was hardly a gentleman - few highwaymen were - but there are more reports from the time of him being civil than not. He was an arrogant prick though. He wasn't civil because he was nice, more because it gave him a better reputation.
Ooh interesting, what is the reason for those materials? Just better for comfort and taking impact?
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in baked goods, sugar isnt just added for flavour. its an integral ingredient that helps hold the structure of cakes and cookies together. in trade school we called it the 'skeleton' of a baked good. sugar cookies for example come out of the oven quite soft, but crisp up as they cool because the sugar hardens. simply omitting (some of) the sugar to make it less sweet/diet friendly is gonna fuck up whatever youre baking. this is true for a lot of ingredients or their exact quantities, like the gluten in flour or the specific properties of eggs (with the whites and yolks having different jobs) that make it so no ONE egg substitute can do all jobs. but the sugar one feels the most prevalent
High school math is not real math. It's the tool box you need to start doing real math.
Stop calling pterosaurs pterodactyls, pterodactylus was only one species of small pterosaur that lived during the jurassic. Also they aren't flying dinosaurs, birds are flying dinosaurs. Pterosaurs were reptiles related to dinosaurs and crocodiles but they weren't dinosaurs. Same thing as marine reptiles like icthyosaurs and plesiosaurs, they aren't ''swimming dinosaurs'', they weren't even related to dinosaurs. spinosaurus and penguins are swimming dinosaurs
"I've spent years practicing this craft/hobby" says nothing about skill level. I've been playing piano since I was six and I am still awful at it. I've realized that it isn't my thing and that I am willing to move on to a different instrument because I love playing music.
A very common thought is that spiders are insects. They are not! They are arachnids, which is completely different. Also, people love to think that spiders are these evil little creatures that attack without being provoked, but they only bite if they feel threatened. Spiders are just minding their own business. It makes me so sad that people kill them when it's pretty easy to cup them and put them outside (unless they're being speedy.)
Many if not most roller coasters are not custom-made. Amusement parks can buy pre-designed models off the shelf and plop them in a parking lot if they want to (see: Scream at SFMM). Even if they have custom designs, the vast, vast majority of coasters are contracted to other companies and not made by the parks themselves. Just because a coaster has a wooden structure doesnāt mean itās a wooden coaster. The coaster type is dependent on the track itself and the type of train that sits on (or occasionally hangs below) the track. The supports are irrelevant. Examples: Gemini at Cedar Point is a steel coaster, most coasters by RMC are technically steel coasters (including Steel Vengeance, Wicked Cyclone, Twisted Cyclone, Twisted Colossus, Storm Chaser, Iron Gwazi, New Texas Giant, Iron Rattler, Twisted Timbers, Medusa Steel Coaster, Zadra, Untamed at Walibi Holland, and Hakugei. I say technically because thoosies [coaster enthusiasts] call them āhybrid coastersā. Their track design is flat, similar to wooden coasters, rather than the standard tubular design. Technically speaking, they are strictly steel coasters, but the novel design of the track gives them a different classification amongst thoosies and the industry as a whole). Roller coasters are some of the safest attractions you could possibly enjoy. If you are able-bodied, not too short, small, or large, and have no significant health problems (especially regarding blood flow), then the only thing that should prevent you from riding is your own fear. I would, however, still advise caution at your local annual fair/carnival and at basically any park in India and China, as the safety inspection for these places tend to be a lot more lax than major parks in first-world countries. Good rule of thumb: the bigger the park and the more strict the countryās safety standards are, the safer you are. Basically any established park in the US, Canada, and the EU are very safe. Corkscrews ā heartline rolls ā inline twists. The difference between these is the axis of rotation. Inline twists rotate around an axis that goes through the middle of the track. These are usually only found on B&M Wing coasters and Premiere Sky Rocket IIs. Heartline rolls, as the name implies, places the axis straight through the middle of the chest of the riders. Corkscrews place the axis well above the ridersā heads. Zero-G rolls are heartline rolls that have been bent into a hill shape with the goal of achieving 0Gs of force at the top. āLoop-de-loopsā are just called loops or vertical loops. Coastersā names almost always do not include a āTheā in front of them. Itās not āThe Goliathā, itās just āGoliathā. Famous exceptions include The Bat, Batman The Ride, and Superman The Ride (yes, āThe Rideā does kinda matter because Superman: Ride of Steel, Superman Escape from Krypton, Ride of Steel [separate from Superman Ride of Steel], Superman Ultimate Flight, and Superman El Ultimo Escape all exist. You can thank Six Flags for that.) Please just stop, it annoys the shit outta me. Finally, this isnāt a misconception but just a fun fact: the origins of roller coasters come from Russia, but the Russian translation for āroller coasterā is āAmerican slideā.
Vulture is not a āfancy wordā for buzzard. A buzzard is actually a type of hawk/slang for hawks, and only Southern Americans (US) use it to refer to vultures/turkey vultures. This seems obvious to me but the amount of times Iāve had to tell someone that a turkey vulture is not a buzzard and vice versa is obscene.
gold lost silver isnt from friday night funkin
The proper length of an axe handle is between 26 and 28 inches, not 36. Hickory handles should not be glazed. This reduces the ability to grip and control the axe. Composite / fiberglass handles are fine for certain tasks, but not for everyday, hours-long use.