Left to nature’s devices and barring a particularly pigheaded or really dumb child, this is a self-correcting situation…
Walmart.com has rigged their site to not accept most* grocery purchases.
It claims “sold out” or some bs…
used to be a nice way to shop…
*99% of low cost stuff…
Or the world’s most docile cat.
Not true. Palms of hands, underside of fingers, lips and (if you’re male) the critical inches of your penis are not. Also, aren’t your toes below your ankles, technically? The upper sides of your toes have hair.
How did you gain this intimate knowledge of Ethilrist’s body hair :dubious:
If I had known that this might happen I would have used a condom every time :smack:
The only possibly way. Close, careful observation. Repeated close, careful observation. 
Actually, I remembered a school presentation that a friend of mine did, the topic of which was “Hair”. I still remember her statement that “we have hair on every part of our bodies except the palms of our hands and the soles of our feet”, and I remember thinking “Hang on, you missed out a dangly bit” but I was too young and green to point out crude facts like this at that tender age. Now, of course, I have no such reservations.
The other day I learned that Madison Metro buses are tracked along their routes, and the drivers begin to get alerts if they are more than 15 seconds ahead or or behind schedule.
I learned that rabies has one of the highest mortality rates of any disease, ever. And if you experience any symptoms of rabies, it’s too late. You’re pretty much dead.
I also learned that chimps hunt, kill and eat other animals.
I learned both of these things from Radiolab on NPR.
Sadly, this is almost universally true (although look into this: Rabies - Wikipedia), as we discovered to our cost when a close family friend contracted rabies from a stray puppy. He didn’t get any medical attention until the symptoms started to appear, and died a few days afterwards. Not a pleasant disease.
Having an existential crisis? Questioning your entire life? Suddenly* think you have no meaning or value?
You just need to take some Tylenol!
*Doing a little more digging, this seems to be for existential crisis brought on by things like watching a depressing movie or contemplating your own death for 15 minutes in people that are otherwise well adjusted. Taking two Tylenols isn’t going to snap a depressed person back into a manic state.
I’m sorry to hear that.
They talked about the Milwaukee Protocol on the radio show, including the girl who was first saved using it. I think they said that since then, it has worked for about five people (of 30 attempts), and those people, including the first person in recorded history who survived, somehow had rabies antibodies before they contracted it. So they think some people might have a kind of immunity. I had no idea rabies was that serious.
In the Breaking Bad episode “Madrigal”, the logo of Burger-Matic, the fast food chain from the movie, is displayed next to the Los Pollos Hermanos logo, as an inside joke.
If you have a twisted mind, I guess you could interpret that as the two happening in the same universe. Which is a bit disturbing.
About hummingbirds: I had the temerity to walk by a feeder on my way into a restaurant near Banff this summer and got an earful from a male Rufous hummingbird who harangued me to the door. I can’t speak the lingo, but I’m pretty sure he was describing my dubious parentage, habits, sexual preferences and lack of intelligence in some pretty explicit ways, not to mention that I should go do something improbable to myself… Assholes of the bird world, even if they are cute.
Cheetahs are clones, pretty much. They genetic variation is about 1% across the breed.
The Slate quiz? Evenly split between brain disease and heart disease for me.
I learned blue jays are related to crows. They are a smaller, better looking crow! And they have the ability to train a human to respond to their loud non-stop shrieking (among the many other sounds they make) by that human tossing a handful of peanuts out onto the deck.
I feel about 400 years old, yet every damned day I find out stuff I should have known years ago. And I really mean should.
In the last 3 days, I read about the 19th century inventor, George Cayley. OK, he was mainly concerned with flight, but I don’t know why he’s not famous.
*Among the many things that he developed are self-righting lifeboats, tension-spoke wheels, the “Universal Railway” (his term for caterpillar tractors), automatic signals for railway crossings, seat belts, small scale helicopters, and a kind of prototypical internal combustion engine fuelled by gunpowder. He also contributed in the fields of prosthetics, air engines, electricity, theatre architecture, ballistics, optics and land reclamation, and held the belief that these advancements should be freely available.
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I read about lye somewhere for cleaning beds or grates or something, and idly wondered if it is still produced. They make 40 million tons of the stuff.
An hour ago I discovered Tatiana Bulanova. She’s world famous in Russia since the terrible 1990s.
I held out as long as I could.
Band name.
Cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, brussels sprouts, savoy, kohlrabi, collard greens and chinese kale are all cultivars of the same species, Brassica oleracea.
But it’s pretty much 100% preventable if the inoculation series is completed before symptoms appear.
The intro and outro to “With a Little Help from My Friends” are the same! That’s why “Billy Shears” is the start of the song – it’s not the end of SPLHCB, nor some ambiguous connective thing.
Don’t believe me? Listen… “Billllyyyy Shears”… And then, at the end, “Ahhhh ahhhh ah”. … !!!