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- Comment on Sleep 1 week ago:
I’ve seen a timelapse of sleeping squirrels before and they sleep in any and every position possible and keep changing it up.
- Comment on New study: No-alcohol and low-alcohol beers, and dry pubs, are on the rise 1 week ago:
Because tastes differ. You can get tired of always having sugary drinks and af beers often have a more complex and interesting taste than sodas.
- Comment on What are super-computers used for ? 1 week ago:
I analyze the human genome. If I want to compute something complex on 1000 genomes that all have 90 Gb of data it might take two days per genome on 16 cores. And I don’t have 2000 days to finish my research.
- Comment on Do you touch the light switch entering a room if it's already on? 1 week ago:
My parents have a bathroom with an (opaque) window, so during the day you don’t need to turn the light on. Which is how I discovered I only turn lights on when I need it, but I always turn the bathroom light back off going out… and then off again because it was never on.
- Comment on Ugh... I forgot to pack a towel 1 week ago:
I’ve forgotton a towel when I went swimming before. Ended up using my shirt as a towel and dressing in just my sweater.
- Comment on Teach me 1 week ago:
The phrase “you can’t outrun a bad diet” exists for a reason. If you are not already doing lots of sports your body simply cannot handle the 1-2 hours if intense activity every day to burn off that caramel latte and bag of chips. Then, when you do get to the level where you can do lots of sports, you will notice a bad diet impacts your progress and recovery and you are stuck eating a lot, but mostly healthy food.
- Comment on It really sucks that we're all built differently. If we were all built from the same skeleton, you'd learn the perfect golf swing right when you learned how to ride a bike. 1 month ago:
Everyone being build differently is what makes us resilient as a species and causes evolution. Also, if everyone was equally good at golf it wouldn’t be a fun sport anymore.
- Comment on You didn't grow up yet, till you choose your power grain, what is yours? 1 month ago:
I enthusiastically bought a load of quinoa to diversify my grain cabinet… anyone got some good (veggie) recipes?
- Comment on Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice 1 month ago:
The same place artists get it? As long as people enjoy watching what you do and are inspired by it it is worth something.
- Comment on Is it Possible that a Typical Quantity of Sneezes is Inherited/Genetic? 1 month ago:
On QI (bbc quiz show) they once said the sound you make when you sneeze is cultural/learned, so I wouldn’t be surprised the number of sneezes is also somehow cultural.
- Comment on With bathing, water recirculation is more easily accepted. 2 months ago:
I think before modern plumbing it was quite normal for more people sharing a bath one after the other, or going to large bath houses. The house I grew up in from the early 1900s didn’t have a bathroom and people would handwash and occasionally fill a bath in the kitchen. (We had a shower built in, but it was obviously not part of the original design)
- Comment on Bring bathroom doors back to hotels 2 months ago:
My boyfriend and me have a system where one of us always has to “quickly grab something and follow after a few minutes” whenever we leave a hotel room with too little privacy.
- Comment on How do people with epilepsy triggered by flashing lights, drive past trees that are backlit by the sun? 2 months ago:
I think I heard someone on a podcast with seizures triggered by lights and she said wearing sunglasses and in extreme cases closing one eye helped reduce the effects on her a lot.
- Comment on How do people with epilepsy triggered by flashing lights, drive past trees that are backlit by the sun? 2 months ago:
Those warnings are called auras, and you can have visual or auditory auras warning you of a seizure.
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 2 months ago:
There are also people born that do not fit in the biological definition of male or female. Same image applies to them.
- Comment on WHAT IF WHAT IF 2 months ago:
But we also prioritize research where we suspect/hypothesize differences, so I think even if all research was published it wouldn’t necessarily be a normal distribution.
- Comment on What a relief! 2 months ago:
I was born in the nineties and just moved to France. It’s a real struggle.
- Comment on Twinkle twinkle little star 2 months ago:
Science memes is more than just memes to make fun of things. It’s all things science and fun/wholesome.
- Comment on People who rely on their phones/computers to tell time probably forgot or didn't realize that a Daylight Saving Time-Change even happened, some might've forgotten that DST existed at all. 2 months ago:
I was very confused why I woke up so early until I spotted my microwave in the late afternoon.
- Comment on What do they do with aborted fetuses? 3 months ago:
i imagine cremating fetusses is one of the lesser emotionally traumatizing things hospital workers have to deal with every day.
Also, if the fetus is big enough to be (near) viable and the abortion happens for medical reasons or in case of stillbirths, I hope/expect parents are given the option for a proper burial.
- Comment on What's the best way to ease getting back in shape after years of little to no exercise? 3 months ago:
I had this during covid and free home workouts videos helped me out a lot. Started with just a yogamat (or towel) doing easy beginner friendly workouts of only 15-30 minutes. No need to go out, noone sees you and there are apartment/small space/downstairs neighbour friendly options. I used the fitnessblender workouts and the sense of accomplishment at the “workout complete” screen is magical.
- Comment on hmm breakfast 3 months ago:
The choice is lung cancer and heart disease or diabetes and heart disease. At least us europeans die looking good /s.
- Comment on If this has been asked recently just link it no need to be mean, because I am emotionally sensitive right now. Thank you for your attention to this matter. 3 months ago:
Why does the GOP need to remove the “illegal imigrants”? They are often hardworking individuals with similar or lower crime rates than the average american. What the GOP and ICE are doing right now is illigal and akin to human trafficking. From the outside looking to the US it looks more and more like they are treating immigrants as germany treated the jews at the start of the second world war.
- Comment on Which fly came first? 3 months ago:
I agree. I also imagine fly for insects comes from abbreviating “flying bug” or something like that, so also came after the verb to fly.
- Comment on why do they force you to take the 3 national subjects in egypt? 3 months ago:
I agree, we had the same mandatory courses in the netherlands, although religion was more like religious studies where we learned about all the different religions.
- Comment on what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace? 4 months ago:
I have recently moved to france and have been learning french for the last few years (long before moving). I still have difficulty with lunch conversation and after speaking to everyone outside of work in french I appreciate it so much that I work at an international place where everyone speaks english, even though that is also a second language for me. Imagine how tired your colleagues are at lunch after not speaking their own language anywhere but at home and appreciate that you are capable of helping them a little bit by speaking english.
- Comment on Shh 4 months ago:
And we don’t throw pipette tips in the ocean, we throw them in the biohazard box. While not better for the environment, at least we don’t choke baby turtles.
- Comment on "Veni Vidi Veni" would be a great name for a strip club or brothel. 4 months ago:
I came, i saw, i came.
- Comment on Awooga 4 months ago:
I don’t think that that many women want bigger boobs. I have more friends who dislike having big boobs vs small boobs.
- Comment on No brainer 5 months ago:
5 and then make stuff where the switches are all miniature toasters.