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- Comment on Science Journalism 3 months ago:
In fairness sometimes small tiny differences like that do turn out to be significant. But measurement error usually wins out most of the time
- Comment on Classic 🌱 4 months ago:
Account has no posts but three spamming this “IQ testing” site
- Comment on YSK: Using dairy milk after being tear gassed or pepper sprayed doesn't provide more relief and has slightly increased infection risk. Use water or saline instead 6 months ago:
There are perceptional reasons why it may feel like milk worked better such as it being cooled vs using room temperature water. Or from being the second thing used. Or from various different factors
But the research above suggests it doesn’t do as much as people think it does
The infection risks are not the same. Milk has stuff in it that microbes like for growing where water doesn’t have nearly all that. Other stuff can enter inside. The eye infection pathway is concerning especially right now when bird flu seems to enter that way and is in large quatities of dairy milk. Not all pasturization methods are certain to actually remove it (i.e flash pasturization might not)
- Comment on YSK: Using dairy milk after being tear gassed or pepper sprayed doesn't provide more relief and has slightly increased infection risk. Use water or saline instead 6 months ago:
Only if they consent :3
(but also probably not great in terms of infection risk either)
- Comment on YSK: Using dairy milk after being tear gassed or pepper sprayed doesn't provide more relief and has slightly increased infection risk. Use water or saline instead 6 months ago:
I would think that alcohol on the eyes wouldn’t do too many good things to them, however
- Comment on YSK: Using dairy milk after being tear gassed or pepper sprayed doesn't provide more relief and has slightly increased infection risk. Use water or saline instead 6 months ago:
One of the studied things was using antacids in that peper spray study and didn’t find much benfit for it for pepper spray. There currently doesn’t really seem to much that research confirm works any better than any other liquid over the eyes
- Submitted 6 months ago to youshouldknow@lemmy.world | 46 comments
- Comment on Powerful 6 months ago:
Now that I’m looking for it, I can’t find it anywhere, I think it might just be something unpublished from the person on mastodon. Would make sense with them saying they love footnotes
- Comment on Powerful 6 months ago:
Not necessarily. Self citation is different than building on your previous work. You might just seek to use other citations for the relevent concepts
- Submitted 6 months ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 10 comments
- Comment on mander.xyz has been fixed rule. :) 6 months ago:
This is refering to a device used by researchers of nuclear weapons that accidentally went supercritical twice
- Comment on EUROBEE 6 months ago:
Not only that but honey bees also threaten native bees
But scientists say competition with honey bees may also play a role. In a 2017 report in Conservation Letters, researchers calculated that during three months, honey bees in a typical 40-hive apiary collect the equivalent amount of pollen and nectar as 4 million solitary wild bees. “Brilliant foragers,” honey bees can “dominate floral resources and suppress native bee numbers,” says lead author Jim Cane, a retired federal biologist who heads the nonprofit WildBeecology.
Honey bees also carry diseases that can infect natives, including deformed wing virus and the parasite Crithidia bombi. Researchers have found that native bees near apiaries can suffer a high incidence of such illnesses.
Fun fact, most North American native bee species don’t even live in hives or produce honey for themselves at all. They also almost never sting too
Unlike honey bees, more than 90 percent of our nearly 4,000 native bee species live not with other bees in hives but alone in nests carved into soil, wood or hollow plant stems. Often mistaken for flies, the majority are tiny and do not have queens or produce honey. Without a hive’s larvae and food supplies to defend, “native bees almost never sting,” Mizejewski say
- Comment on Carnivores 8 months ago:
According to series animator Vincent Waller, “there is absolutely no meat in the Krabby Patty. There’s no animal product in there”, something which was always planned by series creator Stephen Hillenburg.[9]
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he stated that there is no meat served in Bikini Bottom except at the Chum Bucket.
- Comment on #justElsevierthings 9 months ago:
To be fair, from a quick glance, a good chunck of those articles are about ChatGPT/other AI and showing output from it as examples in the text
- Comment on xkcd #2880: Sheet Bend 11 months ago:
It’s been there for a while, just hard to spot. From doing a binary search with web.archive.org, it seems it was added on October 5th, 2016 web.archive.org/web/20161005090723/…/xkcd.com/
- Comment on "Forget the pig is an animal - treat him just like a machine in a factory" | Source: Washington Post 11 months ago:
Yes, but it takes less synthetic fertilizer overall at scale per the earlier source even compared to using maximum amount of manure possible
- Comment on "Forget the pig is an animal - treat him just like a machine in a factory" | Source: Washington Post 11 months ago:
Largely with the same types of fertilizer used today, but counterintuitively much less synthetic fertilizer due to removing the large amount of feed grown. That’s even compared to using as much manure as possible
Thus, shifting from animal to plant sources of protein can substantially reduce fertilizer requirements, even with maximal use of animal manure
- Comment on "Forget the pig is an animal - treat him just like a machine in a factory" | Source: Washington Post 11 months ago:
It’s unfortunately largely greenwashing. Animal products have a lot of fundamental inefficiency that really can’t be reduced all that much
Plant-based foods have a significantly smaller footprint on the environment than animal-based foods. Even the least sustainable vegetables and cereals cause less environmental harm than the lowest impact meat and dairy products [9].
www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/14/8/1614/htm
If I source my beef or lamb from low-impact producers, could they have a lower footprint than plant-based alternatives? The evidence suggests, no: plant-based foods emit fewer greenhouse gases than meat and dairy, regardless of how they are produced.
Plant-based protein sources – tofu, beans, peas and nuts – have the lowest carbon footprint. This is certainly true when you compare average emissions. But it’s still true when you compare the extremes: there’s not much overlap in emissions between the worst producers of plant proteins, and the best producers of meat and dairy.
ourworldindata.org/less-meat-or-sustainable-meat
Livestock farmers often claim that their grazing systems “mimic nature”. If so, the mimicry is a crude caricature. A review of evidence from over 100 studies found that when livestock are removed from the land, the abundance and diversity of almost all groups of wild animals increases
- Comment on "Forget the pig is an animal - treat him just like a machine in a factory" | Source: Washington Post 11 months ago:
Updated the title to clarify. Wasn’t a random hog farm manager, Hog Farm Management is a magazine read by hog farmers.
- "Forget the pig is an animal - treat him just like a machine in a factory" | Source: Washington Posti.imgur.com ↗Submitted 11 months ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 21 comments
