InDemoVeritas

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by InDemoVeritas 3y ago
Clouds are thoughts in the mind of the sky.
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by InDemoVeritas 4y ago
Hummus. Halva. Tahini. Sesame would be a difficult allergy. My condolences.
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by InDemoVeritas 4y ago
Sharp and short, alternating left and right at about 4 Hz, on the side of the tongue back by the molars. Feels like pulling the side of the tongue away from the teeth. It’s a much clickier click than a front of the tongue ‘click’.
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by InDemoVeritas 4y ago
If you can make a clicking noise with the side of your tongue, you can easily sense the volume of space you’re in, how close to a wall, etc.
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by InDemoVeritas 4y ago
Yes. The 12 steps are a self directed self paced investigation of self and/in society. The community is welcoming, with diverse backgrounds and experiences. Humility, sharing of suffering and joy, laughter. YMMV
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by InDemoVeritas 4y ago
I just want the touchscreen buttons for a choice to be separated on the screen by more than a finger’s width. Every yes/no choice is right next to each other, and driving and hitting 1cm^2 a millimeter away from another 1cm^2 is not g
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by InDemoVeritas 4y ago
Is there enough silver to make 300 TW capacity of solar panels?
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by InDemoVeritas 4y ago
I live with and care for a dog. We are coevolved species. Your frame of ‘owning’a pet is not shared by all.
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by InDemoVeritas 5y ago
As my wise auntie says,”You can’t see clearly through the bottom of a pint glass.” Are you not drunk on energy? Warm or cool at will, well fed and clothed, able to travel and communicate? There’s no collecting if you bet on the apocalypse.
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by InDemoVeritas 5y ago
I was there for his last Harvard lecture. He ended by saying, “Now I can say it. Humans have instincts!”
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by InDemoVeritas 5y ago
The assumption is correct. Have you met children?
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by InDemoVeritas 5y ago
Reverse that. What is called tin foil is actually always aluminum. Once upon a time, though…
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by InDemoVeritas 6y ago
In the context of collecting pollutants, entropy is huge. Big light in sky is source of juicy low entropy energy, true, and the big win is the flux of infrared out. Ten times as many photons to carry away the same energy.
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by InDemoVeritas 6y ago
Say hello to my little friend, entropy.
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by InDemoVeritas 6y ago
Speak for yourself.
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by InDemoVeritas 6y ago
It was a controlled infection with Smallpox, by scraping the skin with pus or scab powder from an infected person. Cowpox is what makes the smallpox vaccine.
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by InDemoVeritas 6y ago
It would be pretty boring, proteins bouncing around randomly and occasionally honking up, substrates flying around like rifle bullets sometimes hitting the target, and everything smooshing around in random directions. If you’ve seen Brownia
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by InDemoVeritas 6y ago
I was reading that page today, as I am putting together a chapter on using liquid nitrogen in science demonstrations. Thank you, James Dewar, for your marvelous vacuum insulated flask!
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by InDemoVeritas 10y ago
I saw it! A tiny, shiny speck under the microscope, and the thrill of seeing a form of matter which, it can be argued, has never existed anywhere in the universe. Ever.