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I've often wondered about this. Are there any studies showing this? I've heard from a few doctors that's it's this way just because 'it's the way it's always been done.' Also wonder if there is truly nothing that can be done about information loss during a handover. We've become pretty good with information these days.

Astronomy: the JWST photos of distant galaxies has people telling us these galaxies are from 200 million years after the Big Bang.

How do we measure the age of the light/galaxies? We can’t be using triangulation. I’m assuming red shift, but I’d like to know more about how this is figured out, and what is the margin of error in the calculation.

There is already an international shortage in all of the medical professions. Emergencies don’t work to rosters and medical culture trains doctors and especially surgeons that they are super human and can carry on robotically despite fatigue.

Running a marathon is not a daily occurence though. Pulling an all nighter once in a while is very different than constant sleep deprivation. Also if someone chooses to run an ultramarathon but they lose focus the only person whose wellbeing is at risk is themselves - however if a doctor (or other staff) loses focus and make a mistake it impacts the patient as well.

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These are really burial mounds, tombs or mausoleums rather than true pyramids, terming them pyramids have led some people to make unfounded claims about their origin and inhabitants.

Am I right to assume that we don’t ACTUALLY know what ancient Egyptian music sounded like? The common melodic motif in pop culture that is associated with Egypt has nothing to do with it, and was just made up? If I’m right, where did this motif come from? If I’m wrong, how do we know it actually comes from (ancient) Egypt?

Interestingly, these pairs do not always reciprocate understanding.

Italians have some trouble learning Romanians, however Romanians find it much easier to learn Italian.

Alexander the great conquered Egypt as part of the Persian empire resulting in the founding of the city of Alexandria so there were a great many Greeks in Egypt.

I saw a tv show that showed a surgery to separate twins conjoined at the top of the head. It was a 24 hour surgery. The lead surgeon performed the first 8 hours, some other surgeon on the team performed the second 8 hours, and the lead surgeon finished up the last 8 hours. It didn't mention food and restroom breaks.

PBS is amazing.

I've heard Ideal Anarchism referred to as a "Stateless, Classless, Moneyless, society"

Now, studiously trying to avoid a political debate, what does the "Moneyless" part of that entail? While money can of course be used in a corrupt manner, it is at base, as far as I understand, an abstraction of the value of human labor used to make exchanges of good and services easier and more efficient.

By calling for an abolition of money, it seems like they'd be calling for an abolition of such exchanges. Which even if all primary needs are met by communal contribution, seems like it would needlessly limit long-range trade and a whole host of interpersonal interactions.

Have I misunderstood or misrepresented something? Because while I can kind of grok what a stateless and classless society would look like, and why some might advocate for it, a moneyless one just seems like it would be going back to the barter system for no particular reason.

Thank you for knowing more than me about how I’ve felt when I’ve got 30 hours without sleep

Seconding this!

difference is political/social/cultural rather than linguistic....

(you try tell Serbian ppl they're speaking a dialect of Croatian, or a Hindi person theyre speaking a dialect of Urdu... stabbed ... ask them if they understand the other, tho, they'll say of course, it's the same language you moron... stabbed)

(linguists have never agreed on any linguistic criteria that would define the difference)

TL;DR you're getting stabbed

The books weren't originally books, but were stories printed in Strand magazine and dramatically increased the sales of the magazine as a result. These stories were published in different years under broad categories such as The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes or The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, so the "The Adventure of the Crooked Man" was published as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (the second series of these) and it was the 8th adventure in that series or 2 8.

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im a surg tech. usually, everyone but the surgeon gets switched out. BUT if they have a team they want with them for the case, they all stick it out together!! ive worked w some docs on not as long cases and he would say if i dont get a break, you all dont either. pretty much depends on the doc

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Pretty sure a study was recently published that physicians on average thought fewer handoffs were better for patient care, but would not want to be seen by a doc at the end of a 24 hour shift. So basically we’re hypocrites.

They've had pretty easy contact with other countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea. In later eras, they developed along with Ancient Greeks and Romans, so there were plenty interaction between the cultures.

The Ptolemy line, from which Cleopatra VII (the famous Cleopatra) descended, had partial Greek ancestry.

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As an aside, I think there was a study on caffeine where they put people with varying levels of caffeine tolerance through a series of performance tests with and without caffeine, and it showed that even people who had built up a high tolerance and didn't consciously "feel" the effects of caffeine still experienced the same performance benefits of the caffeine. Sorry I don't have the details or the reference (so I can't speak to the robustness of the study), but it's out there somewhere.

Very informative. Thank you.