Your link is about solids that flow, not liquids that don't flow. Amorphous solids are solids. It's right there in the name.

Some of these areas have dropped 20+ feet due to wells for the almond groves.

they went to the bottom of a valley in wet looking areas and dug.. but yea.. its not always that easy.. where i grew up the ground water was 700 feet down..

Interesting...I'll keep that note when I see my massage therapist next weekend. Might start physio as well.

Proprioception.

Your mind knows where your hand is at all times and will tense up against the pressure you apply.

When someone else massages you, your body does not know exactly where there hands are and so will keep the muscles relaxed.

The very early settlers settled where water was actually available, or easily accessed. Along rivers small or large lakes, anywhere that offered or indicated water. Later settlements/settlers and ranchers could take the time, energy and technology to dig, but there are a lot of environmental clues on where that would be. Lower areas and low areas with an unusual amount of long term plants like trees were usually a pretty good place to sink a well and then build a windmill to pump the water out.

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The British called the capital of China "Peking" when they forced trade onto China, and it remained Peking in the west for a long time. In 1979, China requested that the west pronounce it a more accurate "Beijing", and it has continued since then.

When Alexander the Great took over Egypt, the people from that country called themselves "Kemet" (or something like that). The way we pronounce Egypt is a rough translation from the Greek.

TIL the game telephone was invented before an actual telephone

Ah, lucky. I had a full open…. My scar is noticeable at about 3”. Had a 1.5” gap between the ends. How is the recovery going?

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You won't get a rash. In fact, exposing the area underneath to the elements is more likely to lead to a rash.

Your blood vessels are like roads. Without exercise they are dirt roads. They get potholes, travel across them can be cumbersome and difficult.

When you start exercising, your body starts to patch up those potholes. Maybe add some cement or tar to help the roads be a bit more stable.

With lots of aerobic exercise, your roads becomes highways, well developed and cleaning moving with lots of chill traffic that doesn't cause accidents because of the conditions they are driving in.

> Your body will inform you when you're thirsty.

My body doesn't. That's what I'm telling you. I feel like shit, I don't feel thirsty; as soon as I drink something I suddenly realize I'm thirsty, drink a bunch, and immediately feel better.

We're not talking about life-threatening dehydration. We're talking about thirsty enough to feel bad, but my body isn't sending "drink something" signals.

> Big? You mean vig?

"Vigorish (also known as juice, under-juice, the cut, the take, the margin, the house edge or simply the vig)..."

I guess I do. I must have mis-heard it.

Well, yeah.

America (the continent) was named after Amerigo Vespucci.

Yup, the two sticks are just a distraction, a slight of hand to make you wonder what magic they're using and thus don't have to share the knowledge.

It was Marco Polo (and his contemporaries) who heard something akin to “yit pun kok” and mapped it to “cipangu”.

“mei guo/mei kok” is likely more related to how “America” was first transliterated into “mei li jian/mei lei keen” rather than for expressing beauty, although that choice is reflected in the written character :)

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You got to admit, that would be one hell of a well if you pulled it off

It all depends on.. the amount of water you need, the quality of water, contamination by man or natural. If you need clean drinking water it's a good idea to go through a couple aquifers, to find the cleanest possible water. You could driĺ and hit water pit also a methan pocket at the same time, don't want to drink that. Over time local drillers have accumulated knowledge on there local geology and have a very good understanding where water is.

Cities like Athens, Rome or Constantinople had huge populations in ancient times, but they dwindle with time. According to some estimates, Constantinople had up to 500,000 inhabitants during the 8th century, and shrank to 45,000 at the time of the Fall. Rome had 800,000 people in 400 AD and 30,0000 in the middle of the 6th century. Athens had up to 600,000 in the 5th century BC, and by 1833 it was a town of only 4,000.

A big city need people to take care of it. When their populations shrank, the people try to stay close together, so entire neigborhoods in the outskirts had barely any people. And with barely any people, maintaining a building, or knocking it down to build something else, is not feasible in the majority of cases, because there's no need to use the place as a building.

Gotta water all those almonds!

I'm in construction. Tore my bicep tendon on my right ( dominant) arm 10 yrs ago. Surgeon said without repair things like turning screwdriver and doorknobs would be difficult. Had it repaired and definitely think it was the right decision. He did the button method. Drilled hole through bone in forearm, pull tendon through bone and put button through tendon to keep it from pulling back out.