I am an EE not an MD, so I can't give the exact cause for a coma (I'm not sure if the exact cause is known). Basically there is damage to the brain (drugs, strokes, traumatic brain injuries, hypoxia, medically induced, etc). There are different levels of a coma (some are more profound than others). The severity of the coma and the length of time in the coma affect the likelihood of a recovery. Unsurprisingly, a lower severity and a shorter time spent in a coma result in a better prognosis.

Magic. You've said it yourself... I don't understand what more you think you're going to get.

It took me about a minute to figure it out during which my mind went places I can't share...

Looks like you are gonna want to fix that typo.

I think this is a r/boneappletea moment

It's probably Sherry not Cherry.

Sherry barrels still have some of the Sherry soaked into the wood and add that flavor to the whiskey.

Many beers are aged in Bourbon Barrels to add the flavor.

Additional aging in certain barrels is all about adding flavors that would not be there otherwise. Sherry, barrels, wine barrels, bourbon barrels, French oak, American oak, maple, Hungarian oak, etc.

It's my understanding that something similar happened with saccharin. Something along the lines of "It can cause cancer...in rats who were force-fed three thousand times a human's expected lifetime consumption of saccharin in a very short period of time."

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Not sure. I was under the impression that it was written by somebody who was holding a grudge (he ate at a Chinese place and fell ill later that day) and just decided to be a jerk about it. He found an easy scapegoat.

The basics are pretty much the same today as a hundred years ago. There's only so many ways to do the standard sewing machine stitch, one really, but newer machines may be able to do different stitches. You may have needed a different machine set up for the different stitch, before.

There have been many sewing machine companies, and you're very correct in that Singer is probably the most well known. They've simply produced a good product, and were literally the first to hit the market. They've managed to maintain popularity and good products since their founding. Other companies definitely exist, though. Companies like Brother have developed features that make sewing at home much easier, and Juki is actually the king of sewing machines worldwide. My parents have a Juki from the 80s which is still running strong, and still worth a few hundred bucks.

Anus rhythm? Do you mean aneurysm?

MSG is a flavor enhancer. It amplifies the Umami (Savory) flavor in food and is used to improve the taste of a variety of products, typically Junk Food but is most well known for its use in take out Chinese.

MSG has a bad reputation due to dubious scientific research done in the 1950s.

A single researcher published papers describing what he called 'Chinese restaurant syndrome' claiming that he always got sick from eating Chinese food and specifically blamed the MSG they used without any real hard evidence to back that up.

This researcher could have just as easily been getting sick due to an intolerance to soy, fish sauce, or any other commonly used product in Chinese cuisine.

Other research was performed on MSG in this era usually involved concentrations that were hundreds of times higher than used in food.

Later research showed that eating small amounts of MSG is perfectly healthy, and showed that his research was dubious at best and probably had racist underpinnings. But by that point the news media had caused it to go viral and caution against MSG has never gone away.

>What is a Nightshade.

Nightshade is a colloquial name and not a technical one and is used to refer to many different plants.

Most of the plants with the colloquial english name "nightshade" are in the family Solanacea, However there are also several important food crops in that family.

Nightshade traditionally refers to plants in the genus Atropa, such as Atropa belladonna. This is the source of the useful drugs atropine and scopolamine. Atropa is a member of the family Solanacea. However large amounts of atropine are deadly and cause cardiac and respiratory arrest. All parts of plants in the genus Atropa are considered deadly poisonous.

Nightshade also refers to many plants in the genus Solanum, also of the Solanacea family.

This genus also includes the potato (Solanum tuberosa), the tomato (Solanum x lycopersicon), eggplant (S. melongena.). There are several wild relatives of tomatoes, native to south and central america that have edible and tasty fruits, but aren't widely grown.

However other members of the family Solanum have fruits that are toxic. For example, S. dulcamera, called bittersweet nightshade.

The word nightshade can be construed to mean plants in Solanum genus which have no edible parts.

For example, all aboveground parts of potatoes become quite toxic and the toxicity is triggered by light exposure. This includes the fruits and seeds of the potato, and cooking does not destroy the toxins. Only the underground tubers can be eaten. If potatoes are exposed to light for several days they may turn green. This is typically accompanied by modest toxicity, thus green-skinned potatoes are unfit for eating.

Europeans were originally quite skeptical of potatoes and eggplants due to their similarly to other members of the genus Solanum, native to europe which were themselves, very toxic including their fruits. They only became widely adopted in the late 1700s and early 1800's. Because potatoes are a very productive and nutritious crop even in relatively poor soils and are very tolerant of adverse weather conditions, they may be considered one of the unsung heroes of the industrial revolution.

Likewise, only the fruit of the tomato plants is fit for eating and other parts are generally mildly toxic.

Other members of the family Solanacea grown as crops include chile peppers (Capsicum fructescens), Physalis fruits such as tomatillo and lantern-fruit, Lycium barbatum also called wolfberry or goji. It also includes one of the most toxic plants in the family outside of the genus Atropa, Nicotiana tabaccum. This produces the highly toxic alkaloid nicotine.

>Bananas and grapes produce very few to no seeds at all.

Because we modified their genes with selective breeding. Unmodified banana.

>In other words, you have to buy seeds from Monstanto every time you re-plant.

That, too has also been done by selective breeding.

The point I obviously failed to make is that selective breeding and things like CRIPR aren't on different levels of modifications. Just other tools used.
That's why the debate about GMO, which afaik also considers selective breeding, isn't black and white but rather complicated.

I tried a red wine (Cabernet, I think) that was aged in bourbon barrels a little while ago (nothing fancy, it was from Costco) that was really quite good. Per my usual, I forgot to write down what the name was, so I will likely never find it again. :)

Okay, this is very interesting actually, thank you for this distraction! But Im wondering now. Recently I was in a small whiskey shop looking for a specific whiskey and the owner told me that whiskeys from time to time get "washed" by letting it flow trought oak shivers or coal or whatever after the aging proces. Does this have a purpose in regards to the re-purposed barrels you descripe?

Thanks. Apparently, like most things if you ate a ton you might get a headache, but even that is not statistically proven.

> In other words, you have to buy seeds from Monstanto every time you re-plant.

Monsanto hasn't existed for a few years.

Realistically though you never replant from seeds, even for non-GMO crops. Pretty much everything commercially viable is hybridized, and that's only good for one generation.

Nice. The CIA are shady

That may be the modern argument against MSG which is no where near as bad as its press.

The original MSG "scare" was due to its association with Chinese food and anti-asian sentiment. Many people claimed to come down with symptoms described as "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome". These symptoms were found to be baseless through double blind tests, but people still claim these symptoms which are a form of the placebo/nocebo effect.

Thank you for your answers. How do people go into coma? Why is it that some people recover and some do not come out of coma?

Sewing machines don't sew, so much as they loop threads around each other. Essentially, it pushes the thread on the needle through the fabric. While the needle is pushed through, the thread on that needle is looped around a second thread on the bottom, and then pulled back up. This process repeats. If you were to remove the bottom thread, the all the stitching comes apart.

I'm not sure I would say Singer is the best, but they're the most recognized brand for sure.