DanYHKim

DanYHKim t1_j8uwttq wrote

Reply to Antisemitic slurs fuel violence during game between Miami-Dade religious private schools by lowdiver

The Catholic school should simply withdraw from the tournament entirely. The time that would normally be spent on games can then be used to educate their students and the parents on basic human decency.

The various priests who oversee these students and families should also strongly educate their entire congregations in their sin, even threatening to turn them over to Satan to be destroyed as is recommended in the Bible for some cases of egregious and unrepentant sin.

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DanYHKim t1_j6a4zvk wrote

Reply to comment by Sir-HP23 in Has a new animal species evolved since mankind’s existence? by coding_ac

I've always wondered about moths being captured by streetlights. I figure that those moths are less likely to reproduce, since they are bashing their heads against a hot lamp, and are also picked off by bats all night long.

So, if there were a genetic component to their dependence on light for night flying orientation, could a mutation emerge that might reduce that dependence? That might allow a subset of moths to escape the artificial light. Such a mutation would reduce flight efficiency at night, since the moth may also not be well-oriented by the moon, and so would tumble in flight.

It might be useful to collect "country" moths and "city" moths, and test them for the ability to escape from strong artificial lights. One could then try cross-breeding them to find out if the variation is an inherited trait. If so, the genetic source of the variation might be found.

I think I once posted this question here on Reddit somewhere, and and alert reader gave me a link to a paper on the subject. It turns out that there are variations in light orientation dependence between moths that live in the city and those that live out in the darker countryside. I do not recall where I left the article, but I will try to find it .

In any case, there are selective pressures that are kind of associated with the presence of modern humans and our impact on the environment which have an impact on the behavior or morphology of different living things, and which may lead to a level of diversity that could be considered the emergence of a new species.

I believe there's also some work being done on the genetics of rats that live in the city, and how genetic variance may have behavioral adaptations which are more advantageous in an urban environment.

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DanYHKim t1_j5p12yu wrote

Reply to Earth's inner core seems to be slowing its spin according to new research published in Nature Geoscience. The study authors suggest this might be part of an approximately 70-year cycle where the core speeds up and slows down relative to the rest of the planet. by shiruken

Does that mean we will be seeing a return of hippies?

>The core’s slowing down isn’t the beginning of the end times. The same thing appears to have happened in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the study authors at Peking University in China suggest it may represent a 70-year cycle of the core’s spin speeding up and slowing down.

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DanYHKim t1_j4yv1dn wrote

Reply to comment by EpicAura99 in TIL CO2 bonds with the moisture in your nose creating carbonic acid. That's why it burns when you burp after drinking a soda. by HosWoodWorks

Yeah. I once read That an inspection team tired of suffocation well looking at one of the fuel tanks for the space shuttle. They were inside the tank, which had been purged with nitrogen. They were unaware that the tank was devoid of oxygen, And so they conducted the inspection for a short while, and then fell unconscious and suffocated.

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Reply to Family Dynamics and Doctors' Emotions Drive Useless End-of-Life Care. Surveys repeatedly indicate that nearly all people would rather die peacefully at home, yet painful, long-shot treatments remain common, and efforts to reduce usage have failed by Wagamaga

This article is a very good one

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/08/02/letting-go-2

My father and my mother-in-law both opted for home hospice. My father had made arrangements with my brother in the years before his decline. He settled out his affairs and put properties and assets in trust. He and my mother also purchased a package from the Trident Society to take care of their remains and certain of the paperwork for us.

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DanYHKim t1_j4l4sl1 wrote

Reply to comment by Unethical_Orange in Avian influenza viruses of the H5 subtype and H7 subtype have caused 2634 human cases around the world, including more than 1000 deaths. These viruses have caused numerous disease outbreaks in wild birds and domestic poultry, and are responsible for the loss of at least 422 million domestic birds. by Unethical_Orange

I read a NY Times article years ago about the threat of avian flu to humans. There was a researcher at the CDC who was going to China to investigate some human deaths.

Before he left, he instructed his wife to keep abreast of the news. If he died in China, or if the news showed that the virus had made the leap to humans, she was to go to their vacation home in the mountains and stay there. She was to bring guns and ammunition and not let anyone approach the property.

Then he flew to Shanghai.

Such was his apprehension about the virus, and also his commitment to protecting public health

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DanYHKim t1_iz1t3wp wrote

Reply to comment by melodien in Did sheep fur always just endlessly grow or was that something that was selectively bred? Were they originally naturally adapted to be going through a lot of foliage and thickets and stuff that would keep their coat relatively trimmed? by EuroTraschBozos

There was an Australian experimental transgenic sheep that would shed it's wool all at once after being given an injection. The gene was activated in response to (A homone? An antibiotic?), and the sheep would shed in a few days. They would wear a kind of spandex bodysuit to hold the wool together until they were plucked in one go.

The shearers didn't like this, and the results weren't good enough to justify the process in the end.

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DanYHKim t1_iz1slh5 wrote

Reply to comment by jacobrussell in Did sheep fur always just endlessly grow or was that something that was selectively bred? Were they originally naturally adapted to be going through a lot of foliage and thickets and stuff that would keep their coat relatively trimmed? by EuroTraschBozos

Yes.

Young women would wander around the pastures picking up stray wool caught on bushes. These could be carded and spun with a drop spindle.

This practice of aimless wandering while bringing together scattered material is the origin of the term "wool gathering", used to describe unorganized musing.

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Reply to Turkish Companies Go Solar at Record Pace to Cut Energy Costs by Straight_Ad2258

>Turkey allows businesses to produce electricity from renewable alternatives for their own use but earlier this month simplified a process that also enables them to sell their surplus power to the grid.

>That incentive has given the market a new boost.

>Turkey’s biggest mobile operator, Turkcell, plans to satisfy 65% of its energy needs using renewable sources in the coming years, Erkin Kilinc, general manager of its energy unit Enerjicell, told Bloomberg.

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Reply to Dissociative symptoms are common among individuals with depression, study finds by chrisdh79

How else are we supposed to get anything done?

I used to go to counseling while I was working. I'd take an hour off and go, and then come back. I couldn't really 'get into it' during the sessions, some I needed to be functional right after. I also couldn't really let issues that we dealt with during session hang over me during work, so I had to be distanced from my feelings.

It made progress difficult, but a man's gotta eat you know?

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