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Trapping Burning Gasses With a Thin Wire Screen
This reminds me of something that my high school Chemistry teacher told us one day. He told us about how gasses require a certain percentage of oxygen to ignite, so, that if you were to fill up an airtight room with 100% hydrogen, such that no oxygen was present, you could open a door to that room and light a match at the threshold without fear of an explosion. Theoretically the gas in the room would only burn at the door-shaped barrier between the hydrogen and the oxygen on the other side. I remain dubious and I want to see Adam Savage risk his life to bust that myth.
Also, actually related to this video: the guy doing the demonstration,Theodore Gray, has an awesome website if you're into chemistry.
Cute Possum Invades Kitchen To Eat Bread
Nah, the possums here are cute enough...huge gray rats with skull makeup on their faces (think KISS rats).
This guy's a bit cuter, but being an Aussie critter, we know he's armed with either deadly poison or six inch claws and wants to eat your face when you're not looking.
thats not a north american possum.
the possums here are what nightmares are made of.......
Colbert All Star Singing Final
Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)
I'll take those odds - that's definitely he of the graying temples next to Kissinger.
I'm 99% certain that Mark Hamill was definitely not in this.
A restored WWII fighter with operational machine guns
Enjoyed seeing this video as many years ago I used to work on the P-51 in the Air Force Reserve. this brought back a lot of memories. I recall seeing Twilight Tear 463864 out at the Gathering of the Mustangs in Sept 2007 and was attracted to it as at that time it appeared as it been really used. Most of the others appeared fresh off the production line - pretty, but actually too pretty and that isn't the way it is supposed to look - in my view. The owner at that time was Stephen Gray. Is he still the owner?? In this video the aircraft also appears to have undergone some additional restoration - is that so?? If so, is there any other write-ups on the restoration?? Are there any other videos of Twilight Tear available?? Where is Twilight Tear now based?? Thanks for any additional info.
The world's most beautiful sustainable font
I think I'd have to see it in actual printed form to judge the readability accurately.
BUT, in terms of readability on a display, like the 40" 1920x1080 LCD I'm watching on ... it is quite poor in my opinion. I have a feeling that it would work much better in ink on paper.
33% ink savings sounds pretty good, assuming that the readability on paper is better than a display. That being said, encouraging printer manufacturers to have a more sane approach to refillable ink/toner reservoirs would have a better/bigger impact.
Here in Thailand, where respect for patents / IP is low, (SE Asia is notorious for fake manufactured goods, pirated "soft" media, and hardware hacks / bypasses) I'd guess that around 90% of inkjet printers sold have a tank system glued onto the side with ink lines running into the cartridges from big CYMK reservoirs. I never buy new cartridges unless the print head gets damaged/worn out -- instead, I just buy cheap LARGE bottles of the different ink colors and refill the reservoirs. (Image link of such a setup HERE)
That kind of mod would be a gray or black-market item in the West, but here the laissez-faire attitude about such things has some positive effects. At least, for a consumer (like me), or someone concerned about the environmental impact of all the waste packaging for ink carts (like the dude in this video).
Evolution's shortcoming is Intelligent Design's Downfall
What you posted does nothing to refute the crapiness of the design. Why the recurrent laryngeal nerve give off branches to the cardiac plexus is very simple: The RL nerve is a branch of the Vagus nerve, which is THE source of parasympathetic innervation to the heart. The fact that some fibers may branch off of the Vagus early with the RL nerve and then rejoin the cardiac plexus further along is hardly uprising. That does NOT explain why the nerve fibers that innervates the larynx have to make an unnecessary loop downwards around the aorta.
If there WAS an intelligent designer, he could have easily made those nerve fibers innervating the the larynx split off the Vagus higher up, where the Vagus nerve PASSES BY RIGHT NEXT TO THE LARYNX.
Trying to refute this video by quoting Gray's Anatomy is either a sad misunderstanding of basic scientific concepts or just willful ignorance. Almost as bad as Kirk Cameron and the banana.
They apparently didn't know that that nerve innervates the heart and other chest organs. From Gray's Anatomy:
"As the RL nerve curves around the subclavian artery or the arch of aorta, it gives several cardiac filaments to the deep part of the cardiac plexus. As it ascends in the neck it gives off branches, more numerous on the left than on the right side, to the mucous membrane and muscular coat of the oesophagus; branches to the mucous membrane and muscular fibers of the trachea and some filaments to the inferior constrictor."
And as the lady is separating the nerve from the chest area, she is actually cutting those nerve innervations. Oh, and one more thing. The long nerve does NOTHING to weaken the neck, or the animal itself, as is seen in the following video.
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Evolution's shortcoming is Intelligent Design's Downfall
They apparently didn't know that that nerve innervates the heart and other chest organs. From Gray's Anatomy:
"As the RL nerve curves around the subclavian artery or the arch of aorta, it gives several cardiac filaments to the deep part of the cardiac plexus. As it ascends in the neck it gives off branches, more numerous on the left than on the right side, to the mucous membrane and muscular coat of the oesophagus; branches to the mucous membrane and muscular fibers of the trachea and some filaments to the inferior constrictor."
And as the lady is separating the nerve from the chest area, she is actually cutting those nerve innervations. Oh, and one more thing. The long nerve does NOTHING to weaken the neck, or the animal itself, as is seen in the following video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7HCIGFdBt8
Lunatic fake feminist disturbs the relative peace
Legally, it's probably a fairly gray area with differing rules in different jurisdictions. I imagine most laws would say something about a reasonable threat, although I don't know how "Stand your ground" laws would affect that.
Morally, if someone is "in your personal space" on public property, in theory you would ask them to back off and then call the cops. Violence should be a last resort, and if they persisted, I'd probably just walk away.
Also, the discussion that i was hoping for that never happened: are you allowed to push someone if they're "in your personal space" or something? I can't understand why they're not arrested too.
The REAL Reason You're Circumcised
I've heard reports from several men who had sex before and after and said there was zero difference in sensation.
I circumcised my boys but not at all because of aesthetics, nor to "look like me", and especially not for any kind of religious reason.
We weren't dead-set against leaving them un-cut. In fact, we initially figured we'd just let them be natural.
One reason we decided to go ahead with it is we heard about lots of uncircumcised men have issues that require them to have it done later in life (e.g., phimosis, etc.), but the bigger reason was recent (at that time) studies showed strong evidence that circumcised men are at substantially lower risk for serious life-threatening diseases such as HIV and penile cancer (that results from HPV).
>> Yep, it's fucking barbaric. It is genital mutilation of children, period.
Talk about misinformation from a bunch of barbarians.
It's more barbaric to be completely close-minded, backward-thinking, and ignorant as to why there might possibly exist valid reasons to provide your children an almost 100% chance to avoid a plethora of penis-related problems and life-threatening diseases for their entire life in exchange for what's really a very minor procedure when done soon after birth.
The reasons against it? "It's fucking barbaric." Because... why again? "It just is," I'm sure is the best possible response.
The reasons in favor of it? Don't be so glib. Read the research.
Science Daily from Jan 2010:
American Cancer Society:
Facts like these are "the REAL reasons" my sons are circumcised.
Were you circumcised later in life so you are able to compare sex before and after? If not, then no, you can't say that.
Colbert responds to #CancelColbert
I understand exactly what he's doing. I'm pointing out that it's possible to cross lines, even with racial satire, and that those lines are gray and fuzzy and worthy of our thought, attention, and dialog. You seem to think that when it comes to racial satire, there shouldn't be any lines, whatsoever. That there's always some 100% correct answer to this kind of question, and that answer is "Colbert is righteous".
You're right, my example wouldn't air. Let's say it did though, and there was an uproar from a portion of the black community. Would you still be saying those folks essentially have their panties in a bunch and need to lighten up?
You're missing the point. It should be offensive. If you're not offended by the ching chong foundation, the cotton picking nigger foundation or the actual "Redskins Original Americans" foundation, there is something wrong with you.
And that's the equivalency Colbert was making. He could actually have gone further and made it the cotton picking nigger foundation and the point would have been even stronger, but there's no way that would have been allowed to air.
Colbert responds to #CancelColbert
Man, you Americans with your black and white thinking. Even in these comments its clear that you guys cant even grasp your own simplification of colors and gray shades...
And neither do I for that matter...
REICH - Just Friends
See @dag? The gray sarcasm shadow is not enough! We need a big red banner shouting at us
Joffrey, the yellow haired little shit from Game Of Thrones.
Dude, are you seriously telling me you don't watch the best fantasy show ever made? That's against nature, man. It's just unnatural. Don't.
Did Stephen Hawking just kill the concept of a black hole?
so, we can just call them temporary very-dark-gray-holes.
Can Video Games Make You Smarter? R video games good for U?
As someone who researches the effects of video games on education (primarily on learners of English as another language) I can tell you the empirical research into the topic is not nearly so cut and dried.
There was a lot of hype about the "brain age"-type games when they first came out, some of which this video references, but what we know now is that those types of games only make you "smarter" in the sense that they make you better at solving similar puzzle-types. In other words, the gains you see are really just the effects of practice. The supposed "smartness" does not transfer over to other skill areas. See this link for more info: http://pamkato.com/2013/04/17/do-brain-training-games-work-yes-no-and-maybe/
So basically everything referenced in this video can be explained by "practice" rather than by some special characteristic of the video games themselves (certainly video games make the practice part fun, though). Furthermore, there is pronounced lack of research into whether the benefits such as those reported in this video actually mean anything significant (i.e. whether being able to more concretely differentiate different levels of gray when you are younger actually leads to better vision when you are older compared with non-gamers, whether you retain the ability to read small text as you age better than non-gamers, etc.).
I do believe there are cognitive benefits to ALL kinds of gaming (board games, pen-and-paper RPGs, card games like poker, crossword puzzles, tic-tac-toe, etc.) but based on the empirical evidence so far I'm not convinced there is anything particularly special about video games that leads players to become "smarter" in the sort of general sense that is being suggested here.
Skydivers Escape Two Airplanes in Midair Collision
That's very interesting that NBC _licensed_ the footage. That's damn smart of the skydivers -- they deserve to get money for this. But it does seem like an ethical gray area for the news agencies. Was there a bidding war? Is that common?