Vocab v76
visionary
(especially of a person) thinking about or planning the future with imagination or wisdom. a person with original ideas about what the future will or could be like.
percolate
(of a liquid or gas) filter gradually through a porous surface or substance.
mercenary
(of a person or their behavior) primarily concerned with making money at the expense of ethics. greedy; grasping; money oriented alternative: a professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army.
"Can we kill it? Can we eat it? Can we hump it?" Literally Humans when they find anything new that's alive.
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"If you look for the light, you will often find it. If you look for the darkness, that's all you'll ever see."
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"Love your job, because you can do the same work anywhere. But don't love your company, because you don't know when they will stop loving you."
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"Now, is the shortest moment of our life, its gone in an instant. The longest moments of our lives are our memories and our imaginations"
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"So many things are out of your control in life, but only you get to control and decide how you feel."
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"Sometimes life is like this dark tunnel. You can't always see the light at the end of the tunnel, but if you just keep moving, you will come to a better place."
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After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, 'Science has now known sin.' And do you know what Father said? He said, 'What is sin?' Some invent powerful explosives and some invent new religions and it is hard to say which invention is more dangerous. Well, when it became evident that no governmental or economic reform was going to make the people much less miserable, the religion became the one real instrument of hope. Truth was the enemy of the people, because the truth was so terrible, so Bokonon made it his business to provide the people with better and better lies.
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Aid and programs that benefit poor whites: "Help" Aid and programs that benefit poor minorities: "Handouts" Aid programs that benefit rich people and extremely profitable corporations: "Sound fiscal policy" aka "Job creation"
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All biologists want to be chemists all chemists want to be physicists want to be mathematicians all mathematicians want to be philosophers all philosophers want to be employed.
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Amateurs train until they get it right, pros train until they can't get it wrong. The master has failed more than the student has tried.
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Being a adult snake person who is now older than my parents were when they had their first child it is clear to me that ever generation before us was just shiiting out kids in their early 20s not knowing a fccking thing and creating other streams of consciousness just because they could.
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Being a gifted super-genius doesn't count for much if you just coast on it and marinate in a feeling of being better than other people. Find something to do that intellectually challenges you a little bit, instead of getting stoned, chatting up freshmen, and being the biggest dolphin in the kiddy pool.
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Being a good employee at work and having an agreeable, friendly personality will get you further than being a great employee with a poor personality.
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Being intelligent is being lonely for long periods of time. I have lots of friends and I'm sure they don't feel lonely around me because I can connect on their level, they just can't return the favor.
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Bostrom makes an offhanded reference of the possibility of a dictatorless dystopia, one that every single citizen including the leadership hates but which nevertheless endures unconquered. It's easy enough to imagine such a state. Imagine a country with two rules: first, every person must spend eight hours a day giving themselves strong electric shocks. Second, if anyone fails to follow a rule (including this one), or speaks out against it, or fails to enforce it, all citizens must unite to kill that person. Suppose these rules were well-enough established by tradition that everyone expected them to be enforced. So you shock yourself for eight hours a day, because you know if you don't everyone else will kill you, because if they don't, everyone else will kill them, and so on.
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Capitalism is like "Okay hear me out. What if instead of living in a nice safe world where everyone's basic needs are met, we live in a bad dangerous world where most people can barely feed themselves but two people have like 500 yachts." "And what if we set up and fund an extensive series of think tanks and foundations to influence people, via use of propaganda, into thinking that life is NATURALLY this horrible and it's THEIR fault if the government (and the corporations that actually run the government) fccks them over" See: Multiple comments to this very post, feebly arguing that starvation and inequality are the natural order of things. Anyone who desires a different solution is a fool because "it has always been this way." We should get rid of running water and let all our sewage run along our streets because that's the way cities were for the longest share of their existence so far.
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Comments below the post above: I feel that so much man... I am lucky to have stopped believing when I was 9, but that brought with it loads of other problems. Extreme loneliness, because I literally thought I was the only human that was incapable of believing in a God. Homeschooled. Held a knife pointing into my throat for an hour that year. I decided not to kill myself because I thought my rabbit would miss me; not my parents, not my siblings, not any other extended family, because they all seemed to be emotionless. My rabbit was the realest of them all. Then add undiagnosed Adhd to the mix because they didn't think it was real, even though I asked several times for help with it when I was in 9th and 10th grade. Then I start failing college, thinking about dropping out. They see me feeling really sad because of my grades, so they assume I have depression and bring me to a psychiatrist. And then I walked out with a prescription for Adderall. It's sad when you can look back and finally understand that you as a child weren't actually wrong, and you as an adult are wiser than any of the adults you were surrounded by as a child. You really do get it. I know you. Mormonism cult for me. You? Christianity cult for me. Went on a missions trip to Guatemala once, we basically just took jobs from local workers while helping to lay the foundation for a church in a town that already had a church. You know what that town didn't have? Running water. So why the fcck are we building a second church? If we're going to be taking jobs by working for free, why weren't we helping with something useful, like, idk, a water system? Nationalists will complain about immigrants taking all the jobs and doing them for cheap whilst missionaries go to struggling countries and take the jobs for free. Exactly, it's disgusting. And when large companies do massive donations to developing countries, it has a similar effect. Kill their local upcoming shoe companies by flooding the market with free shoes. Crush competition from developing in third world countries. If any company really wants to help, they'd focus on fixing the environment so that developing countries have the capability to rise up on their own. As it stands, a large chunk of Africa is impoverished and starving, because the farmable land is rapidly decreasing while the population is increasing. Fixing the environment is literally the only way to help those countries, donations only cushion their fall.
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Drill sergeant: PRIVATE! I didn't see you at camouflage drills today!! Private: Thank you, sir!
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Dude get off your high horse. I also believe true intelligence comes not from the information you have but how you can use what you know to synthesize new theories/concepts etc. He did not berate you, he simply corrected a misunderstanding in a normal and appropriate way. Some people don't like light conversation. They find it boring and non stimulating. It's fine for you to like whatever you like, but that doesn't mean that someone who dislikes what you like, or simply likes different things, is wrong. One could argue that a lack of interest is a lack of curiosity, and curiosity pretty much goes hand-in-hand with intelligence. Why wouldn't you want to learn about stuff?
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I do underestimate people. I know this because I'm always taken off guard by an intelligent person, like I was expecting less. I'm so consistently under-stimulated by people that it's hard not to. Get bitten by enough dogs and you'll start assuming they'll all bite you. I do things to challenge myself, like reading, writing, university, etc. My problem isn't so much a lack of stimulating activities, but stimulating people. I want to just sit and riff with people about dualism or the state of the world the way people talk about TV shows and sports. I want the same things everyone else does, just ramped up a notch. I try and network with like-minded people, but they're few and far between and usually busy. I hate being the big fish in a small pond. I'm a writer, which is a vow of solitude. I started my degree to branch out and hopefully it will pay off. Thanks for replying, man. I need to be grounded now and then.
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I went to a beekeeper to get 12 bees. He counted and gave me 13. "Sir, you gave me an extra." That's a freebie.
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I wouldn't say I'm the smartest, but I definitely don't understand why people don't get the simplest of shit. I am by no means very smart. I am honestly probably only a few notches above an idiot. But there are a lot, and I mean all the time, of situations where people have a problem, and it just seems so obvious to me, and they just don't get it. And i have to like, write it down on paper, step by step for them to understand. For being as dumb as I am, (and it's no joke, I am really not an intelligent person), I am still, very frequently let down by the lack of problem solving capabilities of other people.
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If you have so many prisoners that you have to deny them the right to vote because they would significantly impact election results, the main substantive problem is that you live in a police state.
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If you're stuck on an annoying call, put your phone on airplane mode instead of just hanging up. The other person will see "call failed" instead of "call ended"
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In 2015 a Harvard-University of London study, the first ever systematic comparison of British and American smiles, concluded that US citizens don't have better teeth - in fact they were likely to be sporting a few more gaps. Today the average American is missing 7.31 teeth, significantly higher than the British figure of 6.97, but in Britain, while it's older generations that usually have the worst teeth, stateside those most likely to have no teeth are working-age adults.
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In what historical time or place did the average person have as much spare time and freedom as today? Let's see... pre-contact Oregon/Washington around the Columbia River Gorge had such an abundance of salmon and mild climate that they developed a number of gambling games to spend their time and salmon (up through only a couple hundred years ago). A lot of tropical environments have fostered cultures where the number of hours "worked" per day/week were remarkably low and afforded a lot of time for cultural endeavors (art, music, etc.) - some still do. Even serfdom left peasants a lot of spare time in the winter when it wasn't farming time. Look at the cave art from 10,000+ years ago. People don't paint caves if they don't have free time. Sure, there's a lot of nice comfort-based improvements these days (I love my toilet, shower, washing machine, dryer, etc.) but a lot of ways of living have lots of comfort and lots of leisure time. ____________ When I was in Dominica, a local guy told me that much of the American idea of "poverty" didn't really apply there ... There's little money to be had, true, but the island is so lush that food grows abundantly with barely any cultivation required. When someone's hungry, they can just walk up to a fruit tree and eat. And since they never really have to worry about working for their next meal, a lot of Dominicans see nothing wrong with simply enjoying their lives however they see fit, as long as they're not harming anyone else. Honestly, I don't see anything wrong with it either.
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Intelligence isn't about what you know, it's about what you can do with that knowledge. It's about abstract connections you make between concepts.
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It's 2036. Your mom was an e girl with an onlyfans and your dad is a sadboi guitarist. 98% of the Caucasian male students in school are named Aiden. Every afternoon you come home to check on Mom because she still thinks posting memes about wanting to die are in. She sees you pull out your homework and you sigh. "No, mom. I don't want to listen to Lo-Fi beats to study and relax to." She looks mildly disappointed but perks up again. "No horror trap/witch house either," you interrupt. SadDad walks in and pats you on the back, but not before saying "Aye, fam. You look a little upset, u wanna go get a face tat?"
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It's pretty interesting how we got this conception of time, too. You can blame the Industrial era and/or capitalism for that. In the times where the means of production were in the hands of individuals, one would wake up when he wanted, work when he wanted, rest when he wanted, and sleep when wanted. Of course, there were limitations like deadlines, weather (for farmers), etc., but overall one received money for his work regardless of how long he took to make it. As long as an artisan or farmer did enough to make a living and get by, there was no reason to do more. For the majority of human history time was not money; you didn't really need to know what hour it was, just what general time of day. But that changed quickly. It's a fascinating effect of the way history has developed, and someone with more expertise than me can explain exactly how our perception of time changed, but it has its roots in the commercial revolution, industrialization, and globalization. People set times now to the hour and to the minute. The drive to maximize efficiency is a totally new development in human thought, and, while it has played a part in the vast growth of human production, sometimes I wonder what it's taken away from us.
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Judge and you shall be judged. Condemn and you will be condemned. Forgive and you shall be forgiven.
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Nootropics don't make you better at things, they make you think you're better at things.
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People just need to eat more, and there you go world hunger FIXED!
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Programming is yelling at a computer what to do in a made-up cyberlanguage and the computer ignoring what you said because you missed a comma.
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Rust is iron oxide, meaning that each iron atom (Fe) has bonded with the surrounding atoms of oxygen (O), giving Fe2O3. It is possible to decompose these bonds by applying heat, but this won't give the pure metal, it will simply give a mixture of very hot Fe and O. As soon as it cools the rust will re-form. In order to actually produce the metal you need to give the oxygen somewhere to go - somewhere it would rather be than in Fe2O3. One of the most preferred states for oxygen is being bonded to carbon, as carbon dioxide aka CO2. So we just provide some pure carbon as we heat up the rust, and we get carbon dioxide and pure iron: 2Fe2O3 + 3C => 2Fe + 3CO2. The pure carbon is provided in the form of purified coal called "coke". This is where pretty much all the iron and steel in the world come from. You never find pure iron in the ground - when you need iron, you mine for rust. ___________ I should add that smelting doesn't just mean melting. In order to actually break up the metal oxide or metal sulfide in the ore, you'll need a chemical catalyst as well. The catalyst steals the oxygen, because it has a higher binding energy at high temperatures, leaving a slag and a pure metal. For a metal like hematite (iron oxide), I believe carbon is a popular catalyst.
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Sharks don't know camels exist. I worked at a large enclosure zoo/nature park. The giraffes in "Africa" wandered to an unexplored area and peered over into "Asia." The Indian rhinos sincerely looked awe-struck.
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Tasmanian Devils have a form of skin cancer that they transmit through biting each other. They are going to go extinct in the wild because they like to bite each other a lot.
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That people around you will always try to convince you that things are way too hard, that certain goals are impossible, that it is ok to be slacky and be "average". Truth is, the ones who really make it are the ones who truly believe in it, and stick to it. Ignore pessimists, surround yourself with optimists.
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That, I think, means to be truly alive. "The unexamined life is not worth living," said Socrates. The modern version is maybe this: The person that lives solely in emotions and information from the outside, the person that never pulls itself out of this messy reality and gives itself over to a mental spa, a time of healing and processing, a time of reflecting, feeling, thinking, seeing, worrying, planning, smiling, that person doesn't live. Take a walk. Leave the iPod and your phone at home. Find some trees or a place with a nice view. It's even okay if you just lie down on the couch or stand in the shower or sit at your desk, with your eyes looking past the screen. Just be you, for a moment. And then watch, carefully, without judgement, all those things that happen in your mind while you "do nothing."
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The answer is always important. Human kind progresses by asking questions, answering them, then asking new questions based on those answers.
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The most maddening part of being a liberal is that you're essentially fighting against people you're trying to help. The shit we're advocating would literally benefit all the yahoo MAGA hats out there by giving them higher wages, better health care, keep them alive during a pandemic, and give them a social safety net for when things go south while making sure in 50 years their children and grandchildren still have a livable planet. I think part of it is a refusal to accept that most of them will never be rich. So when you attack the rich, they see it as "you're making it so that I'll never get there!" And not understanding that, because of the rich class, they will never be there in the first place. The least you could do is accept a better life than what you have now. We could all be upper middle class, if we just stopped allowing the top 1% to exist.
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The popularity of C. caperatus across Europe has led to safety concerns related to its propensity to accumulate contaminants.[34] Fungi are very efficient at absorbing radioactive isotopes of caesium from the soil and naturally have trace amounts of the element. Caesium may take the place of potassium, which exists in high concentrations in mushrooms.[33] C. caperatus bioaccumulates radioactive caesium 137Cs—a product of nuclear testing—much more than many other mushroom species. Levels dramatically rose after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. This is a potential health issue as picking and eating wild mushrooms is a popular pastime in central and eastern Europe. Elevated 137Cs levels were also found in ruminants that eat mushrooms in Scandinavia in the 1990s.[35] Mushrooms from Reggio Emilia in Italy were found to have raised levels of 134Cs.[33] C. caperatus from various sites across Poland has also been found to contain increased levels of mercury.
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The problem with democracy: those who need leaders are not qualified to choose them.
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The world doesn't owe you anything. Sometimes you can do everything right but still not make it.
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Thread about healthcare: Wow I'm so sorry, I'm in the Uk and can't imagine having to go though this. I'm living pay check to pay check and that's hard enough without having to worry about health care. We're so lucky ____ No kidding. Canadian here and I'm reading this thread with my jaw on the floor. Imagine being sick and thinking "well I could go to the hospital or I could eat for the rest of the year"... Insane...
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We aren't meant to live like this... Work is good, but to work hard on work worth doing is the point.. not this endless wage-slavery only to make the overlords more powerful as we grow weaker and more dependent on their handouts, because they refuse to pay a living wage.
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We need an elon musk of the nuclear industry.
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When something new turned up and we'd ask my dad where it came from his reply was always "stole it from a blind man down on the corner."
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When you're wearing rose colored glasses, the red flags just look like flags.
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You believe diversity means more than skin tone, gender, and sexual identity. You believe a diverse society is one where different ideas are allowed and even encouraged to co-exist. They might squabble once and a while, and that's okay, because that's how consensus is reached between parties with different goals. But these private school kids, they don't like that idea. They won't leave you alone until you embrace their ideas, adopt their lifestyle, and share their vision for the future—a future that has no room for the person you are or the community to which you belong.
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You can be going along, enjoying your life thinking you've got it all figured out, and boom, in a matter of minutes it can all go to hell, and everything you believed to be true, and the future you imagined for yourself will be gone. And just because you do everything right, doesn't necessarily mean you get what you want.
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Skinner box
A Skinner box, also known as an operant conditioning chamber, is an enclosed apparatus that contains a bar or key that an animal can press or manipulate in order to obtain food or water as a type of reinforcement.
T cell
A T cell is a type of lymphocyte, which develops in the thymus gland (hence the name) and plays a central role in the immune response. T cells can be distinguished from other lymphocytes by the presence of a T-cell receptor on the cell surface. These immune cells originate as precursor cells, derived from bone marrow,[1] and develop into several distinct types of T cells once they have migrated to the thymus gland. T cell differentiation continues even after they have left the thymus.
Craton
A craton is an old and stable part of the continental lithosphere, which consists of Earth's two topmost layers, the crust and the uppermost mantle. Having often survived cycles of merging and rifting of continents, cratons are generally found in the interiors of tectonic plates; the exceptions occur where geologically recent rifting events have separated cratons and created passive margins along their edges. They are characteristically composed of ancient crystalline basement rock, which may be covered by younger sedimentary rock. They have a thick crust and deep lithospheric roots that extend as much as several hundred kilometres into Earth's mantle. The term craton is used to distinguish the stable portion of the continental crust from regions that are more geologically active and unstable. Cratons can be described as shields, in which the basement rock crops out at the surface, and platforms, in which the basement is overlaid by sediments and sedimentary rock.
Reverse transcriptase
A reverse transcriptase (RT) is an enzyme used to generate complementary DNA (cDNA) from an RNA template, a process termed reverse transcription. Reverse transcriptases are used by certain viruses such as HIV and the hepatitis B virus to replicate their genomes, by retrotransposon mobile genetic elements to proliferate within the host genome, and by eukaryotic cells to extend the telomeres at the ends of their linear chromosomes. The process is notable for violating the linear flow of genetic information as described by the classical central dogma.
ASIC
Application Specific Integrated Circuit e.g. a crpyto mining rig
When Picasso died?
Born: October 25, 1881, Málaga, Spain Died: April 8, 1973, Mougins, France
Hallways weren't widely used until the 1800s. Rooms would just open into the next room.
Despite being a normal feature of many modern buildings, corridors did not become common until the late-17th century, and were only first used widely in the 19th century. Prior to the use of corridors as a means of circulation, people would simply flow from one room into the next.
Vector-Borne Disease
Disease that results from an infection transmitted to humans and other animals by blood-feeding anthropods, such as mosquitoes, ticks, and fleas. Examples of vector-borne diseases include Dengue fever, West Nile Virus, Lyme disease, and malaria.
what countries are in the UK?
England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland The United Kingdom, made up of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, is an island nation in northwestern Europe. England - birthplace of Shakespeare and The Beatles - is home to the capital, London, a globally influential centre of finance and culture. England is also site of Neolithic Stonehenge, Bath's Roman spa and centuries-old universities at Oxford and Cambridge.
can you convert protein to glucose?
Excess amino acids must be converted into other storage products or oxidized as fuel. Therefore, in theory, the excess ingested protein could, through the process of gluconeogenesis, produce glucose. This would mean that 100 g of protein could produce ~50 g of glucose. Gluconeogenesis (GNG) is a metabolic pathway that results in the generation of glucose from certain non-carbohydrate carbon substrates. It is a ubiquitous process, present in plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, and other microorganisms.[1] In vertebrates, gluconeogenesis takes place mainly in the liver and, to a lesser extent, in the cortex of the kidneys. It is one of two primary mechanisms - the other being degradation of glycogen (glycogenolysis) - used by humans and many other animals to maintain blood glucose levels, avoiding low levels (hypoglycemia).[2] In ruminants, because dietary carbohydrates tend to be metabolized by rumen organisms, gluconeogenesis occurs regardless of fasting, low-carbohydrate diets, exercise, etc.[3] In many other animals, the process occurs during periods of fasting, starvation, low-carbohydrate diets, or intense exercise. In humans, substrates for gluconeogenesis may come from any non-carbohydrate sources that can be converted to pyruvate or intermediates of glycolysis (see figure). For the breakdown of proteins, these substrates include glucogenic amino acids (although not ketogenic amino acids); from breakdown of lipids (such as triglycerides), they include glycerol, odd-chain fatty acids (although not even-chain fatty acids, see below); and from other parts of metabolism they include lactate from the Cori cycle. Under conditions of prolonged fasting, acetone derived from ketone bodies can also serve as a substrate, providing a pathway from fatty acids to glucose.[4] Although most gluconeogenesis occurs in the liver, the relative contribution of gluconeogenesis by the kidney is increased in diabetes and prolonged fasting.[5]
If you hate your job, why not look for a different one?
Good pay, good hours, wouldn't like the next one anyways. Then what sucks about it? Having a schedule and not choosing what I do everyday. Look I'm not complaining, or saying anything should be different. I'm a lucky person with a good job. I simply don't like working. _______ This is probably me.
People with religious extremist parents... What was it like growing up?
I lack sentiment in any form and I'm almost entirely incapable of love. If somebody hurts me, I automatically sever our relationship in my head and it's like I never knew them. I grew up incredibly vulnerable to conspiracy theories because facts didn't matter. I grew up with no sense of empathy because the church told me what and how to feel about all things. I grew up with no self-confidence because I was expected to be perfect and could not be. I grew up with extreme self loathing because if I wasn't happy it's because I wasn't close enough to god. Depression was my own fault because I wasn't close enough to god. Illness was my own fault, because I wasn't close enough to god. If I have financial pain it's because I'm not close enough to god. Now that I'm almost thirty I've left that cesspool of lies and am learning how to be a human who feels empathy, sees facts, and is capable of love.
Involute math
In mathematics, an involute (also known as an evolvent) is a particular type of curve that is dependent on another shape or curve. An involute of a curve is the locus of a point on a piece of taut string as the string is either unwrapped from or wrapped around the curve.[1]
We won the war against coronavirus the same way we won the war against Vietnam. It got too expensive so we pretended that it was over.
In terms of daily death counts, we're reaching "9/11 happening every day" territory. 10/22/20: Globally we have 2 9/11's per day
Kālua
Kālua is a traditional Hawaiian cooking method that utilizes an imu, a type of underground oven. The word "kālua" may also be used to describe the food cooked in this manner, such as kālua pig or kālua turkey, which are commonly served at lūʻau feasts.
Full disclosure: I work in the health care industry in a non-clinical capacity. So behind the scenes, with outsourced tests and lab work, companies essentially lobby doctors to use their services and products, just like pharmaceutical companies. Because this test is pretty specific it isn't done by Qwest or other labs that process basic diagnostic lab work and there are fewer labs that do it, so options are limited. My provider chooses to work with three labs that offer this test, and will do the blood work in house then send it off to one of those three companies.
Lobbying for running tests. This is a new one.
Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu is an Incan citadel set high in the Andes Mountains in Peru, above the Urubamba River valley. Built in the 15th century and later abandoned, it's renowned for its sophisticated dry-stone walls that fuse huge blocks without the use of mortar, intriguing buildings that play on astronomical alignments and panoramic views. Its exact former use remains a mystery.
does touching a baby bird make the mother abandon it?
Most of the birds people find are fledglings. ... Don't worry—parent birds do not recognize their young by smell. They will not abandon a baby if it has been touched by humans." So leave the cute ones alone, and put the little ratty-looking ones back in the nest.
Nucleocytoviricota (NCLDV)
Nucleocytoviricota is a phylum of viruses.[2] Members of the phylum are also known as the nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses (NCLDV), which serves as the basis of the name of the phlyum with the suffix -viricota for virus phylum. These viruses are referred to as nucleocytoplasmic because they are often able to replicate in both the host's cell nucleus and cytoplasm.[3] The phylum is notable for containing the giant viruses.[4][1] There are nine families of NCLDVs that all share certain genomic and structural characteristics; however, it is uncertain whether the similarities of the different families of this group have a common viral ancestor.[5] One feature of this group is a large genome and the presence of many genes involved in DNA repair, DNA replication, transcription, and translation. Typically, viruses with smaller genomes do not contain genes for these processes. Most of the viruses in this family also replicate in both the host's nucleus and cytoplasm, thus the name nucleocytoplasmic. There are 47 NCLDV core genes currently recognised. These include four key proteins involved in DNA replication and repair: the enzymes DNA polymerase family B, the topoisomerase II A, the FLAP endonuclease and the processing factor proliferating cell nuclear antigen. Other proteins include DNA dependent RNA polymerase II and transcription factor II B. Includes mimivirus
how fast does the sun rotate? miles/second
Our sun: 1.241 miles/s Pulsars are neutron stars that rotate, are highly magnetic and emit a strong perpendicular beam of electromagnetic radiation. This pulsar's speed is such that: At its equator it is spinning at approximately 24% of the speed of light, or over 70,000 km per second.
Post-traumatic growth
Posttraumatic growth or benefit finding is positive psychological change experienced as a result of adversity and other challenges in order to rise to a higher level of functioning
What are you addicted to?
Short term pleasure. I not only procrastinate, but I also eat quickly, crunch hard candy, and drink sodas really fast. Short term pleasure addiction kinda sucks.
Myth: Homeless people don't want jobs. Fact: Nobody wants a job. Myth: It's expensive to house the homeless. Fact: Our prison system is quite profitable. Myth: The homeless spend their money on drugs and alcohol. Fact: You also do that.
Statistics from the U.S. Department of Justice show that, as of 2013, there were 133,000 state and federal prisoners housed in privately owned prisons in the U.S., constituting 8.4% of the overall U.S. prison population. The prison industry as a whole took in over $5 billion in revenue in 2011.
Steganography
Steganography is the technique of hiding secret data within an ordinary, non-secret, file or message in order to avoid detection; the secret data is then extracted at its destination. The use of steganography can be combined with encryption as an extra step for hiding or protecting data.
Cori cycle
The Cori cycle (also known as the lactic acid cycle) is a metabolic pathway in which lactate produced by anaerobic glycolysis in muscles is transported to the liver and converted to glucose, which then returns to the muscles and is cyclically metabolized back to lactate. Muscular activity requires ATP, which is provided by the breakdown of glycogen in the skeletal muscles. The breakdown of glycogen, known as glycogenolysis, releases glucose in the form of glucose 1-phosphate (G1P). The G1P is converted to G6P by phosphoglucomutase. G6P is readily fed into glycolysis, (or can go into the pentose phosphate pathway if G6P concentration is high) a process that provides ATP to the muscle cells as an energy source. During muscular activity, the store of ATP needs to be constantly replenished. When the supply of oxygen is sufficient, this energy comes from feeding pyruvate, one product of glycolysis, into the citric acid cycle, which ultimately generates ATP through oxygen-dependent oxidative phosphorylation.
name of a group of flamingos
The collective noun to describe a gathering of flamingos is "flamboyance," an appropriate term for these colorfully-feathered creatures. They flock together by the thousands on salt flats, lagoons, lakes, and swamps around the world, where they can filter-feed for shrimp, algae, and insects.
when was high five invented?
The first-ever high five appears to have happened in 1977, during a baseball game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Houston Astros. After a home run, Dodgers outfielder Dusty Baker high-fived his teammate, Glenn Burke.
how many strains of HIV are there?
The group has nine named strains: A, B, C, D, F, G, H, J, and K. Some of these have sub-strains. Researchers find new strains all the time as they learn more about HIV-1 group M. The B strain is the most common in the U.S. Worldwide, the most common HIV strain is C. AIDS is caused by HIV.
humanities
The humanities include the study of ancient and modern languages, literature, philosophy, history, archaeology, anthropology, human geography, law, politics, religion, and art. Scholars in the humanities are "humanity scholars" or humanists.
Involute nuclear reactor
The reactor core is cylindrical, approximately 2 ft (0.61 m) high and 15 inches (380 mm) in diameter. A 5-in. (12.70-cm)-diameter hole, referred to as the "flux trap," forms the center of the core. The target is typically loaded with curium-244 and other transplutonium isotopes and is positioned on the reactor vertical axis within the flux trap. The fuel region is composed of two concentric fuel elements. The inner element contains 171 fuel plates, and the outer element contains 369 fuel plates. The fuel plates are curved in the shape of an involute, thus providing a constant coolant channel width. The fuel (93% U235 enriched U3O8-Al cermet[4] pg.22) is non-uniformly distributed along the arc of the involute to minimize the radial peak-to-average power density ratio. A burnable poison (boron-10) is included in the inner fuel element primarily to flatten the radial flux peak providing a longer cycle for each fuel element. The average core lifetime with typical experiment loading is approximately 23 days at 85 MW.
does pressure affect viscosity?
Viscosity is normally independent of pressure, but liquids under extreme pressure often experience an increase in viscosity. Since liquids are normally incompressible, an increase in pressure doesn't really bring the molecules significantly closer together.
ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)
a code for representing English characters as numbers, with each letter assigned a number from 0 to 127 industry standard encoding for english keyboards ASCII was developed from telegraph code. Its first commercial use was as a seven-bit teleprinter code promoted by Bell data services. Work on the ASCII standard began on October 6, 1960, with the first meeting of the American Standards Association's (ASA) (now the American National Standards Institute or ANSI) X3.2 subcommittee. The first edition of the standard was published in 1963,[4][5] underwent a major revision during 1967,[6][7] and experienced its most recent update during 1986.[8] Compared to earlier telegraph codes, the proposed Bell code and ASCII were both ordered for more convenient sorting (i.e., alphabetization) of lists, and added features for devices other than teleprinters.[citation needed] Originally based on the English alphabet, ASCII encodes 128 specified characters into seven-bit integers as shown by the ASCII chart above.[11] Ninety-five of the encoded characters are printable: these include the digits 0 to 9, lowercase letters a to z, uppercase letters A to Z, and punctuation symbols. In addition, the original ASCII specification included 33 non-printing control codes which originated with Teletype machines; most of these are now obsolete,[12] although a few are still commonly used, such as the carriage return, line feed and tab codes. For example, lowercase i would be represented in the ASCII encoding by binary 1101001 = hexadecimal 69 (i is the ninth letter) = decimal 105.
apologia
a forensic speech that makes a defense against an accusation a formal written defense of one's opinions or conduct.
apostate
a person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle.
sentiment
a view of or attitude toward a situation or event; an opinion. "I agree with your sentiments regarding the road bridge"
constructivism
a view which admits as valid only constructive proofs and entities demonstrable by them, implying that the latter have no independent existence. In the philosophy of mathematics, constructivism asserts that it is necessary to find (or "construct") a mathematical object to prove that it exists. In classical mathematics, one can prove the existence of a mathematical object without "finding" that object explicitly, by assuming its non-existence and then deriving a contradiction from that assumption. This proof by contradiction is not constructively valid. The constructive viewpoint involves a verificational interpretation of the existential quantifier, which is at odds with its classical interpretation.
prophylaxis
action taken to prevent disease, especially by specified means or against a specified disease.
Cult of complacency
boomers
serene
calm, peaceful, and untroubled; tranquil.
scrying
foretell the future using a crystal ball or other reflective object or surface.
invectives
insulting, abusive, or highly critical language
good riddance
said to express relief at being free of a troublesome or unwanted person or thing.
"it's broke with a capital F"
say when something is completely f'd
intractable
stubborn; obstinate; hard to move forward hard to control or deal with
Nepotism
the practice among those with power or influence of favoring relatives or friends, especially by giving them jobs.
bibliography
the written list of all the books used in a report or book
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