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The country could use more of those too.
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Just don't eat fungi. Problem solved.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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At the foot of moss-covered trees in the mountains of Taiwan and mainland Japan, as well as within the subtropical forests of Okinawa, an unusual organism emerges from the forest floor. It is often mistaken for a mushroom, yet it is actually a rare flowering plant that produces some of the smallest flowers and seeds known to science.
This plant, Balanophora, lacks chlorophyll and cannot carry out photosynthesis. It also has no true roots to draw water or nutrients from the soil. Instead, it survives by attaching itself to the roots of particular tree species and living entirely as a parasite. In some species and populations, seed production occurs without fertilization, a reproductive strategy that is exceptionally uncommon among plants.
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a little philosophy to start the day:
"Ask any philosopher what scepticism is, and you will receive as many different answers as people you’ve asked. Some of them take it to be showing that we cannot have any knowledge – of, say, the external world – and some of them take it to be even more radical in showing that we cannot have any reasonable beliefs. In the interests of getting a handle on the varieties of scepticism, one can locate four different milestones of sceptical thought in the history of Western philosophy. These four milestones start with the least threatening of them, Pyrrhonian skepticism, and continue by Cartesian and Kantian scepticisms to the Wittgensteinian moment in which even our intention to act is put in question."
more here:https://aeon.co/essays/four-scepticisms-what-we-can-know-about-what-we-cant-know
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I don't buy it. Not any of it.
That may or may not be scepticism.
"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis5 -
A recent study published in Molecular Nutrition & Food ResearchTrusted Source found that orange juice broadly affected genes involved in physiological activity related to heart health, inhibiting unwanted processes and promoting beneficial ones.
Orange juice dampened — or downregulated — hypertension (high blood pressure) genes. Hypertension can lead to stroke, heart attacks, and heart failure.
It did the same for inflammatory genes. Inflammation can lead to cardiac events by constricting and damaging blood vessels, as well as promoting the formation of dangerous plaque buildup.
At the same time, orange juice upregulated – promoted – the activity of genes responsible for metabolizing fat, helping the body process and store it more efficiently.
The study also found two body-type-dependent effects. Fat metabolism was particularly optimized by orange juice in people with overweight. People of normal weight saw a greater reduction in systemic inflammation.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/orange-juice-could-help-support-heart-health
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The Dollar Is Facing an End to Its Dominance
Questions around the reliability of the US greenback are dulling the luster of what was the world’s currency of trade. New, global alternatives are emerging.https://www.wired.com/story/the-dollar-is-facing-an-end-to-its-dominance/
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I started listening to the audio book of Dungeon Crawler Carl. It's stupid. It's fun. I'm oddly obsessed.
"Cooking isn't about struggling; It's about pleasure. It's like sǝx, with a wider variety of sauces."
At any given time the urge to sing "In The Jungle" is just a whim away... A whim away... A whim away...0 -
about DUT-60, it has an accessible internal surface area of 7,839 square meters per gram
https://www.rdworldonline.com/new-world-record-material-is-more-precious-than-diamonds/
The framework of DUT-60 holds a pore volume of 5.02 cm3g-1 – the highest specific pore volume one has ever measured among all crystalline framework materials so far.2
