13 is: can’t afford wide screen, can get another small screen from stores

5 is so much office work, one portrait for reading, one landscape for everything else

The spider was using the loo, standing on the seat with its feet arrayed around the entire circumference of the toilet seat

“unbreakable” unless you follow any of several guides. The new method which doesn’t use TNT is easier

As a person who eats only meat if you eat protein but avoid fat you’ll feel crap because you’ll have no energy except for your own body fat

Shit wouldn’t be difficult to pass, it would be rare and disappointingly small. Loads of us, including me, go very high protein at the start of a very low carb diet to burn excess body fat, so I know how it is

Once you add fat you might shit every few days and it’s so easy that the pile of crap you leave in the toilet is surprising, as it feels like you passed nearly nothing

There’s not much science on this, just one from the middle of the 20th century where they were trying to treat constipation with diet, testing the new idea that fibre might work

They found more fibre made more constipation, those prescribed no fibre had the least constipation

Not wet enough to be clams

Imagine socialised science or well funded theoretical physics. Why can’t other science be like that, where one can dedicate themselves to doing science, instead of seeking money with which to do the science

They’re not making anything better for the world, just for some individuals

I think you are mistaken. People who want children often want their own children; people who want a lot of children want children theirs or others

Got to be a velociraptor to fit both in the plane. No idea if they know how to read a radar and select targets for the AIM-54 phoenixs

At least the censorship on this one is anti robot rather than anti people

It even looks a little like a botched underline under the fun words

You’re referring to quantum effects? Don’t worry about whether you’re not watching, the universe is watching. If one photon is emitted from the thing in a quantum state and hits anything, that’s the observation

That’s medicine. Science just sees it as a problem to be sorted by good study design and statistics

Most people believe red painkillers work better than other colours. Because of that when painkillers are tested, red ones work better (and red placebos also). You might find the placebo effect of red painkillers effective

IPA usually means “fruity flavour” now. IPAs haven’t been bitter in the last few years, much to my disappointment; I really like old style IPA.

Old style IPA also is good but it’s nothing like what IPA means now

IPA used to (and still does in some places and to some people) high alcohol (6 to 8%), low malt flavour, very bitter, no hop flavour

It was made for export to India (hence the name) in the age of sail, they believed the hop bitters and alcohol would make it last long enough for the 3 month trip plus however long it took to be sold.

Wheat was the first farmed plant, about 10k years ago, at least the first we can see in the archaeological record. I shouldn’t have said “bread” as that was at least hundreds of years later

I’m not sure whether the Nile region invented bread before they exported farming

Thanks for the long reply, it’s been an enjoyable conversation, even if we didn’t convince each other :)

When humanity discovered bread it made their heads and brains smaller. We all need dental work because of bread - our heads are too small for our teeth.

Wouldn’t they do it like birds?