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Memory is sometimes so odd. A couple of months ago I read a book about Wally Herbert's epic 464-day dog-sled crossing of the Arctic Ocean, Alaska to...

Is that not how you brown rice?

Yes, the evidence seems to support the "old friends" hypothesis (rather than the "hygiene hypothesis"), it's now said. We may be depriving children...

Crew-2 Scrubbed: downrange weather Date: April 23 (Friday) Time: 0549 Eastern https://twitter.com/Commercial_Crew/status/1384832941172289536

I do not know if there is scientific evidence for this idea, but I have heard people advocate getting pets and having your kids play outdoors more...

So the orbit is planned to be near the upcoming Chinese large modular space station? I have also seen it translated as 'Heavenly Cruiser', so...

Sorry, for some reason I missed this post. As Trebuchet correctly pointed out, the vegetable is Okra, called Lady's fingers in S.E Asia and in...

But William Brazel won't be there to witness it.:rolleyes:

I was quoting from the WP article I found to refresh Poisson which I learned about a long time ago and used in various engineering sampling projects....

We once started a fire-in-a-pan with brown rice that had boiled dry.

I don't have any problem with the assumption that the events are unrelated in the particular context. My issue is the use of the word "random" to...

Well, the house wasn't actually on fire, but the stove had burned the heck out of what was in the pot.

Was able to schedule Graham's appointment for Friday. My best friend got her first shot yesterday. In six weeks, since her partner's already had...

My family has a variety of allergies; foods, medications, latex, even a certain laundry detergent. But each individual has a different set of...

I read books on my phone. They frequently have mistakes in them due to having been scanned and OCR'd from paper.

That's okra. Years ago, a co-worker of mine brought his soup from the cafeteria back to eat at his desk. He was from Arizona, and complained that...

"China is developing plans for a 13,000-satellite megaconstellation" ...

What is your work experience, if any, that you believe has led to your radiation conclusions?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_distribution Well when I studied statistics I was content with a probability of NP and by trials I mean...

Lactose tolerance is especially found in those peoples who migrated northwards into colder climes and survival was improved by the keeping of sheep...

Science means being constantly surprised.

The alleles that can cause the body to make more lactase enzyme (there are several varieties) might have occurred many times in human existence but...

Yes, we know. People have referred to that limitation in-thread a couple of times. I first brought it up, supported by a reference, in post #8. It's...

Yes, the thing that has a genetic component is called atopy, the proclivity to develop allergic diseases. The word is a useful search term. Its...

Every aspect of this problem I've explored with you, I've caught you out in a fundamental gap or misapprehension in your knowledge--rocketry, orbital...

How quaint, your googling relies on the abstract from the journal and you have misinterpreted the article accordingly. The article itself points to...

Yes, as NCN wrote, lactose intolerance is not an allergy. It’s actually normal, and rather lactose tolerance is a trait unique to humans, and...