Mirabilis @mirabilis@octodon.social
The Reformation transformed the aristocracy from warriors to bureaucrats
http://sciencenordic.com/reformation-transformed-aristocracy-warriors-bureaucrats
How Neolithic farming sowed the seeds of modern inequality 10,000 years ago
#inequality #history #agriculture #farming #neolithic #paleolithic #agriculturalrevolution
"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" is really a story about how harassers/abusers suddenly turn "nice" when they want something from you.
A website I have loved just announced that it is shutting down its forum, and moving the discussion to #Facebook. Sigh.
Well, I guess that's the end of my relationship with that site.
Study finds reading information aloud to yourself improves memory
"...the study determined that it is the dual action of speaking and hearing oneself that has the most beneficial impact on memory."
https://uwaterloo.ca/news/news/study-finds-reading-information-aloud-yourself-improves
Explorers find massive ice-age cavern beneath Montreal
"Cathedral-like chamber, formed more than 15,000 years ago, features underground lake"
http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/montreal/montreal-underground-passage-1.4428833
Mastodon doesn't use smart algorithms to fill my feed with 'interesting content' and yet I find more interesting things here than on twitter.
Note to twitter: Keep It Simple, Stupid.
Do you ever wish you could make one toot disappear from your sight? Like when a person whose content you normally like posts a lecture / rant that is just annoying.
I wish for this a lot.
Have lurched from one cooking mistake to another, yet somehow wound up wth a delicious thing.
At each step, I was just trying to fix the previous screw-up.
So now I have a weird recipe that nobody is going to believe.
Will make again.
I blew it on a recipe the other night, by putting all of the ingredients in the pot at once. I was supposed to reserve the arrowroot powder to thicken the sauce AFTER cooking.
But it worked fine, and the sauce thickened beautifully as it cooked.
So why do all the recipes say to use arrowroot for thickening only at the end of a recipe? Is perplexing.
Prehistoric women's arms 'stronger than those of today's elite rowers'
'Swearing is Good for You': The evolutionary advantages of f-bombs
"Sailors, chimpanzees and rowdy teenagers have one vocal tick that unites them: a love of swearing.
Computational neuroscientist Emma Byrne loves foul language too, and she says there's a strong scientific defense for letting the f-bombs fly."
Vice's publication Motherboard says that "To Save Net Neutrality, We Must Build Our Own Internet" and will start publishing articles on how to set up decentralized internet infrastructure and start your own ISP.
That's going way beyond traditional journalism. That's really awesome!
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7x4y8a/net-neutrality-fcc-community-networks
Men are better at maps until women take this course
"A bit of education can erase a definitive cognitive gap between men and women."
http://nautil.us/issue/54/the-unspoken/men-are-better-at-maps-until-women-take-this-course-rp
Further evidence that the sugar industry has long downplayed potential harms. https://buff.ly/2Bjq8xO
Amish Mutation Protects Against Diabetes and May Extend Life - NYTimes.com
This article about the last of the polio survivors who still use iron lungs is a powerful look at history, and a strong case for vaccination and herd immunity. https://gizmodo.com/the-last-of-the-iron-lungs-1819079169
You know ketamine shows promise in treating depression? With that in mind, see this article by Emily Deans, MD. It's fascinating.
"So is there a less dramatic, “natural” version of ketamine, something we can safely ingest every day, but might be a little depleted in our modern diets?"
And then she goes on to talk about magnesium.
#depression #ketamine #diet #magnesium #mentalhealth #nutrition
This has helped me, over the years, to respond with kindness.
“He drew a circle that shut me out-
Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout.
But love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle and took him In!
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8703-he-drew-a-circle-that-shut-me-out--heretic
#History: review of the causes of England's Industrial Revolution, which sees the break from Rome and the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII planting the seed http://voxeu.org/article/origins-industrial-revolution
