Mirabilis @mirabilis@octodon.social
This makes total sense to me: give opiod users clean drugs, so that they don't need to take street drugs that are laced with fentanyl and god knows what else.
#opiod #fentanyl #heroin #hydromorphone #overdose
#Vancouver #BC #Canada
In the Bones of a Buried Child, Signs of a Massive Human Migration to the Americas
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/science/native-americans-beringia-siberia.html?_r=0
A Norwegian University Student Used a Spy Camera in This Amazing Example of 19th Century Street Photography
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2018/01/19th-century-norwegian-street-photography/
Pope said "no thanks" to Norwegian coins
http://sciencenordic.com/pope-said-no-thanks-norwegian-coins
I think I'm doing ok with cardboard if I can get it folded into a tidy heap for recycling day. Meanwhile, Warren King is creating amazing life-size cardboard sculptures of Chinese villagers. How, even?
“Just by watching you open your email, [a curious person or] spammers can learn your schedule (‘based on the time you check your email’), your itinerary (based on how you check mail at home, on the bus, or so on), and personal preferences (based on where they harvested the email; say, a sports forum, or a music fansite).”
https://www.wired.com/story/how-email-open-tracking-quietly-took-over-the-web/
Lost Roman roads could be found as Environment Agency laser scans whole of England from air
Westminster Abbey's attics yield a treasure trove of stained glass
#England #WestminsterAbbey #stainedglass #archeology #history
"Spider kids grow out of their clothes, too."
https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.ca/2017/11/a-size-too-small.html
How 17th century unmarried women helped shape capitalism.
https://daily.jstor.org/how-17th-century-unmarried-women-helped-shape-capitalism/
How Iceland Got Teens to Say No to Drugs
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/01/teens-drugs-iceland/513668/
Archaeologists discover a crude ancient weapon that could kill a man with a single blow
http://bgr.com/2017/12/13/thames-beater-archaeologists-weapon-could-kill-with-one-blow/
#weapon #history #archaeology #ThamesBeater #Thames #England
Secrets Hidden in Ancient Manuscripts
"A project to scan documents found in the walls of a remote monastery is reshaping our view of the connections between East and West"
#archaeology #monastery #history #StCatherinesMonastery #palimpsest #SinaiPalimpsestsProject
Edible archaeology: gingerbread cuneiform tablets.
http://tavolamediterranea.com/2017/12/09/edible-archaeology-gingerbread-cuneiform-tablets/
"In that moment, it became my mission. With the help of fake reviews, mystique and nonsense, I was going to do it: turn my shed into London's top-rated restaurant on TripAdvisor."
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/434gqw/i-made-my-shed-the-top-rated-restaurant-on-tripadvisor
I have been so tempted to do this. Heh.
"pharmacologist and cardiovascular researcher James DiNicolantonio shakes up a nutritional hornet’s nest with his new book, The Salt Fix: Why the Experts Got it All Wrong — and How Eating More Might Save Your Life. DiNicolantonio’s argument is simple: There is no credible evidence that a salt-restricted diet lowers blood pressure in the vast majority of people, nor does it lead to heart disease or stroke. In fact, he argues, salt restriction is harmful and ..."
https://www.salon.com/2017/08/08/pass-the-salt-the-myth-of-the-low-salt-diet_partner/
"For thousands of years, eating the ground up mummified remains of long-dead embalmed human beings was considered good medicine. That’s what they taught at them ancient medical schools. The demand for powdered mummies was so great that sometimes hucksters would simply grind up dead beggars and plague victims and sell them as mummies."
https://idmprogram.com/therapeutic-nutrition-paradigm-21st-century-medicine/
Google “wants to guess the question before you ask it.”
Ask yourself: how well must a company know me to do that? What else can they do if they know me so well?
