What did you learn today?

[FilterFunk]

TIL fish oil supplements may cause heart problems:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/22/health/fish-oil-supplement-dangers-study-wellness/index.html

It seems like it's best to just stick with the tried-and-true ways to eat healthy and not chase every superfood/super-supplement trend.

 

[PillO]

TIL fish oil supplements may cause heart problems:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/22/health/fish-oil-supplement-dangers-study-wellness/index.html

It seems like it's best to just stick with the tried-and-true ways to eat healthy and not chase every superfood/super-supplement trend.

Surely you aren't suggesting that the "health" industry is prone to fads?? It is all sciency and uses big words so it must all be true...

 

[Tom Bomb]

Learning lots. This is rewarding — it's all starting to make more sense. I knew of the triad but this addition brings things into a sharper perspective. And I, from experience, reckon it's true. And psychopathy's more common than you might think — another home truth. Knowledge is power.

The Dark Tetrad, also known as the Dark Quad, is a set of interrelated negative personality features: narcissism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and sadism. The term is an expansion of the idea of the Dark Triad construct, which does not include sadism. In the last decade, researchers have noted a correlation of sadism with Dark Triad traits, with the result of the Dark Tetrad. The concept was coined by Erin Buckles, Daniel Jones, and Delroy L. Paulhus in 2013. Paulhus is also the originator of the Dark Triad construct.

People with Dark Tetrad traits score high on measures of the following:

• Narcissism: A belief that one is special, particularly gifted, obsessed with themselves and that they are superior to others.
• Machiavellianism: A tendency to see people as a means to achieve one's own goals.
• Psychopathy: A condition characterized by a lack of affective empathy and the willingness to exploit others.
• Sadism: The tendency to derive pleasure from the pain or humiliation of others.

Those with high Dark Tetrad personality scores tend to be malicious, exploitative, ruthless, and mean. They typically hold themselves in high esteem and do whatever it takes to get what they want. Dark Tetrad personalities score low on traits of emotionality, honesty, humility, conscientiousness, and agreeableness. Invalid Link Removed in measures of each of the Dark Tetrad traits.

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Researchers have found a link between internet trolls and cyberbullies and Dark Tetrad traits. Study participants who said trolling was their favorite online activity also scored highest on tests for Dark Tetrad traits. Psychopathy and sadism, in particular, correlate most strongly with internet trolling and bullying.
Dark Tetrad

 

[Groove Doctor]

Some people turn into monsters when told they are wrong.

 

[Geogio]

and bank balance ?

Phil's wife took his ass to the cleaners and pretty much paid high dollar for everything while he had the money coming in... it is reported that Phil's bank account has been severely damaged.
The last I heard is that Phil's is in either the throes of a divorce or the divorce has already occurred but the general assumption is that Phil could no longer support her lavish lifestyle... and she dumped him...buyer beware.

 

[Geogio]

Yes, I remember the Splayd’s in the 70s

Back in my Boy Scout camping days I took a fork and I ate on a metal plate and if I needed to spoon I just put the plate up to my lips and slurped it. That's old school right there. My knife? I was my official folding Boy Scout Camellia. I wish I still had that knife, it wasn't fancy stainless steel it was just regular old low carbon and it's sharpened easily, much easier than those new fangled ubiquitous stainless steel blades.

 

[Geogio]

TIL fish oil supplements may cause heart problems:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/22/health/fish-oil-supplement-dangers-study-wellness/index.html

It seems like it's best to just stick with the tried-and-true ways to eat healthy and not chase every superfood/super-supplement trend.

I never enjoyed burping up fish oil. So I switched to flaxseed oil which apparently has a lot more omegas than fish oil does.

 

[Tom Bomb]

At the end of the rainbow, there's a pot of lead. The little people must be at it again.

Due to its deep, wide roots and ability to grow in poor soil, the plant can be grown in many environments. In fact, hemp [has] been successfully used to naturally leach toxic heavy metals from the soil around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster and pesticides such as dioxin from heavily contaminated farms in Italy, according to a 2022 review.

Use of the plant is so promising, according to the review, that the US Department of Agriculture is sponsoring research on how to bioengineer the plant to absorb even greater levels of toxins.

Does wonders for the noggin They looked into it. Wherever it's available, you'll potentially gain access to a healthy dose or two of heavy metal \m/ The reason being, the "piecemeal regulation on metals and mold and pesticides,” says boffin Tiffany Sanchez. Because we care.​

 

[Tom Bomb]

Who'd-a thunk it? There's a vaping big hole in our best logic.

I'd just like to thank, as an aside, those of you who've been speaking out somehow, pulling no punches. …

A puff piece

'Vapes were introduced to help people stop smoking — yet they have become a public health issue in their own right,' Dr Gasser said. … 'Not only are men who vape far more likely than their non-vaping peers to smoke later, they are more likely to use illicit drugs later as well. …'The reverse is also true, with men who engage in risky behaviours like illicit drug use, smoking, risky drinking and gambling, more likely to vape later,' Dr Gasser said.
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Don't smoke vape.
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[Tom Bomb]

Drums are just like guitars.

Quality skins — same with strings — are at their optimum when they're the same make and model, the same fit and finish. Kit's now ringing like a bell. Makes a real difference
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[5StringBlues]

I learned he's out there and plotting his next move.

 

[rtslinger]

 

[Tom Bomb]

How do you platypus? It's a trade secret but, as it turns out, you've had a fair few years to practice. Your geolocation may or may not have improved your chances of becoming a stylist to the stars, it seems.

Australian scientists identify the Age of Monotremes

Palaeontologists thought the fossil record of mammals was well known. But now, scientists at The Australian Museum have announced a major discovery - a whole age of mammals previously unknown. These are monotremes or egg-laying mammals which lived around 100 million years ago. Today, the platypus and echidna are the only surviving descendants. The evidence was found in opalised fossil remains in Lightning Ridge in northwestern NSW. Three new genera have been identified. Jonica Newby speaks to mammalogist Tim Flannery.

The project really came about due to lockdown, but so many of these questions actually came to me in a dream! I had a moment to think about my basic science, what I was doing for years at the Museum, and there were a few questions that really fascinated me with the monotremes. Where did they come from? Why are they restricted to Australia when they evolved at a time when the continents were joined – shouldn’t they be everywhere? Where are the echidnas in the fossil record? The oldest echidna fossils in the fossil record are less than two million years old. And having the opportunity to work with, and discuss such big questions, with talented curators, researchers and collection managers has been fantastic.

… The very earliest monotremes (about 130 million years ago), date from a time when south-eastern Australia was within the Antarctic circle. We know from studies of the Early Cretaceous environment that there was seasonal darkness (three months at least), and polar forests. So, if you’re a tiny animal trying to find food in total darkness in a perpetually wet forest, it makes sense you would develop an electro-sensitive ‘bill’ or ‘beak’ (which is what characterises the monotremes). We found evidence that this ‘mini monotreme’, that was around the size of a shrew, had developed this incredible survival adaptation to search for insects in moss and snow in total darkness, in a high-latitude area. But think how restrictive this environment would have been – this helps explain why this animal didn’t migrate to other southern continents. That was the first thing we solved: why these monotremes were restricted to Australia and where they came from. …
Creatures great and small: Origins of monotremes revealed

 

[Tom Bomb]

A recent study finds magpies who are bullied are more likely to be smarter than their bullies. "Magpies that bully other magpies are likely to be less intelligent and prefer to use their brawn rather than their brains …" My maggies are all very smart, we all get along like a house on fire. Still, plainly, there's some logic there.

"Aggression is a predictor of your intelligence," ….

According to the study aggressive behaviour in magpies could look like fighting, chasing, pecking, and certain vocalisations.

"[Aggressive magpies] are not picking up on social cues around them, whereas the less aggressive ones – the ones actually receiving aggression – were more intelligent," Dr Ridley said.

"They need to find alternative ways to access food resources when the bullies are there, and they need to innovate, they need to be aware of social cues and avoid those that are going to pick on them."​

As I like to say, bird brain is, for the most part, a misnomer. But, on the other hand, try telling the bullies that. They won't understand, the logic dictates.
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[rtslinger]

Today's Object
Do you ever wonder who first thought of Built-In Pencil Erasers?
In 1858, stationer Hymen Lipman patented a new type of pencil with a rubber plug embedded in one end of its wooden shaft. An entrepreneur named Joseph Reckendorfer purchased the patent from Lipman for $100,000 on the assumption that the creation would become a hit. However, in 1875, the Supreme Court ruled that the eraser-tipped pencil didn’t count as a legitimate invention because it simply combined two existing technologies. Because Reckendorfer lost his patent case, he was unable to profit from his investment and various companies, including A. W. Faber, were able to use Lipman’s original design without paying royalties. However, just as Reckendorfer had predicted, the new style of pencil did eventually become a hit and by the 1920s, almost all pencils sold in the United States included built-in erasers. That trend has continued today, with virtually all American pencils being made this way, but interestingly, pencils with built-in erasers are all but unheard of in most other countries.

 

[Tom Bomb]

Richie's regressing — Happy Daze! — 'See icon Ron Howard on Jim Henson & Sesame St.' Something to look forward to
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[Groove Doctor]

Quote on FB…

Rationalisation is to plaundit (grasp from thin air) excuses for one's own irrational (not logical or reasonable) behaviour.

 

[roccobass]

I really need to increase my lens prescription for my glasses.....
@GregC

 

[Groove Doctor]

Pros and Cons of Argon Gas in Windows | Homeshield

 

[RedVee]

Today's Object
Do you ever wonder who first thought of Built-In Pencil Erasers?
In 1858, stationer Hymen Lipman patented a new type of pencil with a rubber plug embedded in one end of its wooden shaft. An entrepreneur named Joseph Reckendorfer purchased the patent from Lipman for $100,000 on the assumption that the creation would become a hit. However, in 1875, the Supreme Court ruled that the eraser-tipped pencil didn’t count as a legitimate invention because it simply combined two existing technologies. Because Reckendorfer lost his patent case, he was unable to profit from his investment and various companies, including A. W. Faber, were able to use Lipman’s original design without paying royalties. However, just as Reckendorfer had predicted, the new style of pencil did eventually become a hit and by the 1920s, almost all pencils sold in the United States included built-in erasers. That trend has continued today, with virtually all American pencils being made this way, but interestingly, pencils with built-in erasers are all but unheard of in most other countries.

Dunno about that last bit. The land of Oz have had millions of them.