What did you learn today?

[catcauphonic]

My dad recently passed away. I’ve learned that I will never hear my dads voice again. Take the time to get right with your parents while they are alive. Once they are gone, they are gone. Take the time to ask them everything you can, and if you do, let them know you love them. Don’t wait, because you never know when the end comes.

Don’t wait to do what you can do today.

Sorry to read about your dad's passing, and I agree with all that you said after about making peace and communicating things while you can. After i moved 3,000 miles away 12 years prior and only spoke with the folks (mostly mom) every few weeks, I did get to talk on the phone to my father a few days before he passed away rather unexpectedly. We had a brief but really nice talk that ended with assurances of love on both sides... and that feels really really good to think back on. I have called my mom practically every day since 2012 just to check in for 5 minutes. I know her clock is ticking a bit faster these days, and I already know there's going to be so much I wish I had asked her about when I can no longer do so.

It is the natural order of things, but sincere condolences to you and your family.

 

[Johnny Crab]

Skip peroxide for wound cleaning, it eats fibroblasts and slows healing.
Why Hydrogen Peroxide Is NOT For Cleaning Pet Wounds

 

[MAJOR METAL]

CVS coupons typically work 1 day past it's expiration.

 

[SJLee]

Sorry to read about your dad's passing, and I agree with all that you said after about making peace and communicating things while you can. After i moved 3,000 miles away 12 years prior and only spoke with the folks (mostly mom) every few weeks, I did get to talk on the phone to my father a few days before he passed away rather unexpectedly. We had a brief but really nice talk that ended with assurances of love on both sides... and that feels really really good to think back on. I have called my mom practically every day since 2012 just to check in for 5 minutes. I know her clock is ticking a bit faster these days, and I already know there's going to be so much I wish I had asked her about when I can no longer do so.

It is the natural order of things, but sincere condolences to you and your family.

Thank you. That’s great you were able to get that last conversation in soon before your father passed. I think it’s much easier to get closure when important communications have been made.

I drove late on a Friday afternoon from VA to SC in a 55-70 mph wind storm to get the chance to see him before he passed. Though he was not able to speak, he recognized me being there, and I could see that he was happy to see me.

 

[TOOL460002]

I was reading up on sea cucumbers, looking at their feeding anatomy and process and instead found out they breath through their butts. Technically branched organs extract oxygen from water inhaled through the anus, but I'll only ever say they breath through their buttholes. Nature be crazy.

 

[Stumbo]

I was reading up on sea cucumbers, looking at their feeding anatomy and process and instead found out they breath through their butts. Technically branched organs extract oxygen from water inhaled through the anus, but I'll only ever say they breath through their buttholes. Nature be crazy.

That's how the phrase "you're talking out of your @ss" got started.

 

[TOOL460002]

That's how the phrase "you're talking out of your @ss" got started.

Well that makes about as much sense as butt breathing so I'm gonna trust your words.

 

[Tom Bomb]

After the ensuing confusion flowing from the question: Should you use 'less' or 'fewer'? It's more complicated than you think, I was clickbait clobbered by this little gem: 'Get yer hand off it, mate': Why Aussie slang is not dying

 

[Alkali Ike]

I learned I really hate threads with teaser titles.

EDIT: To be more clear, I get really annoyed by threads with teaser clickbait titles.

 

[Tom Bomb]

This'll rock ya, organ fans, ye with glands, throughout the lands. At least one of the Brothers Grimm is telling fairy tales again: New human organ dubbed the "institium" was hiding in plain sight

New human organ dubbed the "institium" was hiding in plain sight​

By Nick Grimm on PM

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You might think the human body would no longer contain many surprises for medical researchers.

But you'd be wrong. Doctors in the United States have announced they've just discovered a new organ in our bodies and what's more, it's one of the largest, if not the largest that we possess.

They've called it the "institium".

Duration: 4min 2sec
Broadcast: Wed 28 Mar 2018, 6:55pm

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Neil Theise, Professor of pathology, New York University's School of Medicine;
Associate Professor Tri Phan, immunology researcher, Garvan Institute of Medical Research

 

[Tom Bomb]

A few tipple tempering toxic home truths,

The past few years have revealed some disturbing news for the alcohol industry. In 2015, CBS news broke the announcement of a lawsuit against 31 brands of wines for Link Removed. In 2016, beer testing in Germany also revealed residues of glyphosate in every single sample tested, even independent beers. Moms Across America released test results of 12 California wines that were all [This invalid link has been removed] in 2016. We tested further and released [This invalid link has been removed] in all of the most popular brands of wines in the world, the majority of which are from the U.S., and in batch test results in American beer. …

… Glyphosate herbicides do not dry, wash or cook off, and they have been proven to be neurotoxic, carcinogenic, endocrine disruptors, and a cause of liver disease at very low levels.

The wine brands tested included Gallo, Beringer, Mondavi, Barefoot and Sutter Home. Beer brands tested included Budweiser, Busch, Coors, Michelob, Miller Lite, Sam Adams, Samuel Smith, Peak Organic and Sierra Nevada.

Some of the test results were at first confusing. One would expect the organic wines and beers, and the carefully crafted independent beer brands to be free of glyphosate, as the herbicides are not allowed or used in organic farming. Instead, it appears that they are contaminated. Previous testing did show that some organic wines were contaminated, and in this round, one of the organic brands was as low as 0.38 ppb, but conventional wines had glyphosate residues 61 times higher, at 23.30 ppb. Studies have shown only 1 part per trillion to stimulate the growth of breast cancer cells, so any amount is concerning.…
Monsanto's weedkiller is contaminating popular wines and beers

 

[Pug the Pig]

Good reason to 'cook' your own then....at least it won't have truck engine coolant included, unless of course you like to add a little....

 

[garp]

That at night, when I look up towards the heavens, many of the things I'm seeing don't exist any more. Probably common knowledge to many here, but I just learned it today. Think I'll dust off my copy of Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" tonight.

Looking back 9 billion light-years

 

[Pug the Pig]

Never mind, there'll be another universe along shortly....

 

[driver800]

I was reading up on sea cucumbers, looking at their feeding anatomy and process and instead found out they breath through their butts. Technically branched organs extract oxygen from water inhaled through the anus, but I'll only ever say they breath through their buttholes. Nature be crazy.

Today I learned that Herring communicate by farting.
Herring Break Wind to Communicate, Study Suggests

 

[D M C]

Not so much learned, but remembered Tom Lehrer.

Tom Lehrer at 90: a life of scientific satire

 

[Tom Bomb]

I got a hefty jab today of Placebo power

It's a funny story, I was originally trained as a physiotherapist and my interest in pain stemmed through that training and that was about 17, almost 18 years ago, working in the sports setting treating athletes during a training session, and we had an ultrasound machine that you don't actually feel but you place over an injured area. And at the end of the training session I discovered that I had had it off at the wall the whole evening by accident, because the light was broken, and all these players would come in and I would rub ultrasound over their various injured parts and they would feel much better and run out and finish the training session. And then I thought this is amazing, I actually didn't do anything, and I use inverted commas when I say that. And then I started researching this idea of what a placebo was, and that's some 17 years ago.

There's quite a lot of research on acupuncture. … Most of the research on acupuncture has compared acupuncture with no treatment whatsoever, and acupuncture generally for many conditions is better than no treatment, so for things like pain and depression and anxiety, if someone receives acupuncture then it's better than not receiving anything. But the interesting component from my perspective is that when you compare real acupuncture with sham acupuncture, there is generally no difference. So to me that seems to suggest that acupuncture itself or the theory behind acupuncture is not what is causing benefit to patients, it's actually some more generic feature, perhaps expectancies or the placebo effect.

I was the only researcher to my knowledge for at least 10 years in this field in Australia when I started out in the early 2000s, and I would receive mixed advice from senior academics and clinicians about whether this would be a worthy field of research for me to undertake, and nevertheless I pursued it. And now there's a great deal of interest. And I think we have to accept that a part, if not sometimes a very significant part of our treatment is the effect that our ritual has on someone's brain. And I think slowly but surely this is coming across and eventually will be built in to mainstream healthcare.

 

[paste]

TIL when pimps get arrested, their cash can legally be confiscated but not their jewelry. This is why pimps wear lots of jewelry so that they can "re-pawn" it for bail money.

 

[klejst]

That when you walk outside without an umbrella during a rainstorm you're bound to get wet and that holding a couple of pieces of paper above your head does not make for a long lasting umbrella.

 

[D M C]

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