How to deal with Ancient aliens in the workplace?
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    macracanthorhynchus
    12mo ago 100%

    Carl Sagan wrote a book, The Demon Haunted World, which is all about why people get sucked into nonsense like ancient aliens, and how to deal with it.

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  • 23andMe User Data Stolen in Targeted Attack on Ashkenazi Jews
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    macracanthorhynchus
    1y ago 100%

    Y chromosomes have very little information on them, and the DNA there is pretty highly conserved. You're not really keeping any secrets by hiding your Y chromosome away.

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  • Matt Gaetz Bragged About Taking E.D. Meds ‘So He Could Go All Night,’ Says GOP Senator
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    macracanthorhynchus
    1y ago 100%

    In a sense it very much is news. This speaks to something that people have recently been speculating about, namely: Has Gaetz pissed off enough Republicans that they will start dumping their dirt on him to thoroughly assasinate his character? The publication of this article is essentially a giant "YES" to that question of what the "moderate" Republicans are going to do in the midst of this new Speaker crisis.

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  • Pythagorean Theorem Found On Clay Tablet 1,000 Years Older Than Pythagoras
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    macracanthorhynchus
    1y ago 100%

    Yes, but that led to my absolute favorite joke in Moby-Dick: the fart joke in chapter 1. (It's important to remember that the "Pythagorean Theorem" is A²+B²=C², but the "Pythagorean maxim" is 'Don't eat beans.')

    "For as in this world, head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if you never violate the Pythagorean maxim), so for the most part the Commodore on the quarter-deck gets his atmosphere at second hand from the sailors on the forecastle."

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  • What was the worst bastardization of a classic book into a movie?
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    macracanthorhynchus
    1y ago 100%

    Disagree. The movie is a mediocre adaptation of a fun and mediocre book into an un-fun and mediocre movie. The film was never going to be gold, but they spent an awful lot of CGI money to make a movie that wasn't as fun as just reading the original and imagining all of the nerdy stuff being described.

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  • Can you drive a manual transmission?
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    macracanthorhynchus
    1y ago 20%

    Mid 30s, USA. I'm smart (Ivy League science doctorate) but I can't drive a standard transmission because my dad "couldn't teach me" because I "wouldn't learn right". It was just me asking him questions like "What does the inside of the clutch actually look like? " and him yelling "That doesn't matter, just ease out on the clutch while giving it some gas!" Apparently I can be taught a lot, but not how to drive a standard.

    Weirdly, my engineer friend let me drive his standard transmission car once after giving me some basic instructions and I did okay going up and down the road alone, but that was just one day and I fear I've forgotten everything. But I must be mistakenly remembering that, because according to my father I "can't be taught!"

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  • What is your "inexpensive" hobby that turned out to be expensive/ you gradually invested lots of money into?
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    macracanthorhynchus
    1y ago 100%

    If you get good at it and if you run enough hives each year, it does, eventually, start making money though! Which is almost more frustrating, because every dollar you spend on it could come back some day in honey sales... but will it?

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  • Chicken of the Woods! (I think)
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    macracanthorhynchus
    1y ago 100%

    It absolutely is. I live near the Berkshires, and just harvested about 20 pounds of them from a local tree. Dinner last night was excellent!

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    Kamon Reynolds no longer affiliated with Hive Life conference, and now planning a separate conference
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RGmVi5iM3vM&pp=ygUac3RyZWFtIHRlYW0ga2Ftb24gcmV5bm9sZHM=

    What do folks make of this news? I know a lot of U.S. (and some Canadian) beekeepers have really enjoyed the Hive Life conference in the past.

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    AP News: 48% of US honey bee colonies died last year
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    This article has been circulating for a while, summarizing the latest BIP data on colony losses. Thought this forum might allow some beekeeper discussion of it. Do we think this annual "doom and gloom" reporting on BIP's colony loss survey data is useful, or does it sow pointless confusion among non-beekeepers?

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    Welcome! Are all subscribers here beekeepers? If so, whereabouts?

    Or do you hope to keep bees? Or just think bees are neat?

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    Caging queens to fight varroa - useful technique or needless sacrifice of productivity?
    https://www.betterbee.com/instructions-and-resources/using-a-frame-isolation-cage-in-varroa-management.asp

    This article was published recently and it seems like the method described could be useful or may just interrupt broodrearing so much that a colony wouldn't ever be able to thrive after being subjected to it. Who has tried any queen caging method like this before? Did it work for you?

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