When the great pyramids were being built there was still woolly mammoths walking the earth.
I learned today that transplanted hearts will grow biologically younger or older to match the new body.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.15.751836v1
Our ability to feel social judgment and shame reuses the same neural circuits as physical disgust or nausea. This effectively makes it so you can take anti-nausea medication to temporarily make you less judgy of other people’s life choices.
Brb drugging my family with anti nausea medicine
With vanishingly rare exception, addicts choose the mood altering substance that is closest to what the medically accepted treatment for their underlying disorder(s) would be.
People who are addicted to alcohol, without exception, have an underlying anxiety disorder.
People with ADHD and similar brain functioning tend to choose amphetamines.
The list goes on and it gets very complicated, because most mood altering substances have multiple effects, and most people have a blend of underlying issues. But the point is, there is a very noteworthy observation there, I feel.
I feel qualified to say this as myself I am 11 years sober and have worked in the field of addiction for 8 years and I’m formally educated.
People who are addicted to alcohol, without exception, have an underlying anxiety disorder.
People with ADHD and similar brain functioning tend to choose amphetamines.
I feel attacked…
But I liked all of the drugs.
That means you have all of the problems!
Call me Ash, because I gotta catch 'em all!
Sharks are older than fire! It took billions of years for Earth to get the oxygen levels and fuel (land plants) needed for fire. Earth is the only place in the universe where we have seen fire.
Sharks are also older than the north star
To be fair we can’t see other planets outside the solar system too well.
None has the conditions for fire
We live on Earth v2.0
There was a body in our orbit and then another large body (neither were planets, I guess, since they hadn’t test cleared their solar orbits of other bodies) crashed into it. The heavier parts stayed in what became the Earth we know. The lighter parts coalesced into what is now the Moon. The Moon is slowly leaving us because it has enough leftover motion to do so.
I had this idea for a sci-fi short story that involved a long-lived alien that has been watching the earth since the solar system formed. It finally decides to speak to humanity and starts telling the story about how the earth formed from the collision of two bodies, and the humans are all “yeah yeah we know. Here’s a movie we made of it” and the alien is all “WTF? How do they know that?”
The human brain is amazing and can predict the wildest things. You can look around a room and, without touching a thing, understand what it would feel like to lick random items.
Enjoy!
a baby’s mission is to put pretty much everything they can into their mouth. we have trained long and hard to be able to make those predictions!
It’s probably why the primal brain inside is tempted to “lick it” when presented with a new texture.
Wait but this is useful.
As long as we’re doing pyramids, Cleopatra lived closer to the moon landing than the construction of the Great pyramid of Giza.
Edit: someone beat me to it. Here’s another one. If you take the timeline of the Bible literally, the Israelites did not build a single pyramid. They would have been hundreds of years too late (and the Bible never references pyramids, just that the Israelite slaves built cities).
Also we literally can trace, at least with some pyramids, people who built them. They weren’t slaves, they were masons and craftspeople and levied labor - and from graffiti we’ve found, it was considered a pretty great honor to work on one. Even just from a religious angle, do you want heathens who you’ve forced into slavery to build your vehicle for ascension into the afterlife?
If you own a rig to run local LLMs, your computer can also pretty much run weather prediction softwares
GraphCast: AI model for faster and more accurate global weather forecasting — Google DeepMind https://share.google/R24aEDxkDuFfnitzo
This is the most recent one I learnt.
The aging sun will make the continental drift stop via increased solar activity which will accelerate rock weathering. This will break the carbon cycle long before the earth is absorbed by the sun going in its red giant phase.
UPDATE: the wiki has been updated! “However, a 2024 paper by RJ Graham et al. argues that silicate weathering is far less temperature-dependent than initially thought, and that falling carbon dioxide levels are unlikely to lead to the death of life on Earth” yay!
There is no thru line from mouth to urethra. You drink water, it gets absorbed into your blood, your urinary system filters excess water and waste, you pee it out. Your pee is filtered blood, the only thru line for water to take from your mouth is your ass. I understood that when it was taught, but I didn’t really think about it…
Piss comes from blood!
Does the blood god accept pee? Your move, “science”!
you can’t resurrect a horse
Hell I can’t
The last grandchild (i.e. no “greats”) of John Tyler, the tenth president of the United States, died in 2025. For comparison, Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president in the 1860s.
I learned Calculus from one of them.
Chronologically, Tyrannosaurus rex was closer to humans than to sauropods.
Useless knowledge.
When playing Mechwarrior 2 on a Windows 2000 system, make sure to change your video mode to 32bit color.
I’ll throw in a useful tip too!
You can buy USB foot switches for your computer and assign keystrokes and other functions to them.
Almost feels like cheating when you are playing a tactical shooter and can lean left or right and strafe on demand without crossing any controls. Having microphone activation, map, inventory, or any number of misc actions boud to a foot pedal makes a huge difference in your ability to play a game.
Probably more difficult if you have pets
Nah, my snakes don’t really mess with the foot pedals.
I don’t know. Sounds kind of useful to me.
monads are monoids in the category of endofunctors.
Found James Iry
