Birds are metabolically much more active than mammals yet many have long lifespans. This prompted another finding that the number of cortical neurons can explain a large part of the variation in lifespan across species.
Flight gives birds greater protection from predation, which makes evolution towards biologies that pay a higher metabolic cost for greater longevity more advantageous. The same thing applies to larger animals, like cows, which tend to have longer lifespans once you normalize for heart/metabolic rate.
What do carrots have to do with potatoes? I read that refrigerating potatoes isn't recommended because some starch converts to sugar, which affects taste and can be bad for frying if that's the way they'll be cooked.
Nothing more than that carrots and taters are staple foods where I come from. It comes with nearly all dinner recipes here in Scandinavia, so it's very common to buy them together.
> I read that refrigerating potatoes isn't recommended because some starch converts to sugar
It's only a problem if the potatoe freezes or is subjected to frost damage. Then the potato will go mushy and bad. If it's then subjected even to lukewarm temperatures, it may start to ferment or become infected with fungi. And for that reason it's very popular with moonshiners. ;)
That is the food itself. Though it really depends on the method. Most cooking, including frying, won’t raise pm 2.5 levels.
But if something goes wrong and you can smell any kind of burning, then generally the levels will rise to between 150-500. I’m including small things, like a speck of food getting out of the fry pan and onto the burner. Or not enough oil in the pan, or anything producing a maillard reaction. The line between “nothing noxious” and “whoa that is dangerous” is very thing in my measuring experience. And the best way to deal it when it happens is opening windows. These should clear it out within 15 min or less in most cases.
Never had a gas stove so never tested for pm 2.5. Am guessing it is higher, and co2 as well.
If I remember correctly, there's some ambiguity whether the slow zone was created by some power or naturally occurring (or a bit of both) although a bit of both is perhaps the natural answer.
I remember some insinuations to that effect, but from an unreliable narrator given Vinge's penchant for strictly in-character exposition, and what would child races know of progenitor's motives?
As a universe arrangement scheme (both narratively and literally), it is a clean solution to providing a new race incubator and preventing "Why don't the First Ones rule everyone?" endgames.
I always thought that the movie, Capote, had the most visceral depiction of execution I've seen in film. The idea of being led to your death, the hood, the waiting for the platform to drop. Oof, makes my heart race a bit. The hanging or shooting may be quick, but the moments leading up to it certainly are not. And imagine if you were innocent!
This is one reason why, when the UK had capital punishment, a premium was placed on speed. The condemned cell was set up a few yards from the scaffold and the idea was that the time from the executioner entering the cell to the trap being dropped could be well under one minute.
The movie 'Pierrepoint' shows this pretty well (and has a very good performance by Timothy Spall as the eponymous professional but slightly conflicted hangman).
Yes, but that didn't seem always to be the case when the British were hanging people overseas. George Orwell wrote an essay, A Hanging [1], about an execution that he witnessed while serving in Burma. The prisoner, and escort, have a walk of several minutes from the cell to the gallows outdoors. At one point, with 40 yards to go to the gallows, the party is disrupted by a large playful dog. He notes that after the disturbance, the prisoner steps to one side to avoid a puddle on the ground. Orwell writes:
"It is curious, but till that moment I had never realized what it means to destroy a healthy, conscious man. When I saw the prisoner step aside to avoid the puddle, I saw the mystery, the unspeakable wrongness, of cutting a life short when it is in full tide. This man was not dying, he was alive just as we were alive. All the organs of his body were working — bowels digesting food, skin renewing itself, nails growing, tissues forming — all toiling away in solemn foolery. His nails would still be growing when he stood on the drop, when he was falling through the air with a tenth of a second to live. His eyes saw the yellow gravel and the grey walls, and his brain still remembered, foresaw, reasoned — reasoned even about puddles. He and we were a party of men walking together, seeing, hearing, feeling, understanding the same world; and in two minutes, with a sudden snap, one of us would be gone — one mind less, one world less.
It's powerful stuff, whatever your thoughts on capital punishment.
In Japan, those condemned to death are not informed of their execution date until the day it happens, and can languish in jail for decades until that day.
Imagine spending 32 years in solitary confinement, under the knowledge that the next knock on your door could be last:
Paths of Glory would like to have a word with you.
This might sound hyperbolic, but it's not only the the most visceral depiction of execution I've seen - it's simply one of the most intense moments of all cinema. It's the film that made Stanley Kubrick famous, and for a good reason. That said, I also liked Capote.
If you brew 6 oz of water, some amount will be left in the grounds, adding further ambiguity to the size of a cup. I've seen 5 oz and 4 oz definitions too.
Honestly, probably not much. Since day one they've been vocal about not policing any of the speech there. That's the selling point. I can't fathom anyone on the board not knowing that. It's more likely they felt, "you job is to keep the company going, and if that means policing speech, do it," and he failed.
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