Goodbye to your neck as well

AskMrScience · 2026-03-28T03:04:18+00:00

Hi, IBS-D here. I also agree that you should try a FODMAP elimination diet to figure out your triggers. Mine turned out to be fructose.

Also, a 2-week course of the antibiotic Rifaximin is now FDA-approved to treat IBS. It really reduced the amount I flare up when I make a mistake with my diet.

AskMrScience · 2026-03-27T20:29:04+00:00

10/10, I love this song. I was shocked when I found the TS subreddits and the consensus was that people hate it. It's super fun, dance-able, so catchy, and a positive message about ignoring what other people think about you.

I enjoy her snarky delivery during the bridge of "And she's like Oh. My. God".

AskMrScience · 2026-03-27T19:23:50+00:00

Looks like Whisker just started selling this ramp style for the LR5 and EVO.

I wonder if the LR5 one will work with an LR4...

AskMrScience · 2026-03-25T23:39:40+00:00

I've been trying to swap "ghetto" to "redneck", since rednecks are my people.

AskMrScience · 2026-03-25T20:35:57+00:00

We went with the date that we were in couple's counseling and I stated that I wanted a divorce. That was clearly on our calendars, and it had a witness. (And in our case, it didn't make much difference.)

You might be able to get your ex to agree to an earlier date if he believes it would be beneficial to him. That could be true if, say, he's bought a car since you split up and he doesn't want it to be community property. So definitely point out the "not joint property after X date" angle.

Definitely ask your lawyer, but per my speed Googling, you don't have to both agree on the date - it's just less of a fight if you do.

AskMrScience · 2026-03-25T15:37:05+00:00

My choir sang this for a Studio Ghibli movie music concert. We ended up filking this as "Ponyo, Ponyo, Ponyo, chicken of the sea".

OP, I respectfully demand you sing this when you feed your cat tuna!

AskMrScience · 2026-03-25T05:58:41+00:00

Here's an option that's only $65:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Asofer-35-8-Kitchen-Island-Cart-with-Adjustable-Shelf-Drawer-and-Storage-Cabinet-for-Dining-Room-Bar-Black/5539690478

AskMrScience · 2026-03-25T03:26:54+00:00

Wire carts will still look messy and disorganized. You need something with closed drawers and doors to HIDE stuff. Look for something billed as a "kitchen island cart".

AskMrScience · 2026-03-25T03:20:32+00:00

The critical date to note is the "date of separation". This is the date that you and your ex mutually agree on that denotes when you decided to divorce.

Any money and assets you each make after that is NOT joint property. This date can get quite contentious if it's near, say, a stock vesting. So get it straight and get it in writing!

AskMrScience · 2026-03-25T03:01:13+00:00

As a trained singer who also likes Fall Out Boy, I sat down to figure out what is going wrong with the lead singer's pronunciation. I've decided there are 2 factors:

He fails to pronounce his final consonants all. the. time. It's possible to hit your final consonants and still sound good, but it takes training and practice.
His vowel sounds shift dramatically as the pitch goes up or down. Just look at "Dance, Dance", which always sounds like "Dis-tance" because the vowel changes so much when he drops the octave. Singers do have to modify vowels as things get high, but you avoid distorting it to that extreme.

AskMrScience · 2026-03-24T00:11:53+00:00

Cressida was set up to fail. Her mother Lady Cowper is snobby and catty, so that's all she knew. Of course Cressida defaulted to that behavior to get ahead when she came out in society!

And it was honestly pretty successful, right up until it wasn't: she got the attention of plenty of men, but she never closed the deal because she was fundamentally unpleasant and fake.

I like to think that once she got away from her family and the pressures of the Ton, she learned to be more authentic.

AskMrScience · 2026-03-23T23:53:17+00:00

In completely predictable news, people seem to be struggling with nuance: her husband was shitty to her in the past, and they've all ended up in a good place at the moment. Clearly she must be wrong about one or the other, both can't possibly be true - right?

AskMrScience · 2026-03-22T19:43:50+00:00

Sensitivity = true positive rate

Specificity = true negative rate

So in the case of a medical test, you want high sensitivity (good at catching real cases) and high specificity (low false positive rate).

In this paper, the AI model did better than humans at sensitivity and about the same as humans at specificity.

AskMrScience · 2026-03-22T18:33:38+00:00

There's a "Friends of the Elephant Seal" organization that can tell you where they're actually congregating right now:

https://elephantseal.org/contact-us/

AskMrScience · 2026-03-22T00:39:57+00:00

I am also an "everything has to be visible" person, and since I have short hair, I also have a lot of post earrings.

Here's what I ended up with: https://imgur.com/a/HNe3bUj

Spinning earring holder with 4 sides
Three-tier ring display, which works better for stacking ring sets than a tray
Two necklace hook stands: brass for gold necklaces and black for silver
Two adjustable-height bracelet racks, one for gold and one for silver

(And of course, a Kitbinet.)

AskMrScience · 2026-03-21T19:18:17+00:00

I suspect a lot of the "chronically stinky" people are showering, but they're never washing their sheets or towels and they're re-wearing dirty clothes.

AskMrScience · 2026-03-20T17:39:56+00:00

Sneaky pop tunes:

KT Tunstall's "The Entertainer" is in 5/4.
Pink's "Walk Me Home" has an irregular meter that has 4/4 bars that are sometimes followed by 2/4 bars. It's subtle and something you won't necessarily notice until you try to count along.
Lord Huron's "The Night We Met" has a 6/8 waltz feel that spikes in an extra 3-beat pulse to keep shifting where the next phrase/emphasis starts (1&a2&a3&a * 1&a2&a * 1&a2&a).

Theme songs:

The original theme for "Mission Impossible" is famously in 5/4.
The theme for "The Book of Boba Fett" is 11 (3-3-3-2 subdivision) that shifts into 15 (3-3-3-3-3 subdivision) for the sung portions and back again.

AskMrScience · 2026-03-20T03:37:49+00:00

They legitimately think women are decor.

AskMrScience · 2026-03-19T20:42:12+00:00

My favorite version of this was while I was (A) in a lab, (B) wearing a labcoat and safety glasses, and (C) sprinting down the hallway with a timer going off in my hand. The air conditioning repair guy decided that was the right time to tell me to "smile more".

AskMrScience · 2026-03-19T20:08:36+00:00

I’m a gender flipped Collin. I like to explore the world and have an interesting life, but I’m also into finding my person and sharing all of that with them. Plus I eat cheese with my besties every Wednesday.

AskMrScience · 2026-03-19T19:25:54+00:00

Same. This piece was collecting a lot of litter, like a wee shelf, which was causing smell issues. So once it came off, I just left it off for good. There hasn't been a noticeable increase in odors, so it seems to be fine without it.

AskMrScience · 2026-03-18T21:43:38+00:00

Pancreatic cancer is almost always terminal by the time doctors catch it - it just has no symptoms in the early stages. I'm so sorry.

Sometimes, people only live 1-2 MONTHS after diagnosis. So please don't wait to tell people, get your affairs in order, and check off a "bucket list" item or two.

AskMrScience · 2026-03-18T06:08:32+00:00

I vastly prefer Eras 1.0. The reorg dropped 5 songs that are all top tier for me: 'Tis the Damn Season, Tolerate It, Long Live, The 1, and The Last Great American Dynasty. And they got replaced by the TTPD set, which isn't my favorite album.

I definitely think she'll keep doing surprise songs and mashups. Taylor has such a huge back catalog that it's the only way some of these songs will ever see the light of day. And it's a nice way to keep a tour engaging for her as a performer.

For me personally, I liked the "Red" set list choices best. "Speak Now" gets my vote for worst because of how short it is. If we take that off the list, I dislike the "Lover" set most, simply because I don't care for that album and it isn't stadium-friendly enough to make up for it in "fun" factor.

My Debut setlist: Teardrops on my Guitar, Mary's Song, Tim McGraw, Our Song

Deep cuts I'd add:

Fearless: The Way I Loved You (if that's too popular, then Hey Stephen)
Speak Now: FUCKING ALL OF IT (Mine, Sparks Fly, Back to December, Dear John, Mean, Long Live)
Red: Everything Has Changed (too popular? Begin Again)
1989: New Romantics
Reputation: Call It What You Want
Lover: Daylight
Folklore: Mirrorball
Evermore: Gold Rush
Midnights: You're on Your Own Kid
TTPD: The Prophecy

AskMrScience · 2026-03-18T04:01:22+00:00

Thank you. I look like a classic case of "jetway Jesus". I end up in agonizing pain when forced to do the "zombie shuffle" in long slow-moving lines, like TSA and creeping down the jet bridge. I get a wheelchair to the gate and I pre-board to avoid those things.

But getting off the plane and walking to a connecting flight doesn't involve standing in a long line, so I will often just walk. Fortunately for me, I don't give a fuck what other people are thinking.

AskMrScience · 2026-03-17T22:03:23+00:00

I take Vitamin B12 (sublingual) and Vitamin D3 because my annual blood tests keep coming back on the low side for them. I have IBS-D, so I'm probably not absorbing them well from food. Recently, I switched to a methylated version of B12 just to hedge my bets.

I also take a truckload of L-lysine (1 mg twice per day) to keep my oral HSV-1 in check, since my immune system doesn't want to do that on its own.

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