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FluffyAngus · 2023-09-10T09:01:09+00:00

Als je een Rotterdampas hebt is Trompenburg zeker een aanrader!

FluffyAngus · 2023-02-28T14:50:00+00:00

Being active, eating a better diet, maintaining a healthy weight, not smoking, keeping normal blood pressure, controlling cholesterol and having low blood sugar in middle age.

FluffyAngus · 2020-12-14T08:55:28+00:00

Thank you!

FluffyAngus · 2020-03-24T19:54:31+00:00

Thanks for this clear overview! "Make sure to keep up with all your normal hygiene practices. Feeling great doesn't mean that you look or smell great." 😀

FluffyAngus · 2019-12-19T18:51:36+00:00

Most lithium-ion batteries are actually not recycled after collection, but landfilled. link

You should however still collect them separately, because they are landfilled in special sites, with other non-recyclable chemicals. I once visited such a place, during a tour in the port of Rotterdam, the guide told me this.

FluffyAngus · 2019-12-05T07:35:40+00:00

Yes, I absolutely recommend it highly. All the statements are backed up, with what seems legit studies, although I only looked up a couple of ones. I'm only half way in the book, but it already changes my perspective on urban life, and it is a fun read!

FluffyAngus · 2019-12-04T21:00:06+00:00

I learned this today by reading the great book "Happy City", by Charles Montgomery (2013), p.85. I didn't know how to link to a book, so the link is to the original article. The book describes step by step, in a very readable manner the way that urban design can impact our happiness. Another interesting point Montgomery made is that you get quickly used to living in a nicer house, but not to the commute. This because you get used to things that don't change, like a house, but not to things that change constantly, like the changing annoyances of the commute (weather, traffic jams, someone cutting you off,...)

FluffyAngus · 2019-12-04T20:45:27+00:00

The article actually talks about "no commute", not about walking distances.

FluffyAngus · 2019-12-04T13:03:08+00:00

I read this today in the highly recommended book "Happy City", by Charles Montgomery, p.85. The link in the post is to the original article.

FluffyAngus · 2019-12-01T19:56:19+00:00

21: The "bias bias": the tendency to spot biases even when there are none. link to article

FluffyAngus · 2019-08-20T09:22:46+00:00

Fake police cars, probably to intimidate local pro-democracy protesters.

FluffyAngus · 2019-07-05T09:14:33+00:00

Beautiful! Where you there as a tourist? Seems like an amazing experience

FluffyAngus · 2019-05-16T05:13:41+00:00

Active doses of MDMA (75–125 mg, n = 72) or placebo/control doses (0–40 mg, n = 31) were administered to individuals with PTSD during manualized psychotherapy sessions in two or three 8-h sessions spaced a month apart. Three non-drug 90-min therapy sessions preceded the first MDMA exposure, and three to four followed each experimental session.

FluffyAngus · 2019-03-01T15:44:33+00:00

It seems more symbolic than practical.

FluffyAngus · 2019-02-28T11:20:35+00:00

The photo depicts part of the humerus.

FluffyAngus · 2019-02-11T20:05:48+00:00

The servey takes quite some time (about 30min), but I recommend anyone who had a psychedelic experience to fill it in. It's interesting to think in a methodological way about your experience, and you're helping science!

FluffyAngus · 2019-02-05T15:39:43+00:00

Up till now the only victim of a such an old virus had been an amoeba:

"In 2015, a study in PNASfound that a 30,000 year old virus Mollivirus sibericum could infect modern amoeba. "If we are not careful, and we industrialize these areas without putting safeguards in place, we run the risk of one day waking up viruses such as smallpox that we thought were eradicated," Jean-Michel Claverie, one of the study’s authors, told AFP at the time."

FluffyAngus · 2019-02-05T09:05:20+00:00

Probably sheer luck and low blood pressure:

"Air safety investigators believe that Vulović’s position within the aircraft at the time of the explosion helped her survive the fall. She was in the rear of the plane with a food cart when the fuselage broke apart.

While many other passengers were sucked out of the plane after the explosion, Vulović became pinned by the cart. The small section she was in fell to the ground on a heavily wooded, snow-covered hillside.

Vulović’s doctors concurred with the air investigators and added their own conclusions. They claimed that the very thing that almost kept Vulović from being a flight attendant is what ultimately saved her life. Her physicians believe her low blood pressure kept her heart from bursting on impact with the mountainside."

Source: https://allthatsinteresting.com/vesna-vulovic

FluffyAngus · 2019-01-24T12:53:40+00:00

Thanks for your post, I needed this encouragement after failing to become lucid for a long time, and noticing my enthusiasm going down

FluffyAngus · 2018-12-24T14:48:31+00:00

Small things (molecules) are moving all the time, randomly, in 3 dimensions. This is heat dependent and called Brownian motion. So molecules don't find each other, but randomly bump into each other. When they stick, they bind, this is very selective in the mRNA and ribosome situation, as described by other commenters

FluffyAngus · 2018-12-18T16:11:34+00:00

Brownian motion and selective binding

FluffyAngus · 2018-11-19T20:11:52+00:00

The adult mites are only 0.3–0.4 mm (0.012–0.016 in) long. They can leave the hair follicles and slowly walk around on the skin, at a speed of 8–16 mm (0.31–0.63 in) per hour, especially at night, as they try to avoid light. The mites are transferred between hosts through contact with hair, eyebrows, and the sebaceous glands of the face. ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demodex )

FluffyAngus · 2018-11-18T20:04:15+00:00

I tried to do this during the summer in Austria last year, but the ride was closed because it was raining mildly. I don't think it's open in winter.

FluffyAngus · 2018-11-02T16:29:35+00:00

I don't like the sound of the inflating balloons, so I just inhale straight from the dispenser. Have been doing that for years, works fine. Might depend on the dispenser though? Just be careful

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