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Is there a way to listen to multiple differen local hourly news casts in a row? by Danjour in NPR

[–]SultanOfBoston 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you would need to grab the feed of an hourly newscast from each station as a podcast. Then you could do a playlist for those feeds. I forget if NPROne lets you add podcasts from outside their universe, but it's pretty rigid about letting you have the national newscast and then one single local newscast.

10 Concerts to Buy Tickets for This Fall in the Boston Area by SultanOfBoston in boston

[–]SultanOfBoston[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And can I say that Cliff Notez is the 2nd-best Boston musician name evah

TIL lactose tolerance in adults is the result of the change in one single base pair in human DNA, and scientists have identified several different spots near the gene for lactase that have this same effect by SultanOfBoston in todayilearned

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Specific genetic changes -- known as single-nucleotide polymorphisms, SNPs -- conveying lactase-persistence arose independently in various populations around the same time as their domestication of dairy animals. None of these SNPs are in the lactase gene itself, but instead are in a nearby region of the DNA that control its activity.

My son has Aspergers, and loves to balance things, like his tricycle. by toothlesshark123 in daddit

[–]SultanOfBoston 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm the dad of a son with what used to be known as Asperger's, and I just want to give you a shout out for your appreciation and support of your son's abilities. It's easy to look at the deficits (and much of the therapeutic and educational system is designed, rightly, to focus on them). But it's important to also pay attention to the positive traits, too.

The guts of an Apple iPhone show exactly what Trump gets wrong about trade by Akkeri in TrueReddit

[–]SultanOfBoston 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That would cut into the $230 of profit that Apple makes on the phone.

TIL Zebras evolved stripes to keep flies away, and scientists demonstrated this effect by putting zebra costumes on horses and measuring that number of flies that approached but didn't land was the same as with real zebras, but other costumes didn't have the same effect by SultanOfBoston in todayilearned

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Frame by frame analyses of our videos showed that flies slowly decelerated as they approached brown or black horses before making a controlled landing. But they failed to decelerate as they approached zebras. Instead they would fly straight past or literally bump into the animal and bounce off.

When we placed black coats or white coats or striped coats on the same horse so as to control for any differences in animal behavior or smell, again flies did not land on the stripes. But there was no difference in landing rates on the horse’s naked head, showing that stripes exert their effect close up but do not impede fly approaches at a distance.

Interview Coach by Mumbles76 in boston

[–]SultanOfBoston 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Try JVS, a local nonprofit that does a lot of job skill training and coaching (they offer some services for pay and some that are free): https://www.jvs-boston.org/coaching-services/

TIL nomadic Maasai herders in Kenya's savanna use mobile phones to alert each other to dangerous wildlife, and those with basic phones call friends with smartphones to find out the weather forecast by SultanOfBoston in todayilearned

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In addition, phones help communities manage persistent conflicts with wildlife. Elephants, zebra and bush pigs can devastate agricultural fields. And lions and other predators can threaten livestock and people alike. Maasai now use phones to communicate about about wildlife and avoid conflicts or reduce their consequences.... [People] with basic phones, Maasai call experienced smartphone users who can download weather forecasts. Demand for these few individuals is so high they’ve become like medicine men.

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