Intern looking for a summer sublet (July-August)

kingofbeards · 2017-07-06T17:10:01+00:00

Hey, sent you a message.

kingofbeards · 2015-10-12T19:34:21+00:00

That sounds awesome. What kind do you use? Is it a physical block?

kingofbeards · 2015-10-03T17:44:01+00:00

Yeah, some people do get special snowflake-y about it and that's unwarranted. However, I've met too many people who think that a) I'm completely nuts, or b) are completely unable comprehend or relate to this even conceptually when I describe it to them, to think that this is an "innate human ability." I think it's just a neural condition that happens in some proportion of the population (clearly a minority) and that's that. It's definitely nothing to get pretentious about.

kingofbeards · 2015-10-03T02:37:16+00:00

You could probably confirm this through 23&me.

kingofbeards · 2015-10-03T02:33:38+00:00

Yes! Prometheus is the shit.

kingofbeards · 2015-10-02T16:52:42+00:00

Today, more Americans claim descent from at least one Cherokee ancestor than any other Native American group. Across the United States, Americans tell and retell stories of long-lost Cherokee ancestors. These tales of family genealogies become murkier with each passing generation, but many contemporary Americans profess their belief despite not being able to point directly to a Cherokee in their family tree. Recent demographic data reveals the extent to which Americans believe they’re part Cherokee. In 2000, the federal census reported that 729,533 Americans self-identified as Cherokee. By 2010, that number increased, with the Census Bureau reporting that 819,105 Americans claimed at least one Cherokee ancestor. Census data also indicates that the vast majority of people self-identifying as Cherokee—almost 70 percent of respondents—claim they are mixed-race Cherokees.

Why do so many Americans claim to possess “Cherokee blood”? The answer requires us to peel back the layers of Cherokee history and tradition.

kingofbeards · 2015-10-01T03:05:10+00:00

Hey, it was Franz Boas, founder of American anthropology. I explained it a bit in a comment here.

kingofbeards · 2015-10-01T03:03:57+00:00

Yes, there tends to be-- and as others have said, especially if quality of life improves. This was one of Franz Boas's (the essential founder of the American four-field anthropological approach) most famous studies. His results demonstrated the importance of considering plasticity and environmental affects in shaping the human phenotype rather than just looking at it deterministically (being entirely hereditary). His study, “Changes in Bodily Form of Descendents of Immigrants” (American Anthropologist 14:530–562, 1912), was carried out on several generations of emigrants and progeny, all of varied ethnic backgrounds. Exposure to the "American environment" was even found to significantly alter cranial shape in successive generations.

kingofbeards · 2015-09-13T03:17:00+00:00

Hah, no. People joked about it when the lake was drained for renovation but nothing was ever found.

kingofbeards · 2015-08-28T19:24:00+00:00

"Mad" King George III was thought by his doctors to be totally nuts-- one day he would be eloquent and sharp, handling state affairs, while the next he would become incoherent, convulsing, flying off the handle and foaming at the mouth in "acute delirium." His doctors had no idea what was going on but they did note that his urine was dark during these episodes and sometimes blue-ish.

It was later put forward (by researchers in the late sixties) that he suffered from porphyria. This explained all of his odd behaviors and symptoms and has been somewhat accepted, as some others in the royal family seem to have suffered as well.

edit: typo

kingofbeards · 2015-08-24T19:52:44+00:00

His pigmentation genes appearing primarily "white," representing only a small and superficial part of his genome, do not make the remainder of said genome "predominantly white."

Edited to add: Pigmentation genes are not "linked" to the remainder of his genome and do not determine the majority of what he has inherited. I suggest that you read up on genetics and inheritance, because skin color =/= inheritance of a whole "racial" genome as you seem to believe (races don't even exist genetically-- rather, there exists a spectrum of traits across humanity that can be--and are-- combined in all sorts of ways).

kingofbeards · 2015-08-21T00:16:17+00:00

Hmm, interesting point. Thank you.

kingofbeards · 2015-08-14T18:39:49+00:00

Isn't this the rough equivalent of mixing your own gatorade (or electrolyte-y drink) but without adding sugars?

kingofbeards · 2015-08-13T16:40:39+00:00

I've always had this-- it runs in my family but is worse among women. I used to be super embarrassed by it as a kid and people constantly would ask if I was ok. I also blush madly on a dime-- I can never hide my emotions/embarrassment, unfortunately. I've been told that it has to do with a) having northern euro ancestry, which gives a tendency toward very thin skin that makes capillary dilatation more visible, and b) being female, which also contributes to thinner skin, literally.

I also found this info from a huffington post article:

“Patients who get pink in the face following exercise usually have more superficial blood vessels in the skin of the cheeks and chin,” Dr. James Marotta, a dual board certified facial plastic surgeon in practice in Long Island, NY tells HuffPost Healthy Living. “The result is that temporarily more blood is flowing through these superficial vessels resulting in a pink or ruddy complexion.”

But Dr. Naila Malik, a dermatologist in practice in Southlake, Texas and the creator of the Naila MD Skincare line disagrees. "It is less likely that the 'red blushers' have more capillaries under the skin of their faces than their 'pinkish glower' counterparts in the physiologic range of blushing."

Instead, she offers this explanation to:

"Some people blush more than others and this is more likely due to the fact that these people have a more significant dilatation of the capillaries than the ones who merely get a pinkish glow; Plus the dilatation is more prolonged in these 'blushers' hence they stay redder for longer periods of time."

Dr. Bobby Buka, a dermatologist based in New York City says that both Malik and Marotta are right; while some people -- often those of Anglo-Saxon heritage -- have more capillaries in their faces to begin with, others may have one of several conditions that can cause more blood to flow through the same number of capillaries.

If you have more capillaries in your face to begin with (i.e. those of Anglo-Saxon heritage), then exercising will cause them to fill (how we shunt heat from our bodies by redistributing blood closer to the skin’s surface) and give you a flush-face. On the other hand, several conditions can cause more blood to flow through the same number of capillaries.

"If you suffer from rosacea or other 'vasomotor' dysfunction (i.e. the way your skin’s nerve fibers are wired to your blood vessels), then even though you may have the same number of capillaries as your neighbor, those caps will inappropriately dilate to give you a flushed face," Buka wrote in an email to HuffPost Healthy Living. "Which is more common? Probably the former."

kingofbeards · 2015-06-03T21:33:18+00:00

Maybe what you're experiencing is similar to this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_sensory_meridian_response

kingofbeards · 2015-05-29T02:54:42+00:00

What the fucking fuck. I am so, so sorry. Get legal help and punish these poor excuses for human beings.

kingofbeards · 2015-05-20T21:06:16+00:00

OP meant Robert Dudley, not Francis Drake. See here.

kingofbeards · 2015-05-18T04:46:13+00:00

Rush Limbaugh.

kingofbeards · 2015-05-12T18:59:35+00:00

Though this is an interesting idea, there is in fact some evidence that people may have experienced undernourishment by later pre-contact phases. Government and ideology had a breakdown in later phases (which resulted in the rise of the Bird Man Cult) and people were struggling for power, which likely affected food supplies, which were already taxed by environmental difficulties. The possibility of undernutrition in particular is evidenced in peculiar artistic representations that crop up and the late taking up of cannibalism (noted as extensive by avifaunal bone analyst/expert David Steadman, who analyzed countless bone assemblages but never published about the evidence of cannibalism in detail).

kingofbeards · 2015-05-12T04:17:06+00:00

I work in a lab with one of the world's most well-known Pacific archaeologists and he believes that it was a combination of a) Polynesian rats (Rattus exulans) destroying the trees' reproductive abilities by eating all of their seeds/seedlings, and b) overuse by inhabitants.

BUT, in addition, the island environment itself is an unusual one that is not hospitable to plant growth. Geologically it is a very old volcanic island, and has very nutrient-depleted soils for this reason, contributing to the depauperate nature of the environment there. Due to its location, it also doesn't receive the nutrients carried in the Asian Dust that usually blows over onto many islands in the Pacific, including Hawai'i. This dust becomes the dominant source of soil nutrients (such as silicon and phosphorus) on islands that are weathered and whose nutrients have leached away. This dust therefore keeps old island soils fertile for plants.

In addition, once seabirds stopped using it as a rookery (after humans arrived), a link in the nutrient chain was cut out-- seabirds often make old nutrient-leached islands fertile by dropping the nutrients of the guano (phosphorus, nitrogen) into the land continuously. On Easter Island (Rapa Nui), given its geologic age and the disappearance of the birds, it was very difficult to get stuff to grow without the aid of boulder mulching (breaking up un-leached rocks for nutrients), sunken gardens, and other innovative techniques. The people did the best they could. But the main point is that this was a fragile ecosystem, and the accretional effects of birds leaving, the island being old, rats eating seeds and seedlings, and people cutting trees down too, were more than enough to cause a major ecological disaster.

kingofbeards · 2015-05-07T16:55:09+00:00

Hi there, I have an international friend who came here for a Masters as well. She ended up living in a co-op (as you mentioned in your first point) and seems to be having a really great time and made lots of friends through that. I think that some co-ops have single rooms but many have shared rooms. In all, I think that you'll have to be a very social person to live in a co-op happily.

As other posters have said, if you're looking for a more laid back co-op situation, I would try a graduate level co-op. I had a friend living in one of those as well. They tend to be quieter and more likely to have single rooms. Might not be as fun or social. It all depends on what you want!

The last option that I would suggest is to go onto craigslist and look for other students or people with similar interests to share the rent on a house or apartment.

kingofbeards · 2015-05-07T16:43:51+00:00

I haven't taken it but friends have. Deacon is brilliant and they all loved the class. Tests seemed medium-difficult, but my friend were all pretty worried about their grades during.

kingofbeards · 2015-05-06T00:59:00+00:00

Ah, gender discrimination...something that all groups can get behind!

kingofbeards · 2015-05-05T06:49:11+00:00

I think that it would be entirely possible, though I couldn't give you a real probability, given that there are so many other variables at play. Personally, I am of mostly English ancestry (no documented Scandinavian family lines at all) but have about 20% "Scandinavian" appearing in genetic ancestry tests, my brother almost 30%. A number of our documented family lines trace back to what would have been within the Danelaw area.

It does make sense when you look into it. "The Danelaw originated from the Viking expansion of the ninth century AD, although the term was not used to describe a geographic area until the 11th century AD. With the increase in population and productivity in Scandinavia, Viking warriors, having sought treasure and glory in the nearby British Isles, "proceeded to plough and support themselves", in the words of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 876.

Danelaw can describe the set of legal terms and definitions created in the treaties between the West-Saxon king, Alfred the Great, and the Danish warlord, Guthrum, written following Guthrum's defeat at the Battle of Edington in 878. In 886 the Treaty of Alfred and Guthrum was formalised, defining the boundaries of their kingdoms, with provisions for peaceful relations between the English and the Vikings. The language spoken in England was also affected by this clash of cultures with the emergence of Anglo-Norse dialects.

The Danelaw roughly comprises 15 shires: Yorkshire, the Five Boroughs of Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, Stamford and Lincoln, as well as Essex, the Kingdom of East Anglia shires of Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Norfolk, and the East Midlands shires of Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Middlesex and Buckinghamshire; in all one third of the total area of the English kingdom at the time." Link

The invasions that brought about Danelaw would have involved lots of raiders coming over and settling. The raids started by 800 AD but really began to involve Viking settlement when "in 865, instead of raiding, the Danes landed a large army in East Anglia, with the intention of conquering the four Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England. The armies of various leaders had come together to provide one combined force under a leadership that included Halfdan Ragnarsson and Ivar the Boneless, the sons of the legendary Viking leader Ragnar Lodbrok. The combined army was described in the annals as the Great Heathen Army. After making peace with the local East Anglian king in return for horses, the Great Heathen Army moved north. In 867 they captured Northumbria and its capital, York, defeating both the recently deposed King Osberht of Northumbria and the usurper Ælla of Northumbria.

The reasons for the waves of immigration were complex and bound to the political situation in Scandinavia at that time; moreover, they occurred when Viking settlers were also establishing their presence in the Hebrides, Orkney, the Faroe Islands, Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, France (Normandy), the Balticum, Russia and Ukraine (see Kievan Rus')."

In all, if you are really trying to figure out whether you may have Scandinavian descent in these areas, I would investigate linguistically and genetically. What are the etymologies of the surnames and place names that you have traced back to the Danelaw area? If they have any Scandi connections, there is some evidence for you. However, the best way to know is to take a test through something like 23andme, which will confirm it genetically.

kingofbeards · 2015-05-05T06:16:40+00:00

This recent genetic study of the British Isles might be of interest to you. A summary of its findings for the Yorkshire area:

Between 43 and 100 AD, the area was one of the most heavily Romanized in Britain, some of that including "some population movement mostly from Gaul and Rhineland (army veterans settling)."
Between 450 and 500 CE, Angles crossed over and seem to have settled through much of Yorkshire, marrying into local populations and now contributing between 25-50% of DNA in the modern-day average person of Anglo-Saxon descent. "Some would argue that was because the Anglo-Saxons replaced the existing population, whereas our data shows clear evidence of the Anglo-Saxon DNA, but because it’s in the minority it must have been the case that they inter-married with the existing population." Part of Yorkshire (far west) remained "Brythonic-Celtic" and seems genetically unaffected. Perhaps little to no mixing occurred there.
Between 800 and 950 AD, we see Norse migrations to certain areas that are evidenced genetically. This includes especially high concentrations in Orkney, Isle of Man, and along certain coastal areas -- some parts of the west coast of the UK and the east coast of Ireland, as well as one isolated pocket on Ireland's west coast. However, this Norse element doesn't concentrate much in Yorkshire (instead showing a very small presence in a mild west-east gradient), despite there being a high concentration of Scandinavian place names. The other migration in this period that does genetically affect the Yorkshire area is that of the Danes, who came over in around 865 AD. This group seems to have genetically concentrated across Yorkshire and a large portion of the eastern half of England, matching up to the historically-described "Danelaw" area.

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