And if it's not the microbiome it's probably something to do with quantum entanglement.
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[0] https://sivers.org/book/EMythRevisited (I liked this summary - I found the link a few weeks ago on here. Thanks to https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sivers)
... for the uninitiated
in the years following the mission the mistakes and disagreements received added scrutiny. Several writers embellished the more dramatic aspects that led to the radio conference, introducing both “strike” and “mutiny” to the interpretation of events. These and other controversial terms continue to be used, even if inaccurately, to describe the hours leading up to the conference between astronauts and mission control.
It makes me smile to think that my 15-year-old self would have loved a feature that did the same but in reverse. That was, of course, a pre-internet, almost porn-free world.
She told me an inspiring story about Louis Kalff, the designer behind the success of Philips.
"He had written a letter to Anton Philips, President of Philips, to tell him what he thought of the company’s advertising and how it could be improved. Just a few days later he was called into the head office to be offered a job."
http://applications.nam.lighting.philips.com/blog/index.php/...
The movie implies that he did so:
"Stern, if this factory ever produces a shell that can actually be fired... I'll be very unhappy."
A marathon is a race ;-)
A sad story of missed opportunity.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Stuhlinger&sort=byPopularity&p...
"... while riding a bus in New York City, he observed a mother with eight small children embark. She asked the driver the amount of the fare; he told her that the cost was thirty-five cents, but that children under the age of five could ride for free. When the woman deposited only thirty-five cents into the payment slot, the driver was incredulous. "Do you mean to tell me that all your children are under five years old?" The woman explained that she had four sets of twins. The driver replied, "Do you always have twins?" "No," said the woman, "most of the time we don't have any."
"... the inability of ketone bodies metabolization due to various deficiencies in mitochondrial enzymes is the major metabolic changes discovered in malignant cells"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Mattson#Intermittent_Fast...
My 11 digit phone number occurs around the 115 millionth digit, a grand saving of two digits.
Also, I love the line: "Suppose the speed of cats is constant"