Well just in case this ends up being a solution to some mystery I’ve not come across, here’s a genuine (albeit seemingly pointless) finding from a research project I did a while back:
When saltwater is poured into the soil around the roots of a tomato plant, the plant’s internal electrochemical response oscillates with a 0.1hz frequency.
I’m not sure what mystery that will solve but now nobody can accuse me of not reporting/recording it!
Especially so for anything discovered more than a couple hundred years ago when most people couldn’t write, let alone have their findings instantly available to the world via the internet
Good one, and you now have a mantled wall!
These are called orphaned negatives and English has loads of them. A great article about them is here: https://stephenliddell.co.uk/2021/03/17/a-gruntled-look-at-orphan-negatives/
As a slight tangent, a similar peculiarity in English (which I don’t know of a name for) is where you can use the opposite words for similar actions, e.g. you can chop a tree down and then chop it up.
When I was a teenager I had a variety of joint problems, including my knees. Walking down off a mountain one day the weather took a turn for the worse and a strong gust of wind knocked me off my feet and I landed knee-first on a rock. Nothing broken, but couldn’t walk on it. We’d barely seen anyone else that day but it just so happened that a couple were just approaching us as I fell. The wife was a nurse, the husband was ex-special forces.
I like my odds
In my first AI lecture at uni, my lecturer started off by asking us to spend 5 minutes in groups defining “intelligence”. No group had the same definition. “So if you can’t agree on what intelligence is, how can we possibly define artificial intelligence?”
AI has historically just described cutting edge computer science at the time, and I imagine it will continue to do so.
100% would play this game
Whoever set up these sites should be ashamed of themselves. How dare they make critical knowledge that can improve humanity freely available?
You can cut a tree down and then cut that same tree up
I think Spez was just misunderstood.
Leaving church life behind is very hard indeed. For me most of my social circles were built around church. Home group, Sunday services, university CU. It took a long time to get into new ways of meeting people socially and I’m still certainly not as close to as many people as in my church days.
I have no real advice to pass on here, just saying you’re certainly not alone in finding it tough to leave that side of life behind.
Also if air were frozen, it wouldn’t flow to move out of your way so you’d be locked in place.
And the human form, vCJD - variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
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Git is a fine subset of these phrases. “Today I messed up big time and now I have to work out how to recover from a detached head.”
IP Over Avian Carrier: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IP_over_Avian_Carriers&oldid=1073581154 (old version before certain revisions were made to make it more sensible)
And the other April fools RFCs: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools'_Day_Request_for_Comments
Ooh, interesting. That’s a different angle from what we were working on but a similar idea of being able to understand what stresses plants are under.
Here’s an article talking about the project I contributed to: https://www.engineering.com/story/xzezv