The gunk in that bottle reminds me of an Alfred Hitchcock episode, The Jar.
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Somehow reminds me of
Probably tastes better, though.
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Imagine being the lab assistant who had to monitor that before the webcamsâŚ
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09/21/1932, 3:26 a.m.: Drop still hanging.
09/21/1932, 3:27 a.m.: Drop still hanging.
09/21/1932, 3:28 a.m.: Drop still hanging.
09/21/1932, 3:29 a.m.: Drop still hanging.
09/21/1932, 3:30 a.m.: Drop still hanging.
09/21/1932, 3:31 a.m.: Drop still hanging.
09/21/1932, 3:32 a.m.: Drop still hanging.
09/21/1932, 3:33 a.m.: Drop still hanging.
09/21/1932, 3:34 a.m.: Drop still hanging.
09/21/1932, 3:35 a.m.: Drop still hanging.
09/21/1932, 3:36 a.m.: Drop still hanging.
09/21/1932, 3:37 a.m.: Drop still hanging.
09/21/1932, 3:38 a.m.: Drop still hanging.
09/21/1932, 3:39 a.m.: Drop still hanging.
09/21/1932, 3:40 a.m.: Drop still hanging.
09/21/1932, 3:41 a.m.: Drop still hanging.
09/21/1932, 3:42 a.m.: Drop still hanging.
09/21/1932, 3:43 a.m.: Drop still hanging.
09/21/1932, 3:44 a.m.: Drop still hanging.
09/21/1932, 3:45 a.m.: Drop still hanging.
09/21/1932, 3:46 a.m.: Drop still hanging.
09/21/1932, 3:47 a.m.: Drop fell when I was in bathroom.
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Yes. Possibly, but not probably.
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And somewhat related:
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Wasnât the Cauchy distribution invented to spite someone who said certain properties were unique to the normal distribution?
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This nutrition studies stuff makes me especially angry, because people follow the unsubstantiated guidelines and then blame themselves when it doesnât help them/makes them sick.
Itâs not just statistical fussing; real medical harm is being done.
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And it just confuses the whole issue of trying to find and disseminate real methods for good nutrition.
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Thatâs the thing. Whatâs been coming out in the past 5 years or so is there are staggeringly few actual good studies on nutrition. And the ones that are have been buried because they didnât conform to the prevailing theory.
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I think there are just far too many variables to reliably determine what is âgood nutritionâ for anyone, let alone everyone. The older I get, the more it seems like astrology, phrenology, or alchemy. Even a very careful scientific study of one specific thing done in careful isolation and unchanging circumstances isnât necessarily applicable in the real world where things arenât isolated or controlled and are constantly changing.
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I agree. Most of the easy ones have been figured out (beri-beri, scurvy, goiter, etc.), and weâre left with the hard ones.
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not the punk band, unfortunately
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This is exactly what those ads are doing, and to top it off, it isnât even accurate. But because there are no apparent medical implications, they can get away with it.
Buyer beware.
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I donât doubt that theyâve found another dwarf planet in the outer reaches of the solar system; itâs extraordinarily unlikely that more such objects wouldnât exist. I am, however, skeptical of any suggestion that weâre missing anything Earth-sized or larger out there.
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Depends. When the aphelions get out to 1,000-2,000 AU, missing a planet in the Oort cloud, even a relatively large one, becomes understandable. This dwarf is in relatively close (80 AU) at the moment.
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Let me generalize a bit further. Iâm skeptical of any scientific claim that canât easily be either verified or falsified.
âThere are large objects in our solar system that we havenât found yetâ is easily, and repeatedly, being verified.
âThere is a specific object in our solar system that we havenât found yetâ is much more difficult to either verify or falsify, especially when they start throwing in distances in the hundreds or thousands of AU, and orbital periods in the tens or hundreds of thousands of years.
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Yeah, true. In this case, theyâre looking at orbital mechanics. Each planet they find that looks like it might be part of a group being shepherded by a larger planet makes it more likely that we will find a large planet doing the job. Iâm not going to call it a dead cinch certainty, and Nine is still controversial, butâŚ
(Wrong description earlier, should be âSednoidâ as itâs in too close for the Oort cloud, and too far for the Kuiper belt.)
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Besides, we already have a ninth planet.
#Pluto4Ever
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There you go, see? Nine is already controversial from the start. 
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