Well this is interesting

I don’t know if I can watch anything in theaters these days. But unlikely to have flashing traffic and subway lights:

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In Texax, of all places!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Réunion_(Dallas)#:~:text=La%20Réunion%20was%20founded%20in,III’s%20military%20expedition%20to%20Rome.

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The Force is strong with this one.

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Telling the whole story can make even Lovecraft good, full, and truthful (Lovecraft Country), I don’t think Star Wars ever got close to telling a full and truthful story. In Hollywood terms they often did well with the franchise, but truth and context is still missing.

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Better return than savings bonds!

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As I often post here, this is a rather specialised form of interesting:

Comparing equivalent basic bikes from 1975 and 2020. The final conclusion may be surprising, but not in the obvious way.

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sidenote, I usually appreciate a video for the information contained and will go along with the host despite their not being very good at being a host, nor charismatic, with attempts at humor that don’t land, and frequently possessed of an annoying voice or some type of affectation.
this guy is actually good at hosting a video AND the information is good AND the visual part is presented well. he’s a unicorn.

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Oh gosh, I read that at first glance as “unicron”.

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Looking forward to the unicron clock teardown video.

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Or this guy:

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Research on lactose tolerance in Europe’s Bronze Age:

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This link doesn’t exactly go to the story. For me, anyway.

Me neither.

full paper:

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)31187-8

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Long story short - we knew that lactase persistence was a very recent development. Most adults are currently lactose intolerant, except those with the necessary mutations. Going back a bit, nobody had those mutations, so all adults were lactose intolerant. We thought those changes gradually happened over like 10,000 years of agriculture.

New discoveries have shortened the timeframe much more, to the point where, in areas where pretty much everyone is lactase persistent, just 3000 years ago, most people were still lactose intolerant. Which leads to lots of questions about how the lactase persistence gene spread so so rapidly that some people consider it normal, when only a few generations ago, it would have been very abnormal.

No answers, just new questions - like how a new genetic trait can spread so rapidly. That’s what’s new and interesting about it - that a trait like that can spread so far so fast, beyond what we thought possible.

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the source being Reality Winner.

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