I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, I dislike the dairy industry for promoting the “milk is good for you” business when it’s a common source of sensitivity and outright allergy, not to mention saturated fat. So I say screw your attempt to monopolize the word “milk.”
On the other, we do have big problems with definitions in food labeling. Almond milk is (I think) on the same shelves as dairy milk, so I can see how someone might think it was just almond-flavored milk. And then there’s soy milk and rice milk and so on. We use rice milk in cereal, and it states right on the box “do not use as infant formula.” I guess it doesn’t have the right nutrients for that. I don’t know about almond milk, but I do wonder if it has the same problem.
Perhaps we should require the dairy industry to call their product “Cow milk?” Problem solved!
It’s already called dairy, where nut and other plant milks aren’t.
Like the article cited above says, this isn’t new. And it wouldn’t be a problem except people don’t learn any fucking history anymore besides bizarro versions of relatively recent wars.
The lumps and bumps I’ll give him – because da Vinci was such a good anatomist – but the hair and skin, no. No eyebrows and high foreheads were fashionable and more likely from tweezers than thyroid. Her hair is also weighed down by a veil he didn’t mention.
And the yellowing is from the age of the portrait and the chemicals used to create it.
Even without the skin and hair his argument holds up though.
“There’s a spot by her left eye, and let’s argue that her neck isn’t as thin as it might theoretically be, and in a certain light it looks like there’s some very slight anomaly between her fingers. Also, there’s her hairline, eyebrows, and skin tone, all which can easily be explained away by other factors. Ummm… underactive thyroid. Case closed! Best doctor ever!”
I’ve always loved first-hand accounts of submariners. There’s a bit in Iron Coffins when their boat got stuck in the mud on the seafloor somewhere around Denmark and the whole crew had to alternate running back and forth from bow to stern and jump up and down to rock it loose. Other interesting bits in U.S. and British accounts. This one is new, I had no idea it would get that hot down below the surface. Sounds like they didn’t either.
