What did you learn today?

(Eric - The patient needs to be patient!) #925

Printers are sometimes set up to not print copies of money or checks.

(Empress of the Unexpected) #926

Mine was apparently set up to print half the check - which started my downward spiral into frustration. Iā€™ve never had that problem before. But, hey, you learn something every day!

#927

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Iā€™ve learned more about polar vortexes than I imagined, and Iā€™m not even in the path of vengeance. Stay safe, Mid Westerners.

(Running from stupidity) #928

(Doug) #929

Have to disagree strongly, there, Mic. Thatā€™s quite an incorrect over-generalization.

(Eric - The patient needs to be patient!) #930

@OldDoug

Interest in autophagy is high in terms of pubmed pubs.

2018 1143 papers
2017 2345
2016 2400
2015 2267

Iā€™m thinking there may be some clues about autophagy phases and when they happen in this research.

(The amazing autoimmune šŸ¦„) #931

I learned that if you are at your goal weight but want to fast some people use exogenous ketones to maintain energy and weight but get into autophagy. Mind you i am very far from that but I thought it was interesting.

(Running from stupidity) #932

That butcher I got the AWESOME 80/20 beef mince[1] off last week is Leo, they donā€™t make sausage mince grind (Sorry @MooBoom, but Iā€™ll look around, I was too tired to bother today), and that his normal pork mince is about 10-15 percent fat.

Also, that the chicken sausages I bought from the Happy Wishbone are only about 10 percent fat, so unless theyā€™re awesome, Iā€™ll go back to buying them from the 40 percent fat place :slight_smile:

[1] Seriously, best mince weā€™ve ever had, and by the length of the Flemington straight.

(MooBoom) #933

Thanks for doing the reconnaissance @juice bit of a shame it didnā€™t yield the desired outcome! In the US they seem to have a lot more options than we Aussies.
Iā€™ll keep looking for a better option, might pop over to the Barossa and see whatā€™s around. They seem to have a wider selection of niche stuff there.

(Running from stupidity) #934

I ā€œpopped overā€ from Collingwood to North Melbourne today. ā€œIf I canā€™t walk there, Iā€™m not going thereā€ is pretty much my motto :slight_smile:

(Jane) #935

I learned the vibrating boobs can be caused by pinched nerves. Who knew?

(Empress of the Unexpected) #936

I learned you canā€™t trust contractors to ā€œclean up.ā€

(Wendy) #937

It was -16 when I left work tonight. It was cold but I was bundled up, my car warmed up and I survived. Lol! Weā€™ll see how tomorrow goes. (Iā€™m from the Chicago area.)

(Running from stupidity) #938

This is about academic writing, because thatā€™s his target audience, but really, itā€™s just good advice for everything, including writing on forums :slight_smile:

On fancy language in academic writing
January 24, 2019

The aim of your writing should be to communicate as clearly as possible. The language should be formal, but, above all, understandable.

Think of it this way; when a busy academic downloads your paper, itā€™s probably one of many theyā€™ve downloaded to try to read before their next meeting. They have a limited amount of time and attention to spare, and if they donā€™t understand what youā€™re saying quickly, theyā€™ll move on to the next paper and forget about you.

But itā€™s easy to forget this when trying to dress up your research in high-level academic language. If the language obscures the message, then it isnā€™t serving the basic aim of communication. Some academics do this deliberately, confusing the reader to disguise a lack of actual content, others do it inadvertently because of a lack of confidence and some do it just because they think itā€™s how academic writing should be.

Itā€™s easier than ever to reach a global audience with your research, but that audience is overwhelmed by the sheer amount of information available. If you want your work to be understood, noticed and spread, write as clearly as you can.

#939

Frankly I find this statement to be shallow and pedantic.

(Running from stupidity) #940

Maybe so, but itā€™s also very VERY true.

(Alex ) #941

Chicago looks crazy at the moment, it made the news hereā€¦ Pictures of them setting fire to the railway tracks to keep the train services running ā€¦ thatā€™s something Iā€™ve never seen before! Hope youā€™re all staying indoors!

We get to -1 here and itā€™s pandemonium, let alone -25

#942

Balderdash, if I canā€™t ply my astronomic plethora of words, how shall anyone access correctly that I too can inaugurate the use of a thesaurus?

(Running from stupidity) #943

Ah, well, when you put it like that, I donā€™t understand it at all, so yes, absolutely!

(Laurie) #944

The text message notifications on my new phone last less than a second and are hard to hear in noisy conditions. I want something I have a chance of hearing!

So I learned that you can indeed add custom notification sounds to your phone:

I hope to get the first 51 seconds of this song. Maybe Iā€™ll be able to do it tomorrow. I love Slim Whitman.

Bonus! I learned that Spike Jones also recorded Indian Love Call, but I canā€™t find it anywhere online. I waitressed in a bar where his son, Spike Jones Jr., performed liveā€“back when we were both young.