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Mar 2019
7:41pm, 21 Mar 2019
41,488 posts
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GlennR
(The myth of Sisyphus in Scots dialect)
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Mar 2019
11:08am, 22 Mar 2019
41,496 posts
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GlennR
cambridgeindependent.co.uk “It is really exciting. I don’t know of any way of counting eels, perhaps we should launch a competition for someone to design an eel counter. “Eels are in so much trouble that anything that can help is tremendous.” |
Mar 2019
11:12am, 22 Mar 2019
10,223 posts
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Cerrertonia
[I was slightly involved in a project helping Korean Eel farmers use the internet of things to automate lots of their daily work - checking how big the eels were, water temperature, cleanliness, food levels etc. Fairly sure the problem of counting eels has been solved  ]
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Mar 2019
8:54pm, 22 Mar 2019
17,395 posts
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Dvorak
Significant numbers of marathon runners show highly raised levels of Troponin T, which is a marker used to determine if someone has had a heart attack. This has lead to reports of marathon/ultra running causing heart damage. However, unlike after a heart attack, in affected athletes the Troponin level tends to quickly return to normal. Endurance cyclists and triathletes do not seem to be affected in the same way. Additionally, better trained runners are less affected.
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Mar 2019
9:24pm, 22 Mar 2019
41,506 posts
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GlennR
Yeah, I’ve read about that. IIRC there is an increased risk of heart attack for some time after the event. Where’s Velociraptor?
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Mar 2019
12:20pm, 25 Mar 2019
41,523 posts
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GlennR
From the Times obituary of Scott Walker: "The first sign of his new experimentation came in the unlikely form of a Walker Brothers reunion album. Nite Flights (1978) contains The Electrician, a dark if beautiful piece of mood music about a CIA torturer. From then on he went ever deeper into the shadowy recesses of his psyche, pulling his voice into increasingly dramatic shapes on his way there. Tilt (1995) is the kind of bleak masterpiece you really only need listen to once a year. By The Drift (2006) he was using cuts of raw meat as percussion instruments." |
Mar 2019
12:43pm, 25 Mar 2019
111,436 posts
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GregP
"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist." Hélder Câmara |
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Mar 2019
7:03am, 26 Mar 2019
111,457 posts
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GregP
nytimes.com
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Mar 2019
8:55am, 26 Mar 2019
41,547 posts
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GlennR
Tim Harford was written something similar, I will try to dig it up.
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Mar 2019
8:55am, 26 Mar 2019
41,548 posts
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GlennR
Has, not was.
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