Today, fortunately most people get by with two umbrella terms, vegetarian and vegan, which cover quite a few different motivations with the same practical results. But things like this hypothetical question or the development of artificial meat will split those differences. A lot of people just don't like milk, meat, etc. (I've known people that will say they are vegetarian for ethical reasons when really it was just about taste, as that produced less backlash from others). And there are those that will complain about anything along those lines, real or just an emulation, as I've bumped into people that were opposed to fake fur.
I had only recently heard about such glasses, and instead had been keeping an eye out in antique stores for orange Fiestaware which used to use uranium oxide until the whole line was discontinued for lack of sales in the 70s. They make for a handy demonstration of radioactivity, although just about anything ceramic will have some amount of radioactivity and it just depends on how good your detector is, etc. On that note, these things can peg the meter on a Geiger counter, but it is misleading because Geiger counters, especially cheap ones, are often calibrated for higher energy radiation and are much more sensitive to lower energy radiation. So if you have equal numbers of high and low energy particles being emitted, the latter shows as larger signal on a Geiger counter, even though the former can cause a higher dose.
And the article was a bit loose about radiation. I wouldn't go as far as to say x-rays are worse than beta particles, as it really comes down to how much, in what situation, and at what energies. Low energy x-rays can be stopped by a lot less than lead, for example.
In the US, the legal requirements for ice cream comes down to pretty much minimum and maximum quantities for dairy products (e.g. minimum milkfat and milk solids), and a bunch of labeling requirements. The amount of preservatives, emulsifiers, thickeners, and other nondairy additives doesn't seem to include or exclude anything from being called ice cream. Things might end up being a frozen dairy dessert either because they were too cheap to use enough milksolids, in which case cheaper foods tend to have a lot of additives, or it might be just because it is an otherwise traditional ingredients but made to be low fat.
Prerinsing or not seems to really depend on what dishwashing machine you have, with some being much better than others. The result is a lot of frustration when you have visitors trying to help out in the kitchen, insisting that they don't need to rinse, then confused when you show them the baked on mess it leaves behind. The loading they showed in the video might not be so good for bowls, again depending on the machine, as some can get a bit violent even on the top rack and bowls that rest on each other can chip (also depends on quality of the bowls).
I think the knife grip one showed is a bit down to personal choice. While choking up on the grip helps, how much you actually place your fingers on the blade seems to depend on the size of your hands and the knife. I've seen other chefs suggest choking up that much while some do, and a few say to try both.
I'm not the biggest fan of Walmart, but in this case it seems kind of arbitrary where people focus their ire, considering if you look up the ingredients of the sandwich, it is about the same as the ingredients in other medium to low cost brands of ice cream sandwich (e.g. Blue Bunny used as a comparison above), with mainly just different variations in the particular plant based gums used to thicken it.
And in this case, the use of plant gums and emulsifiers to produce unique textures and different properties than expected is something people pay a lot of money for in various high end restaurants ("hot ice cream" that melts when it gets cold instead of hot was/is a big thing at some places, although that uses methylcellulose instead of gums). But when it comes from some place people don't like, it is jokingly expected to eat through plates.
Rambutan are usually easy enough to find canned, and reminds me of lychee (probably indistinguishable to someone who hasn't had both several times). The stuff canned in syrup is going to be sweeter like most such canned fruit, which makes the flavor seem milder than the fresh ones.
Buddha's hand is pretty much all rind and pith from what I remember, so it smells nice and you can make marmalade, but are otherwise limited to things that can just use its zest or oil. Unless you get it cheap, it is more ornamental than for use as food.
Chayote was really disappointing to me, as the couple times I tried using it, it had almost no flavor of its own. Unless I had it growing on my own property, or it was the same price range as potatoes and plantains, it wasn't worth it to me.
Dragonfruit for a while was easier to find dried than fresh for me. Dried it isn't as expensive, but is quite different. Because it had so many seeds, the dried form was more like a slightly flavored sesame or rice cracker. The fresh ones are usually very expensive, but at least better quality, and worth a try for the novelty (unlike say starfruit, which seem to be as expensive where I am, but horrible quality compared to when I lived further south).
The other odd fruit I've taken a liken to is jackfruit, which I can get cheap ice cream and fruit bars for at an Asian supermarket. The normal grocery store started carrying the fruit, but typically just puts out a single, whole, basketball-size fruit for $40, which sits there for several weeks. At the end of its shelf-life it does get cut up and packaged, but disappears quickly. I haven't asked if they could cut it up at any other point, but could just go to the Asian supermarket anyway where it is always stocked in cut pieces.
So your family relation to Pocahontas makes you related to the historical grave a few stories back? How could you have a greater claim to fame than being related to someone mentioned in a Neatorama story?
When I first saw an image of this a couple years ago, it was linked to me without any story, and my thoughts were, "Hmm, looks just like a large wave structure" (in addition to thinking "cool picture"). It was rather confusing to see all the conspiracy theories later, when it seemed so similar from the start to structures that pop up in rotating experiments and even comes up from time to time on Earth's poles (though nowhere near as pretty or long term).
I don't think I would call that a motherboard, just a generic printed circuit board. Companies (or one of their humorless departments) may be hesitant to stick random things on their circuit board where someone might see it, so while some are around, they aren't too common in my experience. Although there are collections around of images found on the actual silicon chips and integrated circuits, which normally would not be visible without destructively opening the plastic the chip is embedded in and then using a microscope to look at it.
Although the US mint wants to "discourage" defacing of coins, they do point out that the law says its only illegal when defaced with the fraudulent intent. As long as a defaced coin is treated as such, as opposed to deceiving someone about the nature of the coin, say being changed and sold as a mis-struck coin or one produced in a different year, etc., then it is ok. There are companies that will sell painted or modified coins in the US, and they don't get in trouble as long as they aren't misleading about what they've done to the coin.
A professor from which university? Any US university receiving federal grants is required by law to have am "Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee" that oversees the care and use of vertebrates in research, and has a bunch of requirements for documenting procedures, inspections, and accountability for such things to the federal government. Besides the things they are supposed to be looking out for, they would block anything illegal because universities (at least all of the ones I'm familiar with) get very touchy about getting close to breaking the law, especially if just for research, because they don't want to take risks. That said, part of the issue will be what the law actually limits people to (e.g. neither of the two brown bat species are protected at the federal level, just at some local levels).
At least in that case, it should have been straightforward to deal with. If you come across a random poacher in the woods, the authorities finding them again can be near impossible depending on how smart the poacher is, but a professor will be quite easy to locate again and charge with any crime committed.
A lot of these things are just to understand how different senses work for different animals, in the same way there are experiments to examine how vision and hearing work in different animals. Some of it is comparative, to see how senses developed and differentiated between different animals, although in some cases there have been ones that were analogs to how humans work.
I remember some test from a few years back where rats were found to have some neurons that responded to their body orientation, which was thought to depend on gravity, but when removing gravity they found it could then respond to visual clues. This was connected to various disorientation issues humans have in low gravity, that it might not just be confusing visual clues but that such clues tied directly into parts of the nervous system used for orientation.
Some tests done on longer terms aboard spacecraft are more to understand development. There was one that was found almost by accident, where some experiment proposed by school children to send fertilized chicken eggs on a space shuttle mission discovered gravity was necessary for the eggs to develop, but only during a very specific period of a couple days.
The issues that come up with the snake's sense of self might have broader implications. I want to say there was an incident where an astronaut had some issues with sense of self, but I couldn't find it and it might not have been true when I heard about it. But regardless, it is kind of a complex sense that might be easier to understand in a simpler creature.
The only times I've canceled cable was when moving an that took a matter of seconds (as opposed to getting cable or internet installed, which has resulted in some stories that take a long time to tell...).
But without cable currently, I get calls advertising cable. I've found if I hang up or don't give a response, they call the next day, whereas humoring them for 30 seconds makes them not call for another month or two. Telling them I don't have a TV works rather effectively: "Why don't we see what deals we have that are appropriate for you," "I don't have a TV," "Ok, none of our deals would be useful to you, have a nice day."
Except for one time that a guy wanted to grill me for why I don't have a TV. "How do you watch DVDs?" "I don't" "How do you watch movies at home?" "I don't" "How do you get news." "Not via TV" "What sports do you watch?" "I don't" And this went on for five minutes. I would have hung up or told him that such things were none of his business, but I was amused by how bewildered he was at my short, negative answers to all of his questions.
While a lot of company representatives are supposed to be pressuring on the phone to some degree and have a script they are supposed to go through, most can recognize when it is blatantly pointless and want to move on as much as you do. Considering what I've heard about what it is like to work on the other end of the phone, it seems those going off script are less likely to meet their quotas and don't have the script to cover their butt.
I had assumed that international law required all behind the scenes movie articles to enumerate their points and state the total in the title. It is nice to see a return to such an archaic format.
And the article was a bit loose about radiation. I wouldn't go as far as to say x-rays are worse than beta particles, as it really comes down to how much, in what situation, and at what energies. Low energy x-rays can be stopped by a lot less than lead, for example.
I think the knife grip one showed is a bit down to personal choice. While choking up on the grip helps, how much you actually place your fingers on the blade seems to depend on the size of your hands and the knife. I've seen other chefs suggest choking up that much while some do, and a few say to try both.
And in this case, the use of plant gums and emulsifiers to produce unique textures and different properties than expected is something people pay a lot of money for in various high end restaurants ("hot ice cream" that melts when it gets cold instead of hot was/is a big thing at some places, although that uses methylcellulose instead of gums). But when it comes from some place people don't like, it is jokingly expected to eat through plates.
Buddha's hand is pretty much all rind and pith from what I remember, so it smells nice and you can make marmalade, but are otherwise limited to things that can just use its zest or oil. Unless you get it cheap, it is more ornamental than for use as food.
Chayote was really disappointing to me, as the couple times I tried using it, it had almost no flavor of its own. Unless I had it growing on my own property, or it was the same price range as potatoes and plantains, it wasn't worth it to me.
Dragonfruit for a while was easier to find dried than fresh for me. Dried it isn't as expensive, but is quite different. Because it had so many seeds, the dried form was more like a slightly flavored sesame or rice cracker. The fresh ones are usually very expensive, but at least better quality, and worth a try for the novelty (unlike say starfruit, which seem to be as expensive where I am, but horrible quality compared to when I lived further south).
The other odd fruit I've taken a liken to is jackfruit, which I can get cheap ice cream and fruit bars for at an Asian supermarket. The normal grocery store started carrying the fruit, but typically just puts out a single, whole, basketball-size fruit for $40, which sits there for several weeks. At the end of its shelf-life it does get cut up and packaged, but disappears quickly. I haven't asked if they could cut it up at any other point, but could just go to the Asian supermarket anyway where it is always stocked in cut pieces.
At least in that case, it should have been straightforward to deal with. If you come across a random poacher in the woods, the authorities finding them again can be near impossible depending on how smart the poacher is, but a professor will be quite easy to locate again and charge with any crime committed.
I remember some test from a few years back where rats were found to have some neurons that responded to their body orientation, which was thought to depend on gravity, but when removing gravity they found it could then respond to visual clues. This was connected to various disorientation issues humans have in low gravity, that it might not just be confusing visual clues but that such clues tied directly into parts of the nervous system used for orientation.
Some tests done on longer terms aboard spacecraft are more to understand development. There was one that was found almost by accident, where some experiment proposed by school children to send fertilized chicken eggs on a space shuttle mission discovered gravity was necessary for the eggs to develop, but only during a very specific period of a couple days.
The issues that come up with the snake's sense of self might have broader implications. I want to say there was an incident where an astronaut had some issues with sense of self, but I couldn't find it and it might not have been true when I heard about it. But regardless, it is kind of a complex sense that might be easier to understand in a simpler creature.
But without cable currently, I get calls advertising cable. I've found if I hang up or don't give a response, they call the next day, whereas humoring them for 30 seconds makes them not call for another month or two. Telling them I don't have a TV works rather effectively: "Why don't we see what deals we have that are appropriate for you," "I don't have a TV," "Ok, none of our deals would be useful to you, have a nice day."
Except for one time that a guy wanted to grill me for why I don't have a TV. "How do you watch DVDs?" "I don't" "How do you watch movies at home?" "I don't" "How do you get news." "Not via TV" "What sports do you watch?" "I don't" And this went on for five minutes. I would have hung up or told him that such things were none of his business, but I was amused by how bewildered he was at my short, negative answers to all of his questions.
While a lot of company representatives are supposed to be pressuring on the phone to some degree and have a script they are supposed to go through, most can recognize when it is blatantly pointless and want to move on as much as you do. Considering what I've heard about what it is like to work on the other end of the phone, it seems those going off script are less likely to meet their quotas and don't have the script to cover their butt.