Should upgrade the durian fruit to jack fruit. While a durian fruit can reach up to 3 kg, a jack fruit can push up beyond 30 kg. A local grocery store is actually trying to sell one of these things, and while it would be nice to try, I don't want to buy the whole thing at ~$60.
Google is only repeating what the source dictionaries already have said since at least the beginning of the year. English dictionaries tend to be more descriptive than prescriptive, with usually some lag. Although in this case they have footnotes warning that the second usage is considered by many to be incorrect.
I can't make any specific cure recommendations off the top of my head, but a good resource when trying to judge how effective something might be is to check Pubmed to see if any formal work has been done. There are so many combinations of common materials and conditions, a lot of things might not have been actually studied in any detail or at all. But on the off chance it has been check, it could help you at least save money.
Of course, if it feels like it works, for many mild conditions, that is all that matters as long as it can't turn into anything more serious if ignored, and this is being done just for yourself. The actual effectiveness when done in a blind study might not matter, unless you are paying any significant amount of money for your cure. In that case, if it turns out to be as effective as just doing nothing or something really cheap, might as well not waste money. Sometimes it is not so much that something doesn't work, but that it is just as effective as using water, etc.
Dessert wines can get pretty sweet and/or strong. Depends what type of yeast you use before they give up and leave the rest of the sugar behind (and how acidic tasting the grapes affects how much sweetness you actually notice in the wine).
Lab grade alcohol shouldn't be used in anything intended for consumption unless it is of a grade specifically intended for human consumption. Depending on the production and purification methods used, there is the possibility of some nasty impurities (e.g. benzene). The higher the purity, especially above 95%, the higher the chances it has something like benzene added to it for purification, although it seems that method is becoming less common.
And I think adding vitamin C to the iodine treated water will cause the iodine to precipitate out, partially negating the fallout protection it provides. Although iodine will only protect you from a very specific component of fallout, and there are consequences from taking too much of it for too long, so that might be for the better.
Honey in large quantities sealed away from moisture may last forever, but smaller quantities in a humid environment will start to grow stuff eventually.
When I lived in LA and had some one visit, on more than one occasion we planned on going to Malibu, but gave up and didn't go past Santa Monica due to the time it took to get there. And that is when we had most of the day set aside to mess around along the coast.
I've had three different professors (two game theory and a political science one) in undergrad explicitly let the students know that if the whole class could pull off everyone turning in a blank test, everyone would be curved to 100%. They also each had never seen it actually work (and quietly mention they had to give a retest), even with dozens of attempts seen by each. So such tactics come with some pretty big risks...
I haven't seen the documentary, as I usually only get to watch such channels when at a hotel late after a conference or visiting family, and that rare time is spent seeing how bad the History channel has gotten.
But I have noticed in the past that it is amazing how much trust people will put into what they see in a documentary. I grew up with adults constantly reminding kids, "You can't trust what you see on TV," yet as it has gotten much, much easier to produce your own documentary, on TV or not, it seems such advice has dwindled. And it doesn't help that the confidence instilled in the viewer sticks even if the viewer doesn't actually remember what they saw all that well (a given show might have been right, even if they remember it wrong).
What this all comes down to is that I've gotten stuck in situations where people insist they are right about something because they've seen it on a documentary. "Oh, I wrote my thesis on that topic, do you want to see any citations out of a long list that agree with me?", "No need, I'm sure I'm right." "Oh, that is something that can easily be setup with lecture demo equipment we have, do you want to see it?", "No need, I've already seen it doesn't work on some video."
I had something similar years ago for a high school European history class, that for a variety of reasons was a optional, limited to only one ~30 student class a year, and only effectively available for sophomores. Additionally, to squeeze the class into our schedules, we had to be exempted from some history topics on the state curriculum for ancient history, and medieval history was covered through summer reading, along with another book more relevant to the course to make sure everyone coming in was taking the class seriously.
A few other classes I didn't take at my high school did similar things, but it was one of those oddities that got easier once I got to a university. At the university, with everyone's schedules being in flux until the first week of classes, and the bookstore always messing up stocks of needed books, no one dared to require any reading before the first day of class (they would just make you read it over the first weekend instead...).
The comparison for number of four degrees is with officers. Aren't some of the more straightforward ways to become a commissioned officer to attend one of the academies or to have a skilled background? If a degree is part of the common path to becoming an officer, plus any opportunities being in the armed forces offers to make getting a degree easier, it shouldn't be that surprising there are a lot of them with degrees.
i would be curious to see what portion of officers have a post-graduate degree, or the percentage with degrees for members of the services in general. And what portions of those were degrees they had before going in versus getting later (I've seen quite a few graduate students who were formerly in the military, but never noticed one going into the military).
Foreign words get incorporated into languages a lot, and frequently that can involve changes to how they are pronounced. And it can include proper nouns, as seen with the names of other countries and many names that have been pulled in from other languages without changes in spelling to make a clear distinction. The only distinction seems to come down to is time and if there is some official source. Porsche seems to be pretty clear on the latter account, but there are a lot of cases where it is less clear, and even worse, leading to hyperforeignism where people try to enforce foreign rules on a word that is no longer foreign. And it is not specific to Americans by a long shot, as I've met quite a few Germans and others, that for example, think the e in Nike is silent.
Class 4 lasers are getting into the area where even looking at diffuse reflections has a risk of damaging your eye, without the beam itself hitting you. Plus there is always some risk of getting hit by the beam directly if something it is reflecting off of moves, or you reach into the beam forgetting to take off a ring. I don't see any laser goggles here, and while you can frequently get by without them, it is a gamble most of the time. There are plenty of stories of researchers going years with bad goggle habits and then suddenly getting serious eye damage that could have been prevented, some of which are plastered on lab doors and safety cabinets to remind people why they should be wearing their goggles (I made the mistake of letting my wife read one once...now the laser is the second biggest danger to not wearing goggles).
I'm not so sure about the organics tasting better. As I was trying to say in the comment above, it might have been more of a correlation than causal, and it seems to be changing with time (to me at least). The concentrating on varieties for reasons other than looks was not something I was thinking of at the time though. Nonetheless, there are frequently many options for local produce that are not organic, but gives a wider variety of cultivar choices allowing you to find ones with emphasis on taste.
Of course, if it feels like it works, for many mild conditions, that is all that matters as long as it can't turn into anything more serious if ignored, and this is being done just for yourself. The actual effectiveness when done in a blind study might not matter, unless you are paying any significant amount of money for your cure. In that case, if it turns out to be as effective as just doing nothing or something really cheap, might as well not waste money. Sometimes it is not so much that something doesn't work, but that it is just as effective as using water, etc.
And I think adding vitamin C to the iodine treated water will cause the iodine to precipitate out, partially negating the fallout protection it provides. Although iodine will only protect you from a very specific component of fallout, and there are consequences from taking too much of it for too long, so that might be for the better.
But I have noticed in the past that it is amazing how much trust people will put into what they see in a documentary. I grew up with adults constantly reminding kids, "You can't trust what you see on TV," yet as it has gotten much, much easier to produce your own documentary, on TV or not, it seems such advice has dwindled. And it doesn't help that the confidence instilled in the viewer sticks even if the viewer doesn't actually remember what they saw all that well (a given show might have been right, even if they remember it wrong).
What this all comes down to is that I've gotten stuck in situations where people insist they are right about something because they've seen it on a documentary. "Oh, I wrote my thesis on that topic, do you want to see any citations out of a long list that agree with me?", "No need, I'm sure I'm right." "Oh, that is something that can easily be setup with lecture demo equipment we have, do you want to see it?", "No need, I've already seen it doesn't work on some video."
A few other classes I didn't take at my high school did similar things, but it was one of those oddities that got easier once I got to a university. At the university, with everyone's schedules being in flux until the first week of classes, and the bookstore always messing up stocks of needed books, no one dared to require any reading before the first day of class (they would just make you read it over the first weekend instead...).
i would be curious to see what portion of officers have a post-graduate degree, or the percentage with degrees for members of the services in general. And what portions of those were degrees they had before going in versus getting later (I've seen quite a few graduate students who were formerly in the military, but never noticed one going into the military).