#randomresearch — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #randomresearch, aggregated by home.social.
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No idea why I thought to check, but… "bork" is in the dictionary. 🤪
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Today's random rabbit hole… reading all about Sinead O'Connor—triggered just because there's a bald character in a game I was playing online.
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I was curious about what the definition of bread even is, as in what are the requirements to call it bread. It sounds like the only absolute requirements are some combination of flour and water in some sort of mixture. I thought there would be a more involved definition.
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Today's #RandomResearch…
I just got a motor oil change for our car. I've often wondered what the "synthetic" stuff is.Synthetic motor oil, Wikipedia
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Today's #RandomResearch
Black pepper from Wikipedia
"Black pepper (Piper nigrum) is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit (the peppercorn), which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning."
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What Is A Male Ballet Dancer Called—Dance Ivy
#RandomResearch #TIL #Ballerino #Danseur #Linguistics #Vocabulary
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What Is A Male Ballet Dancer Called—Dance Ivy
#RandomResearch #TIL #Ballerino #Danseur #Linguistics #Vocabulary
https://danceivy.com/blogs/news/what-is-a-male-ballet-dancer-called-in-america -
What Is A Male Ballet Dancer Called—Dance Ivy
#RandomResearch #TIL #Ballerino #Danseur #Linguistics #Vocabulary
https://danceivy.com/blogs/news/what-is-a-male-ballet-dancer-called-in-america -
What Is A Male Ballet Dancer Called—Dance Ivy
#RandomResearch #TIL #Ballerino #Danseur #Linguistics #Vocabulary
https://danceivy.com/blogs/news/what-is-a-male-ballet-dancer-called-in-america -
What Is A Male Ballet Dancer Called—Dance Ivy
#RandomResearch #TIL #Ballerino #Danseur #Linguistics #Vocabulary
https://danceivy.com/blogs/news/what-is-a-male-ballet-dancer-called-in-america -
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Today in looking up random stuff…
"You snooze, you lose." in Latin.
I'm no linguist, but I think it looks something like "dormis perdis" according to the Interwebs.
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Are the December solstice and January perihelion related?—Deborah Byrd
#RandomResearch #Astrophysics
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Why I’m so short—Robert Reich, on Substack
TIL
#RandomResearch #Health #Science
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-im-so-short-140 -
Fascinating… a scholar on Chabad.org says that when rabbis do the "Vulcan" hand signs, the hands are actually angled with palms facing down and the right hand is supposed to be slightly elevated above the left. No origin or explanation of meaning was given.
Maybe the reason I never realized the hands were aimed slightly downward was because at the congregation my family belonged to, the altar was raised above the pews so that we were always looking up at the rabbis?
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Paper types ranked by likelihood of paper cuts—Bob Yirka, Phys.org
There must be scientists out there who think like I do! 😆
#RandomResearch
https://phys.org/news/2024-08-paper-likelihood.html