Everyone being build differently is what makes us resilient as a species and causes evolution. Also, if everyone was equally good at golf it wouldn’t be a fun sport anymore.

The woman next to me in the hospital was asked if she could be pregnant right after the nurse checked her birth year at more than 80 years ago. We all had a little laugh at that one.

I vaguely remember seeing ads on cliff faces etc in movies 15 years ago on television, but I think they stopped using them very quickly. Is this just a comeback of a failed test?

From the report: This report is a product of field and remote research carried out between October 2019 and May 2021. The report’s findings and conclusions are based on first-hand testimonies that Amnesty International gathered from former detainees of the internment camps and other people who were present in Xinjiang after 2017, as well as from an analysis of satellite imagery and data. The report also draws on testimonial evidence and confidential government documents gathered and analysed by journalists, scholars, and other human rights organizations. One hundred twenty-eight people were interviewed for this report: 55 former detainees of internment camps in Xinjiang (39 men and 16 women), 15 other witnesses who lived in or visited Xinjiang since 2017, and 68 family members of people from Xinjiang who are currently missing or detained. The majority of the interviewees were Kazakh, a minority were Uyghurs, and a small number were Kyrgyz or Han Chinese.

On QI (bbc quiz show) they once said the sound you make when you sneeze is cultural/learned, so I wouldn’t be surprised the number of sneezes is also somehow cultural.

I think before modern plumbing it was quite normal for more people sharing a bath one after the other, or going to large bath houses. The house I grew up in from the early 1900s didn’t have a bathroom and people would handwash and occasionally fill a bath in the kitchen. (We had a shower built in, but it was obviously not part of the original design)

I think I heard someone on a podcast with seizures triggered by lights and she said wearing sunglasses and in extreme cases closing one eye helped reduce the effects on her a lot.

Those warnings are called auras, and you can have visual or auditory auras warning you of a seizure.

Tldr: Only run a marathon if you think you will truly enjoy it, not because you believe you have to to be a “real runner”.

I was very confused why I woke up so early until I spotted my microwave in the late afternoon.

i imagine cremating fetusses is one of the lesser emotionally traumatizing things hospital workers have to deal with every day.

Also, if the fetus is big enough to be (near) viable and the abortion happens for medical reasons or in case of stillbirths, I hope/expect parents are given the option for a proper burial.

I had this during covid and free home workouts videos helped me out a lot. Started with just a yogamat (or towel) doing easy beginner friendly workouts of only 15-30 minutes. No need to go out, noone sees you and there are apartment/small space/downstairs neighbour friendly options. I used the fitnessblender workouts and the sense of accomplishment at the “workout complete” screen is magical.

Why does the GOP need to remove the “illegal imigrants”? They are often hardworking individuals with similar or lower crime rates than the average american. What the GOP and ICE are doing right now is illigal and akin to human trafficking. From the outside looking to the US it looks more and more like they are treating immigrants as germany treated the jews at the start of the second world war.

Oxygen is used to get energy from glucose/fat, so oxygen consumption is directly related to calorie burn. One nice way to think of it is that carbon atoms, the main atom in food, leaves our body by o2 (oxygen) going in and co2 (carbon monoxide) going out, not via pee/poop as many people might think, so heavier breathing during exercise to get more oxygen in is also an indication of more carbon out/calories burned.

Both from marvel, the wise one from dr. Strange and the scarlet witch.

I have recently moved to france and have been learning french for the last few years (long before moving). I still have difficulty with lunch conversation and after speaking to everyone outside of work in french I appreciate it so much that I work at an international place where everyone speaks english, even though that is also a second language for me. Imagine how tired your colleagues are at lunch after not speaking their own language anywhere but at home and appreciate that you are capable of helping them a little bit by speaking english.

I came, i saw, i came.

I spent a while trying for 90 grams protein on a 1600 calorie vegetarian diet (small girl trying to lose weight without muscle loss). At that point I needed to supplement with powder and make only the right choices. It gets so much easier when you can eat more in total.

How many calories are you eating approximately per day? And can you bump to three meals a day instead of two, like lunch, snack and dinner? Also, do you want to continue to loose weight or just grow muscle at this point? (70 kg is not that much, but I don’t know your sex, length)

For starters the meal replacement shake either has way to few calories or is lying about being high protein. It is quite easy to pack 30 grams of protein in a lunch. I always calculate protein in food as a percentage of total calories so 14 grams of protein = 14*4 calories / total calories of the food. If it’s above 25% it qualifies for me as high protein, but that would mean your shake only has 224 calories total, which isn’t a meal, it’s a snack.

I am very familiar with medical terms and even I ask the doctor to write down the specifics of my diagnosis when I want to seek a second opinion.