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THE HAMMER & THE FEATHER DROPPING AT THE SAME SPEED IN OUTER SPACE
The reason they fall at the same rate is because there is no air resistance in outer space.
When a feather falls on Earth, there are a million air particles “bumping” into it and slowing it’s descent. Similarly, air particles “bump” into a hammer, but it doesn’t slow down because it has such a big mass.
In outer space there is no air, so the two objects fall at the same rate.
never in my LIFE have i hated something as much as i hate the french term for eggnog
in case you didnt know this translates literally to “chicken milk”
It’s not okay for police to shoot protesters even if they aren’t peaceful. Property destruction is not punishable by death.
and police are not judges or executioners.
His assertion that any American is not a real American is offensive. People born in New York are just as much real Americans as those born in the Rust Belt. And just because you’re a famous singer doesn’t mean you don’t love your country. Check out Whittle’s full statement here.
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Uuuuuuuugh. This “real american” shit is out of hand. There are democrats and leftists out here is Alabama. There are gay people here in Alabama. There are poeple originally from the Middle East here in Alabama. There are people who don’t care about football because their lives are getting worse and worse thanks to trump here in Alabama. There is so much diversity in this country and people want to pretend theres one, boring, uniform, white, ~real~ America and the rest needs to be silenced.
Income inequality is making us sick.
Well, it’s not making all of us sick. Only the poorest of us. That’s what a new paper in Health Affairs by Hilary Seligman, Ann Bolger, David Guzman, Andrea López, and Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo found they looked at when people go to the hospital for hypoglycemia (low blood sugar).
The basic idea is that people struggling to make it paycheck-to-paycheck (or benefits-to-benefits) might run out of money at the end of the month—and have to cut back on food. If they have diabetes, this hunger could turn into an even more severe health problem: low blood sugar. So we should expect a surge of hypoglycemia cases at the end of each month for low-income people, but not for anybody else.
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“In other words, poorer people don’t need more care at the end of the month for every kind of condition. Just the ones that get worse when you don’t have enough to eat.” [Emphasis added]
Poverty begets illness which begets medical bills which begets poverty. It’s a cycle, but it doesn’t have to be that way.
someone pay me to say water is wet and the sky is blue and humans breathe oxygen
xo
The people of Oaxaca are reporting that a police curfew has been put in place and that internet/cellphone signal and power are going to be cut off so no word gets out as to what is happening.
Harvard has a pigment library that stores old pigment sources, like the ground shells of now-extinct insects, poisonous metals, and wrappings from Egyptian mummies, to preserve the origins of the world’s rarest colors.
A few centuries ago, finding a specific color might have meant trekking across the globe to a mineral deposit in the middle of Afghanistan. “Every pigment has its own story,” Narayan Khandekar, the caretaker of the pigment collection, told Fastcodesign. He also shared the stories of some of the most interesting pigments in the collection.
Mummy Brown
“People would harvest mummies from Egypt and then extract the brown resin material that was on the wrappings around the bodies and turn that into a pigment. It’s a very bizarre kind of pigment, I’ve got to say, but it was very popular in the 18th and 19th centuries.”
Cadmium Yellow
“Cadmium yellow was introduced in the mid 19th century. It’s a bright yellow that many impressionists used. Cadmium is a heavy metal, very toxic. In the early 20th century, cadmium red was introduced. You find these pigments used in industrial processes. Up until the 1970s, Lego bricks had cadmium pigment in them.”
Annatto “The lipstick plant—a small tree, Bixa orellana, native to Central and South America—produces annatto, a natural orange dye. Seeds from the plant are contained in a pod surrounded with a bright red pulp. Currently, annatto is used to color butter, cheese, and cosmetics.”
Lapis Lazuli “People would mine it in Afghanistan, ship it across Europe, and it was more expensive than gold so it would have its own budget line on a commission.”
Dragon’s Blood “It has a great name, but it’s not from dragons. [The bright red pigment] is from the rattan palm.”
Cochineal “This red dye comes from squashed beetles, and it’s used in cosmetics and food.”
Emerald Green “This is made from copper acetoarsenite. We had a Van Gogh with a bright green background that was identified as emerald green. Pigments used for artists’ purposes can find their way into use in other areas as well. Emerald green was used as an insecticide, and you often see it on older wood that would be put into the ground, like railroad ties.”
