(I may have got out of the habit of posting about films I've seen [both Captains Marvel were excellent], but I'm not going to let this tradition slip away.)
1. There is literally no such thing as a superfood, but a chemical in turmeric does have interesting health properties which are still being researched. Although not enough for me to try the turmeric smoothie we were given.
2. After proving that there were different kinds of infinity beyond the countable infinity, Cantor's next trick was to prove that there were an infinite number of infinities. (I didn't understand it, but I learned it.)
3. Listening to music you have an emotional connection to has an astonishing effect on dementia sufferers, because music lights up multiple parts of the brain at once.
4. Whenever it turns out that an animal can do something we thought separated humans from animals, the immediate reaction of many people is to redefine "intelligence" to not include that. And they're running out of options.
5. The Pleasance Bar has changed completely at some point in the past 20 years and no longer serves the excellent vegeburger I used to have at Edinburgh University Science Fiction and Fantasy Society meetings.
1. There is literally no such thing as a superfood, but a chemical in turmeric does have interesting health properties which are still being researched. Although not enough for me to try the turmeric smoothie we were given.
2. After proving that there were different kinds of infinity beyond the countable infinity, Cantor's next trick was to prove that there were an infinite number of infinities. (I didn't understand it, but I learned it.)
3. Listening to music you have an emotional connection to has an astonishing effect on dementia sufferers, because music lights up multiple parts of the brain at once.
4. Whenever it turns out that an animal can do something we thought separated humans from animals, the immediate reaction of many people is to redefine "intelligence" to not include that. And they're running out of options.
5. The Pleasance Bar has changed completely at some point in the past 20 years and no longer serves the excellent vegeburger I used to have at Edinburgh University Science Fiction and Fantasy Society meetings.
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Date: 2019-04-21 03:32 pm (UTC)Re: #5: boo! :-P