Notices by Alex Schroeder 🐝 (kensanata@octodon.social), page 18

@tomasino did you memorize chess openings? @gcupc

@gcupc heh. 😀

@Jewbacchus @SpunkyAlpaca and now that I searched for the phrase I found this title of a paper: «Shared genetic origin of asthma, hay fever and eczema elucidates allergic disease biology» https://www.nature.com/articles/ng.3985
I haven’t read it. I just thing it supports the suspicion that there can be a genetic aspect to allergies.

@Jewbacchus @SpunkyAlpaca I heard that atopic dermatitis, asthma and hay fever are often genetically related. The number I heard was if your parents have one of the three, there’s like an 80% chance that you will also have one of three (but not necessarily the same) – and my dad has asthma and I have hay fever. But I never looked into it.

@ckeen @kaushalmodi I did not know it was still being actively used. Nice!

@kaushalmodi what’s the use case for Tcl? I used to think I should learn it for Tcl/Tk but these days I’m not sure what I would learn it for.

I’m sitting in the train here in Switzerland and I miss the Japanese silence on trains. Sometimes it’s so loud I have a hard time reading, let alone thinking.
«People will not talk on their phone, and will even rarely talk to one another.» https://jpninfo.com/16144

@applecandy I guess i get so few azuki beans here in Switzerland I just can’t resist them. Azuki beans for ever! 😆

There sure are quite a few cancer related XKCD comics.
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Cancer

@smays the jewelry does the preaching for you!

@applecandy we live those daifuku mochi – we like them more than the ice cream variety but they’re all good! 😄

Found the Japanese shop in Zürich. I want to buy so many tea cups. We bought ten pieces of rice cakes. Only eight left and they are not for long.

I just reread a blog post recently recommended by @22 and wasn’t disappointed. The story about scurvy and lime juice (instead of lemon juice!), and the polar expeditions, and the limits of scientific progress – in human nature, in our social interactions, in the power of authority – all of it makes for great reading. As @22 said: «Perhaps the Maciej piece I most often think about is the one on scuvy vs lemon juice vs lime juice»
It’s long. It’s good.
https://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm

«Every winter, beekeepers from every corner of the United States descend on California to pollinate almonds. Almonds have a window of about two weeks for pollination to occur. Otherwise, the blossoms won’t turn into fruit. The demand is so high it takes upwards of two million hives, almost every commercial beehive in the country to do the job. “This is the largest managed pollination event on earth,” explains John Miller … .»
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/on-beeing/

@troubleMoney argh, now I’m conflicted!