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[Mik]

Fordite, a man-made mineral born from the discarded paint layers of Detroit's car factories. This stunning specimen showcases the intricate patterns formed over decades of industrial history.

[taiwan_girl]

Power Plants by Type of Fuel Scheduled To Come On Line in the Next Year

[Mik]

https://www.sfgate.com/disneyland/article/pope-house-hidden-home-at-disneyland-18665869.php?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=referral

[George K]

"Tersorium"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylospongium

See also "Shit Stick"

[taiwan_girl]

@George-K said in Mildly interesting:

"Tersorium"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylospongium

See also "Shit Stick"

Disgusting and similar to what was used on 1600's/1700's sailing ships. At the back of the ship, they had open hole in the deck and a long rope that reached down to the water. After doing your duty, you would wipe yourself with the end of the rope, and then drop it back in the water. :eek (learned that from one of the books I read)

[George K]

@taiwan_girl said in Mildly interesting:

After doing your duty, you would wipe yourself with the end of the rope, and then drop it back in the water.

That's probably at least as sanitary as the Roman solution.

[taiwan_girl]

@George-K Glad I live in the 21 century!!!

[jon-nyc]

[George K]

Best anti-aging face cream.

[Mik]

You too can be Marvin the Martian!

[George K]

The Pigg-o-Stat

[jon-nyc]

Interesting thread.

[jon-nyc]

The Mississippi and its tributaries.

[jon-nyc]

It’s amazing how close you can live to the Great Lakes and still have your ground water drain to the gulf.

[Mik]

This is a first.

https://www.wcpo.com/sports/mlb-manager-confirms-catcher-to-play-for-both-teams-in-same-game

[Copper]

@Mik said in Mildly interesting:

This is a first.

https://www.wcpo.com/sports/mlb-manager-confirms-catcher-to-play-for-both-teams-in-same-game

John Kiley played for the Bruins, Celtics and Red Sox, all in the same season.

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He was the organist.

[Mik]

[George K]

https://www.gottman.com/blog/research-still-face-experiment/

Dr. Edward Tronick of UMass Boston’s Infant-Parent Mental Health Program conducts research on how mothers’ depression and other stressful behaviors affect the emotional development and health of infants and children. Jason Goldman published Thoughtful Animal about Tronick’s 1975 experiment, the impact it had in understanding child development, and how it’s being used, including to predict child behavior:

In 1975, Edward Tronick and colleagues first presented the “Still Face Experiment” to colleagues at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. He described a phenomenon in which an infant, after three minutes of “interaction” with a non-responsive expressionless mother, “rapidly sobers and grows wary. He makes repeated attempts to get the interaction into its usual reciprocal pattern. When these attempts fail, the infant withdraws [and] orients his face and body away from his mother with a withdrawn, hopeless facial expression.” It remains one of the most replicated findings in developmental psychology.

Once the phenomenon had been thoroughly tested and replicated, it became a standard method for testing hypotheses about person perception, communication differences as a result of gender or cultural differences, individual differences in attachment style, and the effects of maternal depression on infants. The still-face experiment has also been used to investigate cross-cultural differences, deaf infants, infants with Down syndrome, cocaine-exposed infants, autistic children, and children of parents with various psychopathologies, especially depression.

[jon-nyc]

I think you’d have trouble getting that past an IRB today.

[Mik]

I agree.