Mildly interesting

[taiwan_girl]

@Horace In addition to the above interesting video, I also learned that there is a formula for figuring out how long the chain should be

Vessel size (LWL): Length Overall (LO) - 2 x Beam
Draft (D): Depth of water below the vessel’s keel
Cargo type: Liquid, dry bulk, or general cargo

Results:
The results of this study are presented in the following formulas:

Cargo ships: Minimum chain length (Lc) = 0.5 * LWL + 2 * D
Tankers: Minimum chain length (Lt) = 0.7 * LWL + 3 * D
Passenger vessels: Minimum chain length (Lv) = 0.9 * LWL + 4 * D

[Mik]

[jon-nyc]

Where our tax money goes.

[taiwan_girl]

@jon-nyc Interesting and not as much difference as I thought. Big difference is in social protection.

[Doctor Phibes]

So the the government of the country without universal healthcare spends more than all the countries with it?

[Mik]

Yes, that's interesting, but so many factors play into that. The spending alone doesn't really tell the whole story.

Like TG I was struck by how similar they were.

[jon-nyc]

I wish they included interest on debt.

[Mik]

That's in other.

[jon-nyc]

Actually the text says it’s in ‘Public Services’.

It’s the public’s debt and it is debt service, after all. So I guess that makes sense.

[taiwan_girl]

In terms of size alone, this accolade of the animal with the biggest testicles goes to the right whale, whose testes weigh a massive 1,000kg.

Proportionately, however, it’s the tuberous bush cricket, whose testes amount to an impressive 14 per cent of its body mass. Imagine if a human's were 14 per cent of its body mass...

Testes tend to be proportionately larger in species in which the females are very promiscuous (female tuberous bush crickets mate with up to 23 partners), and there are two possible explanations.

First, they may allow a male to produce more sperm per mating in order to outcompete that of rivals; second, they may allow him to transfer a relatively small amount of sperm to a greater number of females. Research at the University of Derby supports the latter.