Missing Mozart's Dies Irae

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 4 days ago

Your body retains water through the kidneys. Antidiuretic hormone (or vasopressin) is what tells your kidneys to hold onto water instead of discarding it into the bladder. Which is why you feel parched after a night out drinking, ethanol hinders the production of ADH. Multiply that by 25 and you have the poor dude.

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 5 days ago

A guy I studied with had a gene defect that prevented his body from producing proper amounts of antidiuretic hormone. He had to literally set his alarm at night to wake up to hydrate.

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 5 days ago

Also avoid using your sink after washing the chicken before you sanitized it with boiling water.

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 235 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

ITT: people who undercook their chicken think that washing is what's saving them when in reality, washing your chicken only enables a host of cross-contamination issues. Congratulations for turning your sink into a biohazard facility.

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 137 points 2 weeks ago

That is not a horn. Purple correctly identified it as a trumpet.

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 128 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yes, it's @elonmusk

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 146 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Mammals use boob-juice to raise their offspring. That's why they are called that.

As opposed to e.g. birds that don't use boob-juice and instead elect to vomit in their offspring's ingestion orifices.

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 164 points 7 months ago

US politics are so wild that it's really hard for me to distingish satire from reality.

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 128 points 8 months ago

This is called parthenogenesis and is a known phenomenon, albeit rare in vertebrates. Some species, like the New Mexico whiptail, rely on it (all New Mexico whiptails are female).

Here is a paper from 2007 that talks about parthenogenesis in hammerhead sharks..

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 123 points 9 months ago

I'd like to solve, Alex:

What are different places on Earth from where the eclipse is visible?

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 144 points 9 months ago

Is there any hope for me?

Yes, public transport.

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