Now is the time to strike while the iron is hot.

Tomorrow,

“Hey boss, after unloading that truck yesterday with the pallet jack, my back is really sore. If it doesn’t ease up I might need to go to the doctor today.”

Next safety meeting/safety suggestion box in a week or two.

“I really think the company should invest in electric pallet jacks. They are not that expensive and will cut down on potential lower back injuries.”

Van driver shows up.

“Hey do you guys have a dock or a ramp?”

The pallet jack is offered as a sacrificial lamb.

The van driver curses and groans and sadly takes the offered pallet jack.

Its only sort-of true.

The tomato imported to Europe was more like the cherry/mini pear tomato and yellow in color. Cultivars like we know today we’re mostly developed in the 18th and 19th centuries in different European regions.

Why do I say it’s mostly true.

Modern breeders have extensively introgressed traits from wild types from Central and South America. Almost all modern cultivars contain DNA from multiple different locations. So it’s not really fair to say it’s all from Europe.

Its a trade show classic. Have a nice looking bowl full of candy to draw people in. More thought needs to be placed into the contents of the candy bowl than the layout of the booth.

What’s in that bowl determines the amount of traffic that stops. Matching the candy to the demographic of the audience is a critical research before the trade show.

I vote for squash/pumpkins. I have a bunch of those as well as corn.

That was the theory and how it works in a petri dish, however that’s not how it works in the body.

Antibiotic treatment doesn’t have to kill all of the bacteria. It needs to kill enough so the immune system can catch up and finish the job.

There been evidence for more than 50 years that overly long antibiotic treatments cause resistance to build up faster. That’s why they have limits on the first place.

So there’s a balance between too few days, and to many.

Nope, that’s not what it means at all

Genetically linked behaviors follow distribution curves. There is always variation in every population for any behavior. When a behavior is highly selected for, alternative behaviors become more rare…but they still happen.

A good example of this is homosexuality, evolutionarily speaking this behavior is highly selected against (reduced babies). It still occurs in all sorts of species.

What this means is that around 2/3rds of humans are strictly monogamous. Around 1/3rd of humans are promiscuous or partially promiscuous. These are instinctual behaviors that can be overcome somewhat by cultural norms. On an individual basis, for every 3 people you meet, one instinctually finds sleeping around to be their “normal” behavior.

Taiwan “Hey Ukraine, got a few of those navel drones for us?”

Ukraine has shown that a traditional naval power is pretty weak.

The actual plant in the picture is poison oak.

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

It adds flex to the container for variations of atmospheric pressure. It’s what they mean by the fill levels.

Milk containers are filled by weight. The exact volume of the liquid can vary slightly based upon the atmospheric pressure.

If the container has no flex the top will pop off or the sides will crush in with pressure changes say when a truck drives over a mountain pass to deliver the milk.

My wife has a couple graduate degrees on this subject. This is one that I got to be the unwilling editor on her papers for.

Its a lack of understanding how students need to learn the information: memorization by usage versus memorization by rote.

Memorization by rote: This is the old school method of teaching. You memorize random facts figures with no context or usage. Its a bit of standalone information that is often not useful. Memorization by rote leads to kids that can say all of the letters but not recognize the symbols or associated them with sounds and words.

Memorization by usage: This is a much more effective method to teach. Its also much harder. This requires teaching the concepts and systems and linking the information together. You memorize the same information by repeated usage but it’s in context. It takes a ton more skill to teach this way because you have to engage the student through the entire process, repeatedly.

I used the black and white one in college.

My laptop screen was only black and white.

It also had a clip-on trackball as a mouse.

He’s also a dust mop for the warehouse.

https://doi.org/10.4161/21645698.2014.945883

Here’s a paper discussing the issue.

Corn to teosintes GMO contamination is also huge issue especially in southern states.

20+ years after a failed introduction of GMO RR wheat, they are still finding it in fields.

https://www.producer.com/news/cause-of-gm-wheat-escape-unlikely-to-be-known/

https://www.reuters.com/article/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/usda-investigates-unapproved-gmo-wheat-found-in-washington-state-idUSKCN1T900N/

A form of sexual dimorphism. Honestly compared to real examples like the angler fish it’s not even that weird.

The so called terminator gene was developed in and to attempt to limit the spread of GMO genes into the wild populations. It was a USDA-ARS program. Not their best work but it would have prevented today’s clusterfuck of contamination.

Umm… With 2 free computers and nothing on them.

Run down the list and install all the different distros. Test them out for a few weeks then onto the next. Pretty soon you’ll one that you prefer.

Trichoderma is the genus, there is currently 89 different species classified.

That being said, they did use the species that became a primary pathogen as an antifungal for many years. As soon as the species was identified as a primary pathogen the suppliers changed to another related species. They also claimed to have mislabeled the species on what they sold before (bullshit of course).

It tastes like a corny mushroom. Do not try them from a jar. Those taste more like a slimy snot rag.

It’s an obligate parasite that enters the corn plant via tiny wounds when it’s the plant is small. The most common source of wounding is insect damage or wind. Sandy soil + wind creates the highest incidence. Once you find some hotspots it’s easy to find.

Since corn is a critical crop in many regions its one of the most studied species on the planet. Even a post about shitty corn is interesting.