Dr. Bob @ DrBob @lemmy.ca

Recovering academic now in public safety. You'll find me kibitzing on brain

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Lol. Check out Denmark. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_law

Social diffusion is an explanation of how information spreads, not just names.

My understanding is that unique names and neologism have long been a feature of African-American culture where North American Caucasians followed a family naming tradition. I think what has happened is some celebrities have moved towards a unique name scheme. But it feels like a mainstreaming of AA culture more than anything.

The impetus has been there in Europe. Many nations have/had very restrictive rules about names. They'd only have rules against it if people were trying to do it. I had Swiss friends who were very excited that their daughter was born in Canada so they could name her "Sora" which wasn't in the approved name list in Switzerland.

The concentration of power in the executive branch has only occurred in the last 40 years or so with the push for "unified executive theory". It has accelerated with this supreme Court in just the last couple of years. The court has shown themselves ready to ignore their own precedents, pick and choose historical arguments to buttress outcomes, and substitute their own judgement for Congress's. There is no check on this madness except for court reform.

Yes, but not very well. I am mildly irritated that one of the founding studies of experimental psychology is so little known. It takes cats quite a bit of time to figure out how to simply pull on a loop or step on a treadle in order to escape confinement and get fed.

Thorndike's work with cats predates Skinner's work with rats by decades. https://youtube.com/watch?v=hhNxeYYyCSQ

Platypus. So goofy looking on one hand. Poisonous spurs on the other.

A review paper from a reputable journal. The Annual Reviews series was great for this. Some of the Nature journals also used to run mini-reviews associated with research papers in the issue.

Steak, mushrooms, onion...and wtf? Chicken shins?

Those cats look nothing alike. Should have thrown his ass out for using a fake ID.

SHUTUP! _{it might hear.}

Robertson! Say his name!

Because he's a long way away. Longer than miles away...maybe...light years?

Because their continued employment depends on them hitting their targets so they need support staff to do their jobs.

I was married to a lawyer for years. They have to bill somewhere from 1700-2200 hours a year to stay on partner track. And they can't bill every hour that they're working (although they can double up sometimes by using the minimum 2/10ths of an hour). My sympathy is with the lawyer. It's not a power dynamic, it's how the firm makes money and what you're there to do.

Happy Birthday has the kind of universal recognition you'd be looking for. Maybe in 300 years there'll be a lyrical shift towards something more interesting. I know multiple versions of Greensleeves. The Cuckoo is the other song that I can think of with a long history. The wiki article doesn't fully capture it. I'll stick something in here later.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo_(song)

I'm not sure you can. I can see Sigma Aldrich selling it by the kilogram for research use. I'm not sure there is an approved human formulation. If it's because of that gut paper lactulose is pretty easily available.

It's...beautiful. Sniff.

Thanks for everything you guys do. And on Canada Day no less!

Also we just use anterior/posterior for the organism if you want to ignore the bend and talk about the face and chest vs the back and back of the head. All the other planes are ok.

Agreed. These are genuinely difficult problems that aren't going to get solved by our current crop of silicon valley "geniuses".

Is the same. We'd call it the horizontal plane though. Dorsal takes a bend so it's the top of the head and the back. Sagittal sections move medial/lateral and coronal sections move rostral/caudal again taking a bend down the neuraxis of the spine.