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A good test of a dentist is whether they’ve heard of silver diamine fluoride.

Carl Darling Buck (A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages) and Julius Pokorny (Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch) are just a few of the philologists who have posited this "dead water" hypothesis

It is probably not a substrate word, but more likely coming from "dead" water, as in not a moving river.

> because the Proto-Indo-European language arose in the landlocked steppes, it had no need for—and has no securely reconstructable word for—‘sea’.

No, it is mori, attested in marine, muir, maryadah, mal, morje, etc in farflung IE tongues today.

It is perhaps a blessing that the climate of the Papua lowlands makes the potato impossible to grow. While the potato would grow in the cooler highlands, this village to village transmission mechanism would not get the potato past the hot lowlands where plants would rot in the ground. The potato yields a lot more calories per hectare than the sweet potato, and when introduced to New Zealand, fueled massive wars.

Nominative determinism- first author's name "Mutlu Yıldız" means "happy star"

There's a well-known issue of "construct validity" in neuroscience.

It's not uncommon for cows to get a taste for chicken eggs and start seeking them out

Once a horse gets a taste for baby chicks, it's hard to convince them they aren't omnivorous.

> Well they have to destroy them after scanning, else it is a copyright violation.

I think this is the "an undercover cop has to tell you they are police if you ask them" of AI law

> The water thing

It’s amazing how Karen Hao managed to graduate from MIT without learning the difference between m^3 and L

Maybe she just liked giving people mysteries

Would this imply that the matrices should have dimensions of multiples of 40?

About 15% of the UK's land parcels are not in any land registry database, because recording there only became compulsory in 1990, so if an event like a sale/morgtage didn't happen to a property since then, it might not be registered. Regardless of the land registry, the ownership can still easily be proven.