• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.spaceEnglish
      12·
      2 years ago

      True. “Tree” is not a compact category that encompasses all examples whilst excluding things that aren’t trees, not rather a vibe about whether something feels tree-like. Palm trees, for example, are not the same sort of organism as oaks.

  • observantTrapezium@lemmy.caEnglish
    20·
    2 years ago

    Black holes are not merely dense objects, the word hole may actually be a slightly better description. This chart oversimplifies stuff and is quite lame.

  • ImWaitingForRetcons@lemm.eeEnglish
    161·
    2 years ago

    The reason why medieval stained glass windows are thicker on the bottom is a deliberate choice to make the party which would bear the weight of the windows stronger.

  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
    14·
    2 years ago

    Could you give sources for each claim? Otherwise I just have to trust you, instead of the original place I heard the myth. Not much more reliable.

  • SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    12·
    2 years ago

    Chastity belts: Invented by prudes in the 19th century to prevent ‘dangerous’ masturbation.

    And now repurposed by horndogs who want to get hornier.

  • Nikko882@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    2 years ago

    Except cows can see colour. They only have 2 types of colour receptors in their eyes, compared to humans 3, (missing the red one, from what I gather with 30 sec of googling?) so their colour vision is much more limited compared to ours, but they are not colour blind.

      • Nikko882@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Sure, but it seems odd to be picky on the use of the word “tree” to refer to the banana tree rather than a herb, but then make the general statement that cows are “colour blind” when they can actually see colour.

  • moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    English
    11·
    2 years ago

    aside from the issues that other commenters have addressed, I think the titles are too short to accurately describe the subject matter

    I can see what they were going for but the titles do not match the paragraphs well enough for me

    misleading titles, for things presented as myths, (with corrections in parenthesis):

    • Multiple personalities (exists as MPD)
    • The Vomitorium (exists)
    • Black holes (exists)
    • Different tongue parts (exists)
    • Left & right brain (exists)
    • Evolution is a ‘theory’ (true)

    I’d write these as:

    • Schizophrenia does/should not mean multiple personalities
    • People did not vomit in vomitoriums
    • Black holes are not literal holes*
    • The tongue does not taste in distinct places
    • Both brain hemispheres can learn the same functions/talents
    • Evolution matches our current data the best; scientific theories are not just conjecture**

    *I don’t think this is really correct either, but that is an issue outside of the scope of just the titles

    **I am not too confident on this rewrite, I’m not sure I could make it short and have good quality, but you could go with either side of the semicolon for a shorter single title

    There were other issues I had with the titles, but I felt that I was too unsure about them to present them here

  • chowdertailz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    Oil does help pasta not stick together. Ya just gotta ice shock the pasta THEN add a bit of olive oil and give it a toss. I think the misconception comes from adding oil to the water.

    Source: 20 years in service industry. I wouldn’t even want to know the tonnage of pasta I have served through the years…

    E: the oil thing is for bulk pasta. I’m gonna cook off a couple pounds and portion them out for when I need exactly 6 or 10 ounces of pasta for a dish. Throw the portion in a pasta caulinder to quick heat it up and toss in whichever sauce/dish I have prepared.

  • Lung@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    Pretty cool, definitely cleared up a few for me, but … nobody knows what happens in a black hole, they are a big warp in spacetime, and it’s mathematically possible that they lead to a different part of the universe or contain an ~infinite amount of space that you could live in. See supermassive black holes, einstien-rosen bridge, or the nobel work of Penrose. But yes they are created due to density