The problem with the idea of 8 hours of work, 8 hours of sleep and 8 hours of recreation as a structure for a day is that it simply can’t work that way. If I’m expected to be at work at 9, then my work day must begin at 7. Allowing myself a rushed experience to wake up and get to work. And I live close to work. So either my recreation or my sleep needs to take a hit, but for some people it could be more. 8 hours a day, 5 days a week as a basis for full time work is honestly unreasonable at that point. Because it isn’t actually 40 hours a week, it’s 50 hours a week lost to a job, of which 10 is unpaid.
some of my coworkers have 2h of transit to get to work, which takes 4-5h off their free time. working full time is a bad idea and shouldve never been a thing
And let’s not forget that maintaining a clean home and providing food for yourself takes over 20 hours a week (appx 20 hours in-house, and varying hours spent running outside errands) if you are completely abled.
The aim of this study is to assess people’s preference for rabbit facial features, to help us gain an understanding of how these features influence how appealing a rabbit is to a potential owner.
My science literacy is insufficient to parse this article, but it is about gene therapy for transgender patients as an alternative to hormone replacement therapy. Somebody smarter than me, tell me when I can stop sticking myself with needles and just download the cells to do the hormoning for me.
@alder-knight
This paper is about cell fates– how the embryo determines whether to develop testes or ovaries during early development. It has little bearing on full-grown people. In this case, XY females is referring to people with a Y chromosome who never developed testes.
Sorry =(
thank you! I really appreciate you reading through it cuz I can’t figure out how to make it mean what I thought it was supposed to mean, and this is vindicating.
the person who sent it to me just replied to my “???” with the following:
The short version is this: they have done things which, with one injection, could cause the body to change sex, and grow different endocrine organs. This means people wouldn’t need hormone therapy anymore, or any of the side effects that go with it.
It’s only been done in mice, but it seems that it would extend to the human organism as well.
…which seems like a stretch, as compared to the contents of the article itself?? but I didn’t know enough to side-eye properly
like… it sounds like it only works in theory and even then only on folks who are already technically intersex? (big apologies if I am using that wrong)
My science literacy is insufficient to parse this article, but it is about gene therapy for transgender patients as an alternative to hormone replacement therapy. Somebody smarter than me, tell me when I can stop sticking myself with needles and just download the cells to do the hormoning for me.
The interesting thing about Earth is that it’s full of life, and the interesting thing about life is that it’s very good at finding ways to survive. In most cases, that basically means evolving ways to eat things. Even things like plastics.
Long ago, during the Carboniferous Period, Earth was covered with tree ferns, but life was still working on ways to digest that much plant matter after those tree ferns died (which is one reason why so much coal was formed then). Eventually, microbes and fungi evolved to feast on all of that dead plant matter, simply because there was so much of it around. The point to this little fable of Earth’s distant past is that living things are amazing, and if there’s enough of something sitting around on the surface of this planet, then some organism will eventually evolve to use it.
300 million years after the Carboniferous Period, humans learned how to create plastics and, unfortunately, they were so excited by this discovery that they spent a century creating vast quantities of plastics all across the planet. With such an abundant supply of material which was going unused, life did what life does best.
Specifically, this bacterium digests polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a type of plastic commonly used for drinks bottles around the world. Obviously, this has potential applications for breaking down plastic waste, though the bacteria are fairly slow acting, taking a few weeks to work. Which is still better than the 400 years which PET would take to degrade through other processes.
Their new enzyme can be used in the same way as biological detergents which you might use when you do your laundry. The researchers hope to soon be able to use it to recycle plastics in a sustainable and energy efficient way.
It feels rather poetic that the best way for science to help nature is for science to work together with nature!
People often add lemon to very tannic black teas (dark teas with a strong astringency due to high tannin content). The citric acid causes a chemical change which reduces the astringency, making the tea a little smoother.
The lemon + black tea pairing is so popular though that many companies sell pre-flavored lemon black teas, which we list in its own dedicated category on our site.
Public domain photo by Lombroso (Wikimedia Commons)
50 species of lizard and one species of snake reproduce through parthenogenesis (that’s the fancy word for producing offspring as a female without having sex).
Except.
Whiptails are stimulation ovulators. That is to say, they can’t ovulate without having sex.
So not only do they are give birth through immaculate conception, they’re ALL LESBIANS.
There are two kinds of parthenogenesis seen in reptiles. That used by whiptails and the other all female species is true cloning – the egg contains the female’s full genetic material).
Other species including komodo dragons use another form of parthenogenesis where they actually fertilize themselves, with a haploid polar body used instead of a sperm. Because of the way reptile sex chromosomes work, this form of parthenogenesis can produce males as well as females – however, the females produced have weird sex chromosomes and can only lay other females. It’s used as a backup reproductive strategy if they can’t find a mate. This works because in reptiles, unlike mammals, its the males that have two sex chromosomes the same (ZZ) and the females different (ZW). Females produced by parthenogenesis are WW – and that’s what happened to the whiptails. They lost the Z chromosome and now are all WWs.
Cellulite is a female secondary sex characteristic and should be celebrated as a rite of womanhood, not despised or eradicated.
it’s really a secondary sex characteristic?!
It is. It has to do with the way our bodies network fat. Female bodies create sort of a mesh network to support fat (female bodies are MUCH more hardy in times of stress) and it can present as delightfully lumpy. More than 90% of women have visible cellulite, but all women store fat in this manner.
why did no one tell me this?!
You know why
Spread this. I only just started to see mine and I started to freak out a bit. More people should/need to know about this
Here’s an illustration of the aforementioned difference in fat storage.
Men’s lattice pattern collagen threads holds subcutaneous fat in a way that, when the skin expands because of the fat storage, it expands evenly. Women’s “pockets” expand unevenly when we accumulate fat, creating that orange peel effect. Our storage pattern means we can healthily store more fat than men. Like a woman with 25% body fat is average, a man with 25% body fat is chubby. Because of that, like OP said, women are hardier in times of stress or famine. It’s also one of the reasons why our bodies can survive pregnancy, which is a massive energy demand on our system.
And there’s absolutely NO “treatment” for cellulite that will work. They are all bullshit designed to separate you from your hard-earned cash. It’s a secondary sex characteristic, it’s perfectly normal and it’s not going away no matter what you do. Like I’m very lean myself and I work out 5~6 times a week, and I still have cellulite. Someone giving a woman shit for having cellulite is akin to giving her shit for having skin. It’s just a mixture of misogyny and corporate greed.
Love your lumpy skin, ladies. It means you are a badass surviving machine shaped by millenia of evolution.
holy shit. I knew fat distribution was one of the things to change when a trans person starts hormone therapy – I had NO IDEA cellulite was a secondary sex characteristic. I just checked some spots online and yes, it’s one of the things you gain when starting estrogen and lose when starting testosterone. that’s fascinating!
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