Today I learned +

[Scribe]

This is the third or fourth time I've come across this, but I think it's too wild not to share.

Are we all multiple personalities of universal consciousness?

Bernardo Kastrup proposes a new ontology he calls “idealism” built on panpsychism, the idea that everything in the universe contains consciousness. He solves problems with this philosophy by adding a new suggestion: The universal mind has dissociative identity disorder.

bigthink.com

As my son hates to hear me say.

"Consciousness was a mistake."

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Today I learned-

That all the Olympians pee in the pool.

When I told this to my partner, they remarked, "All 16,000 of them? Is is a ritual or something?"

And then I realized I had to be more clear. All the swimmers in the Olympics pee in the pool.

You're welcome!

 

[briggart]

Today I learned-

That all the Olympians pee in the pool.

When I told this to my partner, they remarked, "All 16,000 of them? Is is a ritual or something?"

And then I realized I had to be more clear. All the swimmers in the Olympics pee in the pool.

You're welcome!

On launch day, all male cosmonauts take a leak on the rear wheel of the bus driving them from their room to the spacecraft so … who knows?

Gagarin's traditions

Gagarin's memory is still very present in Russia as the crews launching with Soyuz spacecraft go through numerous traditions, either remembering Gagarin or repeating his actions made before this historic flight.

www.esa.int

 

[Dioltach]

You know that chlorine smell you get if you pour bleach down your toilet? Ever notice that you don't smell it until you start peeing?

That's right, it's the combination of pee and bleach that causes the smell. Remember that next time you go to a public swimming pool.

 

[RealAlHazred]

Today I learned about Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards (1831 – 1892), an author from the Victorian age who became a bestseller for several books, the most historically important probably being her travelogue, A Thousand Miles up the Nile (1877). The book was so successful and she became so passionate about Egyptology, that she was able to cofound the Egypt Exploration Fund, which was instrumental in financing a lot of good research and exploration, and helped promote less destructive archaeology. She was also about as openly a lesbian as it was permissible to be at the time, without being locked up or killed.

 

[trappedslider]

TIL that this existed:

The Pyrophone, also known as the "fire organ" or "fire-explosion organ," is an instrument from the 19th century. It was invented by Georges Frédéric Eugène Kastner, a French physicist and musician, in the mid-1800s. The Pyrophone produces sound by using flames within glass tubes or metal pipes. The heat from the flames causes the air inside the tubes to vibrate, creating musical notes. The intensity and frequency of the sound can be altered by adjusting the size and intensity of the flames.

 

[Dioltach]

The Pyrophone, also known as the "fire organ" or "fire-explosion organ,"

Now that is metal!

 

[Mad_Jack]

TIL that this existed:

The Pyrophone, also known as the "fire organ" or "fire-explosion organ," is an instrument from the 19th century. It was invented by Georges Frédéric Eugène Kastner, a French physicist and musician, in the mid-1800s. The Pyrophone produces sound by using flames within glass tubes or metal pipes. The heat from the flames causes the air inside the tubes to vibrate, creating musical notes. The intensity and frequency of the sound can be altered by adjusting the size and intensity of the flames.

Classical music is just Metal before it went electric...

 

[aco175]

"Skinker" is an archaic term for one who pours libations, ie a bartender. Not often these days that I encounter a useful, easily-remembered word to add to my personal lexicon, but that's a good one.

If the OTR show I picked it up from is correct, it was little-remembered even in 1949.

Addendum: Further research shows that the term was in use as early as 1575, and appears to be derived from Middle English, Dutch, Old Norse and proto-Germanic words meaning "to give a present" - as in, present someone with a drink, in this case. "Skink" was synonymous with the noun "a drink" in Scotland at some point, although it also acted as a verb for pouring one with the usual conjugation - skink, skinked, skinking.

Imagine if the word took and the jig was called "Skink, Skank, Skunk". Gives it a totally new meaning.

Today I learned-

That all the Olympians pee in the pool.

When I told this to my partner, they remarked, "All 16,000 of them? Is is a ritual or something?"

And then I realized I had to be more clear. All the swimmers in the Olympics pee in the pool.

I was told by locals not to kiss the Blarney Stone while in Ireland, since the kids sneak up and pee on it at night.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

You know that chlorine smell you get if you pour bleach down your toilet? Ever notice that you don't smell it until you start peeing?

That's right, it's the combination of pee and bleach that causes the smell. Remember that next time you go to a public swimming pool.

You know rivers, lakes, seas, etc.?

Things have been peeing, pooping, eating, mating, dying and putrifying in those, too…