"Charles Darwin wasn’t the first scientific smarty in the Darwin family. His paternal grandfather was Erasmus Darwin, a physician, botanist and naturalist who wrote a theory of evolution in his 1794 book Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life. In Charles’s autobiography, written in 1876, he gave his grandfather a backwards hat-tip of sorts for inspiring him to study evolution."
Ok, so that’s fun! #Ubiquity identified my iPhone 14 Pro Max as an iPhone 8 Plus. So of course we're like who the hell has this iPhone 8 Plus on our network? Block! Then we realize that my iPhone didn't work anymore! #Interesting
I went to a tech and engineering uni, my humanities professors told us it was our job to find at least one “computer buddy” and explain to them as best we could that amorality is not a thing. This should have become policy.
TIL Malignant Hyperthermia is a deadly reaction to general anesthesia. Most don't know they have the condition until it's too late. It's the reason anesthesiologists always ask you if anyone in the family had a fatal reaction to anesthesia. (medlineplus.gov)
_"Malignant hyperthermia is a severe reaction to particular anesthetic drugs that are often used during surgery and other invasive procedures....
TIL “Pull Yourself Up By Your Bootstraps” was originally meant sarcastically, or to suggest an impossible accomplishment, because it is impossible for someone to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. (uselessetymology.com)
10 surprising things you might not know about evolution (www.earlham.ac.uk)