Hey, Mastodon, I have a student who needs some #Scottish English speakers to do an online linguistics experiment. Can you help out? Boosts appreciated, or you can just click the link if you qualify!
🌿🍃 I did an #experiment to see how various types of #lichen respond to moisture. I found a stick with many different kinds of lichen and sprayed water on it every few minutes. Here is a 1 hour #timelapse video!
I did an #experiment to see how various types of #lichen respond to moisture. I found a stick with many different kinds of lichen and sprayed water on it every few minutes. Here is a timelapse video!
🆕 blog! “This link is only available by keyboard navigation”
There's a link, right here ➡️⬅️ but, if you're on a touchscreen, you can't tap on it. Using a mouse? Nope, that won't work either. The only way to navigate to it is via keyboard navigation. Hit your Tab ⭾ button! There's a little bit of me wants to build an entire website which can […]
Dit zijn geen grafjes maar proeftuintjes met zaden van inheemse planten. Ben benieuwd wat er gaat gebeuren, er komt al van alles op. In de lente gooi ik er nog een extra mengsel van aarde, zand en zaden overheen. #experiment #inheemseplanten #heemtuin #proeftuintje #biodiversiteit
Image of the day is Three Eyes, an in-camera #doubleexposure on #film. This image is a straight (and imperfect) copy of an Elliot Erwitt experiment that I saw at the end of one of his books. There was no information on the original image and how it was achieved, but my guess is it was a darkroom composite with a flipped negative. I thought I could emulate that in-camera. As you can see I'm not quite there, the lighting isn't right and that breaks the illusion, but I think it's achievable, so I'll keep trying! #believeinfilm#multipleexposure#blackandwhite#experiment#photography
Robert Nozick, a #libertarian#philosopher, wanted you to imagine that you are offered a sophisticated machine which can perfectly simulate all the things you deem most pleasurable.
He asks you now: would you prefer this to real life?
Nozick assumes you don't & uses that as a justification against (#ethical) hedonists.
The Irish researcher became sick so only the #Finnish researcher is coming to "study" my way of grocery shopping and #cooking. I feel a bit nervous but also excited. I think it's just human. I'll try a meat tendering technique named velveting #today. It's used in the Chinese #cuisine. "Simply coat strips of chicken, turkey, pork, beef, (or scallops, prawns etc.) in a mixture of egg white, cornflour, sesame oil and salt before frying." #finland#suomimastodon#food#experiment
Today, I'll be conducting more experiments with snac2. Until yesterday, I had been running it with 16 threads.
Today, I'll try with 32 to observe the load and how it responds when posting while simultaneously using the web interface. With 16 threads, there was a (slight) slowdown during queue processing; let's see if things change with 32.
I'll also delve into some more niche aspects - I've noticed a couple of details regarding boosts that don't always seem to be displayed by Mastodon (a behavior I've also encountered on Pixelfed).
I'll investigate.
Doc and Marty took a real chance stealing that train. Because as easy as they took it, they could just as easily have gotten a shotgun unloaded in their faces and then had to reload their last save. #science#experiment
#Psychology#HotTake:
They should make a #horror movie based on the infamous "#SexRaft" #experiment. Don't change anything, just focus in real hard on the scientist running it as he goes further and further off the deep end when his test subjects keep having fun on the raft instead of trying to murder each other.
"#Experiment gestartet, das den #Verkehr.. grundlegend verändern könnte:
die Umwandlung von Autospuren in #Fahrradspuren auf einer Hauptverkehrsachse.
Die ersten Ergebnisse dieser progressiven Initiative sind überraschend positiv.
So, I thought it was time to go #traditional. It's getting colder so I thought I'd start drinking #booze the old #Chinese way: warmed. To this end I got a wine warmer set.
Today's #experiment is starting relatively mildly with the #Hakka #glutinous #rice #wine I'd mentioned earlier. It's 25%, but it drinks like fruit juice and is thus exceptionally dangerous for those of us who don't like drunkenness.
(N.B. I don't like being drunk. I love being tipsy; the feeling of a drink inside of me. I hate feeling drunk.)
The results were very interesting. Some of them I expected (the drink is no longer dangerous: it is very clearly a potent alcoholic beverage when warmed!), but some of them unexpected (the flavour profile changes dramatically, giving it a "sparkling" sensation on the tongue and making the sour complex of flavours stand out in the forefront). It's still sweet. It still tastes delicious. But it's an entirely new beverage and it no longer brings with it the accidental drunkenness the cooled version brings.
It's a slug party,
and I've bought them all a beer
Let's invite them to come right over,
and have a great cheer
It was the cheapest beer they sell nearby
But for a party it will fly
The question is really,
Will they just get drunk, or die?
But not in the way you think, at least in my experiment (sample size n=1).
The beer attracts slugs, and saw dozens of slugs climb INTO the slug trap, drink beer, and leave much fatter.
The wood rat in the backyard (after swigging a bunch of beer itself) then ATE a bunch of those slugs... must have spent 15 minutes finding all the beer filled slugs and tearing them to bits and eating them.
So, the slugs are dead... but not DIRECTLY through the beer.