toukokuu 2016

2016-05-15 @ 14.35.12 ∈ Earworm

(Going slightly outside the collection boundaries here)

Australia's entry [1] was my bet for last night's Eurovision winner, but mainly because theirs was the only one I'd actually listened to just prior to the final. After watching the first entries last night Ukraine was the only one besides Australia to stand out musically for me, though I still liked Sound Of Silence better. But listening to 1944 today, at least the official video [2], it sounds somewhat stale. Perhaps their live performance was more vivid somehow? Sound Of Silence still sounds good, as does Bulgaria's entry [3], which I also liked last night.

(Note that I only watched perhaps less than half of the final before going to sleep, and so my comparison doesn't include any of the later entries.)

* [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EG_Jtw4OyU
* [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxS6eKEOdLQ
* [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKsNfccUTuk

2016-05-11 @ 19.31.50 ∈ In English

"In Matthews’ experiments, the most dominant mice — those that win in fights against their cage mates and have priority access to food and other resources — show the strongest reaction to having their loneliness neurons stimulated. At those times, the highest ranking animals search out companionship more fervently than animals on the lowest rungs of the social ladder. These mice also avoid stimulation of the loneliness neurons more avidly than the lower ranking members, suggesting that the dominant mice find it more unpleasant. The lowest ranked mice, in contrast, didn’t seem to mind being alone. Perhaps they enjoyed isolation, being free of their harassers."

New Evidence for the Necessity of Loneliness | Quanta Magazine

2016-05-05 @ 17.05.34 ∈ Suomeksi

Tämä oli mulle valaisevaa: "Pohkeet ovat usein hyvin itsepäisiä vastustamaan harjoittelijan lihaskasvutoiveita. Tämä johtunee siitä, että pohkeet ovat päivittäisessä elämässä jo niin paljon aktiivisena, ettei niiden rääkkääminen salilla lisää niiden kokonaisrasitusta suhteessa kovin paljon. Toista ääripäätä normi konttorirotan kehossa edustaa esimerkiksi rintalihas, jonka leppoisaa arkea saliharjoitus järkyttää suunnattomasti."

Rantakehon unohdettu nero: pohje – Kallio

2016-05-04 @ 20.02.29 ∈ In English

"So unless you are eating a competitive bodybuilder — and in fact, not even eating him, but putting a sample of his muscle tissue under your skin as an implant — there is no plausible way that you can suffer any kind of an endocrine problem from eating normally produced beef. […]

There are fine fact-based reasons why we should look seriously into moving away from beef from cattle, and these are ones that the anti-beef lobby should focus on. Claiming harm to human consumers from drugs given to beef cattle simply doesn't stand up to scrutiny as a valid argument."