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Re: Post something you've learnt today

Posted: 10 May 2021, 21:31
by Flower
Scientists may have found a new coronavirus rapid-testing method: Bees

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/ ... e-testing/

The fight against the coronavirus pandemic has scientists tapping an unlikely resource: the finely tuned olfactory sense of bees.

Dutch researchers on Monday said they have trained honeybees to stick out their tongues when presented with the virus’s unique scent, acting as a kind of rapid test.

Although it’s a less conventional method than lab tests, the scientists said teaching bees to diagnose the coronavirus could help fill a gap in low-income countries with limited access to more sophisticated technology, like materials for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests.

Re: Post something you've learnt today

Posted: 13 May 2021, 08:58
by Rorschach
Climbing mountains is dumb.

Over 300 people have died climbing Everest and more than 90 on K2, five of them this year!

Re: Post something you've learnt today

Posted: 13 May 2021, 13:33
by Minnie the Minx
Robyn Hitchcock will start touring again in the Autumn!

Re: Post something you've learnt today

Posted: 13 May 2021, 16:13
by Hightea
Rorschach wrote:Climbing mountains is dumb.

Over 300 people have died climbing Everest and more than 90 on K2, five of them this year!


unfair to compare climbing a mountain and climbing a major snow capped peak. I've climbed 100's of mountains and I'm still alive although I've tumbled down a few trails and sprained a few ankles.

there's a mountain I want to climb it
https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=66456015%40N00&sort=date-taken-desc&text=mountain&view_all=1

Re: Post something you've learnt today

Posted: 13 May 2021, 16:16
by The Prof
We all know about Zebra Crossings and Pelican Crossings but.....new to me today....are Puffin Crossings and Toucan Crossings.

I know!

Re: Post something you've learnt today

Posted: 13 May 2021, 16:45
by Rorschach
Hightea wrote:
Rorschach wrote:Climbing mountains is dumb.

Over 300 people have died climbing Everest and more than 90 on K2, five of them this year!


unfair to compare climbing a mountain and climbing a major snow capped peak. I've climbed 100's of mountains and I'm still alive although I've tumbled down a few trails and sprained a few ankles.


I wasn't being serious. I've been up a few small mountains myself, and even went rock-climbing a couple of times.

Re: Post something you've learnt today

Posted: 13 May 2021, 16:56
by Hightea
Rorschach wrote:
Hightea wrote:
Rorschach wrote:Climbing mountains is dumb.

Over 300 people have died climbing Everest and more than 90 on K2, five of them this year!


unfair to compare climbing a mountain and climbing a major snow capped peak. I've climbed 100's of mountains and I'm still alive although I've tumbled down a few trails and sprained a few ankles.


I wasn't being serious. I've been up a few small mountains myself, and even went rock-climbing a couple of times.


figured you were joking but my love of mountains has my blabbing, sadly can't climb mountains like before.

Re: Post something you've learnt today

Posted: 17 May 2021, 15:00
by Minnie the Minx
If your cat gets an infected anal gland, you’ll know about it.

Re: Post something you've learnt today

Posted: 17 May 2021, 19:32
by Six String
Elephant garlic is not part of the garlic species. They are a species of leeks.

Re: Post something you've learnt today

Posted: 18 May 2021, 00:05
by kath
someone pointed this out on twitter, talking about the massive changes we've made in technology and science in the last hundred years.

these two events are 66 years apart.


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Re: Post something you've learnt today

Posted: 18 May 2021, 10:26
by C
kath wrote:someone pointed this out on twitter, talking about the massive changes we've made in technology and science in the last hundred years.

these two events are 66 years apart.


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Yes. Amazing!



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Re: Post something you've learnt today

Posted: 18 May 2021, 13:44
by C
That ABBA's Anni-Frid Lyngstad was born in Norway




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Re: Post something you've learnt today

Posted: 18 May 2021, 17:16
by jimboo
C wrote:That ABBA's Anni-Frid Lyngstad was born in Norway




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Her dad was a German soldier. She believed he had died during the war but they met each other thirty years later.

Re: Post something you've learnt today

Posted: 18 May 2021, 20:41
by C
jimboo wrote:
C wrote:That ABBA's Anni-Frid Lyngstad was born in Norway




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Her dad was a German soldier. She believed he had died during the war but they met each other thirty years later.


Thanks -that's very interesting




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Re: Post something you've learnt today

Posted: 18 May 2021, 21:17
by Diamond Dog
That ex-Attraction Bruce Thomas wrote a book about Bruce Lee called "Bruce Lee:Fighting Spirit"!

Re: Post something you've learnt today

Posted: 18 May 2021, 21:21
by Minnie the Minx
Everyone hates Ranking Ted! :(

Re: Post something you've learnt today

Posted: 20 May 2021, 20:52
by Minnie the Minx
First - google ‘Fresh Prince of Bel Air’
When you get your results, click on the licence plate on the left
:)

Re: Post something you've learnt today

Posted: 21 May 2021, 11:33
by Rorschach
Minnie the Minx wrote:First - google ‘Fresh Prince of Bel Air’
When you get your results, click on the licence plate on the left
:)


I must be getting different results to you, damnit!
No sign of a licence plate.

Re: Post something you've learnt today

Posted: 22 May 2021, 21:36
by pcqgod
I've recently come to learn that carpenter bees will turn the outside of your dwelling into Swiss cheese!

Re: Post something you've learnt today

Posted: 01 Jun 2021, 01:04
by Minnie the Minx
Omg. Jimbo. Divorce? Really?