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They do not. It's an old myth - the society used to blame schizophrenia on bad parents, especially mothers. This has no grounds in medical research.

I considered training our cat to do this, but there's a bunch of advice out there saying that it may be harmful to your cat, and may be difficult as the cat gets older. So please consult with your vet before going this route.

"The modern housecat is just about as natural as a naked human living wild in the forest. It has been selectively bred..."

I think it would be better to say "The modern housecat is just about as natural as a modern human living in a modern house". Both species adapted to modern human environment.

The majority of people who file for bankruptcy due to medical bills have health insurance.

https://sum.cuny.edu/medical-debt-americans-bankrupt-health-...

Basic health things that can bankrupt you: diabetes, childbirth complications, etc.

Which journal are you referring to? I tried to search different variations of the website name on the list and couldn't find it.

I was going to suggest "Understanding physics" by Asimov. I think "On physics" is a collection of essays where "Understanding physics" is more a complete bottom-up treatment like Petzold's "Code".

I recommend the author's book "In Persuasion Nation", a collection of short stories, mostly a kind of near-future sci-fi satirizing excesses of commercialism.

Here is a story that made me pick up the book after I heard it on the radio: My Flamboyant Grandson":

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/01/28/my-flamboyant-...

This reminds me of a self-working trick I saw online in the 90s.

The website shows you a hand of 5 cards, and asks you to pick one card and stare at it intensely. It claims it will read your mind and guess the card. When ready, you will click a button, and 5 new cards are shown - 4 random cards plus the card you thought of.

...

The trick is that the same cards are shown as before, but in different order. Most people only focused on the one card and don't notice that the rest of the cards are the same. It sounds very simple, but it worked on me and all my family members, at least the first time.

Nipples are used by female mammals for feeding their young, so this logic does not apply to nipples.

I thought the title was quoting Shakespeare.

Why would you need a copy method for an immutable record?

I get it now. That's interesting - generating missing letterforms!

I can't tell the relationship in your example.

Do you mean relationship in terms of appearance or pronunciation?

Я maps to "ya" sound in Russian, И is "ee" and Н is "N" in Russian and "ee" in modern Greek but in ancient Greek it's something like "e" in "bed" in American English.

"that the modern lingustics community generally ascribes to the theory that all languages are equal in complexity."

I would love to see a citation for this.

It is easy to prove that an artificial language such as Esperanto has lower learning complexity than other languages. All you have to do is count the concepts a student has to learn.

With the thousands of languages out there, I would be surprised that all of them have equal concept count - I would think it would follow a normal distribution of some sort and that there are outliers at both ends.

I don't think it's possible to be more fluent then a native speaker. You can sound more educated, or elite, or have better verbal skills or otherwise have a "gift of the gab", but a language is defined by the native speakers (except in special cases like Continental English or Esperanto).

One mark of high-level fluency is being able to casually confuse "less" and "few" and say things like "more better" just like a native English speaker does.

Pedantic nitpick here, but the issue you are raising is orthography, not pronunciation.

A difficult pronunciation implies that a language has difficult sounds that non-native speakers can't pronounce (regardless how those sounds are spelled, or even if the language has a writing system at all).

The games are still being made, and are very high quality.

Once every few years I go to http://xyzzyawards.org and play the winners.

It's somewhat analogous to the claim that almost every spoken sentence had never been spoken before in the history of language.

I'm not sure I agree. I'd much rather that doctors base their decisions on what they read in publications in their field rather than do their own research.

I'm sure not everyone knows this, because there are are people on this site who have not grown up with phone books.

The article talks about a reverse phone book: according to the author, given a phone number, you are able to look up name (and profile picture). To my understanding there were no reverse-lookup phone books like that back in the day.

Agree about not taking medical advice from people on the internet.

It's also best not to form life decisions on any one study. This includes studies that show multivitamin benefits as well as those that show slight increase in mortality rate.

For multivitamin studies, it seems to be so hard to show any effect that people think we should stop looking for it:

"The probability of a meaningful effect is so small that it's not worth doing study after study and spending research dollars on these questions"

https://www.webmd.com/vitamins-and-supplements/news/20131216...

There's only one unpaired word antonym in that sentence, the second to last.

Rest are regular words, but "negated unpaired idioms", which seem to be easier to read.

I hope the name was a coincidence - consider that Microsoft uses city names for big project codenames.

I would love to read something similar about a "for" loop. "if/else" always sounded natural to me, but a "for" to mean a loop never did.

It is ridiculous, but also true. It's not that there was a law prohibiting women from signing a mortgage, but there was no law prohibiting banks from discriminating against women - which they did by discounting their income or requiring a male co-signer.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1802323?seq=1

I think in practice it's the opposite - they brew actual coffee and blend in chicory for the authentic New Orleans taste kick.

The book takes place during Stalin era, yet hardly mentions Stalinist atrocities.

It is as if someone wrote an anti-US book that takes place in antibellum South and never mention slavery.

I'm not saying that every book set in a certain time period must delve into the worst parts of that period, but it could hardly be called anti-that country if it doesn't.

If we are talking about the same time period as the book (which opens up in the 30's, I believe) then you would absolutely be persecuted for having contacts with the West. And by contact, it could be something as innocuous as you were happened to a tailor who worked on diplomat's clothing.

The law was written to make it illegal to be suspected of counter-revolutionary activities. So it's the burden is not to prove the crime, just to prove the suspicion of a crime.

Honestly curious what you mean by anti-Soviet.

I don't feel being anti-Soviet is bad, unless it means misleading people to serve your goals (as the comparison to Voice of America and by extension to propaganda implies).

I guess you mean some aspects of Soviet Union were mischaracterized, or presented in a more negative way then they should have been.

Did you feel that's what the book did? I'm curious what part?