Perhaps tangentially related:

The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals. A nice treatise on laws under which various animals have been tried in court.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/43286/43286-h/43286-h.htm

Thanks for that, super interesting about sieches. A standing wave not directly from the moon or waves.From the wiki:

Lake seiches can occur very quickly: on July 13, 1995, a large seiche on Lake Superior caused the water level to fall and then rise again by one metre (three feet) within fifteen minutes, leaving some boats hanging from the docks on their mooring lines when the water retreated

In Chicago I’ve observed and measured a consistent 0.8kn (1.48 km/hr) current set flowing north after a long week of consistent breezes out of the north. The water just piles up in the shallow end of the lake and when the breeze dies that water needs to go somewhere.

Lake Michigan has the least turnover of all the lakes and when thinking about predicting current on it it’s good to imagine a 300 mile long bathtub.

> it’s good to imagine a 300 mile long bathtub

Harrods was destroyed by the Vogons.

Hilarious comment, thank you. Now I will have to go and see every bathtub from now on as a tiny Lake Michigan...

As pointed out above me, 250-300 micrograms is what you likely meant. You might have to hunt for such low doses. I split a 1 mg tab in quarters. Repeated studies have shown that there is not an increase in efficacy, but there is an increase in adverse effects when doses are higher. See https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-th...

Products exist in US and recently Canada too

Trying to wrap my head around the term "cultural practitioner", even after looking it up. Don't we all transmit our culture?

“One who demonstrates and interprets cultural practices to people from other cultures, often as a means of cultural preservation.”

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/cultural_practitioner

Imagine a “tour guide” focused on their own culture.

You may remember the fire dancers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesian_Cultural_Center

I think the style is intended to evoke the way the story developed at the time, as drips of new information came in on the news. I stuck with it and am happy with that decision.

I do not feel like the author's profile is going to change your mind on that: https://medium.com/@macvsogjc/about

For anyone interested in the therapeutic (or otherwise) use of ketamine, I strongly recommend the autobiography of John Lilly, the neuroscientist who developed the sensory deprivation tank. His discussion of ketamine-aided spiritual entity discovery and dolphin communication are enlightening.

https://archive.org/details/scientistnovelau00lill/page/n5/m...

Besides the achiral glycerol mentioned in the article, some bacteria subsist on methane. That is also non-chiral and in large quantity in petroleum and under the sea.

Yes. Some bacteria have D-amino acids (such as D-alanine) as part of their cell walls (which otherwise contain almost entirely L-amino acids). D-amino acids are also sometimes incorporated into drugs that are synthetic peptide mimics in order to slow metabolism.

> D-amino acids are also sometimes incorporated into drugs that are synthetic peptide mimics in order to slow metabolism.

Thanks! I think that was the notecard in a dusty corner of my mind that was nagging.

d-ala is not incorporated into the protein main sequence (it's part of a D-ala D-lac sugar)

They say in the article that capillary action draws the coffee along the narrow edge. This is aided by surface tension, just like how water is drawn into a capillary tube.