'Serenity'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Exposure to a vacuum won't cause you to blow up, it would give you the bends however. I'm not sure exactly what would kill you, but my guess is that suffocation would get you first. You shouldn't freeze because without convection your body wouldn't radiate heat fast enough to freeze you before suffocating.
As far as clearing your sinuses, you'd probably set at least a little clearing if you took a breath right before exposure and closed your mouth.
As if refusing to say "hello" weren't bad enough, they're actually saying "heaven-oh" instead?
It sounds like a new breakfast cereal. What would Jesus eat?
What would Jesus eat?
ha! And yet, I find the actual question rather interesting. I bet there are some food anthropologists out there who've answered that one.
Checking The Food Chronology, which I happen to have here at hand, and assuming Jesus's diet was basically Roman, he'd probably be eating mostly bread, barley gruel, olives, wine, fish, and poultry. I recall fish, wine, and bread being mentioned in the Gospels.
This is interesting. Apparently, the Romans loved asparagus and considered a meal sub-par without it, and Roman foodies were all about the artichoke. They also used a lot of spices, and salted *everything*, including wine. Salt was used in the cheese-making process, and to make bread rise, and to preserve meat. I can't fathom the desire to salt their wine, though. I've read elsewhere that they watered down the wine with seawater; don't know if that's true.
Do we have any copyeditors looking for freelance work? [link]
Oooh, I could totally do that. I know about grammar and food and stuff!
Periodic Table Gets a New, Unnamed Element
You know if there's a public poll that Colbert is going to rally his troops again.
side note: Dear dog, how many times am I going to be fumble fingers on the initial first few posts today?
That heaven-o story is from 1997.
Huh. Oopsie.
That's the second time I've run across a story on PZ's blog that turned out to be many years old....
That's OK - stupidity is eternal.