The thread of learning something new every day

Mokey

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<a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.realsimple.com/m/home-organizing/cleaning/laundry/fold-fitted-sheet">http://www.realsimple.com/m/home-organizing/cleaning/laundry/fold-fitted-sheet</a> 
You're welcome.
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No, Satan, I SHALL NOT CLICK ON YOUR LINK.

nostrildamus

Would appreciate some good NZ brew names but that is probably a different thread.
My tiny contribution for the thread, nipples are also known as the Glands of Montgomery (from his 1837 paper).
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.buzzfeed.com/carolynkylstra/nipple-factoids'>http://www.buzzfeed.com/carolynkylstra/nipple-factoids</a>
 
His paper is described in Bailey & Love's Short Practice of Surgery.
 
Edit: Sorry I forgot to mention two fave beer names
Jean Claude Van Cock puncher (obv Belgian IPA <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/26884/88667/)'>http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/26884/88667/)</a>
and
Camel Toe Egyptian Pale Ale (<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/piece-camel-toe-egyptian-pale-ale/68696/'>http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/piece-camel-toe-egyptian-pale-ale/68696/</a>) 
What do they taste like?
I suspect the latter has a smooth velvety finish with a back palate tickle of bearded mussel.

Chris B.

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During my sheet research I came across an article that said fitted sheets are more about saving the manufacturer fabric than convenience and comfort for the consumer and whomever was being interviewed said she never bought fitted sheets and instead relied on her skill in making a bed with hospital corners. 
 
Farmers had heaps of quality sheet sets to choose from in their Boxing Day sales - and I branched out into some very nice towels at half price, as well.
 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.wikihow.com/Identify-and-Choose-High-Quality-Bath-Towels'>http://www.wikihow.com/Identify-and-Choose-High-Quality-Bath-Towels</a>
 
Nepia will be scorning this, but I'm still the one who's really laughing!

dogmeat

I learned that the Baron hardly ever posts any more (which had escaped me) which as I reflect on the last year somehow seems to diminish this place and makes me (momentarily) maudlin.

No Quarter

Yeah, I guess everyone loves McCullum now so he ran out of battles to fight.

NTA

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I learned that the Baron hardly ever posts any more (which had escaped me) which as I reflect on the last year somehow seems to diminish this place and makes me (momentarily) maudlin.
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Well, he's gone the hard love on SidBarrett in the "Breaking Up" thread.
 
Feels like he was never gone!

dogmeat

I learned that the latest generation of caesium atomic clocks lose 1 second every 14.1 billion years.
 
That's 14.1 BILLION years.
 
NB The universe is estimated to be 13.5 billion years old.
 
there was an explanation on why you need a timepiece that accurate but I missed it coz I was still going
 
Whaaaaatthefuuuuckinheeeeeeeellllllllllll

taniwharugby

ha, I struggle to understand/comprehend when they start talking in billions of years, it just seems like a guess...I mean can we prove they are wrong, and then, oh sorry, it was only 13.9billion years...

Chris B.

This isn't really learning, because I thought it up myself this morning (but it's doubtless been thought of before). However, seems like a good place to post.
 
For some reason 2015 has struck me as a particularly futuristic number and I suspect it might be to do with its distance from my birth date.
 
Looking at things in reverse, if you turn 25 this year then you were born in 1990 and you're as far away from your birth date as people were in 1965. That's not so bad.
 
If you were born in 1965, you turn 50 this year - and you're as far from your birthdate as the Gallipoli landings (1915).
 
If you're like my father, who's 80 this year, he's as far from his birthdate as the bloody Crimean War (1855).
 
And if you're 100 this year, you can stretch right back to the end of the Napoleonic wars (1815).

booboo

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This isn't really learning, because I thought it up myself this morning (but it's doubtless been thought of before). However, seems like a good place to post. 
For some reason 2015 has struck me as a particularly futuristic number and I suspect it might be to do with its distance from my birth date. 
Looking at things in reverse, if you turn 25 this year then you were born in 1990 and you're as far away from your birth date as people were in 1965. That's not so bad. 
If you were born in 1965, you turn 50 this year - and you're as far from your birthdate as the Gallipoli landings (1915). 
If you're like my father, who's 80 this year, he's as far from his birthdate as the bloody Crimean War (1855). 
And if you're 100 this year, you can stretch right back to the end of the Napoleonic wars (1815).</blockquote>
 
Marty McFly traveled Back to the Future to 2015 in II. 
At least the hoverboard has actually been invented ...

taniwharugby

Yea I saw something the other day about BTTF and how they needed to redo it without hover boards and just have everyone on thier phones.

Chris B.

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Marty McFly traveled Back to the Future to 2015 in II. 
At least the hoverboard has actually been invented ...
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Maybe that explains it... :)
 
That's an interesting measure of speed of technological progress - whether we're inventing stuff at the rate that books and movies historically thought we would.

NTA

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Yea I saw something the other day about BTTF and how they needed to redo it without hover boards and just have everyone on thier phones.
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<div>Remake Back to the Future where there are no flying cars and people stare at their phone the whole time & get offended by everything #2015</div>

Stockcar86

Explosion welding (EXW) is a solid state (solid-phase) process where welding is accomplished by accelerating one of the components at extremely high velocity through the use of chemical explosives.
 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosion_welding'>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosion_welding</a>

Tim

For those who vapourise: <a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1413069">http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1413069</a>

Crucial

Who cares about sheets. Most of time when I'm in bed I'm asleep, so wouldn't know, or care, what I'm sleeping on.
 
Underpants however, are a different matter. I have recently learned the pleasure of wearing Icebreaker Merino undies. Throw away your cotton forever and enjoy the soft encasement of your danglies in fine wool.

taniwharugby

boxers of briefs? 
 
I only wear the latter when running or playing golf to avoid chaffing.... hehe

Crucial

Those boxer brief type ones. Need something to keep the goods from falling out leg of the shorts.
 
They aren't cheap, but neither are quality cotton ones.

Kirwan

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For those who vapourise: <a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1413069">http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1413069</a>
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5 times as high cancer risk! Jesus H Christ.

Hooroo

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Those boxer brief type ones. Need something to keep the goods from falling out leg of the shorts.
 
They aren't cheap, but neither are quality cotton ones. 
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How much is not cheap?
 
Also, does it all get a bit too hot in wool this time of year? (I'm writing this while I screw up my face at the thought BTW)

The Silver Fern

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