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Cake day: October 10th, 2023

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  • Do you worry about UV exposure from the sun?

    You can block the vast majority of harmful welding radiation with a long sleeve tee shirt. Throw on some sunscreen if you’re paranoid about it. I generally wear a lab coat and that’s plenty.

    If you want something to worry about, worry about gas exposure. You can’t see it, generally can’t smell it, and if you can feel it, you’re probably already fucked. Argon asphyxiation is particularly insidious. Close ur eyes for a little snooze on the job and wake up to meet God.







  • The bigger difference imo is the brain development due to hormones in the womb. Old TLC program had a whole section on this suggesting it’s why STEM fields are generally male dominated. Turns out hormones that determine biological gender also very much effect the development of the brain, and the male chemicals tend to develop the spatial reasoning part of the brain faster/more thoroughly than those who get don’t get the male chemicals and stay female. This average higher spatial reasoning capacity creates an advantage in tasks or objectives where complex visualizations are necessary, like visualizing chess moves in your head.

    It’s not some massive, overwhelming difference, but it’s enough to tilt the table. Play out that average enough and you have 42 women out of 2500 chess grandmasters










  • I just watched a whole Astrum video about this. It’s less about one being hotter than the other and more about the seasons being more extreme. The orbit of our planet is actually a little egg shaped, and the closest we pass to the sun happens to be in early January. In the north, due to our tilt, it happens during winter, giving us a more mild season. In the south, the opposite is true. They have hotter summers and colder winters than we do.