December 2008
45 posts
“A number of wild statements were attributed to a “world renowned...”
– Spider Myths: Terror beneath the castle
“Here’s an interesting turn of events. Mr Graham Smith replied to my email....”
– Fortean Times Message Board :: View topic - Spiders of Windsor
“Graham Smith is a member of the conservation team, Project-ARK, an organization...”
– Kidzworld :: Windsor Castle Attacked by Spiders?
“Once photos of the spiders emerged, arachnologists quickly identified them as...”
– Spider Myths: Terror beneath the castle
“Nests of rare venomous spiders have been found near Windsor Castle and could be...”
– BBC News | UK | Venomous spiders nest near Queen’s home
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“BEACON continuously relays live web searches as they are being made around the...”
– BEACON. Thomson & Craighead
“A more promising approach to thinking about how these intriguing patterns of...”
– Synesthesia & metaphor — I’m not feeling it « Neuroanthropology
“The link between synesthesia and metaphor (Ramachandran & Hubbard, 2001b)...”
– Orders of metaphor? Then in that case there would be a lot of mileage charting this, to see how many there are at each order. I’d guess there would be many more at the higher orders, and a lot of interest in charting these (non-arbitrary, mind) associations.
Synesthesia - Scholarpedia
“Scholarpedia differs from Wikipedia in some very important ways: * Each article...”
– Main Page - Scholarpedia
“as Ramachandran himself argues (see Ramachandran & Hubbard 2001a),...”
– Synesthesia & metaphor — I’m not feeling it « Neuroanthropology
“There’s a small (and probably not terribly lucrative) cottage industry on the...”
– Synesthesia & metaphor — I’m not feeling it « Neuroanthropology
“Although there may be some ways that metaphor is like synesthesia, when we add...”
– Synesthesia & metaphor — I’m not feeling it « Neuroanthropology
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“English words borrowed from Venetian include artichoke, arsenal, ballot, casino,...”
– Venetian spoken here Roderick Conway Morris TLS
“I remember being astonished at the (implausible) scientific precision of the...”
– Language Log » Pretty miserable by and large
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“Marston was hired by the US government during WWI to come up with a way to make...”
– mental_floss Blog » The Truth About Lie Detectors
“Analyzing a group of studies in the 1940’s, the seminal...”
– Twelve Easy Pieces - New York Times
“You look at the number of meals being eaten in automobiles,” Steve Lutz...”
– Twelve Easy Pieces - New York Times
“Industry insiders now talk about elevating a food’s...”
– Twelve Easy Pieces - New York Times
Limited Inc: Supplement to Glyph 2, Jacques... →
Cyanide, cyan, apples
Seeds mildly poisonous?
The article claims that the seeds contain “a small amount of amygdalin, a cyanogenic glycoside,” yet checking Wikipedia’s page for amygdalin and glycoside make the claim look rather doubtful. Can someone in the know check the reference or confirm this is true? Cheers, Pugget (talk) 09:45, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
I am concerned about that bit too, but the...
“The case of Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln is mentioned by Chaucer, and thus has...”
– Blood libel against Jews - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Violence can occur, especially if an attempt is made to awaken a sleep walker....”
– Can people drive while asleep? | Psychology Today Blogs
