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				Friday Fun Thread for March 24, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


109 Premiata Forneria Marconi – Per un amico (1972)






When most people think of progressive rock’s attempts to marry rock and classical music, the first thing that comes to mind is probably any of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer’s ham-fisted attempts at rocking the classics. Or maybe King Crimson’s avant-garde adventures. If nothing else, the spirit of most prog is Romantic; maximalist, emotional, daring. But PFM take a different tack, settling on the Baroque instead; intricate, complicated, sensitive.




Per un Amico is okay, but the real standout album in this subgenre is il Rovescio della Medaglia's Contaminazione (1973).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 20, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Lactating women (and aliens) will save the world.




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The last one is in the Ringers' home system




Wait a minute. So this alien species name is the Ringers, and some of them are lactating.  In other words, we have lactating Ringers.  Are we quite sure the point of this novel isn't just to make a bad IV-fluids-related joke?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 27, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That'd be my guess too (although I'd argue "rural", as they spent most of that time living in Vegas and Flagstaff, unless you're thinking of a different reality show/polygamist family than I am).  One wonders if the sentiment will shift now that 3/4ths of said polygamist family relationship has now been loudly detonating, catching fire and leaking radiation all over the tabloid press...


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 2, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Also consider: we have a Drug War in this country.  We have lists of chemicals that are banned because of their psychoactive effects.  We have lists of chemicals that are banned because they are too similar to chemicals on the first list and thus might be psychoactive.  Florida notoriously passed a drug-control act so wide-ranging it banned one of the amino acids in cheese as a controlled substance ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyramine#Status_in_Florida ).


Adrenochrome, as far as I know, is not on any of these lists.   If people as notoriously paranoid as the US drug warriors never got around to banning adrenochrome, it probably doesn't do much of anything.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for December 30, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Gorillas, cows, etc all digest cellulose. The bacteria in their guts turn that into protein that they absorb.




Um, how can that be?  Protein contains nitrogen, and cellulose, being a carbohydrate, doesn't.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for October 28, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Look at a globe.  Seriously.   The surface of a sphere is one of the classic examples of non-Euclidean geometry, a geometry where Euclid's 5th postulate doesn't hold.  The exact description of the 5th postulate is a bit arcane (look it up on Wikipedia if you care), but it turns out to be equivalent to saying that all triangles must have corner angles that sum to 180 degrees.  On the globe, if you choose a triangle with these corners: the north pole, 0 degrees E on the equator, 90 degrees W on the equator,  that triangle will have all its corner angles 90 degrees, for a total of 270 degrees.