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"Shannonās wry humor surfaces at the end of the Theseus film. He looks directly into the camera and notes that the method the mouse uses is mathematically guaranteed to āsolve any possible maze.ā And then, playfully, he traps the mouse in a single square."https://t.co/B4Akxgzq82 https://t.co/O6C1m9wo48
"Theseus followed Daedalus' instructions given to Ariadne: go forwards, always down, and never left or right. Theseus came to the heart of the Labyrinth and also upon the sleeping Minotaur."https://t.co/RYrHJkxIDahttps://t.co/udjPOHmVdp
What kinds of problems were the ancient greeks trying to solve? Or were they just telling stories about a past civilization.https://t.co/skM9UQ54Z1
Ancient 3d printing?https://t.co/1rT184xrAL
How old are pantographs? If the Antikythera was built in ancient Greek, could they have used a potters wheel (traced as far back as Mesopotamia) to carve duplications in marble?Even if this isn't how they did their sculpting, it's a fun idea.https://t.co/Ujn1fxuONv
What if Talos was real?https://t.co/xhCpC3CftO
Stories of a horse used by a giant, used to move things.Was SvaĆ°ilfari a mechanical horse?https://t.co/VTdiSaFTtHhttps://t.co/3Wot9NJ5yt
Loki, a smart trickster who descended from giants, went off into the woods and copied the horse; gave it 8 legs?How tall were people in ancient china in 480 BC?https://t.co/6lZhQDUQsB
What would you call a wheelbarrow if you didn't have a language for 'robots'? Wooden ox. Muniuliuma?https://t.co/1X3bhXNksQhttps://t.co/MqzzFiTK2n
A horse, fueled by fire in it's belly."c. 450 BC - Archytas of Tarentum used a jet of steam to propel a toy wooden bird suspended on wire."https://t.co/AuBmr6GmP6š„š
Stories of gods and demons, and giant mechanical machines from ancient metal workers.https://t.co/WdkW7ljqYh
Hephaestus had a son said to be a giant."When Typhon attacked Mount Olympus though, Hephaestus did not stand and fight, and like most other Olympian gods turned and fled to Egypt. In Egypt Hephaestus would become known as Ptah."https://t.co/9sVK1QsPjZhttps://t.co/xB1v1qxe9P
"Both Hero and Vitruvius draw on the much earlier work by Ctesibius (285ā222 BCE), also known as Ktesibios or Tesibius [...] in Alexandria, Ptolemaic Egypt. He wrote the first treatises on the science of compressed air and its uses in pumps."https://t.co/lhBow0DboE
Amazing how common calcium and collegen weirdness show up in sub populations of autistics."Once you sort of start to understand a bit more about the biology, it might lead us to identifying particular subgroups"https://t.co/yc7E7lKIu4You see it too right?
I'm short for my family. I'm 6'1".My family are giants.https://t.co/X7Mmu8uTXG
Where I actually want to decrease it somewhat. I think part of my metabolic issues associated with autism may stem from T overproduction due to liver issues and possibly associated Growth Hormone weirdness. I was always +90th percentile in height.https://t.co/4qtzbIkiB8
"Finding such skeletons is rare, because gigantism itself is extremely rare, today affecting about three people in a million worldwide. The condition begins in childhood, when a malfunctioning pituitary gland causes abnormal growth"https://t.co/te3fvvB3Q2https://t.co/tkND73NBa2
Why am I short? Why are members of my family 8 ft tall?https://t.co/FyuX9O4SBo
huh, familiar."pituitary gland is involved in the release of growth hormone (GH), prolactin, vasopressin, adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), follicle stimulating hormone (FSH, luteinizing hormone (LH), and oxytocin."https://t.co/ZrfnDHzGWg
Why is height, measures of IQ, and longevity commonly correlated?https://t.co/HLndzkk3Rw
What are we missing (in our gut?)https://t.co/rQQoZc8N9a
@AmandaChimera Hunch: Microbiomes seems to be a novel thing in science literature. Paradigm assumes genes are only heritable thing... But we also pass on our microbiome. If they're framing the problem wrong it explains why there is low level noise about epigenetics many scientists discount.
Stress. Kidneys. Vitamin D. Bone.https://t.co/NTJs15TPNZ
Cortisol regulation is weird in autism, schizophrenia, and diabetes type 2/pcos.I think a portion of 'inherited' is via vertical microbiome transfer; is perhaps what the genetic inheritance is giving a proclivity for.Microbiome signaling via cortisol: https://t.co/O4GM9n8cS2
Stress?https://t.co/3wBw2swuEuStress!https://t.co/0FmM6mJyByMust be the stress?No.https://t.co/sg8lbWCr93
I am going to make big squirrels.https://t.co/MOGbjUzvZw
Anybody know of cases where people suddenly grew taller after a stressful life event?https://t.co/1YXpm3Xt63
"Servius says she had a sacellum (shrine), probably located in Rome,[3] where sacrifices were made to her"https://t.co/bBGAATCNae"Cacus was a fire-breathing giant and the son of Vulcan"https://t.co/AOoPuWNXhz
"The bulls are described to be elephant-sized, fire-breathing bronze bulls created by Hephaestus with horns of silver and rubies for eyes."https://t.co/BktWEohXW0Fire breathing giant mechanical bulls, Twin Moloch.
The gods were non-binary & plural? lol.https://t.co/PN9Ogz7Aaf
Those ancient bloodlines really liked to inbreed a lot.https://t.co/6TEzFg2elI
Would ancient people make a meaningful distinction between a work horse and a cow? A horned stag?https://t.co/Jj8W6tRCcu
Megalodon. Giant sea horses with sharp teeth.https://t.co/zwFVDzkqAh
Baby sharks, oh, oh, oh-oh, oh-oh"One reason for the "incredible shrinking shark" over the eons may be the process of neoteny -- the ability of some adult sharks to retain juvenile traits -- or their ability to achieve sexual maturity at earlier ages"https://t.co/amwzBfPzjp