I’ve been reading fiction that uses a lot of bog bodies, and I love that as a concept and wanted to use it. Thing is, I don’t live in an area of the world where bogs exist, and was thinking of localizing that idea and maybe doing Mangrove Bodies.

I know mangroves also have very low oxygen, especially as you go deeper into the mud, so I was wondering if a body buried deep enough in a mangrove forest could be preserved similar to how it might in a bog, or if the chemical conditions and life in there would cause it to decompose instead?

What I mean is how big can an animal theoretically get?
The blue whale is not only the largest animal alive, but the largest to ever exist (that we know of)

But is it actually possible for something to be bigger? Or is the Blue whale the max?

Taking into account moisture, ease of digestion, etc? If they do, I'm assuming the difference is neglgible.

From my understanding, hormone replacement therapy works in humans in large part due to the X chromosome holding most of the genetic code. So, someone with XY chromosomes still carries the genes for the development of female sex characteristics (and vice versa for people with XX chromosomes- male sex characteristics are also coded on the X chromosome)

I’m curious about how (or if) this rings true in animals with different sex chromosomes. For species that use genetic sex determination, is there always one chromosome that contains most of the genes for the development of sex characteristics?

Pictures of the intakes: https://imgur.com/a/tUWMEqe

On the intake ( on both of them but I will talk about a single one ) there is a splitter plate positioned on the inside and right on the inside corner near the splitter plate there is a narrow slit. It is there to allow for smoother airflow during high AOA flight but I don't understand why it helps at all. The boundary level becomes really strong on the bottom of the intake during high AOA which will just bleed the boundary level right into the intake and in my head it will just make things worse even though it actually helps. The only thing I can think of is that it creates vortices in the intake. I probably said a lot of incorrect stuff so I apologise if it can be confusing or just plainly a really easy question that I just lack basic knowledge in this field to understand

Is it just a concentration thing or more of an aspartame mechanism thing? Are the flavor molecules more plentiful or just more potent?

Sorry if this is under the wrong flair, thought it would work better than paleontology.

So like, I imagine if one can generally predict weather patterns for artificially created/simulated worlds, we can easily use the same science and stuff on what we know of Pangea's geography and stuff to determine weather patterns during that age, right?

So were conditions on our world at the time suitable for stuff like hurricanes and tornados?

Bonus question for paleontologists: if the above is true, how would taller dinos like sauropods have dealt with high winds of that magnitude?

My 6-year old niece does this. My nephew did this when before he turned 5. Dad assures me that his youngest brother and I used to do this as well. Is it common outside my family too?

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Unless the healing factor is something unrelated to cancer development? How does that work?

https://imgur.com/a/ImqDp2K

So when you go to the doctor, they will look at your veins on your elbow. Some need a needle to move the vein closer, some don't and their veing is naturally positioned in the right position. Some people also have veins visible all over their body (not like bulging, but color visible on the skin). I was curious on why this happens?
(I can explain more what I'm asking about if I'm not clear)

i boiled water this morning to make some oatmeal. i turned off the stovestop and left some simmering water in the pot. after i used the metal measuring cup, it sank to the bottom of the pot. after about five minutes, i noticed bubbles that had formed and clung to the metal in the still hot water (about 180F/82C).

i have no idea exactly what metal the pot or measuring cup are made of.

please see my reddit profile for an image of this phenomenon, or see the first comment of this post.

thanks in advance.

edit: thanks for the answers everyone! i love being able to explain science to my kids!

the general question: how do we calculate how conclusive an experience is?

itried to look up methods to do that, but it's about more complicated experiences and i can't understand where the explained methods come from. i think if i understand how to do it for a simple case like the title, maybe i'll understand what i have to ask myself for any experience?

sorry if it isn't clear what i mean. put mathematics flair, but it's about research in general, didn't find a better flair

À quantités équivalentes, que se produit-il lorsqu'on verse de l'eau bouillante dans un récipient entièrement constitué de glace? Lequel des deux cède en premier, et quel est l'état final du système?

Je ne suis point un scientifique, un chercheur ou tout autre synonyme de ces fabuleux corps de métier. Toutefois, si vous voulez aller plus loin, voici une difficulté plus élevé à mon sens:
La structure du contenant est décisive.

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Me and my friend got into a disagreement over this, i don’t remember exactly what she said but it was something along the lines of pregabalins effects on neurotransmitters somehow causes more gaba to be released so the brain can mantain homeostasis or something but i can’t find anything anywhere to back that up (i can’t find much either way which is why im asking here) and everything i’ve seen says it has no effect on gaba other than possibly affecting the gaba transporter protein.

I live in Australia and the largest land animals I can think of here is probably a kangaroos and emus which really aren’t any larger than a human. But my family recently went to Africa and the diversity animals is actually crazy. So so so many large animals living in the same place side by side. Rhinos, elephants, giraffes, wilder-beasts, zebras, hippos, warthogs, buffalo’s, ostriches, lions, cheetahs, hyenas leopards and probably more that I forgot. I never really appreciated how big these animals were until I actually got to see them in person absolutely amazing. Australia and Africas climate is kinda similar in a lot of places. Why is our country ecosystem dead in comparison?

Asking the question in the historical context, not to decide on nutrition in the modern day.

I know heating grains helped to unlock some nutrients and especially caloric content over just eating them raw. However did bread provide any nutritional benefits over just boiling the same grain as a porridge (a much simpler process), or was its popularity due to other factors?