{"id":4115,"date":"2018-10-28T21:16:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T03:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=4115"},"modified":"2018-10-28T21:41:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T03:41:13","slug":"odd-lots-319","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=4115","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>In response to numerous queries: QBit is still alive, and still pretty frisky, considering that our vet suggested he would be gone by now. Yes, his lymph nodes are still swelling, and we won&#8217;t have him for a whole lot longer, but he&#8217;s fighting lymphoma pretty well. We&#8217;re giving him a supplement called <a href=\"https:\/\/apocaps.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Apocaps<\/a>, that supposedly accelerates <a href= \"https:\/\/infogalactic.com\/info\/Apoptosis\" target= \"_blank\">apoptosis<\/a> in cancer cells. I&#8217;ll keep you posted.<\/li>\n<li><a href= \"https:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2018\/09\/22\/new-research-confirms-we-got-cholesterol\" target=\"_blank\">A new study involving more than a million patients<\/a> pretty much drives the last nail into the coffin of cholesterol alarmism. Cholesterol doesn&#8217;t cause heart disease, and therefore statins don&#8217;t do people any good. This is a very <em>very<\/em> big deal. It&#8217;s not enough to ignore government-issued nutrition advice. I&#8217;d recommend doing the opposite.<\/li>\n<li><a href= \"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2018\/10\/24\/usgs-issues-first-usa-volcano-threat-assessment-in-over-a-decade\/\" target=\"_blank\">There are 18 volcanoes in the US considered &#8220;very high threats.&#8221;<\/a> I have never lived close to any of them, and that was (mostly) deliberate. Arizona has two volcanoes with a threat rating (one &#8220;moderate&#8221; and one &#8220;very low&#8221;) but neither of those is within a hundred miles of me. Click through to the PDF; it&#8217;s excellent, and will tell you what volcanoes in your state have threat ratings.<\/li>\n<li><a href= \"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/life-expectancy#it-is-not-only-about-child-mortality-life-expectancy-by-age\" target=\"_blank\">Good article on life expectancy<\/a>. (Thanks to Wes Plouff for the link.) As I read it, the US is doing pretty well compared to the rest of the world. I wish there were data on life expectancy plotted against habitual hours of sleep per night. My intuition is that people who short sleep die younger.<\/li>\n<li><a href= \"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2018\/10\/04\/2018-us-tornadoes-lowest-in-65-years-of-record-keeping\/\" target=\"_blank\">2018&#8217;s tornado count is the lowest in 65 years<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duntemann.com\/stormy.htm\" target= \"_blank\">STORMY<\/a>, are you still at it?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/time-traveler\/1952\" target=\"_blank\">Merriam-Webster will show you what words were coined the year you were born<\/a>, or any arbitrary year from 1500 to the present. On the list for 1952 are stoned, global warming, deep space, modem, nonjudgmental, softcover, field-effect transistor, plotline, sonic boom, and Veterans Day. So what are the cool words on <em>your<\/em> list?<\/li>\n<li>We don&#8217;t hear much about polar bears these days, in part because <a href= \"http:\/\/notrickszone.com\/2018\/10\/25\/new-papers-polar-bears-continue-to-thrive-grow-in-number-shredding-forecasts-of-climate-doom\/\" target=\"_blank\">they&#8217;re thriving<\/a>, in spite of any changes in the climate that may be happening. Three recent papers cited at the link.<\/li>\n<li>Our pool water is still at 84 degrees, almost certainly due to a warmish fall (it hit 90 in our neighborhood today) <a href= \"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=4113\" target=\"_blank\">and especially our pool cover<\/a>. We were in the pool today, and luvvin&#8217; it.<\/li>\n<li><a href= \"http:\/\/roxy.smackjeeves.com\/comics\/2681604\/pumpkin-spice-b-tches\/\" target=\"_blank\">Best webcomic I&#8217;ve seen in some time<\/a>. Carol and I just finished a whole box of pumpkin spice K-cups, and that may do us for another year. We think that coffee should be light, sweet, and spicy, like life. Goths we are not, evidently.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to numerous queries: QBit is still alive, and still pretty frisky, considering that our vet suggested he would be gone by now. Yes, his lymph nodes are still swelling, and we won&#8217;t have him for a whole lot longer, but he&#8217;s fighting lymphoma pretty well. We&#8217;re giving him a supplement called Apocaps, that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[38,39,73,54,189,31],"class_list":["post-4115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddlots","tag-dogs","tag-health","tag-language","tag-science","tag-volcanoes","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4115"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4118,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions\/4118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}