PopeBeanie,

Another thought on this: If they’re killed off fast enough, the bacteria aren’t around to evolve.

PopeBeanie,

I realized this while watching this awesome episode on bacteria phages, which are viruses that prey only on bacteria. I start the hour long episode more than halfway in, and it’s not important to watch any further than their discussion on gain of function:

Wait…Don’t watch all of a video about a medical regimen that has to be c…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
English two is from the exact same ancestor,

We have two, twin, twine, between, etc.

Unseen:

Read the article from Time.

In September 2024, FBI data showed that anti-Jewish hate crimes had increased by 63% since 2023. Despite Jewish Americans making up just 2% of the U.S. population, reported single-bias anti-Jewish hate crimes made up 15% of all reported hate crimes in 2023 and 68% of all reported religion-based hate…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
Unseen,

Hamas doesn’t distinguish between combatants and civilians in its death count. And women and children are among suicide bombers too.

And note the spike in Antisemitic incidents in one year’s time after October 7, 2023. The next year hasn’t arrived yet either so there is room for more.

Crimes against blacks, women…[Read more]

I have never heard anyone else compare English and Sanskrit but from what I know, you are correct. Many UrduGaelicHindi words also have the same Proto-Indo-European roots.

Take the word for the number ‘2’.

In Hindi and Urdu (I speak some Hindi as I have in-laws from India) 2 is spelled as ‘do’ and is pronounced ‘doe’.  (Hindustani)

In Gaelic (…[Read more]

Well, I seem to have got that all wrong.  Sc- words are from the latin caedere, meaning cut, str- words are from the Pali Indo-European root

strenk – “tight, narrow; pull tight, twist” (see string (n.))

Jake,

I just checked and English and Arabic don’t belong to the same family, so they are put together very differently.  English and Hindi are in the same family.

The root system sounds a lot like Sanskrit.  Many of the Sanskrit roots exist in English, like the sc- sound for cutting, e.g., scar, scythe, scissors; and str- for long thin things l…[Read more]

Simon,

The historian in the vid refers to Arabic language. I had no idea of the following: In Arabic, most words are built upon a triconsonantal root, meaning they are derived from a base of three consonants. These roots represent core meanings or concepts, and other words are formed by adding vowels and other consonants to the root. For example,…[Read more]