TIL Inuit probably don't have 50 words for "snow"
You've almost certainly heard the claim that the Inuit people have 50 words for snow. The truth behind it is a little complicated, though.
The idea that "Inuit" have a single language is evidently the first issue, but the idea behind the myth seemingly came from an 1800s anthropological study that mentioned four separate words. Many of the languages apparently have agglutinative qualities (like German, where you can just moosh more things on the end of a word to make a new one) as well as their cultures having a lot to do with snow (and thus likely having more jargon around it) leading to people running with ever-increasing numbers of words for snow that these "rudimentary" people had for "such a simple concept".
I feel like both of these people have too much time on their hands, but only one is innocuous and hilarious
Not my comics but he mostly posts one offs. Check the site in the bottom right corner of the comic for moar, they're pretty good
But there's so much wasted room storing it upside down, and it's too tall to store on its side
If a woman committed murder, arson, or theft from a church, she was to be set adrift in a boat with one paddle and a container of gruel. This left the judgment up to God and avoided violating the proscription against killing a woman
It's not my fault if she dies out on the boat, that's God's will
The article also mentions another experiment done about 20 years ago with swimmers and the same body heat measurements, with results showing that heat loss was correlated with area exposed. It's a poppish article but the background behind the myth was the big TIL for me
This was for an ochem class, second semester as well so fifteen prior experiments in there
I started a new lab notebook, had to copy everything over gah