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Vic Mackey

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2 hours ago, TexArcher said:

Nickelback sold over 50 million albums worldwide.

50 fucking million.

Nickelback.

This is not that unbelievable. The public loves stripped down pop music with catchy, radio friendly hooks and sound. Britney Spears, Nsync, etc were all very popular as well and sold tons of records.

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Knoxtnhorn

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6 hours ago, Celery Man said:

The transformation of world cuisine following the Columbian exchange is interesting.  Tomatoes, corn, potatoes, vanilla - all new world crops.  No paprika in Hungarian cuisine before that.

This is something I love to explain to my students each year.  Amazing that Italians didn't have tomatoes, the Swiss didn't have chocolate, Irish didn't have potatoes, etc...and the West didn't have coffee, chickens, or horses.

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2 hours ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

This is something I love to explain to my students each year.  Amazing that Italians didn't have tomatoes, the Swiss didn't have chocolate, Irish didn't have potatoes, etc...and the West didn't have coffee, chickens, or horses.

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15 minutes ago, deadshank said:

Does there have to be a partner?  Asking for a friend. 

Probably not. I've always thought that the frequency of getting sick is probably proportional to the amount of time one spends around children. There's probably an inverse relationship between sexual activity and amount of time spent around children. (Unless you're Jerry Sandusky.)

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Celery Man

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If you buy the Guns Germs and Steel theory behind it, the disparity there comes from the same reason the Europeans were relatively more advanced as a civilizations - greater number of domesticable animals in the old world than the new.  Helped advance civilization but that's also where the diseases come from.

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12 hours ago, Celery Man said:

The transformation of world cuisine following the Columbian exchange is interesting.  Tomatoes, corn, potatoes, vanilla - all new world crops.  No paprika in Hungarian cuisine before that.

The man who coined the term "Columbian Exchange" was Alfred W. Crosby. He retired as a UT professor and died in March of this year.

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1 minute ago, Anastasis said:

They left off syphilis as a new world biological contribution. 

Maybe yes, maybe no. There is not a consensus.

Farhi, D; Dupin, N (September–October 2010). "Origins of syphilis and management in the immunocompetent patient: facts and controversies". Clinics in Dermatology. 28 (5): 533–8. 

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2 minutes ago, Walden Ponderer said:

Maybe yes, maybe no. There is not a consensus.

 Farhi, D; Dupin, N (September–October 2010). "Origins of syphilis and management in the immunocompetent patient: facts and controversies". Clinics in Dermatology. 28 (5): 533–8. 

Fake science bro.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/evan.20340

Abstract

This article discusses the presentation of scientific findings by documentary, without the process of peer review. We use, as an example, PBS's “The Syphilis Enigma,” in which researchers presented novel evidence concerning the origin of syphilis that had never been reviewed by other scientists. These “findings” then entered the world of peer‐reviewed literature through citations of the documentary itself or material associated with it. Here, we demonstrate that the case for pre‐Columbian syphilis in Europe that was made in the documentary does not withstand scientific scrutiny. We also situate this example from paleopathology within a larger trend of “science by documentary” or “science by press conference,” in which researchers seek to bypass the peer review process by presenting unvetted findings directly to the public. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Celery Man

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The man who coined the term "Columbian Exchange" was Alfred W. Crosby. He retired as a UT professor and died in March of this year.


For a second I read that as Bill Cosby. Columbian Exchange would be a good name for a revered person whose legacy is completely trashed by a spotlight shined on their actions. Bill Cosby, Joe Parerno - highly respected but went through a Columbian Exchange in the end of their lives.
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15 minutes ago, JimmyGlass said:

The first season of Seinfeld was in 1989, which is exactly half way between the first year of the Andy Griffith show (1960) and the present. 

We could do an entire thread on time and age.  The Wedding Singer came out in 1997, and was set 1985, 12 years prior.  Remember how cheesy 1985 was, as shown?

Well, a sequel/reboot today, with the same time gap would be set in 2006.  

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24 minutes ago, Parliament said:

We could do an entire thread on time and age.  The Wedding Singer came out in 1997, and was set 1985, 12 years prior.  Remember how cheesy 1985 was, as shown?

Well, a sequel/reboot today, with the same time gap would be set in 2006.  

Jesus.  The difference between 1985 and 1997 seems much more stark than 2006 to 2018.  Other than phones, what's really different?

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