Underrated reasons to be thankful V
14 days ago
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- Dogs genuinely love their owners despite evolutionary adaptations.
- Genetic diversity through reproduction allows complex life to persist.
- Potential to cure the common cold by targeting specific rhinovirus strains.
- Urbanization and travel are managed by modern sanitation and vaccines.
- Advanced technologies could combat engineered infectious diseases effectively.
- Access to clean water is almost free and unlimited.
- Dentistry and tongues are underappreciated aspects of health and function.
- Radioactive atoms have varying energy outputs and half-lives, making environmental poisoning difficult.
- Combining cures for major diseases could nonlinearly increase life expectancy.
- Peroxisomes handle fatty acids too large for mitochondria.
- Human preferences lack a universal ordering, enhancing happiness.
- Cardamom is affordable but has a luxurious taste.
- Gregory of Nyssa and Grandma Moses made significant impacts.
- Sleep provides a reset and maintenance cycle for well-being.
- Air travel is remarkably safe despite various concerns.
- Markets generally have a better track record than individual worries.
- The bundle of sexual attraction, love, and reproduction is successful.
- Differentiable functions have derivatives expressible in elementary terms.
- Expression graphs can be efficiently fitted to data due to gradient properties.
- Biological intelligence doesn't utilize expression graph properties.
- Five-dimensional light fields can be stored on two-dimensional film.
- Wave mechanics explains the storage of light fields on film.
- Disposable plastic is popular and, when disposed correctly, sequesters carbon.
- Air-derived plastic could become a convenient carbon sink.
- Broken rocks can't be unbroken but their origins can be verified.
- Society supports parents collectively without constant negotiation.
- Historical autocracy contrasts with modern increases in democratic freedoms.
- Three-dimensional existence prevents digestive tract issues seen in two dimensions.