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FatLegTed, in Ancient technology turns plant-based cheese into 'something we want to eat'

Good news. A fair few of the plant based cheese taste disgusting.

And the good ones are difficult to get and very expensive.

ForestOrca,
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Indeed 10-20 years ago the 'fake cheese' that was available had no lasting appeal. However, a taco shop near me has a vegan cheese from Mexico. And DANG!, it's super tasty and the texture is right. And the shops prices are very reasonable.

FatLegTed,

Lucky you ;-)

ForestOrca,
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My point being, in case you missed it, is that it's neither "difficult to get", nor "very expensive".

FatLegTed,

Like I said, Lucky you. I don’t have a taco shop nearby, nor anywhere that sells Mexican cheese. The Mexican place here in Ware only has the generic stuff they ise in gast food places that tastes of coconut and plastic.

Good ones (Tyne Chease) are usually mail order. The deli near me occasionally has some blue from somewhere at £8.50 for a small piece.

I’ve settled for Violife and Morrisons dairy free block.

Anything that improves the quality, price and availability is good news though.

wildncrazyguy, in Ancient technology turns plant-based cheese into 'something we want to eat'

I’m surprised this is news. I mean how else do you make cheese? Isn’t most dairy cheese just fermented milk and rennet?

Likewise, weren’t a lot of the original vegan cheeses different forms of tofu?

Itty53,
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Ancient. Technology.

palordrolap, in Ancient technology turns plant-based cheese into 'something we want to eat'

Anyone remember the "Gary" meme? Can't believe that was 7 years ago.

Ganondorf, in New Study: How Often Should You Exercise for Optimal Benefits?
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No question, exercise is the foundation of good health.

So, once again a study discovered very common and obvious knowledge that most people still choose to ignore.

DavidB, in Ancient technology turns plant-based cheese into 'something we want to eat'
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Ancient technology turns milk into something we want to eat and that's delicious and that's been eaten since the dawn of time.

Treczoks, in A sixth basic taste may join sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umami on the tongue

So, basically, ammonium chloride tastes sour if I got this right. I would not classify this in the same league as sweet, sour, salt, bitter, and umami, as it is not a separate flavor, just a new molecule that bonds.

Compare this to the thousands of different molecules considered “bitter”.

Catoblepas,

I skimmed the actual publication (the Nature Communications link in the article) and from what I saw they made no claims about a ‘new flavor,’ just explained the exact mechanism the body uses to detect it, the potential reasons animals are sensitive to it, and a taste preference test with mice.

This is probably 100% university PR department fluff. It’s a very common complaint that these departments trying to advertise and drum up prestige for the university don’t really understand the research the scientists that work there are doing, and either accidentally or intentionally misrepresent it. People in the field roll their eyes and read the paper instead of the press release, and it impresses some people who don’t know anything about it.

Zima,

Thanks for saving us the time to understand it was bs.

rhythmisaprancer, in Fear of the human “super predator” pervades the South African savanna
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It was just a recording of a human voice! It would be interesting to test this on other continents with large predators and prey.

Legisign, in A sixth basic taste may join sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umami on the tongue
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Rayston, in Zapping Away Cigarette Cravings: A Novel Approach to Tackling Nicotine Dependence

The headline made me think of this immediately.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxy3lP-mH3Y

Drusas, in Ozempic linked to stomach paralysis, other gastrointestinal issues: UBC study

Words can barely describe how awful gastroparesis is. I'd much rather be fat and diabetic than go through that again.

admiralteal,

The study is very clearly talking about non-diabetic patients, too..

These are almost certainly people who want the weight loss primarily for aesthetic reasons rather than health ones, and may face these terrible health complications as a result. Makes it even worse, I think.

You're almost certainly better off somewhat "fat" than skinny by way of a drug like this. Especially given that "fat" is an entirely subjective measure and the "objective" measures like BMI overweight/obese are not based on points of any kind of phase change in health outcomes but are just somewhat arbitrary statistical variations. Dramatic interventions like these should be reserved for people that have dramatic need, at least until we have such an intervention safe enough and with few enough side-effects for over-the-counter sale.

Drusas,

Yes, I understood that. Sorry I wasn't clear. I have experienced gastroparesis a couple of times, and I'm saying that it is worse than a chronic illness in my experience (I also have a couple of chronic illnesses). It's extremely unpleasant. Sure can lose weight since you can't eat anything, though.

ColeSloth, in Your brain finds it easy to size up four objects but not five — here’s why

Well which neurons immediately decide to shove it off to the 4 or less neurons or the 5 or more neurons? Because they must be the ones running the show.

DrYes,
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Talking out of my ass here but I guess the initial information from the eyes goes to many pathways and reaches both and more. It's just a question of which ones react.

monotremata, in Your brain finds it easy to size up four objects but not five — here’s why

Fun fact: there's a name for the phenomenon of instantly recognizing the number of objects when it's fewer than five. It's called "subitizing."

There's a pretty interesting overview of what we know about math on the brain (or at least knew as of its writing) in the book "Where Mathematics Comes From" by Lakoff and Nuñez.

YIj54yALOJxEsY20eU, in Too much red meat is linked to a 50% increase in type 2 diabetes risk

Not to diminish the study, but

Researchers used statistical methods to adjust for confounding variables. “We found that about half of the excess risk with red meat consumption was explained by excess body weight,”

HeartyBeast, in Unnatural evolutionary processes of SARS-CoV-2 variants and possibility of deliberate natural selection

Given what we know about the infectivity of Omicron, the combinatjion "Omicron was around in 2020" seems pretty astonishing. Combine this with "Omicron variants were formed by an entirely new mechanism that cannot be explained by previous biolog" and I'm going to suggest that the most likely explanation is that they cocked up their data somewhere.

I'm not qualified to peer review this - and it looks like no-one else has yet.

SharkAttak,
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Or, and I don't know which is scarier, the nuts were right and COVID was partially manmade.

HeartyBeast,

If that’s correct - it is what it is and it’s better to know the truth. Evidence isn’t compelling at the moment though.

ScarletIndy, (edited ) in Unnatural evolutionary processes of SARS-CoV-2 variants and possibility of deliberate natural selection

This is missing the biggest piece: phylogenetic analysis. They aligned a selected group of mutations and then eyeballed the alignments and then speculated.

Here’s what the methods section for this paper should look like in order to make the theoretical leap.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8969601/

A reasonable phylogenetic tree is here: https://nextstrain.org/ncov/gisaid/global/6m

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