One of the problems with claiming what "the" paleo diet consisted of is that it varied hugely from time to time and place to place.

Unsurprisingly, the world before "the" invention of agriculture was not a giant homogeneous culture with the same diet everywhere.

For the most part, diets in the winter vs summer were remarkably different, even for the same people. There are many exceptions, though, where the diet didn't vary much year round.

Even the diets from places as close together as, say, western Oregon and Utah from 13,000 years ago were hugely different. The Pleistocene Oregon diet consisted of large amounts of seafood, rabbits, tubers, and, yes, lots of wild grains. In Utah there was significantly more larger game, more meat, including more fat, different berries, more grains and less tubers.

And, yes, even without lots of grains, throughout the archaeological record, people frequently had bad teeth. Worn flat by sand and bits of dirt in their food the was rule, not the exception, and cavities and abscesses were more common than not throughout the Americas. I imagine it would be similar to Europe and Africa.

Any diet will "work", in as much as it forces you to pay attention to what you're eating.

Whether you're just counting calories, avoiding bread or all carbs, or trying to recreate some mythical "pre-historic" diet doesn't really matter. The important part is limiting junk food, not over-eating. Basically, pay constant attention to what you're intaking and you'll be healthier and likely to lose weight.

From what I've heard, giant squids have large amounts of ammonia in their bloodstreams. It acts as a natural anti-freeze (the water is damn cold deep in the Pacific, it's only the immense pressure that keeps it from freezing).

The ammonia would permeate the whole thing, completely ruining the taste.

For example, in MS, I could set it up so that when I typed "rrr " it would replace it with "REBECCA" centered on the page, followed by two newlines, then set the format for single-spaced Times New Roman with 1.5" margins left and right. It could keep that format until I started a paragraph with "st[tab]" at which point it would skip down another newline and give me italicized text with .5" margins for the next paragraph, then automatically switch back.

Oh, yeah, and if that previous paragraph when over a page break, it could automatically insert "REBECCA (cont)" centered at the top.

May sound trivial to an engineer who's just writing up some simple procedure document, but when I'm writing a play, with dozens of lines of dialog and stage directions on every page, being able to put things automatically into the right format as I go is invaluable.

And that's the thing, sure, most users won't use every bit of specialized formatting, macros, or functions on each app. But enough people do that for most companies it's worth getting MS Office rather than trying to evaluate the potential needs of each individual user.

The bacterium, maybe, but not your head. Bacterium have very, very little mass.

For instance, a single E. Coli bacterium has a mass of approximately 2.9 x 10^-13. If someone flung one at you at at .3c, it could have a total momentum of only about 2.9 x 10^-13 x 3 x 10^8 x .3 = .0000261 gm/s.

This is about the equivalent momentum of a baseball (142g) moving at .00000001838 m/s (or .018 mm/s). (This is about the velocity imparted to an average baseball by an average slashdotter. So, not very fast.)

For example, the FAA routinely tries to smuggle fake guns and bombs onto airplanes to see how many get through.

Last I heard, that number had not changed significantly since TSA was started.

One number that has gone up significantly since TSA took over is amount of theft from luggage and at baggage screening points. As I recall, laptop thefts went up over 1000% between 2000 - 2005.

But, major terrorist attacks - yeah, it's hard to measure changes in something that happens on the average once every twenty years.

Not at all. There are a great many things that exist. Very few people have heard of every single one of them.

I guarantee that somewhere there's a tool that could make your job a bit easier that you also have never heard of.

I was wiping hard drives for years for my non-profit org by booting to Linux and using dd in a loop before someone on Slashdot asked my how come I wasn't just using DBAN. I use it now, but like everyone, including you, there was a time when I had never heard of it.

As much as Thomas Jefferson made a big deal about it, it wasn't even an original notion with him. (Hint for the historically challenged: he was not a baby boomer)

It actually worked out pretty well. At the beginning of each 4-hour shift, you get a series of pull tags, put them in order by aisle and shelf, then just take a cart along and do a single circuit of the warehouse, pulling the parts in order of the tags.

I think they did make some attempt at keeping things in specific order, but since it changed so much it didn't really make any difference. As long as the computer knew where everything was, it worked.

No running back and forth or criss-crossing the warehouse needed. With a modern computer system, it could be even more efficient. The computer can give you the tags in order, and different people could take different parts of the warehouse to speed things up even more.

If there was a fine associated with a false DMCA takedown notice, and it was enforced most of the time, it would put an end to the automated spamming of them.