/u/FlatAssembler's posts in /r/AskHistorians
Marcus Terrentius Varro wrote, in De Re Rustica in the 1st book in the 10th chapter, that "vorsum" was a unit of length used in Campania, and that in their language "vor" means "hundred" and that "sum" means "feet". Which language was that?
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How come eggs (dietary cholesterol) causing heart disease has been understood ever since the 1913 rabbit experiment by Nikolay Anichkov, but butter (saturated fat) causing them since 1950s, and margarine (trans-fat) causing them only since 1970s? Trans-fat has the biggest effect, and eggs smallest.
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Did Grabovo, the part of Vukovar where Vukovar Hospital, destroyed in Vukovar Massacre 1991, used to be, got its name after "grab" (hornbeam tree), "grablje" (rake tool) or "grabiti" (to scoop water from a well)?
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Did Ovčara, the part of Vukovar where Vukovar Massacre 1991 happened, got its name from "ovca" (sheep) or from "ovčar" (a type of dog)?
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Levy wrote in his paper criticizing Semmelweis: "Why wasn't a simpler and more reliable experiment performed, to stop all the anatomical work?". That sounds like a reasonable argument to me. Did Semmelweis respond to it, and, if so, how?
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In 1930s, the most common argument for genes being stored on protein rather than on DNA was that DNA is too simple and cannot store enough information to store genes. Did somebody actually try to calculate how much information DNA can store and how much information protein can store? If so, how?
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