/u/screwyoushadowban's posts
How stable is the human oral microbiome against disruptions like mouthwash? If I use alcohol mouthwash will my mouth microbiome be back to the same amount and species ratio by my next meal? Several meals? Or never quite the same again?
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Pop history often presents Yugoslavia as a "nationalist time bomb" destined to blow, held together only by the force of strongman President Tito. But he died in 1980 and the first Yugoslav war began in 1991. What was really going on?
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When I look up the history of Mongol women in the era of Genghis Khan and his sons/grandsons I only find information on Mongol queens and princesses. How did the other 99.9% of Mongol women live?
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In New Orleans, Delphine LaLaurie was arrested & tried at least once for mistreatment of slaves & her house was burned down by an angry mob in 1834. What made her level of brutality so scandalous & what separated it, legally and socially, from the "acceptable" brutality of day-to-day slave life?
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Who was healthier: a rich city-dweller in 1st century Europe or a rich a city-dweller in 11th century Europe? What about a *poor* city-dweller in 1st century Europe compared to a *poor* a city-dweller in 11th century Europe?
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Accountants and lawyers give advice but doctors give orders. How did physicians (and medical researchers), especially in the late 19th/early 20th centuries, get imbued with so much authority over their patients/subjects, who seemed to have almost zero choice in their own care?
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Modern language assumes a degree of agency when dealing with illness ("fighting cancer"/"don't give up"/"giving up and dying") and that personal will contributes at least a little to healing. Would a medieval European have thought the same way?
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Is there a latency period for human vitamin D production upon UVB exposure, or are skin cells synthesizing vitamin D as soon as exposed? Would we get the same amount of vitamin D from 60 ten-second periods of sunlight as from a single 10 minute period of sunlight?
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1050 CE: I'm a countryside farmer in what is now eastern France (Burgundy). Who do I consider a foreigner? Is a Christian in Dijon a foreigner? What about a Jew in Dijon? Or either in Paris? Is a guy in the next valley a foreigner? How does a foreigner become "one of ours?"
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