Any relation between furanocoumarins and coumarins? The latter is in cinnamon which I’ve read lately can be quite hazardous depending on the ingested amount.
It's hard to eat enough cinnamon to affect most people, but some are extra-sensitive to it. Apparently there is a lot less in the stuff labeled cinnamon and sold to Americans, which is actually not cinnamon at all, but cassia, a whole other species. The difference was understood in Europe in ancient times, so there is no excuse. Sometimes you can find the real stuff in the US labeled "Ceylon cinnamon". It's a darker red than cassia, which is unapologetically brown.
Real cinnamon tastes more like red cinnamon candy than cassia does. Americans are always mystified as to why cinnamon candy doesn't taste anything like the cinnamon they put in their pies.
As someone with a masters and phd in library science fields but not actually working a library, some of the sentiment described here always came across, to me, as librarians (understandably) trying to make themselves relevant in a world where their relevance is increasingly easy to disregard. The enthusiasm they feel for their profession has always seemed extremely high as a result.
I have felt libraries and librarians becoming more and more relevant as time goes forward. This goes along with the job creep in the article, too - tending to 3D printers and administering drugs during overdoses isn't classical librarianship.
As long as democracy and free speech are relevant, libraries will be relevant.
I think if you understand the job creep, or like yourself if you understand the role they can play in democracy and free speech, the relevance will be understood. A surface level 'why do I need libraries I can just google', which I (possibly wrongly) assume many people have, might cause the questioning.
Then again, often when municipal libraries are threatened in some way, there does seem to be an earnest community outpouring of support for them. Perhaps the understanding and appreciation is there, but just quiet.
yah, we need more awareness that librarians are super-googlers, but that would mean an ego hit to a bunch of us via indirectly admitting we're not all hip and in-the-know, which is the currency of social (and regular) media these days. librarians unfortunately lose to public oneupsmanship.
>3. Act in moderation. Low to moderate doses of Vitamin D (e.g. 400 to 2000 IUs daily) have proven to be safe in trials. If you think there is a benefit and we just don't have enough data to prove it yet, you may be right. We do know the harms of taking too much, though, so supplement in moderation. And if you are taking Vitamin D, ask your doctor to check your blood levels.
I'll probably carry on with this then. I was taking a single 4000 IU pill every four days (which was the suggested dosage) but once a week for around 570 IUs a day should be fine. Frankly I hate blood tests and don't believe I'm D deficient, so I'd rather take a lower, even if useless, amount.
I notice if I submit a URL & title that already exist, the story doesn't get submitted and HN forwards me to the previously submitted post, but I submitted this yesterday so how does this avoid said redirection?
I use it pretty often. There are stories, show HN apps, or just random coding things that I feel I may want to have access to in the future, but are in a domain don't have enough of an interest in to bookmark. I guess if I had a generic "misc." bookmark folder that I didn't care to organize it would go here but I like keeping browser bookmarks minimal.
