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From: T i m on 19 Apr 2010 04:31 On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:33:02 +0200, peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote: >Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > >> > I saw your `almost' and dismissed it as nonsense. >> >> That would be your mistake then. > >All you need to do is to look at this morning's list of posts and sample >some of the insults and verbal violence. Rowland's off again. Let's >spare him and, most of all spare us. Out of interest do you 'believe in' (although I'm not sure that's the right phrase) the human biorhythm cycle thing? I think it might have some value, especially if you are someone who has wide swings of emotion for example. There is a calculator here http://biorhythms.perbang.dk/ (I just Googled it), and it plots your charts. Might be interesting for some people to see if how they are from day to day isn't just down to coincidence? ;-) I think my Dads mood swings were modified by the moon (and being a 'seafarer' that may not be coincidental). ;-) Cheers, T i m
From: Rowland McDonnell on 20 Apr 2010 00:29 Phil Taylor <nothere(a)all.invalid> wrote: > Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > > Phil Taylor <nothere(a)all.invalid> wrote: > > > > >or if she's living in close proximity with another woman and their > > >cycles become synchronised. > > > > This is apparently a myth, btw. > > > > No, a myth is a fictional story with an element of essential truth > about human nature buried in it. From what I've been reading, that covers the claims about menstrual synchronization, actually. It's a fictional story - i.e., it doesn't happen as claimed - but there is some evidence of a mechanism which tends to periodic syncing in women. So if there's fact to it, it's got an element of essential truth about human nature buried in it. Except that last bit isn't required for a myth that I know of. Certainly I can't see essential truth about human nature buried myths that I know. [snip] Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Rowland McDonnell on 20 Apr 2010 00:29 D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > > Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: > > > > > > > D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Getting 'shitfaced' doesn't sound like a very enjoyable way to spend > > > > > time on holiday though. > > > > > > > > The great swathes of sunburnt drunken British brawlers to be found > > > > frequenting 'English' and 'Irish' pubs in Torremolinos and similar > > > > package holiday destinations appear to disagree with you. > > > > <puzzled> Who says they're enjoying themselves? > > Maybe they're not - but that doesn't mean that they don't think it's an > enjoyable way to spend their time on holiday. <grin> I should know to take your words more as written, shouldn't I? Bloody difficult, managing the switching between `colloquial' and `formal' comprehension modes, y'know... Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Rowland McDonnell on 20 Apr 2010 00:29 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > > > >or if she's living in close proximity with another woman and their > > >cycles become synchronised. > > > > This is apparently a myth, btw. > > Yes. It seemed a neat idea until somebody actually checked it out. <puzzled> But Peter, the initial idea came from measurement. This was and is not philosophy - it was and is science, something which is based on `checking things out'. Things got checked out /more/, and the wider data is puzzling for some. I don't get puzzled by it - menstrual synching occurs, that's established, it's just that like everything else in human beings, it's not a process of industrial machinery operating to spec, but complex biological systems getting on with things. If the sync signalling's strong enough to do the job in the teeth of *all the other known and unknown variables*, the job is done; if not, no synching. Pretty obvious, nothing puzzling, nothing remotely controversial. They just haven't got the mechanisms sorted out yet - hardly surprising. Give 'em another few centuries for that. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Peter Ceresole on 19 Apr 2010 05:28
T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > Out of interest do you 'believe in' (although I'm not sure that's the > right phrase) the human biorhythm cycle thing? I think that it would be extraordinary if humans didn't exhibit that kind of behaviour, but what it relates to I have no idea. Certainly, I have no regular cycle of which I am aware. Doesn't mean that it doesn't exist, though. However it seems to me that simplistic versions (phases of the moon and suchlike) can't, on their own, explain much. -- Peter |