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From: Phil Taylor on 19 Apr 2010 07:15 In article <ah4os5p02dkjge13e1k62hi211nl3h55jl(a)4ax.com>, 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 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/ Nonsense, I'm afraid. While biological rhythms certainly exist they do not start out at zero on the day you are born and continue with metronomic precision for the rest of your life. Take the most obvious of biological rhythms, the female menstrual cycle. Starts up at puberty and is very irregular to start with. Eventually settles down to about 28 days period, but it might be twenty six this month and thirty one next month (oops!). It affects all sorts of things, not just fertility related - a woman's sense of smell and musical pitch discrimination for example. It can be entrained, i.e. become locked onto an external stimulus as when she's taking the pill or if she's living in close proximity with another woman and their cycles become synchronised. Men probably display similar cycles, but since we don't display the obvious symptom of menstruation we don't notice. Biological rhythms certainly exist, but have a low predictive value since they are subject to random changes of phase, frequency and amplitude. Phil Taylor
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 19 Apr 2010 07:26 On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:15:04 +0100, 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. Cheers - Jaimie -- Note that despite substantial evidence to the contrary, it is in fact possible to delete files copied to the desktop, and you don't need to throw away the computer and get a new one once the desktop is full. -- Peter Corlett, ASR
From: Pd on 20 Apr 2010 04:25 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > Cornwall and Bermuda are both a lot further away from civilization - > > there's a whole Atlantic ocean between Bermuda and the civilized, > > developed world, and some astonishingly twisty roads cutting off > > Cornwall. > > Cornwall has great roads to get to it. They are completely over spoiled > with them. We have just got over the trans-somerset highway opening > again. One of the people I follow on Twitter was oh-so-proud of driving from Newquay to Guildford in 2:39, including 2 stops. Fair enough, nice drive, but boasting about it in a public forum seemed a bit blythe. -- Pd
From: T i m on 19 Apr 2010 07:44 On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:53:17 +0100, usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) wrote: >> >> >They don't seem immediately to relate to Rowlands posting, that is just >> >a straight progression in hostility from none to full then going away >> >for a bit. >> >> In cycles you mean? ;-) > >Well, it is a cycle but not apparently time based As it might appear if it was biorhythm based (as they go in and out of synch etc). Maybe if Rowland give us his D.O.B. we can check for ourselves? ;-) Cheers, T i m
From: Woody on 20 Apr 2010 04:40
Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > > Cornwall and Bermuda are both a lot further away from civilization - > > > there's a whole Atlantic ocean between Bermuda and the civilized, > > > developed world, and some astonishingly twisty roads cutting off > > > Cornwall. > > > > Cornwall has great roads to get to it. They are completely over spoiled > > with them. We have just got over the trans-somerset highway opening > > again. > > One of the people I follow on Twitter was oh-so-proud of driving from > Newquay to Guildford in 2:39, including 2 stops. Fair enough, nice > drive, but boasting about it in a public forum seemed a bit blythe. Personally I would never have admitted to going to guilford! Were the two stops by the police? Personally I would be doubfull if someone told me that, unless it was in the middle of the night on a low traffic day (ie wednesday), and he was damn lucky (as both wiltshire and hampshire have unmarked cars now) -- Woody |