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From: T i m on 19 Apr 2010 07:53 On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:15:04 +0100, Phil Taylor <nothere(a)all.invalid> wrote: >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. Indeed, you would have thought they might start when the person first achieves consciousness? > >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!). Ok, but if average out over a lifetime? > 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. Hmm .. > >Men probably display similar cycles, but since we don't display the >obvious symptom of menstruation we don't notice. But maybe other users of the newsgroup might? ;-) > >Biological rhythms certainly exist, but have a low predictive value >since they are subject to random changes of phase, frequency and >amplitude. Of course. But as I said earlier, if you were to observe the movements of some of the stellar objects over a short period then you might conclude that is their actual pattern. Observed over a longer period and you might see a bigger and more repeatable / accurate pattern. Like I also said ... just thinking out loud. ;-) Cheers, T i m
From: D.M. Procida on 20 Apr 2010 05:44 Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: > > 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. Everything I read about Twitter makes it sound like a magnificent contribution to civilisation's achievements. Daniele
From: Pd on 19 Apr 2010 08:27 Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > > er...no, that's not what I mean. It's a medical thing. > > It's piles, innit? > > Embarrassing and unmentionable, must be piles... There are any number of embarrassing and unmentionable medical conditions. Floating possibilities is neither productive nor polite. -- Pd
From: Pd on 19 Apr 2010 08:30 Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > On 2010-04-18 20:29:19 +0100, Ben Shimmin said: > > > Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com>: > >> On 2010-04-18 20:08:20 +0100, Peter Ceresole said: > >>> Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > >>>> Why? 10 years ago that is what everyone was using, and it worked fine! > >>> > >>> Only according to a very, very restrictive definition of 'fine'. > >> > >> I don't remember people posting DVD rips when there was just dial-up. > > > > I (dimly) remember spending *hours* downloading Netscape Communicator 4, > > which was something ridiculous like 15MB. > > Noob :-) I remember when Netscape got /slightly/ too big to fit on a > floppy and wondering if they'd ruined it. Feh, I remember when the whole damn internet got slightly too big to fit on an 8" disk, and we had to spin up the Winchester. -- Pd
From: Peter Ceresole on 19 Apr 2010 08:34
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. -- Peter |