Best products from r/RedditDayOf

No problem! I love this kind of stuff! Neon tetras is what you had? Those are great beginners but they are kind of small. Platties are a good beginner fish that do best in groups of about 3 or 4, especially in a ten gallon. They get to be about 2-3 inches long, and come in many bright, beautiful colors! They also look really pretty when the tank is decorated! Black skirt tetras are also really hardy, and do well in groups! If you wanted variety, you could also throw in a mystery snail or two!

Tanks are pretty easy to shop for. Honestly, the best place I have found is amazon. There are two routes to take. The first is that you could buy all of the parts separately, or you could buy a kit with most of hte stuff oyu need. For beginners, I definitely reccomend getting a kit. This is a pretty good kit that runs pretty cheap! You'll also need a heater for a 10 gallon tank. I use this one because it can be placed either along the wall of the aquarium or along the bottom. You'll also need substrate, or gravel/sand for your aquarium to make it look really nice and to give good bacteria a medium to grow on! This is essentially a preference for what you want your tank to look like! I use this because I like to make my tank look pretty natural, but it is entirely up to you! The most basic rule is you need about 1 pound of substrate per gallon of aquarium. Also, you need to get a gravel vacuum to clean the gravel. I use a small one for my tank because it lets me be more precise. You'll also need some water conditioner to make your tap water safe for fish! Some people use aquarium salt in their tanks, but I've found it's not entirely necessary. You'll also want to get some plastic/silk plants for your tank! Live plants are preferable, but with a 10 gallon tank fake will be fine! Silk is usually recommended because it has less of a tendency to rip fins, but plastic works fine!

So, essentially the bare bones of what you need are:

• 10 gallon tank kit ~$70 (if you go to places like PetsMart or PetCo, you might be lucky and find one on sale for like $30-$50!)
  
• 10 gallon heater ~$15
  
• About 10 lbs of substrate or gravel ~$15-$20
  
• Water conditioner ~$12
  
• Fish food (flakes, pellets, blood worms, etc.) ~$4
  
• Gravel vacuum ~$8
  
• Decorations ~$10-$20 depending on how much you want in your tank
  
  Total: ~$130
  
  All of these prices are from Amazon and my own experience, and can vary greatly from store to store. Especially during sales and such. You might get lucky and get all of this stuff for less that $100! It really does depend on where you are and what's available around you!
  
  If you have any other questions, please let me know!

I have long found this to be an interesting topic as it relates to how laughter/humor might be a reflection of one's morals. Freud's Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious comes to mind.

Here's a pretty comprehensive summary of different philosophies of humor/laughter from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

A good piece from the SEP article:

>Plato, the most influential critic of laughter, treated it as an emotion that overrides rational self-control. In the Republic (388e), he says that the Guardians of the state should avoid laughter, “for ordinarily when one abandons himself to violent laughter, his condition provokes a violent reaction.” Especially disturbing to Plato were the passages in the Iliad and the Odyssey where Mount Olympus was said to ring with the laughter of the gods. He protested that “if anyone represents men of worth as overpowered by laughter we must not accept it, much less if gods.”
>
>Another of Plato's objections to laughter is that it is malicious. In Philebus (48–50), he analyzes the enjoyment of comedy as a form of scorn. “Taken generally,” he says, “the ridiculous is a certain kind of evil, specifically a vice.” That vice is self-ignorance: the people we laugh at imagine themselves to be wealthier, better looking, or more virtuous than they really are. In laughing at them, we take delight in something evil—their self-ignorance—and that malice is morally objectionable.

Right after this section the article goes into the Biblical and Christian views of laughter (mostly negative for the first part of Christian history).

If anyone is interested in reading a novel with the Opium Wars as the backdrop I highly suggest checking out the Ibis Trilogy by Amitav Ghosh, which starts with [Sea of Poppies] (http://www.amazon.com/Sea-Poppies-Amitav-Ghosh/dp/0312428596/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1377016732&sr=8-1&keywords=sea+of+poppies). In fairness the trilogy starts on the eve of the Opium Wars and hence SoP only scratches the surface; [River of Smoke] (http://www.amazon.com/River-Smoke-Novel-Amitav-Ghosh/dp/0374174237/ref=pd_sim_b_3)--part two of the trilogy--does a deeper dive on the political events that lead the Opium Wars but obviously you'll need to read SoP to make sense of what's going on in RoS.


(As an aside--I found SoP to be an excellent book with engaging characters, great prose and incredibly well written and plotted while RoS was merely ok for me. RoS could have used better editing and seemed almost unfocused at times. That said, the writing is still pretty strong and perhaps it seems unfocused because it is setting up the final, and as yet unreleased installment of the trilogy.)

I don't know if you're still collecting, but I have a copy of Christianity and Communism Today, likely the 1960 revised edition. If it's of interest to you I'll send it along. Here's the Amazon link

http://www.amazon.com/Christianity-Communism-Today-John-Bennett/dp/B002UQYG34

edit: to be clear - I'm talking about just sending this to you free. Like a good comrade would.

There are a couple different species you could potentially keep in a kitchen environment as long as you have appropriate conditions.

Your best bet is going to be to check out /r/savagegarden, read Barry Rice's Carnivorous Plant FAQ and if you start getting serious, purchase a copy of The Savage Garden which is probably the best book around for learning how to grow carnivorous plants.

In terms of species that will do well in that environment, you're probably going to want to look at the genus Drosera (Sundews) or maybe Nepenthes (Tropical Pitcher Plants).

The best Sundews for your purposes are going to be:

1. Drosera capensis - Cape Sundew
   
   
2. Drosera binata - Fork Leafed Sundew
   
   
3. Drosera spatulata - Spoon Leafed Sundew
   
   Those are all fairly easy to cultivate and as long as fairly appropriate conditions are provided, they will thrive.
   
   I'm not really certain of what Nepenthes would be best, as I don't really grow too many of them.
   
   For "around the house growing" you're going to have to keep two major factors in mind.
   
   
4. • Light - CPs require lots and lots of light to do really well, this can be provided by either a windowsill with direct light exposure for a decent part of the day, or by appropriate growlights, which can be used exclusively, or to supplement natural lighting.
     
     
5. • Water - Most CPs need Distilled or Deionized water to thrive, the other stuff destroys their roots and can kill the plant, so you need to either install a Reverse Osmosis filter, or just buy a jug or two of distilled water from your grocery store. You're also going to want to keep their humidity high, which can definitely be achieved in any kind of household environment.
     
     Last thing, don't worry about the black thumb, I have an extremely pronounced one, but CPs seem to be just about the only thing I can actually grow! They're pretty easy to grow once you get a hang of it!
     

Though the day is over, here's some of the folklore in the film. (source: TV Tropes)

• Pangur Bán is named after the oldest surviving poem in the Irish language. Written by... a young monk in the margins of his study, about his pet cat.
  
• "Aisling" (pronounced like "Ashley", which is a modernized version) is an Irish girl's name meaning "dream" or "vision", but it's also the name of a genre of Irish poetry. In these poems, a woman appears as the Anthropomorphic Personification of Ireland and speaks about the country's troubles, followed by a prediction of a better future. The writers for the movie decided to play with the concept by making the female figure a mischievous little girl instead of a serious older woman.
  
• Aisling's opening monologue is based on another very old Irish poem called "The Song of Tuan Mac Cairill", one of the Tuatha De Danann who survived among humans by taking on the forms of a salmon, a deer and a wolf, rather like we see Aisling doing.
  
• Aisling didn't enter the tower on herself because, according to old folk stories, fairies, demons and other ungodly beings are unable to enter churches.
  
• The presence of the international monks in Kells might be an allusion to the hypothesis that the Irish have saved civilization in the middle ages.

Hey, cool, this is what I study (shoutout to the social and decision sciences at Carnegie Mellon). Kahneman and Tversky were insanely prolific researchers (and Kahneman still is to an extent) and their findings practically invented the fields of behavioral economics and decision science. Crazy cool people.

For a good read and an "outsider's" introduction, I'd recommend Thinking Fast and Slow by Kahneman. If you're more comfortable reading academic texts, their papers are pretty widely available too.

No worries, I lol'd. To save you from the expedition, it comes from The Watchmen. Appeared on Time Magazine's (?) list of 100 best books ever written. I may not go that far but it is definitely a must read. Fascinating on many levels.

Sorry, I did not see that, it was in collected by his family trust, many of his letters and personal notes have trickled out in the past decade by the trust and family. I teach high school and first saw this in a collection of works from Random House's collection Vonnegut Letters

If you want to do the assignment that goes along with it here

cc u/oneawesomeguy

P.S. it is an awesome collection.

Yoga is a monistic practice in Hinduism. The practice revolves not around god(s) but instead is practiced through exploring inward. This is done through mediation. In fact, the yogis were the ones who developed the iconic lotus position we all have come to associate with meditation. The yoga sutras outline steps to enlightenment, The yogic ultimate reality is "oneness." That is, realizing the inner-most self (atman) is indistinct from the universal spirit (brahman), aka the Absolute.

The wikipedia article doesn't quite do this text justice. The sutras are a dense text, one Wikipedia or any other article I could find on the internet doesn't really expand upon well. If you are interested in learning more about them, I recommend this book.

I loved that book. Somehow we have 2 copies, which works out since now the kids love it so much too. The author, Jon Agee, has a bunch of other fun wordplay books too. We especially love Mr. Putney’s Quacking Dog


Looks like you can’t get it new anymore, but Amazon’s got used copies: Go Hang a Salami! I'm a Lasagna Hog! and Other Palindromes https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374334730

Lindsay & friends decide they want to make a twilight-rip off, so they set forth to write the first communally sourced version. At the time of the videos, she was having polls/questions posted that viewers responded to in order to decide characters, plot, etc. Everything that could be decided upon structure-wise was done this way. They even created a pen name and interacted with people on various book forums. Lots of alcohol, polls, and contributing writers later, we have a finished product that is actually pretty well done for what it was. Awoken, available on Amazon!

I love Adam Ruins Everything.

I'd really like to see the actual study where they pulled the "wine pranks", so, let's go on an adventure!

I found the article they referenced in the video.

Which, in turn, cites this book as a reference, which I then "sailed the high seas and plundered".

Here is the chapter, copied and pasted from the book.

I read that, found that it was an experiment conducted by Frédéric Brochet at the Univerité de Bordeaux, and then searched for "frederic brochet bordeaux study wine", which gave me this article, which in turn had a link to a pdf of the actual study.

)

-------
TL;DR: here is the link to the pdf of the "wine prank" study.

Just kidding about Ada, of course.

For anyone interested, this bio is a very good read, with enough of the technical details required for someone who programs to see how much she was involved in. The author doesn't put her on a pedestal, either, which is nice.

I grew up on Encyclopedia Brown. Some of his mysteries became a bit dated over time, but still sound.

My biggest issue - and it actually isn't with the Encyclopedia Brown character himself - was the lending of his name to:

Encyclopedia Brown's Record Book of Weird and Wonderful Facts

This was one of those "Weird Fact" books that all nerds loved back in the day. Filled with trivia and mundane "facts" about all sorts of things.

And so many of them were utter poppycock.

I cringe to think of how many of these "factoids" I regurgitated. How much erroneous information did I squirrel away in my brain that was wrong. Must I second guess everything I ever knew?

Donald Sobol wasn't the only perpetrator of mis-information. But I trusted Encyclopedia Brown and by extension, I trusted Mr. Sobol. And it is this book that burns in my memory as a pillar of fabrication and fancy.


Edit - I went ahead and bought a copy for the singular purpose of determining how much of it is crap.

The Leslie Nielsen one is hilarious (and hugely a fabrication) and Fisher is credited on the cover. Well worth tracking a copy down.

A informal biography of Randolph

The book itself.

It's a fun one. The hand-mimeographed original circulated in the academic folklore world for a long time before the commercial book came out. Randolph published a lot of good important stuff, but this is what he's remembered for.

The title tale was chosen because it was one of the most common jokes found across the Appalachians/Ozarks by not just Vance, but many of his colleagues.

It makes you wonder how many other seminal collectors had private folders of "unprintable" stuff...