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Cake day: March 6th, 2025

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  • The most interesting thing to me is: there has to be a whole subgenre of market research about which syllables sound “sciency”/“medical”/“effective” to certain target audiences of a drug…

    I imagine this is somewhat like in my childhood as a non-native English speaker in the 90’s where most my exposure was through music and then we would make up these words from English sounding syllables that sounded “cool” to us 😄









  • As it turns out, the emergence and popularization of Zoos during the Victorian era was largely driven by the work conducted at the Royal Institute for Volumetric Measurements in London.

    Similarly the expansion of the British empire was mostly driven by the need to find ever larger exotic animals in order to establish comparative volumetric weights for the ever larger ships and constructions of that era.

    “25.678 standard volume foxes”, was starting to become a bit unwieldy when describing a cargo vessel’s size.