expected to like: Ficciones and The Book of Sand by Jorge Luis Borges. I can't relate to the curiosity without obsession, but obsessive anyway approach. Didn't expect to not like abstract concepts and themes.
expected to dislike: Love in the Time of Cholera. Now I understand it.

When the pH on the tooth surface becomes acidic, the enamel starts to demineralize so your tooth is more susceptible to bacteria. Fluoride in the mouth enhances remineralization of the enamel using the calcium and phosphate ions in the saliva. There's different sources of oral fluoride. Stannous fluoride in certain toothpaste gels sticks to the enamel surface. It's supposed to be stop bacterial proliferation > biofilm > plaque and kill bacteria. Sodium fluoride works better in a toothpaste because it is more abrasive.

In Europe there's biomimetic hydroxyapatite to create a new layer around teeth to harden the existing enamel so fluoride or lack thereof isn't as big a deal.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is seriously underrated. I wish it was assigned to reading lists for schoolwork.

what is required for mankind to harness and store energy from hurricanes?

Is there an efficient and effective way to trap various greenhouse gases in manmade building structures?

2x faster performance with 50% less memory usage would be nice to have.
Interesting that in 2023 when software has half-eaten civliisation Microsoft is described as "the software colossus".

Are there any types of rocks that do not eventually turn into sand?

> For instance, my wife and I both graduated the same year. However, I'm 11 months older than her, because the cut-off in the state she's from was different than the state I'm from. So she, at almost a year younger, started school a year earlier than I did. One of my best friends in school moved to my school at the end of grade school, from out of state. He was in our class because the cut-off in his home state was earlier than our state. He's two months older than I, and a full year and a month older than my wife. So that's three different people, with wildly different birthdates, all in the same class. And at the younger ages, especially kindergarten and first or second grade, even a couple of months makes a huge difference in mental capacity for a child.

This. The grade one is assigned to is a system carried over from the 1800s and does not reflect what we know of child and brain development today, or critical social and physical development needs to realize every child's potential.

This film has everything I enjoy, just the right balance of deep thinking, humour, character development, mystery, wisdom, self-reflection, beautiful music, historic and beautiful location shooting. ...and it basically shares the title and the character names with the (compiled serials) book!

or your sibling reading that secret admirer note aloud for the 20th time?

John Wick films minus 20 minutes that can be tacked on post credits as a gift to fans would hit the sweet spot

No other creature in the fossil record or recorded alive at any point in time can throw like a human and fashion tools to throw like a human with that curved and fragile radius and fragile shoulder held together by ligaments and tendons. It's not just the standing and the walking, the back pain, and the twisting foetus for birthing - the tool use outweighed the disadvantages. Cave guys standing up and bumping in to the stone shelf to grab the good cave drawing soot cursed but kept the verticality.

only when the haemocyanin is bleeding out...or it's an octograsshopper (try fiinding a pesticide for *that* one)

I only learned this thanks to Google when I was learning about how we use horseshoe crab blue blood to test that IV drugs and implants are hygenic enough for human use.

commercialize those fungi that eat plastics

Gun fu is new to films because it has only been around since the 80s, and popularized in the west through The Matrix franchise.

Gun Fu is a new style and type of filmmaking, and in that sense the genre has changed filmmaking and movies. John Wick happens to be at the forefront of Gun Fu. I get the writer and editor had an assignment to promote John Wick 4, but they should've picked different content to do that because the article actually does Gun Fu as a genre a disservice. I don't find the John Wick world-building to be that deep even taking into consideration the upcoming spinoffs, unlike Guillermo del Toro's stuff, LoTR, Harry Potter, etc.

The magnetic field both causes and impacts the rate and most development as evidenced by magnetosomes in the fossil record and organisms today. Some species exhibit greater function in hypomagnetic conditions, and may have evolutionary impact when combined with known mutagenic effects of radiation exposure. We don't have known mechanism of action identified yet for the HMF (hypomagnetic field) theory and observations. Link to a review of speculations about causes and effects relating the magnetic field to the Cambrian explosion.

Publishing: my current view is stratified text ['AI' and 'content' can mean many things so I prefer not to use the terms due to very different understandings] can be published and sold by a software company or an influencer or any individual under a different and new cataloguing system other than ISBNs and ISSNs, such as an expanded Digital Object Identifier (DOI). Copyright laws require urgent review to account for digitization and stratified text.

Rationale: It was once the fashion (and it has become fashionable again) to publish semi-fiction mashups that consist of excerpts of already published works compiled with critique and fiction narration. To be clear, these mashups are not anthologies or collected works but it a literal mashup of different published works with text added. Some will say what does it matter whether it was created through a typewriter, a Word processor, an AI or other tool, as long as the final product is enjoyed by the intended audience? The difference is that organic human folklore and cultural change and part of human evolution and humans connecting to other humans. Stratified text is human-authorized but should not be claimed to represent human culture.

Replying to my earlier post because the we-can't-see-the-decayed-structures-that-were-made-from-trees is speculation extrapolated from history. Greeks started out with temples made of trees. The vertical lines/grooves of the stylized marble columns we are left with were made to mimic tree trunks. The Egyptians started out with leather and chests for crypt or burial funerary goods made from real animal hides and real wood. As materials became more scarce, faux leather was used and wood grain-like grooves made from woven reeds for the chests that we're left with.

Larger groups of people to create and cooperatively share or use the built environment, yes. This requires communication of a certain mutual sophistication. But it does not mean necessarily they were all living together, all the time. We have churches standing today that have taken hundreds of years to build from start to finish. This is even with dense populations, the technology, tools and know-how to construct it in a particular style. Many intervening events delayed the build.

What the changes were that led to larger cooperation, presumably over long spans of time across dozens of generations, are where historical record meets speculation. Some agroforestry researchers believe balanophagy (acorns as the main dietary source of calories and nutrients) declined as demand for trees for other uses became prevalent, which pushed the rise of the less-nutritive and more effortful agriculture. Numerous other options have been suggested. Perhaps structures were initially created from trees for thousands of years before megaliths became the norm.

Moving Architecture is available through used book websites. If your libraries don't have these perhaps you are able to review them through interlibrary loans.

Great story - you made it! That is an awesome part of being able to set an independent schedule on the safe AT compared to some other trails in the world. The Via Francigena is the same in that respect. I always appreciate the freedoms we have!

How did you keep track of time/days that passed? Did you keep any electronics charged?

Did you get out to Mount Desert Island or Cumberland Island?