Cancer screenings usually take longer. Depending on the type of cancer some blood tests may pick up on it. Some require specific tests. Hard to know without knowing exact testing that was done. It could be an iron deficiency or recent infection or something simple all the way up to bone cancer or leukemia etc. any diagnosis should be from a doctor directly involved in their care with all the info.

There’s a lot of research that shows animals pick their mating habits based on which is most beneficial for the species. So you generally see most of a species exhibit the same mating habit. Species that have “bonded pairs” generally do so in order for one mate to provide food and protection while the other takes care of the offspring. Species that don’t have bonded pairs generally have either genetic diversity needs or more constrained resources where only the alphas mate (wolves and lions and such)

Humans are more complex animals and have greater ability to think and process emotions. That makes mating take on a whole new complexity.

There’s two types of “hot” just like there are two types of “cold”

How cold is the absolute or “actual” temperature but then they add in the wind chill factor because air moving over you cools you down quicker (or warms you up quicker but the difference in your body temp vs cold is greater than your body temp versus hot)

Now to see how hot it is there is again the actual temp and then what they call the “wet bulb thermometer test”. So they take two thermometers, one they wet a cloth that slips over the bulb of one of them and then basically whirl it a bit to see how much the water evaporates off the one to cool it down. This is how they see hot “hot” it feels. Your body cools off by sweating so the more humidity the harder to cool down and why you get soaked in sweat on humid days but dry as can be in the desert even if the actual temp is hotter.

To quote the movie ‘Love Actually’ “What could be worse than the agony of being in love?”

• especially if that love is not returned.

“Here for tonight’s Ted talk is the author of ‘Heaven and Hell are just a marketing scam’ so please give them a warm welcome.

They strode on stage, a rather bland looking person by any real measure, the type that one wouldn’t pick out of a crowd or seemingly remember having passed them in the hall.

The most dangerous person ever paused, the clicker in their hand and looked out at the audience. The world wasn’t ready for it but they deserved the truth and who knew how long it be before the forces of heaven and hell tried to lock them up again.

“Any being that cannot stop evil is not all powerful”

“Any being that can stop evil but doesn’t isn’t all good”

“Any being that fails the first two isn’t worth worshiping”

And so it began, a lessen on why good and evil as they believed it didn’t really exist.

Simple, most airlines have computers that can calculate at what cost of a ticket to a particular destination they will make the most money. This can fluctuate by time of day, what direction more people are flying and also here's the really complicated part.

The planes go on specific routes so even if they don't sell a ticket between 2 spots that plane still has to travel there to pickup the expected passengers at that destination.

It is all a factor of some routes while shorter have more demand and they can charge more.

Also interesting I once tried to book a ticket somewhere, saw that the price was say $300, but included a layover in a major airport a couple hours away. The layover was longer than it would take me to drive and the cost of car rental in major city was less. I then switched to just flying to the major airport but then they tried to route me through another hub first. I clicked non-stop and the price was $500. It is psychological, they can charge more for a "non-stop" so they do.