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glacierre2 t1_j46y90i wrote
Reply to comment by boblinquist in TIL Duck is considered a red meat by culinary standards. by BertyBert1
Confitura is an alternative word for marmalade in Spanish.
glacierre2 t1_j2ffyv6 wrote
Reply to comment by XComhghall in If fish accumulate mercury in the more toxic, methylmercury form, is it toxic to them? by XComhghall
The problem is not fish dying from mercury poisoning (I mean, that would be a problem, a really big one). Much before the levels required for that, the fish may have for example brain damage, which is not such a big deal for fish, but an equivalent in humans render you invalid to carry out a normal life.
glacierre2 t1_ivo51lz wrote
Reply to comment by Jackhow123 in How does extracting venom from animals help us create antidotes? by asafen
If it is the first time, the body will take some time to make specific anti-antibodies, the antivenom has plenty of time to bind to the poison.
On a future second time (specially if the first was recent) you could get a race between the kinetics of your anti-antibodies binding the antivenom and the antibodies binding the poison. I would expect it would still work, but with decreased effect.
Finally, and this is the way that it always works, the poison + antibodies (yours or external) end up making a bigger clump that is consumed by cells of the immune system (macrophages), so ultimately you always get an immune response (but that does not necessarily mean an allergic reaction)
glacierre2 t1_iua2sqw wrote
Reply to TIL that by solving Captchas we are helping to train machine learning models. by MisterMovie50
But I am always asked to click the lions. I fail to see for what they need that...
glacierre2 t1_iu5c822 wrote
Reply to comment by sluggo5622 in TIL bicycle brakes in the UK are reversed from the US and Europe by UlisKromwell
For riding a bicycle? Seriously...
glacierre2 t1_iu53fls wrote
Reply to comment by sluggo5622 in TIL bicycle brakes in the UK are reversed from the US and Europe by UlisKromwell
The 99% of your braking is not emergency braking where you have to care about which brake is more powerful, you are driving on a public road not on a trail race.
glacierre2 t1_jdlb1mk wrote
Reply to comment by aqjo in How does the rabies virus actually compel the host to bite? How does it know how to tell the brain to bite another living thing? by Lettuce-b-lovely
You can also check toxoplasma gondi, which makes rats like the smell of cat pee (and some studies say makes bikers like speed)