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The Otaku Revolution Awards

The Otaku Revolution Awards

I’ve been meaning to get to this and I’m as late as your sister’s period during that scare I had with her.

2010: the future! A time when flying cars fill the air and radioactive mutants are battled with by humanoid-shaped, bipedal fighter robots under a supernova sun as Europe’s "The Final Countdown"—the only surviving single of the Great Eugenic Wars of the 80s—blares from speakers on either side of your cyronic capsule as you awake to inevitable nuclear oblivion. What a world of wonder and horror!

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The Thanksgiving Myth: Tryptophan Turkey Nap

For many a generation full Americans have found themselves drowsy and ready for a nap after stuffing themselves at the traditional Thanksgiving Day dinner. This puzzling behavior has long been blamed on the amino acid tryptophan. Unfortunately this is just a myth, as described by Dr. Aaron Carroll and Dr. Rachel Vreeman in their book Don’t Swallow Your Gum!

The truth is. turkey is not to blame for your sleepiness. Chicken and ground beef contain almost the same amount of tryptophan as turkey – about 350 milligrams per 4-ounce serving. … Swiss cheese and pork actually contain more tryptophan per gram than turkey…

Those 350 milligrams are far less than the 500-1000 milligrams often prescribed to help people sleep.


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Tryptophan is an essential amino acids, as in our bodies can not produce them and must be ingested with our diet. I can’t really tell you much about tryptophan other than the Wikipedia article is filled with complicated sciency words. Don’t let anyone blame their post-dinner laziness on this poor defenseless molecule. Most scientists blame your desire for some shuteye to other aspects of the meal or even the combined experiance. read more

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9-12 DC Tea Bag Protest, Debunking Moilanen and Creating an Estimate – Update #3

There’s a new document floating around the internet entitled “The Real Number of Protesters at the 9/12 Washington D.C. March” by a Zac Moilanen of Indiana University. It, falsely, attempts to calculate and show the number of protesters at the recent 9-12 march and rally that occurred in DC. I’m told it was recently referenced by FOX News’ Glenn Beck. In all honesty, the rally was little different from the ones that occurred this past summer across the US. Apparently the only outcome from this event has been debate about the amount of protesters who participated. The participants and advocates for them immediately claimed an amazing 2 million participated while the DC Fire Department estimated 60,000 to 70,000. The right wing “blogosphere” has even posted picture of other large DC rallies as evidence of the larger number. I attempt to address that issue, and the Moilanen document, here. read more

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FMA Primer #2

FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST: BROTHERHOOD: CHAPTER 2

The new "chapter" of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood starts next week, with the advent of the Xingese characters, so here’s a little primer/reminder. I covered most of this in my first primer, mind you, but I wanted to approach the characters again, a little differently in some cases.

Xing is a country in the East, where Rentanjutsu (Funimation subs it as "alkahestry", after "alkahest", an alchemy term), an alchemy used for medical application, is practiced, passed down from a Sage from the West. Xing lies beyond the Great Desert, to the east of what was once Ishbal (which itself is east of Amestris proper, where most of the story takes place). Xing is ruled by an Emperor, who controls the many clans of the country. read more

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