The same way most of these get started. Probably started with the sick and elderly people dying over night during heat waves and being found with their fan on. The correlation becomes causation, etc. I think the belief is just that the fan causes asphyxiation in closed rooms. Something about blowing carbon dioxide being breathed out back on people and blowing oxygen away from them… Most of Asia seems not to like having fans on at night though. Chinese people are the same way, but they just think it'll get you sick.
Koreans have an irrational fear that if fans are left on during sleep in a closed room, the fan will cut the air molecules in half and lead to strangulation mid-sleep. I don't think most Koreans actually believe this, but there are almost no ceiling fans anywhere in Korea and I've rarely seen any standing fans either.
I have read from multiple sources over the years that glass molecules flow downward over time, and that the stained glass in old cathedrals is thicker at the bottom of each pane for that reason. Guess it's not true...
I can call bullshit on this from personal experience. As a young lad in elementary school I often heard parents say to keep your feet covered while sleeping, or you'd catch a cold. Wanting to skip class one day I turned a portable fan on and directed it at my feet for the entire night. Not only did I not catch cold, I most certainly did not die. Science.
i don't know if it was in class or on tv or what, but i've definitely heard the one about glass being an extremely viscous liquid
http://verdantlabs.com/politics_of_professions/ Political leaning by profession I would post a pic, but the author has made sly use of the .SVG
We were taught it is a version of a liquid that is on that edge of being close to a solid and over a long period of time the molecules would slowly move down because of gravity. My science teacher was wrong.
The tongue map was accepted as true at one point, but I want to say it has been out of date since like the 50s or 60s.
i think i was taught that one too although it's not like i try to line up my tongue for certain flavors or something
so i've been digging up historical maps from the library of congress, and formatting/printing them to hang up in my new office. the original files are HUGE but i thought i'd share a few in compressed format:
Not sure if I've shared this before... but there is a series of plates (I think 10ish?) detailing the historical path of the Mississippi River from Port Girardeau, MO to New Orleans with each historical path in a different color. A) It's gorgeous B) The Mississippi has been literally all over the map.
idk, whatever was in the plotter. i'll have to check. it's the standard format we use for engineering drawings, nothing special.
I want an old school alabama map in my office, UA has a good map system: http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/historicalmaps/index.html similar to this
so is it just a thicker normal white paper? not any sort of special cotton paper or whatever? and can you call a normal fedex/kinco's to print one of these suckers or can frame shops do this sorta thing? I AM INTRIGUED
pretty much. I don't know that it is especially thick, or glossy, or anything. It's cheap paper. I'm sure if you experimented with different types of paper you could get a special kind of look, but i'm only employed at this place for another 3 hours or so .. so i'm just using our $15,000 plotter while i still can. but these were scanned by the library of congress, so the coloration of the original paper is contained digitally in the file. i was wondering that myself. probably? but they might bitch about them being 'commercial' or something. i'm not sure if they are copyrighted, and if so to whom. the main issue is getting them formatted in a way that can be printed. i am a geographer so i have software that is designed for this kind of stuff. i'm only printing very large TIFF files that are ~50 - 100 MB in size. If you go in there with a 300KB JPEG its going to look like shit. i even converted the TIFF to PDF, which is typically a high-quality print format, and it suffered some quality loss.
Maybe you can point me in the right direction. I have an 80+ year old blueprint, only the blue has faded and it's basically a pale yellow now. Is there a way to get something like that restored? You can still faintly make out the original white lines of the blueprint.
Here's a condensed version. The original is 18 mb so I don't think i could email it. Quality sucks now that I've posted it. Each street has a label that corresponds to a modern street and there's 24 points of interest. Montgomery didn't become the capital until 1846. Spoiler View attachment 12928