The Biosphere - 2015-05-25

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4:43 PM

Am I the only one who objects to the tone of this meta post?

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Q: Why don't many of 'us' (users) vote more often?

A comment by Rover Eye which can be found here got me thinking. Ill have to agree with @canadianer on this one. Bio SE has a bit of a lower voting and acceptance rate, in the SE ecosystem. – Rover Eye Why is that the users of Bio do not vote often considering SE has the saying vote early,...

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Of course we need to vote more but it seems like this user just wants to show off their high voting stats. How does the public naming of specific users help?

Hi @terdon.

Hi Faheem

I saw some activity in this room. Thought I was hallucinating for a moment.

So, you think British food is terrible too, eh?

@FaheemMitha It does happen, sometimes :)

@FaheemMitha Also keeping tabs on the ELU room?

@terdon What does. Hallucinations?

@terdon No, someone posted a link.

In the Frying Pan.

4:46 PM

@FaheemMitha To what?

@terdon To your comment about British Cooking.

In the ELU room.

@FaheemMitha Oh, Cerb did, I see.

@terdon Right. Small world, SE.

Yes, I just checked out the frying pan and immediately saw you. derobert and Cerb, all of whom I know quite well from other sites.

@terdon I don't know Cerberus from anywhere but the FP.

I chatted with him once recently, I think.

I know Anthony from U&L, of course.

4:51 PM

@FaheemMitha He's often in the ELU room, as am I.

@terdon Oh, I didn't know you hung out there.

I don't feel the urge to teach people English, personally.

@terdon Ever tried irccloud?

Also, are you monitoring the new health site at all?

@FaheemMitha That's not what that site is about.

@terdon It isn't?

@FaheemMitha No, never tried irccloud and no, not monitoring health much. I think that's a horrible subject for SE.

@FaheemMitha Not at all, that's English Language Learners

@terdon You're not the only one who thinks that.

@terdon Sorry, got my sites confused.

5:01 PM

English Language & Usage is for "professional linguists and serious language enthusiasts"

It's a site for language geeks who enjoy discussing obscure points of English.

Questions there shouldn't be answerable by your average native speaker.

I had a three way argument with @Elendil and @rumi in the FP on exactly that subject. I thought it was fine. They thought it was a bad idea. It's starting to look like they were right. Unfortunately.

@terdon Yes, I'm familiar with the site. I've asked questions there before.

@terdon Not that obscure.

@FaheemMitha No, unfortunately, not always. That's what most of the regulars would like it to be though.

The health site does look like it is headed downwards. Not enough medical people there, not by a long chalk.

@terdon Regulars in the chat room, you mean?

The biology site in contrast, looks in quite reasonable shape, though chat itself is not that active. Wonder why the difference.

biologists vs medical people, that is.

@FaheemMitha Chat and site, with few exceptions.

@terdon oh

5:06 PM

@FaheemMitha Most people here are full-time researchers and, therefore, don't have much free time.

Well, if I think of any really obscure questions, I'll pop along.

@terdon on biology, you mean?

Here's a really lousy answer to a basically biology question.

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Q: How long does it take for the simple sugars in a drink to reach the bloodstream?

We are talking about 24g of sugar in Kool Aid Jammers. Does the sugar enter the stream nearly instantaneously or does it take a while? 10 minutes? 30?

nutrition sugar general-health

Maybe really lousy is overstating it though.

I imagine the topic of sugar conversion and absorption is really complex. Most things in biology are.

That's very true.

I don't understand how this is a health question.

5:44 PM

> Edit: well to be perfectly honest, I was under 2 hits of acid at the time I saw it, but I swear that it's there, please don't close this thread, can someone back me up on this, tell me you see something.

from biology.stackexchange.com/q/34524/1306

6:05 PM

@terdon This is probably a mean thing to say, but I wonder if he is still high.

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