{"id":11263,"date":"2022-06-10T01:19:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T05:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11263"},"modified":"2022-06-10T01:19:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T05:19:17","slug":"things-i-wish-i-could-unlearn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11263","title":{"rendered":"Things I wish I could unlearn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a few things in life that I heard about and wish I didn&#8217;t. I&#8217;m going to mention some of them here, but without links or pictures. If you want to find them, Google them. But I am mindful of those who value their sanity.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In a famous experiment, a researcher subjected rats to drowning. Rats that were previously rescued tried to stay afloat and took longer to die than those who weren&#8217;t. Hope changed their behavior.<\/li>\n<li>There was an old Chinese method of execution: literally cutting the condemned in half at the waist.<\/li>\n<li>Japan&#8217;s wartime bioweapons and chemical warfare research facility, the famous Unit 731, was so horrific, Auschwitz-Birkenau is probably like a happy summer camp in comparison (and not because Mengele was nice).<\/li>\n<li>Touch a tiny fraction of a milligram of dimethylmercury for more than a few seconds even while wearing a latex glove, and you will almost certainly die a horrible death months later, as your body and mind irreversibly deteriorate. (Someone once said that the very existence of something evil like Hg(CH<sub>3<\/sub>)<sub>2<\/sub> is proof that there&#8217;s no God, or at least not a benevolent one.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There may be a few other similarly unpleasant tidbits, but I can&#8217;t recall them right now, and that&#8217;s good. Mercifully, our human memory is imperfect so perhaps it is possible to unlearn things after all. (Or, perhaps I am hoping in vain, like those unfortunate rats.)<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11263' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a few things in life that I heard about and wish I didn&#8217;t. I&#8217;m going to mention some of them here, but without links or pictures. If you want to find them, Google them. But I am mindful of those who value their sanity. In a famous experiment, a researcher subjected rats to <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11263' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,35,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-personal","category-science","category-25-id","category-35-id","category-48-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11265,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11263\/revisions\/11265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}