People criticized Obama for performatively pretending to drink water, and now here's Biden actually drinking water. Sometimes we just need to maturely accept incremental progress and not let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

The tip of the lunar umbra just barely reaches the Earth, and Webb is at L2, about five times farther away. It's not seeing it at all,

Is Webb even positioned where it can observe an eclipse?

Pretty sure it’s not

Ah! I needn’t worry

This mega doesn’t have enough pictures of wolves. I hope there’s someone that can add some more.

Instead of the fedposting I want to do, I will say that you’ve set some reasonable boundaries, and you shouldn’t feel bad about anything you need to do to keep those boundaries at a point you’re comfortable with.

My crabs are reproducing at an unregulated rate.

A few years ago there was a study where something like 20% of Biden voters said they where “not sure” whether he’s the head of a pedophile cabal.

I think it’s something like “shaved with the national razor”. Maybe?

That means they also failed to desecrate a Navajo sacred space.

Does anyone want to share what music they listen to while reading? I never really did ‘study music’, but now I have background noise I need to deal with, and could use some suggestions.

Getting in to the fine details of it is important for researchers or doctors who specifically work with the tongue, but the issue that we're talking about here is how this was commonly taught as absolute fact to young children with no nuance and seemingly for no reason other than it being widely believed.

If anyone is specifically claiming that the tongue is completely uniform in taste reception then they're it taking too far, sure. But generally when I see this brought up, the focus is on questioning the process of how some facts make it in to what schools teach as "common knowledge" even when they are both wrong and unimportant to daily life and general education.

When a teacher tells a 6-7 year old that flavors can only be tasted on certain parts of your tongue, the problem isn't that they failed to call it a "spatial component to our experience of gustatory stimulus". At that age, teachers have to strip out most nuance from any lesson, and the goal is to find a way to explain things that is true enough while still being understandable to young children.

So why, if stripping out the nuance makes it basically wrong, did teachers keep teaching it for a century? Even if it were true, it's not really important information for most people. Necessarily even, because if it were important to daily life, it would be a lot easier to notice it's mostly wrong.
I don't know, and I don't think there's an exact reason. I had teachers tell us about this, then seem to realize they needed a reason for it to matter and try to turn it in to a lesson about scientific inquiry. They told us to go home and try putting flavors on the 'wrong' parts of the tongue and notice how we couldn't taste anything. I tried it once, and it didn't work, and it was never brought up again.

Feel free to educate people about the mechanics of our sense of taste, but I think this is a fine example of myths making it in to what's taught in schools.