Author: Digital Citizen

Definition: Ciguatera, Ciguatoxin or CTX, Dinoflagellate, Protists, Eukaryotes

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Cellular biology and some specific food poisonings for words today.

 

Ciguatera

Food poisoning that comes from eating fish contaminated with ciguatoxins

 

Ciguatoxin or CTX

A class of toxic polycyclic polyethers found in fish that cause ciguatera

 

Eukaryotes

An organism with complex cells, or a single cell with a complex structures

Protists

Single-celled eukaryotes

(entry 245 this year, after mix up to have duplicated word)

 

Dinoflagellate

Protists constituting the phylum Dinoflagellata, usually considered algae, mostly marine plankton, but also common in freshwater

 

https://twitter.com/digitalcitizen/status/1223054508311314432

Definition: Synthetic or Non-fossil Kerosene, Synthetic Fuel or Synfuel, Syngas or Synthesis Gas

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I didn’t know these fuels were practical enough for commercial use already, so that’s great! Now, if they could settle on one name for each!

 

Syngas or Synthesis Gas

A fuel gas mixture consisting primarily of hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and very often some carbon dioxide

 

Synfuel or Synthetic Fuel

A liquid fuel, or sometimes gaseous fuel, obtained from syngas

 

Synthetic or Non-fossil Kerosene

Kerosene used as aviation fuel that is created without fossil resources

 

https://twitter.com/digitalcitizen/status/1223038302057586688

Definition: Flight Shaming, Train Bragging, Multi-passionate

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I should have known there was a term for flight shaming. Just about everything else has a shaming word these days, it seems.

With the third term, multi-passionate, that’s very core to my identity and I’m glad there is a word for it!

 

Flight Shaming

Social movement to inform people of the heavy environmental impact of flying to possibly find alternatives

 

Train Bragging

Social movement to show off travel by train rather than by plane for climate change benefits

 

 

https://twitter.com/digitalcitizen/status/1223036333293277187

 

https://twitter.com/digitalcitizen/status/1223048748395307008

USA WILL Have MORE COVID-19 Cases than Rest of the World Combined One Day

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The US flew past 100,000 COVID-19 cases today, just a day after passing China’s total of about 81,000. It’s at 104,000 as I write this.

With world totals at 596,000 cases at this time, the US has 17.4% of the world’s cases, and the US has barely started climbing “the curve” that won’t be flattening any time soon!

To have more than the rest of the world, the US needs to hit 50.01% of world totals. That doesn’t seem a stretch, to be honest, the way the US rates are climbing and knowing how they are still far behind in testing all the people they should.

The math isn’t that hard to see. One day soon enough, the US WILL have more COVID-19 cases than the rest of the world combined.

It’s just a matter of when… not if, very sadly.

Definition: Read the Air, Micro Expressions, Involuntary Emotional Leakage, High and Low Context Cultures

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A fascinating cultural article that isn’t just about Japanese culture. They’re just an extreme case.

 

Micro Expressions

Tiny involuntary facial tics that can give away a person’s true emotions

 

Read the Air

Pick up on unspoken rules governing social life

 

Involuntary Emotional Leakage

Tiny involuntary facial tics that betrays a person’s true emotions

 

High and Low Context Cultures

Cultures where context matters a lot or a little relative to what is said and/or done (Japan is high context)

 

https://twitter.com/digitalcitizen/status/1223033401835425798