Neil Gaiman: I loved Terry’s craft. Terry became, somewhere in there, before the arrival of J. K. Rowling, the bestselling novelist in the UK.

Tim Ferriss: Tens of millions of copies.

Neil Gaiman: Millions upon millions of copies. This was before that. This was, you know, he’d just retired from the electricity board to become a full time writer. I knew how good he was, and I’m like, “This is a fabulous apprenticeship.” So, even though I didn’t have the time, I said yes, and my life, when I look back on it, I’m just really glad that I was 27, 28 when I was doing this, because I couldn’t do it now, I mean, just physically and mentally couldn’t do it now, but I would write Sandman until midnight, I would write The Books of Magic from midnight until about 2:30, and I would write Good Omens from 2:30 until about 6 a.m., and then I would get up at one o’clock in the afternoon and my answering machine would have a little blinking light on it and I would press the button and the tape would rewind and then Terry Pratchett’s voice would come out of it and he’d go, “Get up, get up you bastard! I’ve just written a good bit!”

- Interview with Tim Ferris 2019

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Historical swedish parents be like:

“oh the teenage kids? I sent them away to do hard labour at that household five hours away. 14 year old is the perfect age to work 24h as a milkmaid!

If they get to keep their wage? What is. A wage? Never heard off”

- the rural population of sweden until circa…. The 1930s?

PS. By the 1930s they knew what a wage was. But pre industrial epoch a wage was a. Vague concept.

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At the same time, in ya historical swedish village:

The parents, and an assorted bunch of adults of the area:

“the youths are running around at night, doing sheningans! I dont understand why, we have all sent away the people of the age 14-20 to other peoples households, and as tradition dictates, left it to the head of those households to keep the kids in line.

Honestly, do not understand, why do they all go wild, just because they now spend all their time working togheter with other 14 year olds, at households unknown to them???

And now! They are throwing in logs with mocking jokes about all the household heads, into our farms!

There is no way we could have avoided this! ”

[admin note: i am just saying. It is not that strange that “the youths” were well known for creating sheningans in historical sweden. With sheningans i dont only mean like. Getting really drunk. But more like. Advanced sheningans. Pulling pranks on the entire village sheningans.

You just go: “oh you are 14 now? Well then, bye work as cow herder with other 14 year olds the entire summer, see you again at christmas.”

Ofcorse they gonna do SHENINGANS)

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What happens when you send away all your teenagers to work at some other dudes farm:

Youths run around during christmas night in weird outfits, and throw logs into your household with attached mocking/joking notes about the character of the people in that farm.

The mentioned logs are also delivered via throwing it into the door of someone house, and instantly running away cackling loudly.

Just saying TYPICAL bored teenager sheningans. Brilliant, and comedic genius, but typical what happens if you let a bunch of teenagers run free

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Don’t forget:

We tell them it’s okay to share a bed, as long as there’s a plank in the middle, so no shenanigans! No way could this possibly lead to pregnancy.

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True! Its so odd people just keep getting pregnant despite this, our plan to keep them from The Sex was very well thought out?? It had not a single flaw??

Its ALMOST. Like we actually think it is ok that they do the do, but that we just wanna give the appearence of hindering them, hmmm 🤔🤔

[admin note: it is believed that the north sweden way, were allowing young couples to sleep in the same bed as eachother as a part of like. Flirting. Was actually on porpuse meant to check if the were fertile togheter.

Basically like this.

The girl get pregnant. Yay, they are fertile togheter and will hopefully produce many off spring. Wonderful, marriage time :D

Think. The opposite of the concept shot gun wedding. More like. Young hopeful 19-20 year olds couples walking around be like

“gotta get pregnant so we can marry!”]

[extra admin note: simplified. Children outside wedlock was also a big no no. If the couple did not get married that is. The pregnancy before marriage thing in historical sweden is complicated. I talked further about this on another post]

Antibiotic Resistance - NDM-1

New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase 1 (NDM-1) is an enzyme that makes bacteria resistant to a broad range of beta-lactam antibiotics.

These include the carbapenem family, which are a mainstay for the treatment of antibiotic-resistant infections.
Often referred to as “superbugs”
NDM-1 was first detected in a Klebsiella pneumoniae isolate from a Swedish patient of Indian origin in 2008.
Most commonly made in gram-negative bacteria such as Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae
But the gene for NDM-1 can spread from one strain of bacteria to another by horizontal gene transfer.

Enzyme function

Carbapenems are a class of beta-lactam antibiotics that are capable of killing most bacteria by inhibiting the synthesis of one of their cell wall layers.

The bla_NDM-1 gene produces NDM-1, which is a carbapenemase beta-lactamase - an enzyme that hydrolyzes and inactivates these carbapenem antibiotics.

Carbapenemases are particularly dangerous resistance mechanisms, since they can inactivate a wide range of different antibiotics. NDM-1 functions through two zinc ions present in the active site that cause hydrolysis of the beta-lactams, rendering them ineffective.

See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Historical swedish parents be like:

At the same time, in ya historical swedish village:

Antibiotic Resistance - NDM-1

Enzyme function