{"id":182,"date":"2007-10-02T13:26:21","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T17:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/10\/02\/discoveries\/"},"modified":"2007-10-02T13:26:21","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T17:26:21","slug":"discoveries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/10\/02\/discoveries\/","title":{"rendered":"Discoveries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m eating some nuts right now. They&#8217;re unsalted, unroasted, so they&#8217;re really not even that good.<\/p>\n<p>Which got me wondering&#8230; How did people discover nuts? Were they accustomed to ripping things off trees and eating them? Did they try acorns? All the trees with inedible berries?<\/p>\n<p>But here are some other things I&#8217;ve always wondered about the discoveries of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li>Smoking. I think I posted about this before, actually. I think that, even if I lived all by myself in the woods with nothing to do and nothing to eat and no basis for what was normal, I&#8217;d never think, &#8220;Let&#8217;s rip this leaf up, dry it, set it on fire, and inhale the smoke.&#8221; And why tobacco leaves? Did they try oak leaves? Grass? Cabbage? Corn? Poison Ivy?<\/li>\n    <li>Sex. No, really. What else did they try before their breakthrough discovery? I think a fair amount of what we hold as &#8220;intuitive&#8221; is really societal. Was it clear initially that it should be a male and a female, and what went where, or were there lots of other variations?<\/li>\n    <li>Beer. Who thought, &#8220;Let&#8217;s take these unappetizing ingredients, let them rot for months, and then drink it!&#8221;? Intuitively, wouldn&#8217;t you think, &#8220;This has been rotting for months, I don&#8217;t dare drink it?&#8221; What else did they let ferment before ingesting?<\/li>\n    <li>Cheese. Kind of the same concept. Spoiled milk is disgusting. But getting it to cheese? I don&#8217;t think I could ever even eat cheese if I really thought about its manufacture. And for the first, say, century after cheese was discovered, I&#8217;m fairly certain that there weren&#8217;t supermarkets that sold pre-packaged cheese.<\/li>\n    <li>Milk. Really thinking about where it comes from, what led us to drink that? Did we try drinking bodily fluids from other animals? Do I even want to know?<\/li>\n    <li>Meat. Seriously, who thought, &#8220;Let&#8217;s kill that cow, cut it up, and eat it?&#8221; Was cooking devised right away? I love my burgers, but I&#8217;d rather starve to death than go up and start gnawing on a cow. And cutting up a cow and <em>then <\/em>gnawing away sounds even more disgusting.<\/li>\n    <li>Contact lenses. I&#8217;m glad I got them long after the technology was perfected. I&#8217;m fairly certain that if someone came up to me and said, &#8220;I&#8217;m working on a revolutionary new technology that lets you stick &#8216;glasses&#8217; directly to your eyeball,&#8221; I just would have laughed&#8230; Or run screaming. Depending on whether or not they wanted to try them on me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m eating some nuts right now. They&#8217;re unsalted, unroasted, so they&#8217;re really not even that good. Which got me wondering&#8230; How did people discover nuts? Were they accustomed to ripping things off trees and eating them? Did they try acorns? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/10\/02\/discoveries\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15,18,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insanity","category-living","category-ocd","category-rants-raves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}