Muscles helped by big increase in diet protein quality. English pastoral production of meat & dairy, per person, 1250-1850. (Same source).pic.twitter.com/JBubUclFLS
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We think of the IR as powered by water & steam, but it also used much more muscle. Based on human & horse stats in http://www.basvanleeuwen.net/bestanden/agriclongrun1250to1850.pdf …pic.twitter.com/6boqQSEqVG
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What are the units of that graph?
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Non-farm human population + 4* non-farm horse population.
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I would love to see it extended into 1900's because computers have similarly increased need for brain power ... with an impending reversal?
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Perhaps this is why horse meat is a market of repugnance
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thank you for the nightly business report. always a pleasure reading your content for us females that prefer it to Cosmo
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that was a very boring article. I only learned about the effects of a revolutionary butter churner :)
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