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Sabine Hossenfelder

For today's video about painkillers, I spent hours looking up the pronunciation of words like pregnenolone, acetylsalicylic acid, and midazolam. Then I mispronounced tongue.

Advil, Aspirin, and Tylenol -- What's the difference?

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12:00 PM · Jul 16, 2022

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You didn’t explain the joke, did you?

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Sabine Hossenfelder

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It's at the very end

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Best to stay away from painkillers if at all possible:

Anti-inflammatory drugs could cause chronic pain

Nature Reviews Neurology - A new study provides evidence that inflammation protects against the development of chronic pain in people with acute back pain, and that anti-inflammatory drugs used to...

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Sabine Hossenfelder

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very interesting, thanks!

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Σ(i³) = (Σi)² ( @SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz )

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What's with the number at 11:48 - you seem to be saying "forty billion", the subtitle say "400 Billion" and the graph in the background says "600 Billion"?

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Sabine Hossenfelder

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The graph is right, sorry.

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A slip of the tongue.... :-)

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If you want to hear English spoken properly, ask a foreigner. Preferably a German.

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Dennis Dresbach

@johnallenseecam

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You do such great work!

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