Chinese vlogger thinks she's eating aloe vera on live stream, then rushes to hospital

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@wsmcneil

we are not actually ignorant about these things

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@wsmcneil

It is true that one individual photoreceptor protein in your retina will respond to one single photon. It is not true that this sends a signal to your brain. You need about 60 to 80 photons per second to hit that threshold, so, no, you are not capable of “detecting” a single photon in any meaningful sense.

Transmission of single photon signals through a binary synapse in the...

@wsmcneil

You are not using the word “volatile” in a sense that is chemically meaningful or relevant to my argument.

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You cannot absorb nutrients just by touching materials that contain them.

Absorption (skin)

@wsmcneil

No reason to believe it happens. No way that it could.

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