[HN Gopher] An Essay on Diseases Incidental to Literary and Sede...
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An Essay on Diseases Incidental to Literary and Sedentary Persons
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Author : Vigier
Score : 50 points
Date : 2023-04-03 03:42 UTC (19 hours ago)
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| chaibiker wrote:
| Thank you so much, working on this issue, but didn't expect a
| reference this far back!
|
| If curious, on the latest in sitting, standing, perching,
| alternating, a good overview recently from University of
| Waterloo: https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-of-research-expertise-for-
| the-pr...
| cryptonector wrote:
| Use the gym. Do it twice a week at least. Learn how to use the
| gym. Get a trainer for a while so you learn. Get a good
| chiropractor who can guide you as to what parts of your body
| need the most work.
| j_french wrote:
| Solid advice, apart from the chiropractor. By all means
| engage a physiotherapist / physical therapist, but not a
| chiropractor. In my experience it's all spine spine spine
| with those people.
| asdfman123 wrote:
| The most useful health advice is to get cardio and strength
| training in and eat real foods.
|
| Everything else is a hyperoptimization. Some hyperoptimizations
| are marginally useful, some aren't actually useful at all.
|
| Humans were built to eat real food, and they were built to use
| their bodies.
| chaibiker wrote:
| Reducing average sitting bout length has as big an impact as
| exercise. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41569-021-00547-y
| dangwhy wrote:
| > In this Review, we make a case for an approach to
| preventing and managing cardiovascular disease that
| involves 'sitting less and moving more'.
|
| Its not just 'Reducing average sitting bout length ' though
| right ?
|
| Also this seems like self reported observational studies?
| chaibiker wrote:
| Right, both exercise and sitting bout length
| independently are important. You just can't completely
| exercise away the impact of sitting alone.
| JoelMcCracken wrote:
| "cormorant of books" what a great metaphor (unless I
| misunderstand something there); I think I'll use this myself in
| the future.
| bigmattystyles wrote:
| The typography that makes their lowercase 's' look like 'f' is
| interesting. Makes you read to yourself but with a lisp.
| retrac wrote:
| Yes the long S [1]. Not used at the end of a word. It's the
| origin of the German Ss, which is visually a long S with a
| short s after. Increasingly often just written as ss, with some
| German dialects officially doing away with ss. Words like
| "possess" in English used to be written pretty much (visually)
| like possess or possess.
|
| [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s
| morkalork wrote:
| Am I crazy in reading that the change was spurred by
| technological advancement (introduction of the printing
| press)?
| retrac wrote:
| That shouldn't be too surprising. The technology used
| deeply influences writing. In the Latin alphabet, the upper
| case forms developed from the forms of letters used in
| stone and metal, with monumental carvings. While lowercase
| evolved from the kind of writing done with pen or brush on
| parchment or papyrus. Unsurprisingly, there are a lot more
| straight lines amenable to carving into stone in the upper
| case letters.
|
| As I understand it, printed f and long S looked very much
| alike, and the usual tweaks in handwriting to make it clear
| weren't really easy in print. So they just dropped it
| altogether. One less letter required in the typeface, too.
| codersfocus wrote:
| The origins of the Latin alphabet are interesting too:
| miners in Egypt who didn't want to learn all the
| hieroglyphics decided to start using some of them
| phonetically, creating an alphabet
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Sinaitic_script
| TylerE wrote:
| True classical latin didn't have lower case. Initial
| letters were written marginally larger, but what we'd now
| (mostly) think of as uppercase is what all the letters
| looked like.
| teddyh wrote:
| That's called "Small caps":
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_caps
| kmill wrote:
| It's also the origin of the integral sign! (Mentioned on the
| Wikipedia article.) There's a nice accidental parallel
| between sigma notation (the discrete, "angular" summation)
| and integral notation (the continuous, "smooth" summation).
|
| Another s fact is that Greek has lower case s and
| additionally the variant s that only appears at the ends of
| words, which is very Latin-s-like.
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma
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