I had the same question. Specifically, does it take longer to adjust to the goggles the second and third times than it did the first?

"throw oneself over Hadrian's Wall"

Hmmm. Depends on where your grandpa came from. My grandfather was from Ireland, so his Gaelic would probably be incomprehensible to a Scot. To my deep regret, he didn't teach me any.

Well, the Foxfire books came out of Appalachia. I think that their flavor is more "how we did it" than "how you should do it when the balloon goes up".

70's probably isn't bad. After that, they reached out to the inner city youth and wilderness survival turned into "how to treat rat bites". I agree that older is better.

Didn't the author of "Poor Man's James Bond" blow off a hand playing with Armstrong's Mixture?

As I recall, that wasn't at all an accident. The blood donor was carefully chosen to be resistant to HIV. The thing that prevents this from being used as a functional cure for HIV is that rebooting your entire immune system is so incredibly dangerous, it isn't worth the risk unless you are already dying from something…

I don't doubt any of the science in this article, but the wording suggests that Rh factor was discovered before A/B/O typing.

AB+ plasma? I had never heard of that. I thought that plasma lacked the red and white cells of whole blood, so did not have a "type".

I am B+. Last I heard, 9.5% of the U.S. population has that. I have donated, on and off, for 30 years. The Red Cross loves my CMV-negative blood. They call it "baby's blood" and give it to infants in small quantities. Gives me visions of little vampires.

Although the subject has been studied by academics, I would indeed like to know what Mythbusters make of it.

I'll agree that it sounds dangerous, but as Brizon mentioned, the brain does adapt. If I recall properly, during Stratton's experiments, he was able to drive a motorcycle at full speed with the glasses on.

This is probably a reference to George Stratton's experiments. Some suggested that he was still seeing the world upside-down, but had become accustomed to it. If I recall properly, after adapting to upside-down vision, he was even able to drive a motorcycle at full speed. It would be a bit hard to fake that.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that he was kidding. ;-)

I was actually expecting the "luddite", but it is far off base. You could use that to argue against judgements based on insufficient data and accuse me of same.

I agree that there is a ton of room for stories. But the modern trend is towards long plot arcs with other stories that are either somewhat related to the arc or unrelated. The "mysteries" that I mention are all long-arc things. They are well-chosen to provide a fertile ground for smaller stories. But when each of…

I suspect that the writers have to ration out their mysteries. If you answer too many mysteries too early, you have nothing left for the fans to obsess over and they get bored.

True - not mandatory at birth, but required for many things. Also, there is not yet a vaccine against HEP C, although progress is being made.

Actually, I can see watching an episode or two to understand the mindset. But watching "all"? How many does it take?

They can jail you for contempt of court, possibly for years. True, it doesn't directly get them the data, but it is pressure on you to yield.