The first two ingredients in Hidden Valley Ranch are vegetable oil and water. Buttermilk is third, sugar is fourth.
What makes it taste like ranch isn't the buttermilk. It's monosodium glutamate plus disodium inosinate and disodium guanylate, three savory enhancers that work together. Then phosphoric acid for tang and xanthan gum to hold the oil and water together so the bottle doesn't separate on the shelf. That's the same flavor system that goes into chip seasoning and bouillon.
An ER doctor who's treated hundreds of emergency patients told his family at Thanksgiving: "Everyone at this table is wearing an Apple Watch. I need to check 9 things on every single one of them because the features that save lives in my ER are the features most of you have never turned on."
He went around the table.
"Mom your Fall Detection is off. You're 68. You live alone. If you fall in the kitchen and can't reach your phone, the watch does nothing. It should call 911 automatically. It should send your GPS to the paramedics. It should text me and Sarah that you've fallen. Right now it just sits on your wrist and counts your steps."
"Dad your Medical ID is empty. If paramedics find you unconscious, the first thing they check is your wrist. They hold the side button on your Apple Watch and look for your Medical ID blood type, medications, allergies, conditions, emergency contacts. Yours has nothing. They're treating you blind guessing your medications, guessing your allergies, guessing your blood type because you never filled out a 3-minute form."
"Sarah you commute 45 minutes on the highway every day. Your Crash Detection isn't enabled. If you're in an accident and can't reach your phone, the watch should detect the impact and call 911 for you. Yours won't. It's off."
"Jake you run alone at 5 AM on trails. You've never set up emergency contacts or Emergency SOS. If something happens on a trail with no one around, the watch has no one to call and no one to text."
He configured all 4 watches before dessert. 15 minutes. 4 watches. 9 settings changed.
"I see what happens when these features are on a paramedic arrives in 8 minutes because the watch called before the patient could. And I see what happens when they're off a family member finds someone on the bathroom floor 6 hours later because the watch on their wrist did nothing but tell time."
He showed them 9 features. Every one of them exists to save a life. Most Apple Watch owners have configured zero.
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A person walking at a normal pace takes about two steps per second, and the gap between their legs opens and closes on every one of them. Emma Regan just rolled a soccer ball through four walking teammates in a row, which means the ball hit four opening gates in sequence without clipping a single ankle.
The gap is only open for a fraction of each stride. Feet are furthest apart right as the front heel lands, then the back leg swings through and shuts the window for the rest of the step. So the ball had to arrive at each person during that open slice, four times, while all four kept walking at their own rhythm.
She can't speed up a ball once it's rolling. The only thing she controls is when it leaves her foot and how hard. Hit it too hard and it arrives while someone's swing leg is crossing. Too soft and the next person has already stepped into the line.
Nobody looks at the ground while walking off a pitch. That's the piece that makes it work. Four people scanning the stands and each other, feet on autopilot, opening and closing without knowing they're opening and closing.
Every football culture named this trick after the victim. France calls it the petit pont, the little bridge. Spain says caño. Italy says tunnel. The English word came from Victorian fraud, con men slipping wooden nutmegs into real shipments, so nutmegged meant swindled before it meant a ball between the legs.
Four sets of legs, eight open windows a second between them, and the ball found the one path that stayed open the whole way.
One of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. The way it’s gunning it with the cartoonish posture, the skeddadle backward like it slipped on a banana peel then the explosion. Could watch this happen for hours