Listen to Your Feet

I don't know much about my feet, but I've always had a predilection for crossing my little toes. I take a certain pride in this activity as I can do it without resorting to assistance from my hands. For example, I can generally cross them even if they happen to be in shoes at the time, and this activity can be transparent to an observer. That is, it can be performed in a clandestine manner. My toes seem to want to be arranged that way. To be more precise the little toe is raised, and the second littlest toe goes underneath it. This is the case for both feet. I can't say that one foot prefers it over the other.

I recently became aware that my feet may be telling me something. You see, bunions may run in my family. This crossing of little toes may be a reaction to a natural tendency for my toes to want to tilt to the outside as in one prone towards bunions. It seems though that the little toe does not want to bend to the outside so my other toes when they tilt to the outside hit a bit of a wall there. And what can happen then may not be good. The second largest toe may find itself lifted above the big toe. This can lead to corn formation on the second largest toe for those prone towards bunions, which isn't good.

A Fried Egg with Watery Egg Whites

I bought some eggs the other day. I went to fry one of them and the white ran and separated into two parts. The inner part was more solid and formed a very distinct circle around the yolk. The outer portion spread out but didn't set up or ever become solid or crisp up. I tried another one. Same thing. I ate the latter. It didn't taste off, but the inner part of the white was mushy and the outer part was even worse. I think I'm gonna throw the rest of them out. I've never seen eggs like this. I looked a bit on the internet. Maybe they had been frozen at one point, I don't know. The other food in the fridge isn't frozen. If they were frozen they must have been frozen before I bought them. The pan was plenty hot.

Do Warmer Temperatures Cause Higher Carbon Dioxide Levels?

Some people, notably Al Gore, show the correlation between CO2 levels and the temperature of the atmosphere near the earth's surface, and argue that the CO2 we're putting into the atmosphere will cause that temperature to go up. Of course, there's the old axiom that correlation does not imply causation. It could also be that the increase in CO2 levels doesn't cause the warm up but instead is a consequence of the warm up. If so, the increasing CO2 levels occurring now would not a priori be expected to correlate with warmer temperatures.

Plants take CO2 out of the atmosphere with photosynthesis, but also put it back with respiration. If there are more plants could it be that the CO2 levels would be higher due to their respiration, or some other mechanism? For instance, what about animals and small non-photosynthetic organisms like bacteria? If the earth is warmer, won't there be more animals and bacteria breathing and putting CO2 into the atmosphere? Could mechanisms like this account for higher CO2 levels when the earth is warm? If so, the higher CO2 levels would be a consequence of warmer temperatures, not the cause of them.