Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli  40

Exciting... sometimes cruel. But too exciting not to do:

Databases and projects:

Since rat and mouse are not scientifically specific names, we'll just use them interchangeably.

When one specific species is implied, we will mean Mus musculus by default.

As of 2020, account for about 20% of the known mammal species!!! www.sciencefocus.com/nature/why-are-there-so-many-species-of-bat/ mentions some reasons:

Genome:

wget ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/refseq/H_sapiens/annotation/GRCh38_latest/refseq_identifiers/GRCh38_latest_genomic.fna.gz
gunzip --keep GRCh38_latest_genomic.fna.gz

They split up from the rest of the mammals after the monotremes.

Every other mammal has a placenta.

This baby in pouch thing just feels like a pre-placenta stage.

Lance instructor of the 800,000 Imperial Guards (八十万禁军枪棒教头). TODO understand the "枪棒" part: zhidao.baidu.com/question/206659649.html.

The adopted son of Gao Qiu wanted to fuck his wife, and because of this they frame him of planning to take revenge by killing Go Qiu, even though Lin Chong had decided not to take revenge to avoid harming his wife further.

They just keep trying to kill him, until at one point he just gives up and becomes a fugitive.

His story is well told in The Water Margin.

Usually called by others as 林教头 (lin jiaotou, literally Head Instructor Lin, but usually translated as just Instructor Lin).

"The Capital" is what now is Kaifeng in Shandong, and it used to be the capital during the (Northern) Song dynasty.

In the novel it is simply often simply called as 东京 (capital of the East), which is now highly ambiguous term that can indicate several different historical capitals! Notably it is the name of modern tokyo.

The term "Mount Liang" generally refers to both the mountain and the surrounding marshy areas.

The novel always uses the term "梁山泊' (liang2 shan1 po1) to refer to the place.