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I also don't think we know much about what happened before the advent of agriculture, writing etc., which all happened within the last 10,000 years. I'm afraid that is a bit too optimistic that it took that long. Look at Papua New Guinea in the first half of the 20th century. Jared Diamond's...

All historical anthropology is guesswork, often with a large dose of bias. See Franz Boas.

@Pib That seems like it might be correct. We may have come out on top precisely because we are so prone to lethal violence. We seem wired for violence whether it is in a bar on Friday night, in a street gang, or at the level of nations. We each carry within us an innate distrust of anyone who...

I am also eyeing up getting a ball vape. If flavour is a factor, take at look at the ZX by Phase3. I don't own one (yet) but that has caught my eye and it is only a matter of time. There is also a ZXXL if you are into larger hits. Good luck in your search, we are blessed with a multitude of...

I was curious, so I had a look. A brief look on that site suggests that the powdered form is for ingestion not inhalation. I did not check all of the powdered products.

Look two posts up.

Based on some online research, I feel fairly certain that the white material is ceramic and not fibreglass. Here is one page and here is another. Knowing some Mandarin, I wonder how much difference there is between the names of the two in colloquial Chinese. English and German are pretty...

Kudos to Verdampft for a very fair and reasoned investigation and statement. I agree that having opened my unit that it seems very unlikely that fibres would reach the air path. Air will follow the path of least resistance. Unless you are sucking hard with your finger over the inlet in the...

AFAIK that is correct.

I have sleep apnea and use a CPAP machine at night. Philips (yes, that Philips) is one of the two largest manufacturers. A few years ago they had to recall all of their Dream Station CPAP machines as the foam insulation was breaking down and entering the airstream. So it was actually IN the...

I was curious about this. Here is an image of the bottom of my AE with a superimposed red circle, to the best of my limited artistic ability. To me, that appears to conform to the “conformité européenne” marking. I have no further comment on this, just noting my observation.

I don't think it is fibreglass. It looked and felt odd to me (for fibreglass) when I opened mine up. I think it is actually Ceramic Fibre Insulation. I am not saying it is better, it might be worse according to a quick Google search. I mention it in the interest of accuracy.

Back when I worked with card processing, you were not allowed to charge the card until the items had shipped. That was in North America, but I'd be surprised if Europe did not have regulations at least as strong.

The popcorn taste (tastes like hay to me) comes when you are closer to the end when most of the tasty terpenes have been used up. Taste is also highly strain dependent. I have had many that tasted like not much of anything at all beyond weed. I have also had two that tasted like vape though a...

@TigoleBitties I just opened the one that I got from Soothing Vapours last October (same vendor as you IIRC) and it has the unrestrained fibreglass (or whatever is it) around the oven. It does not look to me like it is in the air path, but I am not going to take it apart any more than that.