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by andrewl 8y ago
There's a researcher at the Center for Neuroscience & Society at the University of Pennsylvania who researches this topic: https://neuroethics.upenn.edu/portfolio-items/childhood-pove...
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by andrewl 9y ago
There's been a good bit of press about this, and I expect more. Here's one recent article: https://aeon.co/essays/how-lyme-disease-became-the-first-epi... The article is by the author of Lyme - The First Epi
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by andrewl 9y ago
Stores that rent formal wear for weddings and similar events are clothing libraries of a sort, although you pay the "library" directly instead of through your taxes.
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Freeman Dyson’s Life, Through His Letters(nytimes.com)
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Low Total Testosterone in Men Widespread, Linked to Chronic Disease(labblog.uofmhealth.org)
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The Blindness of Social Wealth(nytimes.com)
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by andrewl 9y ago
Freeman Dyson has commented on how long and wasteful it is for most people to get a doctorate I’m very proud of not having a Ph.D. I think the Ph.D. system is an abomination. It was invented as a system for educating German professors in t
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by andrewl 9y ago
Hi make some good points, although he also refers to the profession of teaching as prestigious, which it is not. At least not in the United States, unfortunately.
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by andrewl 9y ago
I took Paul Graham's advice a number of years ago and went with EasyDNS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=150565 And I think it's also a good idea to use separate hosting companies and registrars.
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by andrewl 9y ago
Rexxar's point was about mechanisms of locomotion and body size. While we generally expect birds to have a faster metabolism than mammals because they're small and because flying takes so much energy, the reverse would probably be
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Ticks Rising(aeon.co)
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They Called My University a PhD Factory – Now I Understand Why(theguardian.com)
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A Look at the Flaws in the Chinese Economy(economist.com)
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by andrewl 9y ago
Maybe we'd all have been better off on Google Plus. I avoid giving Google information about myself that it doesn't need, but I do trust them more than I trust Facebook. Although maybe that's naive of me.
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SXSW Film Review: ‘Take Your Pills’(variety.com)
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by andrewl 9y ago
I opened the page in Firefox in a private window and did not get that message. I did get it in Chrome.
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by andrewl 9y ago
It's also another name for Galadriel, the Lord of the Rings character.
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The Youngsters Keeping Traditional Trades Alive(bbc.co.uk)
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by andrewl 9y ago
This general topic reminds me of Jonathan Haidt's TED talk on the moral motivations of liberals and conservatives: https://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind
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How an Ivy League Food Scientist Turned Shoddy Data into Viral Studies(buzzfeed.com)
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Finding the Unexpected Wonder in More Than 22,000 International Standards(atlasobscura.com)
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by andrewl 9y ago
Graham's conversations with Nixon were taped. In at least one of them he has a lot of negative things to say about Jews and the Jewish community: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/17/us/billy-graham-res
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The Tricks Propagandists Use to Beat Science(technologyreview.com)
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by andrewl 9y ago
NFL player and mathematics doctoral student John Urschel retired last summer because he was afraid of possible brain damage. He'd had a concussion and found that for some weeks after his ability to think about math was impaired. https
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This Tiny Robot Walks, Crawls, Jumps and Swims. But It Is Not Alive(nytimes.com)
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by andrewl 9y ago
She lived a fascinating life. As one of a small cohort of young men and women working in the “Tin Hut” at Ferranti’s Moston works, Berners-Lee was trained to write programs following a manual written by Alan Turing. That feels almost on t
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by andrewl 9y ago
This is a very accessible intro. And I was fascinated by the progression of her interests and education. One note: the link to her Instagram page at the bottom of the article is broken (there's an unneeded = at the end). The correct UR
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Gifted and Talented and Complicated(nytimes.com)
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What If Sugar Is Worse Than Just Empty Calories?(bmj.com)
55 points by andrewl 9y ago|33 comments
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by andrewl 9y ago
The technology will continue to improve. At some point they'll attach a hypodermic loaded with cyanide or ricin to one of these and use it in an assassination.

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