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> So, how did she learn to read? I have no idea. It wasn't phonics. But I suspect she would have managed it no matter what instruction she received. I think John Taylor Gatto pointed out that some children learn to read when they&#x
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> Influential research that downplayed the role of sugar in heart disease in the 1960s was paid for by the sugar industry, according to a report released on Monday. With backing from a sugar lobby, scientists promoted dietary fat as the
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This article is about the rise in hospital-acquired cdiff infections. So the patients were fine until they were served ice cream made with trehalose. I think this paragraph is the article's kicker: >> What has changed is the rece
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Didn't realize heat shock proteins are so useful. This explains a lot for me, thx.
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Tl/dr: the campaign against sugar is not actually grounded on solid science - it's sort of a disinformation campaign to distract people from the other elephants in the room: rancid deodorized dietary oils, xeno-estrogens and other
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> It's a shame they didn't separate high fat from high sugar diets. Fats aren't addictive, nor are they anywhere near as damaging as sugars and carbs in high doses There are lots of confounding variables in this article. I
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> Meanwhile, in 1869 an American medical publication called medicine “the most despised of all the professions” and advised undergraduates: “Don’t study medicine: anyone can be a doctor.” In 1913 the American Medical Association estimate
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There are no guarantees in life. But we know that the present system doesn't work especially well - dissatisfaction is widespread. See this comment for my comments on the NPR show I heard after posting my mildly-inflammatory comment:
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I happen to be somewhat dysfunctional at the present, tyvm. John Gatto and John Holt have both written extensively on the corrupt nature of compulsory schooling. I linked to some of Gatto's works in this comment: https://new
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Hi- I'm sorry if my comment above was too inflammatory - I meant to point out that both teachers & students are put in a difficult situation. The comment was specifically worded to target the 'education industry' (the pro
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> My understanding is that kindergarten radically changes the kids learning. Why eliminate it? Children are learning machines. I've no doubt that kindergarten radically changes learning, but I don't think this is in a good way.
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The education industry is kind of a racket. The state pays to send children to 13 years of schooling, but at the end they haven't learned much of anything. Someone here at HN had this comment about their experience: "Really just s
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Maybe you know why sugar is demonized, but starch gets a pass? Is starch not chains of glucose? Calorie for calorie, is white bread not actually twice as fattening as an caloric equivalent amount of sugar?
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> "There are too many four-year colleges serving too many students, The Screwing of the Average Man [0] said that college used to be something the upper-class sent their children to so they'd have a leg up on the "uneduc
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I think it's better to reduce total PUFA consumption, than to dilute out omega-6's with omega-3's. Both types of oils are unstable at body temperature. Human operating temperature is much closer to a cow (or coconut) than to
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> Am I missing something or does the author not explain why bring back specifically the $500 bill? Inflation? "[...] despite the amount of inflation that has occurred since 1969 (a $500 bill is now worth less, in real terms, than a
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> Can anyone shed some light on whether blue-blocking coatings are actually useful/good for you? A HN comment set me looking for some blue-blockers for night driving: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14170975 My
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> That many top college graduates hesitate to join a profession with low wages is no great surprise. For many years, talented women had few career alternatives to nursing and teaching; this kept teacher quality artificially high. Now tha
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My comment was a 'bookmark'. If your submission had received more upvotes I might've fleshed out my comment a little bit more. Estrogen should be considered 'teh shock hormone' or 'the cancer hormone', NOT
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Both my grandfathers lasted a few years longer than their wives - 6 years and 9 years. The author of this piece is confused about the actual effects of the various steroids...
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I think trash collection, indoor plumbing and refrigerators/freezers have done much more to improve the public' health.
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> And here is where Japan is unique - they have managed to adjust to the debt servicing, Japan has recently been using its bank to capture more of the interest payments on its debt: "Japan has found a way to write off nearly half it
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> can we also let drug makers just market their drugs without a $1 billion effort to test it in FDA approved clinical trials? FDA approval is an important step for marketing drugs that don't actually work very well.
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> The weirdest part of it all is how these folks are now on the sharp end of capitalism. They're rapidly being dismantled at a more local level by on-site generation, which simply needs less global infrastructure to meet demand. I w
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This article has several good points about our unfixable system of "health insurance". (2001) should be noted in the title...
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This is quite a piece... > During the Age of Trump, Year One, a single word has emerged to capture the essence of the prevailing cultural mood: resistance. Words matter, and the prominence of this particular term illuminates the moment i
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Seed oil is mechanically pressed from the seed. Then the remaining oil is chemically extracted from the seed meal with hexane, then the hxane is boiled off and used again. Unsaturated seed oils go rancid as part of this production process.
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> Yeah, they've just known since the 70s, sure they will get right on that. Someone I respect pointed out that greenhouse gas alarmism started on March 29th, 1979.
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> [...] I have a hard time squaring your point with the fact that the poorest children in the US are the most obese. How can they be calorie deficient and obese at the same time? There's much more to weight than calories. "Vege
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It would be more helpful to ditch the 'myth' that age-segregated classrooms are an improvement over the one-room school house. It used to be that education was something people did for themselves. Parents or a teacher would help c

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