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> I also like that they lead with an image of Coke Zero, which has no sugar nor calories This is sweetened with sucralose. In a recent study, fruit flies fed sucralose consumed more total calories than those fed sugar: http://
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> Some lucky folks can take hormones with very little effects. There aren't any actual 'hormones' in birth control. These drugs are supposedly hormone-analogues, but they are only partial replacements for genuine ("bi
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The Apple Store matches prices, up to 10% iirc. Fry's electronics email prices are about the same 15% discount as the refurbished apple products at your link.
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> Am I the only one somewhat concerned over the absolutely blatant declarations that Russia is now our enemy again? Something's definitely fishy about the resurgence of the anti-Russia propaganda in the United States. I recently fou
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> Perhaps it was sabotage. Then there is no means of ever explaining it. Their e-coli problems started soon after pledging to go GMO-free... The GMO-railroad might not have appreciated a little business taking a nail out of their tracks.
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That's a nice site... The author has some really good points about for-profit colleges too. The $20 Principle I have written before about how $20 can change a student’s life. The $20 is slightly euphemistic but not entir
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> It is becoming increasingly obvious that androgen deprivation has massive neurological effects. Progesterone USP is both a pro-hormone and a neurosteroid [1]. The science literature commonly confuses Progesterone USP with various &quot
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> US public schools actually get pretty damn good results by worldwide standards. This is in spite of the system, instead of because of it. Some people were going to do well regardless - because they were well-nourished as children, grew
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The World Health Organization has a report titled "Health risks from drinking demineralised water". The main problem is that water without minerals upsets the osmotic balance and leads to lysing (rupture) of the cells lining the
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> An animal is also terribly inefficient at converting water and feed into human-consumable nutrients, I have an old book somewhere that says the milk cow is the most efficient means of converting a rocky hillside covered with grass into
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> Cost to print 5,000 B&W pages on my Brother laser: $25 ($12.50 per 2600-page generic toner). I found an unused HP P2015dn at a family member's office. It came loaded with an aftermarket cartridge. I also found a new-in-box HP
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Rats consume a sizeable percentage of rice production. From an earlier story [1]: The next call came from Australia in 2006. Biologists there wanted an adaptation of Mouseopause for rats. Rats, they told her, were eating 30% of the
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> You won't drink it and say "Hey, this tastes just like Coke!" The Coca-Cola company has a monopoly on coca leaf extract [1], so nothing tastes 'just like a Coke'. ;) [1] https://mises.org/blog&#
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I was convinced by the advocates for Omega 3's. Then my dogs destroyed my cofffee grinder (used to make flax seed meal), I realized that I'd never noticed a benefit, and stopped. The modern diet is overloaded with Soybean Oil, an
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A Wall Street Journal article [1] says that the active chemical is "4-vinylcyclohexene diepoxide" (probably a typo [2]). My mom lives in Flagstaff, Arizona, where this company is located. She and her husband had an opportunity to
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> Typing "?" randomly in gmail will let you know what shortcuts are there. It takes time for your fingers to learn them, but scanning email with j k [...] really? Oh wow... I've used j and k for ages, but didn't know
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> No one has yet shown that there is a better way of doing this than the current system, sadly, without expending a lot more focused resource than people are politically willing to exert. John Holt wrote "how children fail" and
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The Freakout is engineered to get people to support taxes on "carbon". It would be much more effective to ignore the existing industries and work on making them obsolete. Firefly Energy [1] came up with a good-enough Lead Acid bat
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> [...] but if that's the case, what's the downside? We get clean air, more sustainable power sources, etc. There's very little reason not to push for better climate regulations. Efforts should be entirely focused on makin
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> If they were heating the oceans in a meaningful way compared to the sun, such a gradient would be apparent at tens and hundreds of kilometers. I think the El Niño / La Niña oscillation is probably caused by cycles in underwater vo
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The political machine has been working on The Great Climate Freakout for a while now. But there's a lot of missing data. For example, there is no data whatsoever about how much heat is poured out by most of the oceans' volcanic ri
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There is no holy grail, there is only basic physiology. What metformin actually does is interfere with the liver's ability to make glucose from non-carbohydrate substrates ("hepatic gluconeogenesis"). Glucose is critically im
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Get an inflatable ball chair; alternate with standing. Office chairs cultivate poor posture, and should be avoided.
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There is less than a year of data about the amount of energy put into the ocean by the Juan de Fuca ridge [1], and only classified data about other oceanic volcanic hotspots (this was collected by the navy's submarines). I think the ce
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Cattle can be used to restore grasslands [1]. [1] https://psmag.com/conservation-in-the-age-of-climate-change-... Milk cows are the most efficient means of converting a rocky hillside into human-consumable proteins.
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> It would be so cool to have a high tax on sugar (and saturated fat). ... Except that saturated fat has been exonerated of the charges leveled against it by the charlatans. Now the experts acknowledge that hydrogenated vegetable oils (t
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That's a good point, but it's probably the organic acids rather than the salt (which the media report you've linked to blames). Bacteria which produce lactic acid are primarily used for traditional fermentation, I think, wher
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My ex-wife noticed that lots of people search for "how do I get high", so she added the domain [1] to her portfolio. Years later I realized the answer to the question was fairly simple. People don't really care about getting
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> I've heard recently that the causality for heart disease actually goes the opposite way than everyone assumed. This "Assumption" would be a good case study of the infection of common knowledge with charlatanism. Better s
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> 2. Getting a hit product isn't easy. Mostly it seems to be luck. One weekend I had a surge traffic to my website. Then the orders started coming in. Finally I emailed one of the new subscribers to my email list to ask why scores o

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