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This is an interesting blog. Medicine was very primitive into the early 20th century - it took centuries for the old ineffective techniques to die out. Planck's observation was paraphrased as 'science advances one funeral at a tim
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Boiling corn in an alkaline solution breaks down the fiber and allows the niacin contained to be used by humans. Native Americans knew to boil their corn in wood ash, but Christopher Columbus didn't realize this was important. https:&
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The percent change is relatively small: 0.028% (280ppm) of the atmosphere to 0.0425% (425 ppm). Even if atmospheric CO2 doubles from today's level, it won't even be 0.1% of the atmosphere. (Edit: "For the majority of greenhou
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Before the 1950’s, soybean oil and linseed oil were used to make paint. These are drying oils that combine spontaneously with the oxygen in the air to form a hard film. Then the paint industry figured out how to make their products from pet
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This was not "pure luck". Reminded me of that quote about chance favoring the prepared: "Dans les champs de l'observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés." -Louis Pasteur In the fields of observa
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I think the real advantage of a google AI over Bing's AI is their book project and library of scholarly papers: https://books.google.com and https://scholar.google.com I've asked the Bing Chatbot some quest
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Concussions are mild traumatic brain injuries. There’s a lot more to recovering from a TBI than ‘rest’ or ‘stay active’. Looked at the concussion alliance website - it seems to be quite reasonable. https://www.concussionalliance.
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by teslabox 3y ago
The xeno-estrogen Ethinylestradiol is used in birth control pills because it is more resistant to degradation by the liver than bio-identical hormones. Birth control use one of a variety of Progestins, instead of bio-identical Progesterone
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Estrogens tell the body's tissues to 'swell and divide'. It's a stress hormone, for both women and men. Advocates for hormonal birth control have an unstated rule: 'do not talk about the problems of hormonal birth c
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by teslabox 3y ago
Low-carb/no-carb/Keto is a very hard way to lose weight over the longer term. I have a note on my wall from a radio show ~2 or ~3 years ago about the fatal metabolic defect of the ketogenic diet. I have a friend who tortured herse
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by teslabox 3y ago
This is a good write up about the LED street lights that fail by turning purple. I took a panoramic picture of purple streetlights in Phoenix recently: https://twitter.com/jamesknochel/status/1762862867861451027
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The amino acid profile of gelatin is much better than the profile of steak. Gelatin is an incomplete protein that has more of the simple anti-stress amino acids (glycine and proline mainly) than excitatory amino acids (tryptophan). Soup sto
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by teslabox 3y ago
Arsenic used to be added to chicken feed, to change the color of the meat. The chickens’ arsenic droppings were used to fertilize rice fields. Rice concentrates arsenic out of the soil. I think the rice from Arkansas and other southern stat
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If science can’t figure out the causes of the so-called obesity epidemic, even the best aspirational interventions won’t help. Ancel Keys’ tirade against saturated fat turned out to be pseudo-science, but it didn’t make the population insta
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by teslabox 3y ago
This case is available from Framework directly for $39: https://frame.work/products/cooler-master-mainboard-case-and... Q: the pictures of this case on the CoolerMaster site looks like there's a USB-C trigger to
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by teslabox 3y ago
> research [] conducted in the Philippines and Ecuador These are tropical countries where coconuts are an evolutionary-appropriate part of the food supply. Coconut oil is mostly saturated, and is stable at human temperature. Western coun
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Good candidates for contributing factors for the obesity epidemic. There seems to have been a spark that set off the obesity conflagration sometime around 1978-1981. The kindling that nurtures this spark had been accumulating since the earl
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by teslabox 3y ago
The turning point was right around 1980. If we can figure out what changed then , we can correct course. I think what happened around 1980 was only a spark to the kindling that'd been prepared by a series of mistakes starting in the 1
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by teslabox 3y ago
Flour is fortified with folic acid because it is more stable. People who are poor methylators can’t transform folic acid into folate, ergo they are harmed by folic acid fortification.
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by teslabox 3y ago
The energy of sunlight that hits the ocean is absorbed, and flows into the deep ocean. A smaller percentage of the energy that hits land is absorbed, but this rapidly radiated away at night.
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by teslabox 3y ago
I have an mdisc drive, and a few mdisc DVDs I haven’t burned yet. Someone on/r/datahorder noticed they don’t sell real mdiscs anymore: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33593967
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by teslabox 3y ago
Thanks for the reply, and for sharing your experience. > I think the whole plant-based diet is some sort of religious belief for moral superiority or something. Confirmation bias and circular reasoning is probably most of it. Anthropogen
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I was recently at Costco waiting for my tire to be repaired, and saw a canister of "plant based" protein in the returns cart. The customer's reason for return: "tasted like sand". Proteins are composed of amino acid
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The current top comment [0] on this submission said he was "curious about this being a trans fat". This would be a result of biohydrogenation, where the bacteria in the ruminants stomachs will add hydrogen to the unsaturated oils.
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by teslabox 3y ago
> And CO2 remains in the atmosphere for 100-200 years after emitted. My understanding is that methane is lighter than air, and circulates in the atmosphere until it breaks down (~12 years). CO2 is heavier than air, and readily dissolves
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The longest day of my life was when I was maybe 5 years old: the day my parents bought their timeshare. A few months ago I went with my father to a presentation by a company that helps people get rid of their timeshares. The presenter said
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I bought an OpenGarage for my brother maybe 5 years ago (“Black Friday” sale every year). He gave it back to me when he got a new opener. I updated the firmware , installed it on an old opener at our dad’s house and it works great. You migh
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When Disaster Strikes, Send the Enterprise (2011)(sendtheenterprise.org)
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The U.S. Navy is often a first responder to disasters. This mission would be more effective if the Navy had ships that were specifically outfitted for the role. In 2010 I proposed starting with the USS Enterprise (CVN-65). The Big E was ret
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There’s about 1 gallon of asphalt in every 42-gallon barrel of crude oil. Were it not used to pave roads, asphalt would be a waste product of crude oil refining. I don’t think there are any good substitutes to asphalt concrete for paving ro

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