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by teslabox 6y ago
There are various advocates for allowing the USPS to return to the banking business. They would put the exploitative check cashing stores out of business. Ellen Brown's has written a copy pieces advocating for postal banking. What We
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Many bottled beverages today are consumed largely because marketing convinces people they want yellow food coloring and brominated vegetable oil (Mountain Dew) as a source for sugar and caffeine. Other modern drinks are science-inspired pro
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One of medical practitioners' patient compliance problems is you've built an aura around your profession as miracle workers with magic bullets. And while sometimes you swing and hit a grand slam, more often than not you hit the ba
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by teslabox 6y ago
"Blister agents" refers to obsolete medications such as the extract from Spanish fly [0], which was used to try to help President George Washington recover from his cold: "other treatments they gave [George Washington] during
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by teslabox 6y ago
> It's not the ventilation that was killing patients. It was the covid-19 that was killing patients. I'm not a professional with years of slinging the lingo. But I think Kyle-Sidell's retweet of "Barotrauma is a real
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by teslabox 6y ago
> Disputing the consensus should not by itself be forbidden, even when the consensus is accurate and important. I have a facebook page for sharing my take on non-monopoly medicine. I wrote a blog post for one of my websites commenting on
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> I think we're simply discussing the wrong thing. Instead of questioning whether college is important for X, Y, we should be discussing how we can make every single American go to college. Or we could help most people learn valuab
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by teslabox 6y ago
Your link is a video of anti-sugar crusader Robert Lustig's talk at UCSF. It was posted on July 30, 2009, right around the time that the revelations about the contamination of HFCS with mercury started to become known. Mercury exposure
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by teslabox 6y ago
I like the conspiracy theory about how the New Coke fiasco was actually deliberate subterfuge for switching the product from sugar to high fructose corn syrup. Corn-syrup coca-cola tastes different than Coca Kola's classic sugar formul
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by teslabox 7y ago
> He was having none of that, so he goes to the kitchen and gets a spoon and a bottle of vodka and proceeds to snort a spoonful up both nostrils. It was horrifying. Then he gives the spoon to me. I don't know how exactly, but he con
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by teslabox 7y ago
The bit in my comment about the period of the solar cycle being 11 years was a quote. The sun also oscillates in intensity over hundreds and thousands of years. The sun was (allegedly) slightly less active the Europe's colonial age, wh
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by teslabox 7y ago
Most of the cold air was locked up over the Artic this past winter, whereas normally it is carried south by the jet streams. Some areas of the planet did have record cold in February. An article about February's snow in Baghdad, Iraq (
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by teslabox 7y ago
> Driving a small car at night is so difficult for me these days, especially as a person who wears glasses. Self-defense Step #1: avert your eyes from the bad headlights. One of the problems is our eyes have a natural tendency to look at
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by teslabox 7y ago
Good analysis of the entrepreneurship in the energy sector. I might email him about this contradiction: 1. Consumers don’t care about energy versus: I don’t believe that we’ll get where we need to go without a global price on carbon. Thi
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> Red meat and dairy have significant amounts of trans fats. Natural trans fats [1] are made by bacteria in the rumen, and are rather different than manufactured trans fats created from seed oils with hydrogen gas and catalysts. [1] htt
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by teslabox 7y ago
I went to wikipedia to look up coal gas, which you mentioned in the video but didn't link to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_gas My dad's house was built in the mid-1990's. It has custom fluorescent
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by teslabox 7y ago
I heard tumbleweeds are an invasive species. Wikipedia seems to confirm: "Kali tragus [...] is an annual plant that breaks off at the stem base when it dies, and forms a tumbleweed, dispersing its seeds as the wind rolls it along. It i
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by teslabox 7y ago
One of my pet peeves is the proliferation of blue-white LEDs into areas where the previous generation of light technology was perfectly acceptable and safe. I think car owners trick up their cars with blue-white LEDs (as replacement headlig
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by teslabox 7y ago
> Gee, I wish someone would study why I need to go three times a year and maybe figure out how to change the chemical makeup of my mouth so I didn't have to! People are too profitable for the system to be motivated to figure out act
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by teslabox 7y ago
Last night I stayed at a hotel with horrible blue lights. The hallways were too bright and too blue. The parking lot was lit up with “daylight” blue-white LEDs. It looked like someone decided the lot wasn’t bright enough, and they added sup
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by teslabox 7y ago
Earlier this year I was looking for a specific book from the early 2000's. It was priced around $60-$100+ at most of the used book sites, which I thought was rather excessive for what I assumed was a little trade paperback. After a few
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by teslabox 7y ago
> But, it would be great to have an actual fact-based answer as to what has happened. This would be inconvenient to the business models of Big Medicine and Big Food. Good places to start an investigation are the official advocacy for rep
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July is hotter than January, even though the planet is closer to the sun in January, because there is more land in the northern hemisphere than the Southern Hemisphere. There was a submission ~3 months ago regarding this phenomenon: https:
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by teslabox 7y ago
There used to be a paper from a Harvard Law student on the school’s website about the Estrogen scam. As I recall, the paper told of how a drug company figured out they could get estrogens from the urine of pregnant horses. They put the estr
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by teslabox 7y ago
Your link references the street lamp joke - love that one, referenced it in a comment yesterday. My understanding is the omega-3 oils are problematic for humans too, they’re just not as acutely toxic as the omega-6 oils. I started avoiding
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by teslabox 7y ago
> Genes are useful because they are far more fixed and they are far easier to measure than many other things that could be measured. [...] It is especially useful to look at genetics because it is (relatively) cheap to get a person&#x27
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by teslabox 7y ago
I read something semi-recently where the author explained his interpretation of the microbiome findings as a part of a cascade: an initial stressor (every case is unique) -> cultivation of the autistic microbiome -> inability to relax
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by teslabox 7y ago
There is nothing in this study that is useful, it just confirms pre-existing theories that autism is all in the genes. I think those theories are wrong and harmful. In the real world, autism develops. If the medical profession treated the d
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by teslabox 7y ago
There is some good modern medicine, but the fixation on genes handicaps certain investigators. > the heritability of ASD was estimated to be approximately 80%, indicating that the variation in ASD occurrence in the population is mostly o
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by teslabox 7y ago
Allegiant started out with old DC-9's/MD-80's, and a few 757's. They were all replaced with Airbus A320's by November 2018. Most of Allegiant's previous safety problems stemmed from using old jets. https:&#x2F

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