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Some months ago I defended the herbal beverages made with various medicinal plant extracts: Kola Nut, Coca Leaf, root extracts, etc [1]. In that post I spoke of having a 2-Liter bottle of the classic herbal beverage for when it seemed like
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> “The more they dig into it being about freedom, the more susceptible they become the to the theories,” said Dave Gorski, a Michigan physician who has tracked the anti-vaccine movement for two decades. “Appeals to freedom are like the g
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I think it is a fundamental mistake to base human society's agricultural efforts around corn and soybeans. Corn is more efficient at making carbohydrates from sunlight than many other plants [0], but mono-cropping [1] corn loses whatev
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There are 'okay' LED streetlights and there are 'bad' LED streetlights. Most of Phoenix's new streetlights are three LEDs pointed down. It seems like some of these use ~5000K leds (daylight / blue-white), while
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The point of my post was supposed to be that people who care about earth-based astronomy really need to resist the proliferation of white led streetlights. Kids who grow up without ever seeing stars aren’t likely to care about the night sky
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People in cities can’t see stars anymore, so this complaint about the new satellite constellation is almost academic. In decades past, people began to be concerned about light pollution. The city of Phoenix, Arizona passed its first lightin
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Interesting... tl/dr: In January the planet is closer to the sun, but the earth doesn't heat up as much because there's more ocean on the southern half of the planet, and water pipes heat into the depths of the ocean. In June
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I think climate scientists need to be careful about doing conclusion-oriented research, and climate crusaders should be more careful with their marketing efforts. CO2 is heavier than air. Most of the human-generated CO2 ends up in the ocean
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> Do the police and politicians not see the danger themselves in the rear view mirror when they drive on the road? They don't realize there's a problem, or they've just spent a lot of money "upgrading" their vehi
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I didn't appreciate the medicinal nature of Rhubarb until a few years ago. If I'd known how helpful it is, I would've started growing it a long time ago. > This is a whole article about how it's useful for a lot of th
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Rhubarb is actually a very useful food. It is a good source of Emodin, which has gentle laxative properties. IMHO, it's better to eat foods that gently facilitate bowel movements than than to rely on laxatives. I've been growing
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> I take my dog on a walk every night. Suddenly, on one of these trips, I walked out my front door and into a horrible blue-white neighborhood That reminds me... Almost 2 years ago I responded to HN user jacobolus' comment on bad LE
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I was not previously aware of the origin of the ubiquitous frosted light bulb. Thanks. > The public felt that the glare from clear transparent incandescent lamps gave off a harshness that was unwanted by most people. Another side effect
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Modern chicken is terrible -- too much meat, too little cartilage. Slashdot had a post titled "Fast-Growth Chickens Produce New Industry Woe: 'Spaghetti Meat'" - https://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?s
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In rural Arizona we deal with pack rats [0]. These are sometimes-destructive nuisances. For example, my father replaced his car's spark plug wires. The new wires rapidly disappeared - apparently rodents need to chew hard things to keep
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> I think hospitals/police should really start texting a phone number first, before calling to contact a family member. Two years ago I got a txt message, "congratulations you won, we'll be calling you shortly." I tho
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Some way to screen the submissions that have been seen already might be helpful too. Maybe a client-side javascript button, 'update now', or 'latest'?
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I compulsively look at ingredients in packaged food, including pet food. Two of the most common ingredients in cheap pet foods are soybeans and corn. Neither of these are evolutionarily-appropriate for our pets. Corn is mostly starch, with
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I just recently learned about ESOPs: a few weeks ago I visited Graybar's [0] website, and learned that this large electric/etc distributor has been employee-owned since the 1920's. Louis Kelso was "the inventor and pione
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I'm thinking of compiling a list of conditions that modern medicine treats well, and conditions where doctors try real hard to help their patients. For example, my neighbor wrecked his bicycle a few months ago. His doctors decided he n
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Heat lamps provide a full spectrum of artificial light, including near infrared. The clear bulbs would probably be more appropriate than the red-tinted ones. I have mine on a dimmer.
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If young people learned useful skills in their elementary and primary school years, college wouldn’t be such a rat race. The only reform that can make college more affordable is to make it unnecessary for the vast majority of occupations. C
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If you're on a tight budget, your best bet is to look for a OpenWRT- or DD-WRT-capable router at your local thrift stores. I'm using a linksys/cisco consumer router as a wireless bridge. DD-WRT apparently supports more of the
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A friend of mine pointed out that all the original sodas were herbal beverages. Coca-Kola was made to deliver the beneficial properties of two tropical plants (coca leaf and kola nut [2]), root beers were flavored with various plant root ex
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Dr. Matt Might is one of the few people that I remember from high school [0]. He's the only one from that school whom I've communicated with post-graduation. [edit: one other, actually...] [0] https://news.ycombinator.c
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Metformin is just a drug that impairs the liver’s ability to put sugar into the blood stream. While there are certainly drugs to treat the conditions associated with aging, this is probably not one of them.
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... strictly speaking you’re certainly correct that there is still a significant non-food use for linseed and the other vegetable oils. But there were only limited food uses for polyunsaturated oils before deodorization and hydrogenation te
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> Refined oils have nothing to do with being rancid it’s an extraction technique that uses heat instead of pressing. The petroleum distillate hexane is used to extract the oil from seed meal, then is boiled off: https://en.wik
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Most so-called "vegetable oils" were traditionally used as drying oils. This was before the paint industry figured out how to use petroleum distillates in their products in the mid-20th century. Linseed oil was renamed "flaxs
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IMHO, the contamination of the food supply with rancid vegetable oil is a more important factor in the diabetes epidemic. Almost all of the vegetable oils at grocery stores are refined so customers don't realize they're using ranc

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