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by teslabox 8y ago
With regard to salt, I like the advice “salt to taste”: add salt to your food until it taste good. Salt has many roles in the body; it was simplistic and wrong to blame a oerson’s high blood pressure on salt consumption.
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> I always thought that historically, the elite schools were for the children of the elite; Parents of means sent their children to College so they'd have a leg up on the under-class. The Screwing Of The Average Man [0] pointed th
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by teslabox 8y ago
Thanks for your comments here. Re: Brown vs Board of Education: Malcolm Gladwell's podcast has an interesting take about how the schools could have been much more effectively integrated: http://revisionisthistory.com/ep
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Thanks for the references. I have looked at some of them on google books. The problem is not with the teachers, but with the system itself, which seems to resist change because of inertia. I read Gatto's and Holt's books maybe 15
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> [...] but I wonder what has kept it all so fringe? A lot of people are employed by the school system. Like the other guilds, teacher training probably has a lot of inertia and indoctrination. Teaching instructors teach student teachers
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> Worse, there is a strong bias towards misinformation--look at the health supplement market, which is basically a market the seedy snake oil sellers set up to get around FDA regulation. The pure food and drug act was passed to deal with
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I'm saying that under the Federal Reserve system, the total indebtedness of the U.S. economy must always increase. If the government starts to pay off its debt, the private sector must increase its debt levels. If the economy doesn&#x2
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This is an inevitable consequence of basing the money supply on debt. The Federal Reserve banks are responsible for making money and loaning it out into circulation. There is never enough money to pay back the interest on the loans, so the
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I wish they'd bring back the Microsoft Trackball Explorer - the button switches on mine eventually wore out. This had five buttons - left, right, scroll-click, forward, back (all programmable). https://www.ebay.com/sch&
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The electric grid managers went into a panic the very first time the air conditioners were turned on at the Arizona Diamondbacks' new Bank One Ballpark (1998; BoB is now called "Chase Field" [1]). The stadium people didn&#x27
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Root cellars can be built anywhere food is grown. The Wikipedia page has pictures of very large buildings. My point is that it's more efficient to eat locally-stored produce than to ship lettuce from Yuma to Maine in the winter.
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I have an old book somewhere that said the dairy cow is the most efficient way to convert the grass on a rocky hillside into human-usable protein. Meat is rather inefficient. Temple Grandin is an autistic woman who designed more humane slau
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... an Arizona company came up with an interesting approach to rodent control: poison their reproductive organs. They got approval to sell their formula in 2016. https://senestech.com and https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x
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About 90% of the United States' supply of lettuce in the winter comes from Yuma, Arizona [0]. I think it more appropriate for most people to eat seasonally-appropriate vegetables during the winter months, than to get a little lettuce f
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by teslabox 8y ago
I don't live in an earthquake-prone area, but this is a good reminder to fill up my water jugs and prepare a small stash of supplies. I have a friend who watches the earthquake reports. He's pointed out how gravitational vectors l
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by teslabox 9y ago
The system itself prevents children from learning. John Gatto says that 'some children learn to read when they're 2, some when they're 8, and by the time they're 12 you can't tell the difference' (paraphrased f
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by teslabox 9y ago
I think air bubblers at depth would bring cold water to the surface. Just speculation, though.
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To borrow what someone else here said, a high school diploma is just a "congratulatory" piece of paper. There are many approaches to schooling. Anything works better than the factory model.
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by teslabox 9y ago
> Yeah but climate change. That wasn't really an issue in the 80s. The foundational assumption of the modern scientific era (circa 1845) is that steam engine physics are a fundamental law of the universe. This guiding constraint is
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People put bubblers in aquariums to support more fish than could otherwise survive based solely on the surface area of the tank. The gulfs are basically anaerobic septic tanks. Adding oxygen would allow aerobic bacteria to consume the exce
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by teslabox 9y ago
It was not an official US Navy blog. Here's the link: http://blog.usni.org/2011/03/19/send-the-enterprise/
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by teslabox 9y ago
Several years ago I wrote a piece titled, "To Save the Gulf, Send the Enterprise". At the time the Deepwater Horizon oil geyser was spewing crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, and the well's owners were trying to figure out wh
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by teslabox 9y ago
> cottonseed oil is often used in food products Cottonseed oil is not food, it is a waste product of the cotton industry that should only be used for biodiesel.
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> But there's no replacement for damaged oocytes. That was the old thinking, but now there's evidence that women can probably generate 'new' eggs: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/oct
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How much of the missing water is actually due to higher temperatures, and how much is due to people siphoning water from the aquifers that feed the lake? This article mostly focuses on "climate change" hysterics, but also acknowle
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What do you call healthcare that doesn't work, but is commonly used anyways? For example, Propublica's article says stents usually don't help improve patients' conditions: https://www.propublica.org/artic
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Providing clean water, infrastructure ('outhouses') and good-enough nutrition are much harder problems than organizing vaccination campaigns.
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Type-2 diabetes is a sham diagnosis. A key factor in the development of "insulin resistance" is the overconsumption of vegetable oils. These thin oils go rancid in the production process, and have to be "refined" to remo
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> Better yet, we’ve learned since that you can still get most of the benefit without WHO-approved stockpiles of ORS. You can use a number of widely available commercial products that essentially replicate ORS, from sports drinks to Pedia
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> How would you deal with a child that never wants to learn how to read? All children will eventually come around to the idea that reading is useful. Some children are traumatized by do-gooders trying to force them to learn how to read b

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