thomyorkie

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Mythbusting 101: Organic Farming(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
4 points by thomyorkie 10y ago|0 comments
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by thomyorkie 10y ago
AKA internet addiction https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3480687/
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Projection mapping, VR experiences and holograms(skullmapping.com)
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by thomyorkie 10y ago
Its not coming from nothing. If a higher percentage of the total calories he consumes turns to fat instead of being used as energy, then he will have extra mass on his body.
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by thomyorkie 10y ago
You're talking about that 13k calories of sugar as if it exists in a vacuum. That extra sugar could have caused more of the other non-sugar food he was consuming to turn to fat.
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Some Pacific Islanders Have DNA Not Linked to Any Known Human Ancestor(all-that-is-interesting.com)
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Activation of the nervous system and attenuation of the immune response(2014)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
2 points by thomyorkie 10y ago|0 comments
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Into Thin Air: Mountain Climbing Kills Brain Cells (2008)(scientificamerican.com)
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by thomyorkie 10y ago
Its 160 grams of sugar which equals 619 calories which leads to 12999 calories in 21 days. Still less than 4 pounds though. However, you're really oversimplifying weight gain. Hormones play an important role in how much fat is stored
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by thomyorkie 10y ago
He ate 40 teaspoons which is 160 grams of sugar. Also, perhaps the fact that he went from very little sugar to 160 grams a day caused rapid weight gain. I know for instance that your body changes over time to burn fat more efficiently if yo
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I ate 40 teaspoons of sugar a day. This is what happened (2015)(telegraph.co.uk)
55 points by thomyorkie 10y ago|38 comments
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Families Hear from Completely Paralyzed Patients via New Device(singularityhub.com)
126 points by thomyorkie 10y ago|34 comments
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VR Gait Protocol Induces Partial Neurological Recovery in Paraplegics (2016)(nature.com)
30 points by thomyorkie 10y ago|3 comments
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Inside the Superhuman World of the Iceman(youtube.com)
1 points by thomyorkie 10y ago|0 comments
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by thomyorkie 10y ago
foglets perhaps will do the trick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_fog
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by thomyorkie 10y ago
Do philosophy students worship the philosophers they study? If you succeed in teaching them to be freethinkers they will reject the religious worship of anyone.
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by thomyorkie 10y ago
We can free our children from the shackles of religion or other forms of tribalism by teaching them to be free thinkers from an early age. Teach them to think philosophically, educate them in the writings of Spinoza and Thomas Paine, etc.
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by thomyorkie 10y ago
> A finger that lingers too long above a spin button may be a guard’s only clue that hackers in St. Petersburg are about to make another score. Seems like this is easy for the scammers to work around. They could calculate the average ti
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by thomyorkie 10y ago
Perhaps pesticide consumption offsets fruit and vegetable benefits.
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by thomyorkie 10y ago
> Even if you’re extremely cautious, even if you never post anything on Facebook, even if you have “location services” disabled on your phone at all times etc. etc. Facebook still knows where you are. You can’t stop other people from tak
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A Free Speech Battle at the Birthplace of a Movement at Berkeley(nytimes.com)
4 points by thomyorkie 10y ago|4 comments
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by thomyorkie 10y ago
I wonder if breathing through your mouth would mitigate these effects.
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Memory at the Core of New Deep Learning Research Chip(nextplatform.com)
4 points by thomyorkie 10y ago|0 comments
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by thomyorkie 10y ago
> Really? Were you at one? Yes, I was at the one in Oakland.
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by thomyorkie 10y ago
This is a silly statement. It's almost impossible not to think he left his position on the advisory council due to the fantastic level of backlash his company has received over the last couple of weeks. To think he is doing anything
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by thomyorkie 10y ago
> Nope... impeachment... Lotsa work to do... No non-violent resistance that has mobilized more than 3.5% of the population has failed in the last 100-ish years. On Jan 21st 1-1.5% of the US population participated. While there certainly
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by thomyorkie 10y ago
I would argue that presenting one (obviously biased) view as the ground truth would qualify as distortion. For example, consider how Fox reports news regarding separating religion from public, tax-funded institutions, such as removing the
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by thomyorkie 10y ago
And yet another nit must be picked. Breath awareness is simply one way to meditate. There are a broad array of different meditation techniques and some do involve breath control.
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by thomyorkie 10y ago
> There is a name for that: price gouging. No, it's called value-based pricing. Price gouging is raising prices beyond what is reasonable. For almost all products and services charging a percentage of the value that the product or
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by thomyorkie 10y ago
Could this possibly lead to a cure for neuro-degenerative diseases like parkinson's and ALS?

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