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by vixen99 5y ago
You're right about the liver but as ever the question as to whether something is bad for us comes down to how much we consume. Apple seeds along with a number of other fruits contain amygdalin which breaks down to cyanide. So there&#x2
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New world record claimed for nuclear fusion(dailymail.co.uk)
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The topic has moved on quite a bit since 2002 when Gould died. For instance: "Childhood intelligence is heritable, highly polygenic and associated with FNBP1L". Molecular Psychiatry (2013), 1–6. Lots more titles like that these da
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Not surprising given the Romanian education system. It's great for the high-achievers. Extremely demanding and rigorous. Anecdotally I get the impression that it's not so hot for those who don't fall into this category or are
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by vixen99 5y ago
Defining a 'favorite quote' doesn't necessarily mean one agrees with its sentiment.
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For those who, unaccountably, can't stand Winnie the Pooh, here is someone who will stand with you. https://bookmarks.reviews/in-which-winnie-the-pooh-makes-dor...
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by vixen99 5y ago
As another example of Facebook's 'expert fact checkers', here's the letter recently written to Mark Zuckerberg by the editor in chief and others of the British Medical Journal - which is, as they say, one of the world’s
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by vixen99 5y ago
I might have missed it but one consideration that I couldn't see is that data pertaining to a country (which by definition, has controlled borders) should always be quoted in terms of cases, deaths etc., per head of the population . I
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by vixen99 5y ago
Implanted Microchip, Klaus Schwab, World Economic Forum and The Great Reset Interview with Schwab, January 10th, 2016 https://youtu.be/UmQNA0HL1pw @0.55
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An early intimation of this is in The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/159 [ The story's narrator ] ... 'is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist who cre
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by vixen99 5y ago
Paywalled but you get a couple of initial free articles as a guest.
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Are We Living in the Matrix?(spectator.co.uk)
11 points by vixen99 5y ago|10 comments
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A classic counterexample is "Scientists took 166 bone samples from 151 mummies, dating from approximately 1400 B.C. to A.D. 400, extracting DNA from 90 individuals and mapping the full genome in three cases." as reported (for inst
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by vixen99 5y ago
To my mind, the following is more of a cause for concern long term: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.14.472719v1.... 'Striking Antibody Evasion Manifested by the Omicron Variant of SARS-CoV-2&
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Although his status as a Muslim (or even an atheist) is still up for debate, the Persian, Omar Khayyam (1048-1122) - the 'astronomer-poet' writes in his Rubaiyat And much as Wine has play'd the Infidel, And robb'd me o
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Paywalled
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Any links for references to this work? I would have thought it too important to secrete away in a pay-walled magazine.
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Life insurance rates can provide a validity check on this kind of claim.
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Oh that's too generous. 'At least' is surely a bit strong. How about nearly as good? I'm wondering if folk like Bach, Mozart and Verdi might be considered to make the grade? One or two good numbers, possibly? Anyway i
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I wonder how Apple will react to this: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-59595952
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I wonder how Apple views this: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-59595952
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Will the unofficial tribunal judgment issued on the 9th November 2021 have any effect on Apple? The account of the Tribunal findings as given by BBC World today are almost too much to stomach. I suppose I should add these are 'alleged&
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Bit of a giveaway to write ' demolished the myth of 'trickle-down'. I am not familiar with the authors apart from Thomas Pickety. However would one seriously expect any other conclusion from him? He and the other authors (i
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Where are America's lead pipes?(economist.com)
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Most people can't taste it at all. And let's celebrate its 'invention' by the mammals so many million years ago as a brilliant solution to the problem of how to temporarily store and then excrete nitrogen in a harmless w
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Why doesn't the same argument apply to other corono-viruses like influenza and the common cold? And why ignore the role of asymptomatic people (who can transmit) and those with symptoms so mild they can't be distinguished from the
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One could start with the almost 1000 pages of George Shoobridge Carr's a synopsis of elementary results in pure mathematics published in 1837. If someone were to update this book for 2021 I'm curious to know how many pages that
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And what does it tell you that sadly there are bizarre extreme reactions elsewhere on this climate question? Before the British Government was forced to insist that the police use their existing powers to stop climate protesters preventing
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Excessive anything is a bad idea but what does it mean in the case? Link?
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by vixen99 5y ago
In the paper I've quoted elsewhere in this thread, the authors say that there is no danger from this if calcium supplements are absent. They also reiterate your point about vitamin K. Sorry, no direct link. Try sci-hub.

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