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by xherberta 12y ago
The organic grapes struck me as odd, too, until I remembered that organic grapes were actually cheaper than regular last time I was at the store.
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by xherberta 12y ago
Here's a visual approach to cost per calorie: http://www.mymoneyblog.com/what-does-200-calories-cost-the-e... When I made my own cost-per-calorie calculations, I found that the much maligned non-synthetic FATS are a wo
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It's a disconnect that's not unique to the families NG interviewed. Take the Pima native Americans in 1905, where the women, who were quite physically active, basically treated like beasts of burden, had a distressingly high obesi
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Retitle: people are easy targets for bankers because people are ignorant.
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by xherberta 12y ago
Raising insects as a protein source for chickens would be an interesting and worthwhile project. (says the UN, even: http://www.fao.org/docrep/018/i3253e/i3253e07.pdf ) Caveat: it seems that in the US, using i
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by xherberta 12y ago
This is more interesting: http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/06/16/how-a-mining-monopo...
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by xherberta 12y ago
I thought NPR's piece on Harper High in Chicago was an interesting look into a culture where, despite strong gun control laws, many young people feel it's a necessity to carry guns for defense. Do they NEED guns? I don't know
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by xherberta 12y ago
Quoting from the wiki... "Criminologist Marvin Wolfgang, who described himself "as strong a gun-control advocate as can be found among the criminologists in this country" and whose opinion of guns was "I would eliminate
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by xherberta 12y ago
First, metabolic rate is not constant. If you feed your body few calories, your metabolism adjusts so as to use few calories. Fat cells that are stimulated to grow scream loud for their share of the energy, ensuring that they get their need
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by xherberta 12y ago
Interesting! Thanks! Animals do provide high quality fertilizers and ecosystem services. I'm trying to cut out factory farmed meat. Hence, budgetary constraints cause me to choose less meat and more pastured eggs. Soy is insanely toxic
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by xherberta 12y ago
Evidence does not support this as "definitely true." One example: http://m.ajcn.nutrition.org/content/79/5/899S.full The human body is more complicated than that. Different foods cause different lev
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by xherberta 13y ago
I thought of 4x6, the photo size.
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I tuned out when they started dating the emergence of a group of animals by working backwards based on a guess of how long they would have needed to achieve a certain level of genetic diversity. That's interesting as conjecture, and I
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Thank you. "An analysis of 32000 Californians over 11yrs. found the a cellular pertussis VAX to be 53-64% effective."-NY times
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My understanding is that the pertussis vaccine, by its nature, does not prevent infection at all. It inures you to the pertussis toxin, causing you to experience milder or no symptoms when you do get infected. But I must be wrong, because
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by xherberta 13y ago
Your graph is better; the other one only provides enough info to deduce "omg! Circles!" More devastating would be to know how many are actually dying of measles/pertussis. I can't find any legitimate, non-anti-vax source
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by xherberta 13y ago
Interesting, and nicely stated! I wonder what it would look like if funding and publishing could be made to incentivize really valuable pursuits, rather than rewarding trendiness, novelty, and shock value.
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I commend you. Thank you for the large-minded, logical, and compassionate analysis. I get what divinedefault meant about thought crimes. I think (s)he refers to Jesus' bit about lust in the heart being equal to adultery, and calling so
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by xherberta 13y ago
The Hebrew term "Yom" translated "day" is mentioned before the sun and moon. Also, there's an unspecified amount of time between Genesis 1:1, when "God created the heavens and the earth" and 1:2, which say