$20k per year for a brand new drug that went through 15 years of development is peanuts. Welcome to healthcare in the country that leads the world in pharma research, for good and for ill.
Reading a brief quote given to a journalist and assuming you fully understand the scientific reasoning that went into that snippet intended for lay audiences is also a remarkable assumption. There is an incredible…
Same. We have simply learned to filter the noise. It helps around here that the noise takes on a similar and easily recognizable form in most cases.
I haven't crunched the math or anything, but you don't feed 8 billion people with small farms unless every 10th person is willing to go farm. Currently it's more like every 150th.
It's weird, vertical farming has gotten so much hype but really only makes sense for luxury products like microgreens, and still only makes sense if you specifically want to grow them in an expensive, dense city. Even…
I wish there was more tolerance for the Instant Pot situation in big business. Build a great product, sell wildly for many years, inventor becomes a multi-millionaire, many people are employed at good wages for a while,…
It is so much more difficult than it used to be to get trustworthy information about the quality of products. Seems like you have to already know of a hobbyist turned youtuber/blogger who has ideally done deep dives…
>Don't people bike because they want to get fit? If not, get a proper motorbike. Riding an ebike is still a moderate workout especially if you are putting on the miles, hauling stuff, have hills, etc. And on most bikes…
To add perspective, I have a battery rated for 70 miles, which so far seems fairly realistic if I stick to slower speeds and lower assist settings that have me putting in a bit of effort. I went ahead and bought an…
Congratulations, your brief comment has managed to trigger me in 3 different ways.
Kids spending too much time on TikTok? Won't do their chores on time? Try the ancient and time honored tradition of beating them until they behave as you would like! /s
It could be non-genetic as well. Various vitamin, mineral, and enzyme deficiencies, brain chemistry (that part of it that isn't genetically determined), and other health stuff could all play a role. I am sometimes like…
Camorepticus? Scremaèlitude? We're just making up words at this point, right?
They have been on the bleeding edge of autonomous robotics R&D for a very long time now. If they were more focused on commercialization for the past 20 years then they wouldn't have pushed the tech forward as far and as…
It's easy to forget in modern society, but in tribal society the elders were fountains of wisdom. When computers, reference materials, technical documents, libraries, school systems, etc don't exist, the value of lived…
>The ketogenic diet has been proven to be effective for treatment-resistant epileptic seizures by reducing the excitability of neurons in the brain >There is increasing evidence that psychiatric diseases such as…
Interesting tidbit, but penicillin has it beat by about 50 years.
Quorn and other meat substitutes most certainly fit the criteria of ultra-processed foods, and as such may be implicated in poor health outcomes if they make up a significant portion of one's diet.
However, if you compare the energy and resource inputs to produce that 2-3g the picture starts looking a LOT more competitive. Not to mention a very attractive nutrient profile and potential medicinal benefits (eg a lot…
The oversimplified answer is that there are potential toxins in foraged mushrooms that your liver needs to sort out, which is going to be even more problematic if it is busy dealing with acetaldehyde from the ethanol…
>the initiative system is, quite frankly, a terrible way to govern and pass complex policies. On the one hand, I agree, but on the flip side decriminalization is not something I would expect from our elected officials…
As an equally sad counterpoint, if we had 7 billion people out there foraging the countryside would be stripped bare, wild animals driven further from human inhabited areas, and untold habitats would be degraded from…
Regarding the nutritional value of mushrooms, a few counterpoints. Firstly, you are only looking at a single variety of mushroom (cremini). Second, 7% manganese, 17% phosphorus, 15% potassium, and 12% zinc per 3.5oz…
Fiber is essential fuel for all kinds of microbes that produce immune-modulating molecules and neurotransmitter precursors for us. >However, fiber also takes up valuable minerals, prohibiting their uptake. I do not…
I wasn't aware of this (and neither were local lawmakers), but ironically it is actually illegal in Oregon as of 1971 for any local government body to pass a law targeting the public consumption of alcohol and drugs.…
$20k per year for a brand new drug that went through 15 years of development is peanuts. Welcome to healthcare in the country that leads the world in pharma research, for good and for ill.
Reading a brief quote given to a journalist and assuming you fully understand the scientific reasoning that went into that snippet intended for lay audiences is also a remarkable assumption. There is an incredible…
Same. We have simply learned to filter the noise. It helps around here that the noise takes on a similar and easily recognizable form in most cases.
I haven't crunched the math or anything, but you don't feed 8 billion people with small farms unless every 10th person is willing to go farm. Currently it's more like every 150th.
It's weird, vertical farming has gotten so much hype but really only makes sense for luxury products like microgreens, and still only makes sense if you specifically want to grow them in an expensive, dense city. Even…
I wish there was more tolerance for the Instant Pot situation in big business. Build a great product, sell wildly for many years, inventor becomes a multi-millionaire, many people are employed at good wages for a while,…
It is so much more difficult than it used to be to get trustworthy information about the quality of products. Seems like you have to already know of a hobbyist turned youtuber/blogger who has ideally done deep dives…
>Don't people bike because they want to get fit? If not, get a proper motorbike. Riding an ebike is still a moderate workout especially if you are putting on the miles, hauling stuff, have hills, etc. And on most bikes…
To add perspective, I have a battery rated for 70 miles, which so far seems fairly realistic if I stick to slower speeds and lower assist settings that have me putting in a bit of effort. I went ahead and bought an…
Congratulations, your brief comment has managed to trigger me in 3 different ways.
Kids spending too much time on TikTok? Won't do their chores on time? Try the ancient and time honored tradition of beating them until they behave as you would like! /s
It could be non-genetic as well. Various vitamin, mineral, and enzyme deficiencies, brain chemistry (that part of it that isn't genetically determined), and other health stuff could all play a role. I am sometimes like…
Camorepticus? Scremaèlitude? We're just making up words at this point, right?
They have been on the bleeding edge of autonomous robotics R&D for a very long time now. If they were more focused on commercialization for the past 20 years then they wouldn't have pushed the tech forward as far and as…
It's easy to forget in modern society, but in tribal society the elders were fountains of wisdom. When computers, reference materials, technical documents, libraries, school systems, etc don't exist, the value of lived…
>The ketogenic diet has been proven to be effective for treatment-resistant epileptic seizures by reducing the excitability of neurons in the brain >There is increasing evidence that psychiatric diseases such as…
Interesting tidbit, but penicillin has it beat by about 50 years.
Quorn and other meat substitutes most certainly fit the criteria of ultra-processed foods, and as such may be implicated in poor health outcomes if they make up a significant portion of one's diet.
However, if you compare the energy and resource inputs to produce that 2-3g the picture starts looking a LOT more competitive. Not to mention a very attractive nutrient profile and potential medicinal benefits (eg a lot…
The oversimplified answer is that there are potential toxins in foraged mushrooms that your liver needs to sort out, which is going to be even more problematic if it is busy dealing with acetaldehyde from the ethanol…
>the initiative system is, quite frankly, a terrible way to govern and pass complex policies. On the one hand, I agree, but on the flip side decriminalization is not something I would expect from our elected officials…
As an equally sad counterpoint, if we had 7 billion people out there foraging the countryside would be stripped bare, wild animals driven further from human inhabited areas, and untold habitats would be degraded from…
Regarding the nutritional value of mushrooms, a few counterpoints. Firstly, you are only looking at a single variety of mushroom (cremini). Second, 7% manganese, 17% phosphorus, 15% potassium, and 12% zinc per 3.5oz…
Fiber is essential fuel for all kinds of microbes that produce immune-modulating molecules and neurotransmitter precursors for us. >However, fiber also takes up valuable minerals, prohibiting their uptake. I do not…
I wasn't aware of this (and neither were local lawmakers), but ironically it is actually illegal in Oregon as of 1971 for any local government body to pass a law targeting the public consumption of alcohol and drugs.…