General notes: This is a hard problem. You will not be able to give a useful answer by skimming. I couldn't include all relevant information because there's just too much; I'm happy to answer any questions in the comments. Biomedical context: I'm 25 and otherwise healthy, nonsmoker, active, good cardio...
[ edit: I have gotten an ear infection diagnosis and a prescription for antibiotics as of 26 June 2025, [ see comment ] edit 2: as of 5 July 2025, I now think this is probably actually cancer, [ see Tweet ] edit 3: as of 19 July 2025, ehhh...
[ Context: The Debate on Animal Consciousness, 2014 ] There's a story in Growing Up Yanomamo where the author, Mike Dawson, a white boy from America growing up among Yanomamö hunter-gatherer kids in the Amazon, is woken up in the early morning by two of his friends. One of the...
Wikipedia: > Abenomics (アベノミクス, 安倍ノミクス, Abenomikusu) refers to the economic policies implemented by the Government of Japan led by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) since the 2012 general election. > > [ . . . ] > > Specific policies include inflation targeting at t a 2% annual rate, correction...
I. It's a Known Thing in the keto-sphere [ I get the sense that r/saturatedfat is an example of this culture ] that people with metabolic syndrome -- i.e., some level of insulin resistance -- can handle fat or carbs [ e.g. either a ketogenic diet or something like the...
I recently got into a chatroom debate with some very smart people about whether homosexual behavior was typical for humans [ not bonobos ] in the ancestral environment / Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness [EEA] [ i.e., ancestral hunter-gatherer society ] -- and, connectedly, how big was the social circle that...
[ cross-posted from my blog ] "But with regard to the things that are done from fear of greater evils or or some noble object (e.g. if a tyrant were to order one to do something base, having one's parents and children in his power, and if one did the...