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I was 30 when all of this transpired initally (I had my surgery at the beginning of last September). I actually live quite far away from Cedars, in Illinois, but forwarded my local…

I had a CSF leak repaired by Dr. Schievink at Cedars-Sinai. My diagnosis happened after I had an acute attack of intracranial hypotension shortly following a long and bumpy session…

Unfortunately, math doesn't really permit this type of truth: if your axioms are strong enough to prove general statements about arithmetic, there is no effective procedure to dete…

Actually, I thought the post you were responding to was quite insightful. Depression can be chronic, debilitating and painful, but it definitely is not terminal. Terminal implies t…

If you're willing to go to Sunnyvale, the HanKook Supermarket has like a kimchi/marinated meat bar, and is really, really good. Location: https://osm.org/go/TZML~TMik--?m

Well, personally, I subscribe to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_walk_hypothesis

It seems much more likely to just be invention of fire and control of fire. Turning cellulose into energy that promotes some sort of evolutionary advantage is pretty limited in the…

That is true at the entire-species level assuming a uniform selection pressure against the entire species. However, evolution also occurs when a species adapts specific traits to f…

Yes, I agree. I guess the question is what is meant by inevitable. The meanings of biological and physical in this instance aren't really all that different, if the biological prob…

My best guess would be that they are so because they are eusocial. As I posted in a comment below somewhere, I think it is the complexity of the nervous system that drives a tradeo…

Molecules don't age, but any collection of molecules with distinguishable states will eventually relax spontaneously to a higher entropy configuration. Keeping a system a certain w…

If all of a hydra's cells are replaced every four weeks, I would say that the hydra has a life span of about four weeks. Ship of Theseus and all that. But even if you don't subscri…

This is a 'classic' take on a phenomenon that I believe is deeply related to what you are describing: https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths FWIW, I think I originally read …

I see adblocking as ethically justified because at the end of the day, I am only using my browser to ask for a resource from the content provider, and it is up to my computer, or b…

A lot of comments here talk about the defense padding, and that's certainly part of it when it comes to long-term, low level concussive hits to the head. The idea is also mentioned…

Not that this really adds to the depth of the conversation, but I thought it was interesting, and so will share, that this Marie Francois Sadi Carnot is the nephew of the Carnot th…