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No I didn't forget meat. Meat production does not directly put carbon atoms into the air (forget methane for a second). That is what I mean by direct emissions. When we decouple en…

That is definitely not the problem. And that way of thinking is what leads to despair and helplessness, because we will never stop making and consuming. Apart from a very few thing…

That "study" claims rolling a 1 has a probability of 29% for the tested dice. I saw it when it was published and was very sceptical, and so where others. One guy decided to roll 10…

The effects I'm talking about are not during the actual exercise, it's more long term. Note that even though they are long term (~12 weeks I think) they are not permanent, if you s…

I'm pretty sure aerobic exercise is better for the brain than strength training. Aerobic exercise increases oxygen flow to the brain and it directly improves creation and survival …

The Chinese are acting pragmatically/rationally and in their own short term self interest. If all nations do the same catastrophic climate change is unavoidable, this is the Traged…

Fog of War is one of my favorite documentaries, but McNamara is not honest about two key incidents - the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident. In the movi…

Yes, it's inefficient for everybody to learn details about specific scientific subjects. What people should learn is the scientific process, how does science advance, how do we kno…

Programmer productivity can be measured. In Peopleware DeMarco and Lister explain the Gilb Measurability Principle by what they call Gilbs law: "Anything you need to quantify can b…

Steven Pinker's talk: A brief history of violence is great: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/steven_pinker_on_the_myth... Some people fail to realize that our time is the most pe…