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> Margaret Rennix, Harvard’s assistant director for humanities and social-sciences support, told me she’d spoken with a student who was struggling to read a book written in Old Eng…

As far as I can tell, my kids and their friends never actually play the game either, they just collect the cards. I don't think they even know the rules.

China's greatest weakness is that their working-age population has already peaked and is in the process of plummeting, which will continue over the coming decades.

From https://www.cochrane.org/evidence/CD004816_statins-primary-p... : > Of 1000 people treated with a statin for five years, 18 would avoid a major CVD event which compares well w…

This is fascinating! Would it be possible to add some explanations for some of the gay ads? I feel a little clueless but I don't really understand why some of those are targeting t…

I think it's just always hard to find stuff you like, and time is a great filter. There are tons of new series that my sons like: the whole Percy Jackson world, Diary of a Wimpy Ki…

It's an oversimplification of how the body works to the point of not being useful. For example, if you eat 2500 kcal a day and maintain a steady weight of 150 lbs, it is not the ca…

I think this is pretty common! More sleep makes everything better -- attention, immune system (getting colds less often), mood, etc.

This is so off-base I don't even know where to begin. "Maybe you just don't get to ... ride on planes" -- so the kids never get to meet their grandparents or great-grandparents who…

I actually had the exact opposite conclusion from the analysis: Dreidel is a great kids' game of chance, because it's easy to come back from a few bad rolls and it's almost impossi…

I get that the author really dislikes UHC, but most of these are just really not interesting. For example, of course they want media inquiries to go to the media relations team. Th…

Yes! Especially if you have kids -- minors go through TSA pre-check lines with parents with pre-check, even if the kids don't have pre-check on their own.

I suppose this is true in some abstract sense, but not in companies of any reasonable size when it comes to hiring. There are lots of things that are firmly set company-wide, like …

How is this by accident? He was specifically looking for datasets for this purpose and found a good one, then loaded it into a program to find man-made structures.

The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt. It changed the way I think about what's important, both to me and to other people and societies.

There's a huge difference between when we know how an organ system behaves in a particular circumstance vs. when we don't. Take, for example, the hepatic function in biogears: http…

> If we had stayed on the Adams curve, we would be consuming 2-5x more energy than we do today. For the US, that means that GDP per capita today would not be the current amount of …

It's a bit strange that the author doesn't mention the population projections published in The Lancet a few years ago ( https://www.thelancet.com/infographics-do/population-forecas…

https://xkcd.com/1845/

I had a strongly negative emotional reaction to the ad. Dwelling on crushing musical instruments, kids' toys, books, sculptures, and then the paint spurting out at the end into a d…

I was amused!

Matzah pizza!! Super convenient, you can just leave a box in your pantry and take one out whenever you need a quick and easy crust.

I use the Azure GPT-4 offering. It's not always 100% correct, but for technical questions in areas I'm not very familiar with, it's close enough. I can get much more done in a give…

When I was in a Tesla Uber, I found watching the front screen that shows where cars are around you frightening. Cars would frequently move around and change position unexpectedly a…

> Although, as noted above, the instructions for the narrative section of the SGO report require submitters to “[p]rovide a written description of the pre-crash, crash, and post-cr…