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To be true to Taubes, my memory was too approximate. The actual claim was that in 1976 Fred Stare, the director and founder (in 1942) of the Department of Nutrition of the Harvard …

I don't know why this was re-posted today (kind of suspicious that this floats again after 10 year just by chance) anyway, there is a full citation-heavy book by Gary Taubes about …

Money alleviates poverty. It’s not complicated. By Annie Lowrey

"You might want to grab a cup of $beverage before continuing, this is going to take a while." Instead, I launched a compilation.

This blog post is unfair to horseless carriages. "lack of suspension" The author did not see the large, outsized, springs that keep the cabin insulated from both the road _and_ the…

>> imagine a world without advertising > I can't because a world with magic and world peace is more realistic and believable. I don't know, in my country advertising tobacco produc…

They look symmetric to me, but that's not point anyway, I guess they are parables, only they are rotated, their axis is not parallel to the y axis. If those are 2nd order functions…

You are thinking of those parables as parametric curves, I guess, but Newton's method is about approximating an arbitrary function by its Taylor expansion truncated to the second d…

Yes, that's what I guess has happened.

Maybe I had my Gell-Mann effect moment ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect ) The illustration of the Newton method is wrong, isn't it? The approximating second…

At first I thought you were not getting it, but, thinking it through, I now think the real problem is that the article gave us the averages (600, 701, 5000) without giving the stan…

I have found this long read a useful summary of deliberate practice https://fs.blog/deliberate-practice-guide/

"By learning how the Shire worked, we can start to understand how our own past worked, in all its complexity and contradictions." Sorry but this is totally preposterous. Why should…

"Premodern agriculture was characterized primarily as being low-surplus and high-labor, it takes a lot of people a lot of time to produce enough food for everyone to eat, and there…

Don't you see that 90% of these is just "There is plastic in the environment" It does not say "plastic harms this or that". The equality "plastic presence"=="plastic harm" is not o…

I do totally remember. I remember the time when the press cried "there is no cork left on earth!!". I remember the time when cheap wine came with plastic corks. I remember the time…

"I don’t think we need to argue plastic incurred harm, it should be obvious." ? I'd like a clear and obvious reference.

Italian television brought coffee to the lab, and the results where not reassuring (from minute 18 onward, only Italian, I am sorry) https://www.rai.it/programmi/report/inchieste/U…

Just read the title... can something that happens over a 50 years span be correctly described as a "collapse"? go figure

The author does not know what it is meant by "deliberate practice" nowadays. Everytime they use it, they should have written "rote practice" or, simply, "practice".

It never occurred to me that "being able to solve basic math problems I had not seen before", implied that I "could threaten humanity". Wow!

rocket propulsion has been used in forced sterilizations?