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I also found her Introduction and Translator's note very good. She acknowledges her goal was not the most direct word for word accuracy but from what I remember more the general fe…

Very much looking forward to Emily Wilson's forthcoming translation. She translated the Odyssey a few years ago, still in verse but with less stilted language, definitely makes it …

Probably the same way a medical article ends up on the front page of hacker news. People have interests outside their area of expertise. Which is good!

Love the first comment on the youtube video: "RIchard Feyman's wife: "WHY did you not take the trash out yet?!" Richard proceeds to go on a long tirade about electromagnetic forces…

From the article (as well as other places I've read similar things). "Why did so many young adults die? As it happens, young adults have the strongest immune systems, which attacke…

His pieces are usually entertaining. He had a recent one about the Masters golf tournament that was hilarious. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/06/24/inside-the-cul...

By all means, massage your breasts, but I'm not so sure your hypothesis holds up. The paucity of cancers of skeletal muscle is more likely due to cell type (terminally differentiat…

Matt Levine's take from a few days ago. As usual, humorous and insightful. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-09-24/don-t-...

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My younger brothers are identical twins, one born vaginally and the other 20 min later via C-section. I've always said they'd be good data for these type of studies. Anecdotally, t…

I found the book "Our Mathematical Universe" by Max Tegmark, a physicist, a pretty good read. His idea is basically that the universe isn't explained by math, it IS math. To get to…

I think a reading of the relevant passage from David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest" (from 1996) re: video conversations is appropriate here. http://declineofscarcity.com/?page_id…

Not so sure medicine is afraid to use the word "nuclear". Nuclear medicine a field that patients deal with regularly from getting bone density scans for osteoporosis, thyroid and c…

Matt Levine on Slack direct listing from a few weeks ago... https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-11/direct...

While many on this forum may understand why what this analysis shows is not good science, the article does a poor job of explaining why finding positive results one wasn't original…

Cannot strongly recommend enough "The Mind Illuminated" by John Yates. https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Illuminated-Meditation-Integrati... It's been discussed on HN before (it's how I …