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From the last paragraph of the paper: “The current versions of the Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech, and Johnson & Johnson SARS-CoV-2 vaccines encode the full-length spike S protein with t…

I still can’t believe that sucralose ever passed a safety trial. When has it ever been sensible to eat chlorocarbons? It’s amazing that it took this long to find some kind of genot…

IMO the sugar alcohol allulose[1] has crossed the uncanny valley of sweeteners. It tastes (and cooks!) almost like sucrose and it doesn’t have a weird aftertaste. Like erythritol, …

Erythritol is absorbed by the body before it reaches the large intestine and therefore does not make you farty. (It is subsequently excreted unmodified.)

This. Keto makes fasting shockingly easy.

Keto + no dinner is extremely effective. Being in keto makes it easy to skip dinner because you never get very hungry. Skipping dinner makes it easier to be in keto because you don…

These two articles claim to debunk iron cluster-dependent magnetosensory mechanisms but not the "radical pair" mechanism described by OP.

Once you have a successful PCR, you have billions of copies of your target sequence that are easy to aerosolize and/or transfer by contact onto your pipettes, gloves, and other lab…

Before you jump to conclusions, here’s a relevant quote from the article: “Although almost all coronaviruses isolated from bats have not been able to bind to the key human receptor…

SARS shares an enzyme that is similar enough to the HIV protease that people tried the HIV protease inhibitors on SARS and they seemed to work. This coronavirus has a very similar …

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This is not correct reasoning about genetics. I've seen a lot of comments with this same incorrect claim on HN recently. In a complex trait like IQ, there is no reason to believe t…

Contemplate your own mortality

The graduate student is only getting paid $33k/yr. The university is paying for/waiving the student's $50k/yr tuition. Why should the student pay taxes on what the university is pa…

High ambient humidity means no net evaporation of your sweat so no cooling effect of sweating. If the ambient temperature is above body temperature and humidity is high, you won't …

There several manufacturers of YBCO wire now, e.g. http://www.superpower-inc.com/content/2g-hts-wire

Hey, I've done some (supervised) teaching in Culadasa's method and I've done three retreats with him. We've got a Google Hangout every Tuesday where we discuss our practice and hel…

True, but it pretty definitively refutes the hypothesis that raising the minimum wage to $15 would dramatically increase unemployment in any reasonable setting. That is an importan…

"Density Functional Theory" and "Quantum Monte Carlo", two ways of calculating electronic structures (the former tends to be more approximate and the latter tends to be more comput…

Electron multiplying CCD cameras can respond to single photons with > 90% quantum efficiency [1] -- that's better than rhodopsin. (I use one on a semi-daily basis.) To take advanta…

Yes, this reasoning is correct. Same principle applies to combination therapies for HIV, malaria, etc., where you're at risk of developing a resistant strain within the patient. No…

ahem... just because sucralose is not super reactive does not mean that it is not harmful. some evidence suggests it can screw up your gut microbiome: http://www.nature.com/news/su…

Definitely can't remotely operate a 40 ton truck. Wireless network latency is a bit high even under ideal conditions, and latency spikes could easily cause disastrous accidents.

And why exactly should we assume the "additivity of small effects" assumption holds far from the center of the current g distribution?? Stack up enough of these variants and you're…

Many plant-derived chemicals that are called "antioxidants" by the popular press (e.g. catechins [1], anthocyanins [2], retinoids [3], etc.) have been shown to kill some types of c…