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Vila 'There isn't a lock I can't open if I'm scared enough' Restal was one of the finest sci-fi characters on British telly. The caustic exchanges between him and Avon were pricele…

Consciousness and God both seem to have this property in common: they're real but not what we think they are. Only when we have a decent theory of consciousness will we know what c…

When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte, As every child can tell, The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well; Yet Britain set the world abla…

The temperature a few metres below ground level is consistently cool (approx. 15 celcius) year round. Could this be made the basis of an efficient cooling system?

It's funny how every source of knowledge converges to the same thing: mass media. Telling you what to think and trying to influence your behaviour rather than trying to inform you.…

It's hard not to trust answers which are superhumanly plausible. Imagine being offered a choice of two oracles. The first oracle would give you an answer that is inspiring yet myst…

I miss being able to spontaneously buy a ticket and travel off to see a friend in another town or city. I did quite a lot as a young man with the help of my 'young person's railcar…

Relatedly, microdosing with lactulose (which is very cheap) has a probiotic effect. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8353095/

Yes. There are distinct male virtues, such as courage, nobility and authority. But if a man isn't honest then he's not worthy of consideration. Or, if you like, he hasn't yet matur…

>the heat is moved to the ground for storage ..or into a giant sand-filled barge which transports the thermal energy up north for the winter.

Doubling down and doubling down on some feeling (or lack of feeling) repeatedly isn't merely a strategy. It is the selling of ones's soul. There's no one left inside by the end of …

I think you've got it the wrong way around. All ideology is wrong, incorrect and fails in contact with reality. The true purpose of ideology (or 'the system') is to provide its adh…

I go for a decent walk most days and it doesn't require effort or get boring. It goes well with listening to headphones and relaxing the eyes on the horizon plus seeing a bit of na…

Author is clearly not a happy bunny. Some people may be motivated by a wish to escape other people, but many will want to go to space because it's so cool. In other words: for adve…

I'm not even a programmer, but I can tell that dates are ambiguous a lot of the time. e.g. dd/mm/yyyy (British) and mm/dd/yyyy (USA) can be confused for the first twelve days of ev…

Thumb on white notes. 4th finger on black because it is weaker than 2,3. But these are rules of thumb(!)

The original reads easier in the voice of the cookie monster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shbgRyColvE

I used to think the same when people spoke of social media being addictive, but not any more. Drugs aren't autonomous either, however they clearly do remove some people's autonomy.…

>tools that augment cognition when used intentionally can become parasitic when designed to maximize engagement at the expense of user agency Wonderful definition, thank you. It ha…

Chemotherapy as I understand it works by killing rapidly-dividing cells (which is why your hair falls out). Fenbendazole purportedly slows down cell division, allowing the immune s…

Yes! Similarly for text books, which are riddled with errors, generally speaking. They should have have an email address for reader-submitted errata printed in large friendly lette…

Thanks. Yes it is strange. I do accept there's some overlap between propaganda and memeing. Yet whatever the intentions (or paygrade, or artistic ability) of the author of a meme, …

Nah. Compressed ideas are simply very good explanations! Ideologues aren't open to changing their ideas, but some other people do so occasionally. One can have philosophical assump…