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There is some evidence of a correlation between oral hygiene and Alzheimer's: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/264164.php Basically, people with poor oral hygiene are more …

There are a few neuroscientists on HN. Can someone chime in on this? Does the "computationally intensive" approach that the Europeans appear to be taking, i.e. relying on lots of c…

Abstract: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/05/21/1407083111 Another recent ant-related story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7658551

Has anyone actually encountered one of these in the wild? If so, did it "help", i.e. was it a net positive?

You might be interested in Stephen Greenblatt's essay "Invisible Bullets", especially the first part of it, where he discusses Harriot quite a bit. Here is a brief summary of what …

The article is pretty old. Has anyone tried to exploit this loophole since then?