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As a counterexample, every time I have valiantly tried to use Grit to face a challenge that's uncomfortable and hard for me naturally I have failed miserably. In all occasions, I w…

You might also find yourself buying tuberculosis with your milk, but that's your choice.

> A bloke my sister knows (she's a nurse), was diagnosed with 'hypertension not otherwise specified', at the ripe old age of 31. But they didn't catch it early because he 'felt fin…

It also runs on Google's servers, which makes it unacceptable for many use cases.

Unsong is not exactly rational fiction. The author itself claims it isn't (some people claim it is despite this fact, though).

This is a major problem for me when reading digital material, especially if not on something like a PC. On the comuter I can at least Ctrl+F for the part I'm after.

Cool, thanks. That definitely answers my questions. They really should link the study! The part about distinguishing the animals from one another is still a problem, but I think th…

This is very interesting. Do you know if they have any interesting misconceptions about those animals they know about but have never seen (assuming you yourself know enough about r…

Regarding the study they mention(the one that shows that children recognize Pokemon better than real animals and plants). There is an important aspect of this finding that the arti…

Do you mean CSF instead (Cerebrospinal fluid)? I'm not qualified to answer that, sorry. But my best guess is that the problem is almost 100% intracellular.

My very cursory analysis, after skimming the article follows. First, the article in general is quite misleading. It's written in a language that a layman would understand, but in a…

The K:Na balance is very interesting, especially because pre-agriculture societies usually have very low levels of hypertension, and this is probably the cause. Na+ and K+ balance …

This is very interesting, and I particularly like the causal test of inducing sensitization to the antigens present in the bacteria through exposure. It's probably the strongest ca…

You still have gut bacteria in the small intestine, and they're probably as important as the ones in the large intestine. I can guarantee you that without both the small and the la…

Probably not. Unlike MS, which is an autoimmune disease, ALS is not autoimmune. The exact cause is only known in some cases, but it seems to stem from problems with the machinery i…

> Apparently at the current moment the best is to keep your PH value in the body neutral. It's particularly important to prevent "acidity" If you're talking about a neutral pH as i…

> People are not very rational. Almost all trips in cars are very short, yet people are still very concerned about range in electric cars As they should be... What good is a car if…

Yes. This Elixir library aims to have a virtual DOM on the server and send minimal diffs to the client: https://github.com/grych/drab It can already do this for some kinds of diffs…

Thanks. I'll read these papers he I have the time. I agree that gamma knife surgery on the hypothalamus is probably not yet ready for prime time (and it might never be if we can fi…

> Hopefully some day we will find ways to drive repair of these circuits. Any idea on how we may do it? AFAIK, currently we have no good mechanisms to "repair" individual brain cir…

> Let me confidently assure you that inflammation in the hypothalamus is a dominant feature of obesity I certainly believe you (I'm not qualified to agree or disagree, as I'm not a…

This is a very important question, which I'll try to answer as clearly as possible. First, a word of warning: This doesn't look like the appropriate kind of article to be posted on…

Where am I looking at this through a 21st century lens? I'm just saying that in all of these cases, the strong won and imposed their will on the weak, thus suppressing their ideas …

> Nazism has only been suppressed in Germany Yes, I thought it was obvious from the context. The original version of Nazism was suppressed by invading their country, killing 7 mill…

Hm... Interesting :) Is there any research about this? It does seem likely, but I can certainly imagine a world in which most attempts at suppression work and we celebrate the case…