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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiqEhJJqtbc

Very unlikely, as the concentrations would be quite minute. Nick Lane expands on this in "The Vital Question" book.

Also, traps along the Yarra river https://www.google.com/maps/@-37.818863,144.9708563,51m/data...

There you go https://www.google.com/maps/@-38.011524,145.1053701,47m/data...

Incorrect, you do need to provide an email address (bogus one works fine) and tick the Ts&Cs box.

Meditation brought about some massive changes for me: increased focus, better and more acute introspection; I became way less irritable and my stress levels reduced. I briefly outl…

Frankly, Github did a very poor job at communication this breaking change. I only recently discovered that most of my post got broken. Apparently it's no longer legit to use "#Titl…

Not sure how the search suggestions are meant to work, but when typing "Drunkard's Walk" I can see the book at the top of the result's list, although when typing the author's name,…

No it is not, but I get redirected to it on my Android phone after clicking on book covers or graph.

Is this some sort of a promo trap? When clicking on book links I get taken to pages like this one http://www.freebie.guru/au/starwars/starwars625.html

Said the whale from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Not your fault, but I find it quite annoying that most of those documents are not digitised and you have to order the items to be delivered into library's reading rooms.

main discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10433318

Just finished, in the following order: - Blindsight - Echopraxia - Colonel by Peter Watts. Though I should've read the 'Colonel' before 'Echopraxia' in the hindsight.

Previous discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9833375

Not sure what's the equivalent for the steps 3-7 here in Australia, but getting a referral from a GP and then getting a portable testing machine, that you're supposed to wear at ho…

Although this is very tangentially related, one may want to consider taking a multi-species probiotic also, based on "A randomized controlled trial to test the effect of multispeci…

That would be fantastic - and admittedly people like yourself or some other folks I can think of (Paul Whiteley of "Questioning Answers" fame comes to mind) are doing really great …

Interestingly enough, f.lux[1] has been around for a while (a cool app that adjusts the colour temperature of your screen(s) as the day progresses, based on your lat & long. I also…

All I have to say re sleep is: get enough of it, or suffer. How much is 'enough' depends on your chronotype (lark/own type of thing) - see http://brainrules.net/sleep for more.

TLDR (from PDF): As this article demonstrates, print books are still the best suited to the optical, cognitive, and metacognitive requirements of the reading brain. While e-paper t…

The bone marrow studies look at implanted, not orally consumed material. Just in case anybody assumes "If I eat more bone marrow I'll get new brain cells built from the cells I eat…

HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8437470