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If I drink salt solution this might have very little effect on my blood pressure. However, if I add salt to my pasta bake it might make it tastier. I might therefore eat more of it…

My speculation is that 'willpower' or 'vitality' relates directly to the available reserves of neurotransmitter(s) in your nervous system. Notes: If you try to do something bad (th…

Yes, the glucose idea is pretty implausible. Better might be: available reserves of neurotransmitters.

Isn't it better to focus on oneself -- trying to be a better parent or teacher -- than to focus on testing the child in your care and trying to predict his future? It's not possibl…

He does seem vulnerable, even tortured. Does this go hand in hand with great creativity?

He does seem vulnerable, even tortured. Does this go hand in hand with creativity?

Here's a radical idea: only read books that you enjoy and find interesting. Don't measure reading success by the number of books, but by how far your hair was blown back :-)

Minor suggestion: put the intro to narro the scrapdealer on the load page and lose the keyboard instructions page altogether.

Rule 10: for the wintertime, invest in an electric blanket. That way you don't lose the first 20 minutes of sleep having to warm up the bed. Coming next week: the 12 rules for help…

The war on vice is properly regarded as a private war fought within each individual.

Problem is that, unlike in that movie, our computers aren't slick or fast. Gains in speed are quickly lost by the added load of new features.

I think 'great is simple' applies to programming too. The reason I learned BASIC at school was because there were computers lying around which all had the same BASIC pre-installed …

Stuff which is sufficiently interesting and important I remember automatically; the rest I forget. Presumably that's the case with most people. So, rather than enjoining them to me…

And, on the side, how about a Manhattan-style project to produce a commerical scale Thorium Reactor within five years?

Yeah, sometimes novel phenomena are stumbled upon. Where they are deliberately stumbled upon I would call it exploration rather than science. I don't think that exercise falls into…

Unfortunately there's no explanation which means there's no science here. (The world seems to be full of studies which measure things that are easy to measure and say things that p…

I want privacy because (1) I break laws I don't know about (2) I do things which might be misinterpreted as breaking the law or as being immoral (3) I do things which are considere…

Educate students -- lecturing doesn't work. Best is working from the best material in small groups of peers and having help available from graduate students. Socialise students -- …

>I can be upset and angry and still participate in a rational discussion. The problem is that it would only take a few people who can't remain rational for a tipping point to be re…

It's better to steer clear of political issues which are covered more than adequately elsewhere. They are by their nature divisive and tend to make people upset and/or angry. This …