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Butter is good for you provided you don't fry with it. If overheated it supplies more than the usual amount of inflammatory compounds. Instead, fry with ghee (clarified butter) or …

Repetition of a true message to a variety of audiences may be valuable because one gains a better understanding of the common misconceptions and opposing arguments. Which leads to …

Having heard this idea many times I remain unpersuaded so far (!) because I haven't heard an explanation for it. Anyone know one?

The principle battle with printers as I see it is getting them to accept a third party print cartridge.

The idea is to give companies an incentive to make tough stuff by increasing their revenue for such products. But let's do both!

'7. Pity the readers' follows from the curse of knowledge , namely that's it's hard to imagine what it's like not to know what you know. This applies in novels as much as in techni…

I agree. Yet scientific and/or moral discussions of depression and other mental disorders are becoming increasingly taboo.

It's about shared negative emotional experiences, of which their are more when one is young e.g. school, leaving home. It follows that if you wish to befriend adults you need to sh…

Increase sales tax on status/luxury items. Decrease sales tax on long-life products.

Yes, more than that: if robot cars could be made incapable of hitting pedestrians, then children might start to roam again. It would be a marvellous unintended consequence...

This is the common sense view. But I think it's mistaken, which is what makes the article surprising and interesting. People can learn and adapt to alcohol consumption and use it t…

Prediction: in the distant future people who want to join an organisation will be evaluated by how interested they are in the work.

Jan 2016 interactive map of worldwide border walls and fences: http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/01/daily-c...

And now CRISPR technologies are being developed I trust that in addition to eliminating Huntington's disease, Tay-Sachs, Fragile X, and what have you, we will fix the GULO gene so …

I agree. The best that can be said is something about communication of information between different parts of the brain. But my reason is more fundamental: we don't understand what…

Yes, it has to be a familiar route so that you are relaxed and undistracted by navigation, e.g. Darwin's Sandwalk: https://goo.gl/y61qvc

It's complicated. If I gave an obese person a bag of sugar or a kilo of lard she probably wouldn't enjoy these things. On the other hand some folk can eat luxury foods regularly wi…

The 'facts' that I referred to are the results of correlation studies as published in science journals. The diets you mention are mainstream fads. You're right, though, it is frust…

Nutrition, medicine, psychology are beset by empiricism : trying to find facts without having theories to support them. Journalists then make hay with the results, hinting at concl…

The ability to do anything well co-evolves with finding good reasons to do it. In the case of writing it would be having things you strongly desire to write about.

I'm more humble than they are!

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6894316-never-trust-an-exper...

Yes I'm sure this sort of thing will happen however I imagine the overall social consequences would be beneficial. Children are highly confined at present and the ability to roam a…

If and when all cars are computer-controlled another consequence may be that children will be free to roam about. This assumes that those same cars are built to be incapable of hit…

Yes, the ability to direct one's creativity is valuable and a hallmark of freedom. But the direction, if it is to be fruitful, is determined by what one finds genuinely interesting…