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Last I checked, nicotine isn't carcinogenic. It's the tobacco that kills you. Or, at least, there isn't enough research yet to say that nicotine alone is harmful enough. So I may b…

Maybe only tangentially related, but Michael Pollan's recent book about psychedelics "How To Change Your Mind" goes in-depth on this. There's something about being able to quiet th…

i'd bet that proto-beer and proto-bread appeared around the same time, and techniques were developed over generations to calibrate different recipes until they resembled what we mi…

> America in 1950 had orders of magnitudes less diagnosed depression than America in 2018 America in 1950 also had orders of magnitude less access to medical professionals for prop…

> In most other contexts we encounter, stuffing an adjective in there means "NOT". I think that's less a comment on grammar and more about how there's a tendency to name stuff that…

Recently finished The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte and How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan. I would have been embarrassed to have been caught re…

* Trail Running * Yoga * Cooking * Gardening * Photography * Reading I've found that a lot of my hobbies are inextricably related to one another in some way, like a strange loop :)…

there aren't riots over the state of elder care because the elderly can't riot

1. OTOH, it also means there's now a need for manual pollination.

I can attest to this. I've struggled with anxiety/depression/insomnia/adhd for years, and over the past couple years I've learned that careful attention to exercise, diet, and slee…

feed and water are very expensive, as is the calf

> they started falling apart within weeks isn't that kind of the point?

From my understanding, the reason it hasn't been opened yet is to preserve whatever's inside, not so much out of fear for mercury poisoning. For instance, the terracotta army was a…

As far as international rights go, but what happens if this is in conflict with federal law?

I'm sure Lord Howe lost much more than just one species of tree lobster.