Does anybody actually read these blobs of text which are basically a lazy rant from the writer to improve his wordcount? Writers should always write for the reader.
Read it and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Energy, and How to Get It
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#32> Mitochondrial DNA seems to be passed down from generation to generation exclusively by the mother; sperm contributes nothing
How do mitochondria evolve if they are just clones passed down from mothers? Or rather, how come there are not huge differences between populations of people whose mitochondria evolved in different direction but can never mix?
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#33> A lean Montrealer, with a gentle yet poised intensity that one might classify as medium-energy, Picard came at the question of vim and vigor from a near-cosmic vantage. His office, high above the Heights, had a commanding view down the Hudson, a receding sun-blanched shorescape of skyscrapers and tidal swirl that lent his pronouncements an oracular air. Did this assignment have a minimum word count? I know it's the…
I've studied English and by jingo I'm going to put that education to use! Concordantly! Vis-a-vis! Ergo! Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcaniosis!
(I love how that last one is even in my browser's spell checker)
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#34My daughter has always needed her sleep, ever since she was a tot she'd get incredibly ratty and would be out of sorts the next day if she didn't get her full eight hours of undisturbed sleep. I on the other hand have always been able to get away with only a short night's sleep even staying up all night when necessary. My totally subjective opinion is that you only have so many awake hours in your life and I'm runnin…
Everyone's different like that. I do 6-7 hours of sleep a night which is not ideal but a stable enough middle ground. I get 'stressed' (best word I can think of) if I don't get enough sleep, or more of a worry that I haven't gotten enough sleep. We tend to catch up in the weekends though.
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#35> A lean Montrealer, with a gentle yet poised intensity that one might classify as medium-energy, Picard came at the question of vim and vigor from a near-cosmic vantage. His office, high above the Heights, had a commanding view down the Hudson, a receding sun-blanched shorescape of skyscrapers and tidal swirl that lent his pronouncements an oracular air. Did this assignment have a minimum word count? I know it's the…
While we're bashing the style: Is 'scrip' really what they meant in "If a patient says, ‘I want more energy,’ maybe the doctor should just write a scrip for methamphetamine"? I just checked the dictionary to confirm, and 'scrip' is definitely a financial term; surely they meant 'script'? Or is this a situation where they flaunt common practice to be quirky, like their superfluous umlauts?
Here in the Philadelphia region, about 100 miles away from NYC, "scrip" as short for "prescription" is definitely ubiquitous.
I really hear it a lot since my wife works in the medical field, but I heard it used quite often before that.
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#36The guidelines are easy on paper. Eat healthy, sleep a lot, work out multiple times a week and you’ll magically have a lot of energy.
I have done this for most of my life. I play in a band with a bunch of guys who drink shitloads of alcohol and sleep FAR less than I do. When it gets to eleven PM in the bar we play in who's the one yawning? It's me.
I never really feel like I have plenty of energy, because whatever I have I just use to do more stuff :/
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#37> A lean Montrealer, with a gentle yet poised intensity that one might classify as medium-energy, Picard came at the question of vim and vigor from a near-cosmic vantage. His office, high above the Heights, had a commanding view down the Hudson, a receding sun-blanched shorescape of skyscrapers and tidal swirl that lent his pronouncements an oracular air. Did this assignment have a minimum word count? I know it's the…
I've studied English and by jingo I'm going to put that education to use! Concordantly! Vis-a-vis! Ergo! Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcaniosis! (I love how that last one is even in my browser's spell checker)
Asbestos lung?
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#38> Mitochondrial DNA seems to be passed down from generation to generation exclusively by the mother; sperm contributes nothing How do mitochondria evolve if they are just clones passed down from mothers? Or rather, how come there are not huge differences between populations of people whose mitochondria evolved in different direction but can never mix?
They don't evolve much, the mitochondrial DNA is very conserved and compact (~16kbp vs ~3Gbp for the entire human genome). Not many levers you can mutate and end up with viable organism.
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#39> A lean Montrealer, with a gentle yet poised intensity that one might classify as medium-energy, Picard came at the question of vim and vigor from a near-cosmic vantage. His office, high above the Heights, had a commanding view down the Hudson, a receding sun-blanched shorescape of skyscrapers and tidal swirl that lent his pronouncements an oracular air. Did this assignment have a minimum word count? I know it's the…
I get frustrated with the reaction to New Yorker pieces on here. Yes, a New Yorker piece is going to be long and have backstory.
Their feature pieces are like novellas of non-fiction. Many get republished into books, that receive acclaim like the amazing Coming into the Country[1].
It doesn't skim as well as some business insider article that is just a list of bullet points, but it was never meant to.
https://www.amazon.ca/Coming-into-Country-John-McPhee/dp/037...
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1977/06/20/coming-into-th...
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#40Don't smoke, don't drink, don't use drugs, get enough sleep and exercise, eat enough fruits and veg and not too much junk and you've got like 90% covered, if not all. Most people (without serious medical issues) moaning about a lack of energy know exactly what's causing it but refuse to change their habits. Whether it's drinking, smoking, junk food, staying up late, etc. they've just become too attached to that way o…
I kinda agree, even though until I hit bottom I couldn't change my diet/lifestyle either. The odd part in this is that mushy gray context people live in, they're not bad but improving anything requires losing short term, so things stay in that rounded corner crate.
That said, for anybody in a nice city with enough bike lanes, I cannot stress how nice bike commute is for your life. Saving money, time[0], mental energy while restoring health. That a fractal silver bullet for you.
[0] everytime I tried going to work by car or bus, I left home earlier, arrived late at work, and had to pay for gas or tickets. Insane