Posted on Oct 16, 2024 | Comments Off on Taking The Book Of The Dead To Heart
In ancient Egypt, the heart was the key to a happy afterlife. It lived on after death, they believed, and in the Duat, the Netherworld, it revealed a truth man's words could not hide.The 42 gathered gods would measure the heart and if it weighed more than the Feather of Truth which adorned the head of Maat, their Goddess of Justice, Order, and Truth, it was consumed by the Goddess Ammit, Devourer...
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Posted on Oct 16, 2024 | Comments Off on American CO2 Is Below War War II Levels But We Keep Emissions High In Poor Countries
In politics, one way to make your belief in alternative energy seem feasible is to make its competitors expensive. President Obama did that when he began to subsidize the domestic solar energy industry at unprecedented levels.(1) He brought in Dr. Stephen Chu, who had advocated $9-a-gallon gasoline, from inside his high-paying job in academia to be in charge of energy policy for Democrats. He was...
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Posted on Oct 15, 2024 | Comments Off on Another Week, Another Claim About Caloric Restriction Being Science
A new paper finds that caloric restriction increases lifespan. It doesn't in humans. The only documented times it increases lifespan is in mice weaned from birth on a starvation diet. Humans are not going to starve their babies.Obesity certainly shortens lifespan but that doesn't make calories a scientific antimetabole. Yet despite this study being in mice, and therefore only...
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Posted on Oct 15, 2024 | Comments Off on Lifestyle Guru Dr. Casey Means Believes Plants Are Tiny Green People
Unless you think plants are little people, so you don't understand any science, it is impossible to believe a weedkiller lowers testosterone.Environmental predatorts still sell it to the gullible. Lawsuits are how they make their money. If you do believe in that plants are tiny green people and share a biological pathway and therefore a weedkiller can give you cancer, you don't trust...
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Posted on Oct 14, 2024 | Comments Off on Not Just Wealthy White People, Expensive Snacks Are All The Rage For Gen Z Too
Once upon a time, wealthy white women virtue signaled to other wealthy white women when they spent $500 on snacks at stores they're paid to promote, like "upscale" grocery chain Erewhon, where its overpriced nonsense supposedly leads to a "radiant" lifestyle.That time is still now. This one is especially fun, because two words after assuring us it "has literally sold out everywhere" she tells...
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