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Etterminnetiden: People Who Never Knew A ‘Fascist’ Use The Term Often, And That Is A Problem

Posted by on Feb 28, 2023 in Random Thoughts | Comments Off on Etterminnetiden: People Who Never Knew A ‘Fascist’ Use The Term Often, And That Is A Problem

In almost every case, someone being called a Nazi or Fascist on Twitter is being called such by someone who never knew any of those, and is probably a second or third generation descendant who didn't know any either. I had one grandfather who went across North Africa and one who occupied Japan but to my knowledge neither had any special claim to knowing about the Axis powers.

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America’s Next Challenge May Be Not Enough Farmland In Use

Posted by on Feb 24, 2023 in Environment | Comments Off on America’s Next Challenge May Be Not Enough Farmland In Use

Right now, 17 percent of the US is cropland while 51 percent is open and essentially unused. We have more open space in the US than the entire continent of Africa, only 3 percent of our land is urban, but you might not be aware of that because activists insist that urban blight is ruining the country.

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Sheep Are Expensive Lawn Mowers – But Maybe Cheap Mental Health

Posted by on Feb 23, 2023 in Psychology | Comments Off on Sheep Are Expensive Lawn Mowers – But Maybe Cheap Mental Health

If you have ever seen pictures of people doing yoga with goats or sunning their butt-holes(1), you may have assumed it is California, but that is unfair. It is just as likely to be any state on the west coast.

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Sheep Are Expensive Lawn Mowers – But Maybe Cheap Mental Health

Posted by on Feb 23, 2023 in Psychology | Comments Off on Sheep Are Expensive Lawn Mowers – But Maybe Cheap Mental Health

If you have ever seen pictures of people doing yoga with goats or sunning their butt-holes(1), you may have assumed it is California, but that is unfair. It is just as likely to be any state on the west coast.

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Gadolinium Rare Earth Metal Used In MRI Contrast Agents Can Be Detected, But Is That A Problem?

Posted by on Feb 22, 2023 in Public Health | Comments Off on Gadolinium Rare Earth Metal Used In MRI Contrast Agents Can Be Detected, But Is That A Problem?

If you have ever had a CT scan using a contrast material like iodine, you were probably told to drink plenty of fluids to flush it out of your system. It is one-size-fits-all advice more to protect people who may have received a lot of them, because the dose makes the poison, or those who have chronic kidney disease. Allergies can happen but claims of build-up or toxicity in otherwise healthy people are in the same camp as endocrine disruption and other homeopathic effects.(1)

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For Valentine’s Day, Academics Want More Women With God Complexes In Films

Posted by on Feb 14, 2023 in Psychology | Comments Off on For Valentine’s Day, Academics Want More Women With God Complexes In Films

Films have been common for over a century and a new paper laments that for much of that time men have been the unhinged scientists with a 'God complex', because by not having more 'mad' women in the 1930s, modern Artificial Intelligence routines are perpetuating gender stereotypes.

When you think of 'mad scientist' you probably do think of a man, and the authors argue that is a symptom of deeper sexism; so AI, which is going to pick a spot in brute force style and converge on answers from there, will perpetuate it. And that is true, except the issue is well-known and easy to work around, even for today's limited unintelligent AI.

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Forget Miracle Diet Claims – Successful Weight Loss Plans All Avoid This

Posted by on Feb 10, 2023 in Public Health | Comments Off on Forget Miracle Diet Claims – Successful Weight Loss Plans All Avoid This

A lot of people went into 2023 hoping to lose some weight. It's no surprise. Putting it on is easy and rich countries make delicious food at affordable prices while our culture has not yet overcome our biological mandate to eat because animals are programmed to be unsure when the next meal will be.

If you went into 2023 trying some miracle diet - keto, gluten-free, Mediterranean, et al. - you have probably already failed. Yet each of those diets has proponents because it worked for them individually. With enough individual anecdotes epidemiologists will find correlation using food frequency questionnaires and claim it's data.

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The Top 3 Causes Of Bee Colony Collapses Are Mites, Mites, And Mites – Any Other Claim Is Selling Something

Posted by on Feb 6, 2023 in Environment | Comments Off on The Top 3 Causes Of Bee Colony Collapses Are Mites, Mites, And Mites – Any Other Claim Is Selling Something

Some food grown in the US, especially high-cost luxuries like almonds, are pollinated using bees. Since bees are most often rented and transported for such purposes, keeping them alive is important to owners and growers. As their value for higher-cost foods has grown, so have bee numbers; they are up 85 percent in the last 60 years. You would just never know it if your source is Greenpeace, so when you use verbiage identical to Greenpeace press releases in an academic paper press release your work is going to be suspect. And that is a paper on bee deaths we'll discuss today.

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If Food Addiction Is Real, 13% Of Americans Have It

Posted by on Feb 3, 2023 in Psychology | Comments Off on If Food Addiction Is Real, 13% Of Americans Have It

Is there an addiction that primarily affects one gender in one age demographic in rich countries? Survey data using the National Poll on Healthy Aging says there may be. 

The results were that about 13 percent of people from ages 50 to 80 responded in ways that could be interpreted as addiction to foods and beverages in the past year. Prevalence was much higher among women than men – older Generation X and younger Baby Boomer women.

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If Food Addiction Is Real, 13% Of Americans Have It

Posted by on Feb 3, 2023 in Psychology | Comments Off on If Food Addiction Is Real, 13% Of Americans Have It

Is there an addiction that primarily affects one gender in one age demographic in rich countries? Survey data using the National Poll on Healthy Aging says there may be. 

The results were that about 13 percent of people from ages 50 to 80 responded in ways that could be interpreted as addiction to foods and beverages in the past year. Prevalence was much higher among women than men – older Generation X and younger Baby Boomer women.

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