My grandparents are in their late 80's. My grandma reads (or listens to audio books) every day. My grandpa does not. The difference in their cognition is striking. "Use it or lose it" applies to your brain too.
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My grandparents are in their late 80's. My grandma reads (or listens to audio books) every day. My grandpa does not. The difference in their cognition is striking. "Use it or lose it" applies to your brain too.
This is basically the start of All Tomorrows
God works fast but Randall Munroe works faster
There are probably other fossilized coral rocks found on shores around the world, but Petoskey stones specifically can only be found around Lake Michigan!
Fun fact you can only find these in the great lakes. I think these also glow under a UV light if I'm not mistaken? But they're fossilized coral - can find em in Lake Michigan. Use a UV flashlight to spot them and Yooperlite - another special MI rock. (I like rocks) www.youtube.com/shorts/Grdc9...
What originally motivated me to go to grad school was a desire to develop a non-addictive painkiller that was as affective as opioids. My aspirations have changed in the last few years, but it’s very uplifting to see other people are working toward that regardless!
I kind of wish I just stuck with Windows 10 tbh
The cool thing about Microsoft Copilot is that not only does it seem to take more technical knowledge and effort than I’d consider reasonable to fully remove it from your computer, but every time your computer updates, Windows adds it back.
If a midwest emo track isn’t made in the the basements of cornfield-adjacent suburbia then it’s just sparkling math rock
Cool, will there also be a registry for employers who make fake job postings and/or ghost their applicants? No, you say?
I’m not necessarily against long-form tweets (I actually think they’re easier to read than a thread) but she used 5000 characters to ultimately communicate nothing substantial
Like I get that getting flamed on the internet isn’t fun but if you have enough influence to reach 38k followers with a single tweet you kind of have a moral obligation to only say things you actually believe in and can stand behind Or at least admit that it was a bad take
She did the classic Twitterism of walking back her original thought and acting like everyone else just misinterpreted what she said or something
The Seal of Confession does not apply when the priest has reason to believe the person confessing will seriously harm themself and/or others after the sacrament is finished. These religious leaders are violating their own supposed beliefs by opposing laws like this.
pleased to announce that the McLaughlin Lab will be investing in bird-based backups for our bird genome sequences, we really think this is going to...take off (*sad trombone noise*)
THIS IS HUGE! The FIRST 100% effective HIV PrEP drug, Lenacapavir, is APPROVED AND GOING GLOBAL. The makers are providing AFFORDABLE access to the drug in the United States AND beyond, signing ROYALTY-FREE licensing agreements with SIX generic manufacturers to produce AND supply it. 🧪🧵⬇️
Sour Patch Kids of the internet
We need to add internet safety back into elementary school education because why did so many people think giving your government ID to a company you’ve never heard of wasn’t a terrible idea
Genuinely the craziest science-related thing I’ve heard in a while
I was wondering what was going on here on the chemical level and it’s great to know that’s being actively looked into. I’m hopeful there’ll be more work put into how serotonin as a driver for reduced plasticity (if it *is* a driver here) fits into this as well.
Literally no better time to post this than now
#HouseofLeaves’ selection of narrators is kind of amusing. You got a guy whose own house traps him in an infinite labyrinth, and an old blind recluse who presumably gets killed by a mythological creature, but the one having the worst time is the guy just trying to get a book published.
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It’s basic but the last Zampanó poem in the Appendix goes so hard. It makes the whole book come together IMO if you buy into the interpretation that Zampanó is just a character made up by Johnny and the only 100% genuine part of the entire book is his mother’s letters.
Johnny Truant
It’s definitely a great story and I loved it by the end! It’s definitely unlike anything I’ve read before and expanded my idea of what a novel can be. If I could describe the book without spoiling any of the actual content I’d call it an exercise in delayed gratification.
I’m not even exaggerating when I say it took me several weeks and ~120 pages until I actually felt intrinsically motivated to get through it. The barrier of entry is incredibly high unless you’re in a book club that’s currently reading it, love semiotics, or are insane/full of spite.
I want to pick up The Familiar now but I still have half my bookshelf to get through and I’m an *incredibly* slow reader so I guess I’m shelving (ha) that for a while
water left in a glass overnight tastes bad because it gets haunted
Billionaires are convinced AI is on the verge of making new scientific discoveries because they don't understand how AI chatbots work.
Altered Decision-Making Across Acute and Chronic Pain States: A Bias Towards Context-Dependent Valuations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.09.663993v1
I haven’t done much with microbiology since undergrad so I can’t say for sure how promising this is, but having more scientifically proven plant-extracted medicines would be really cool!
Someone reading House of Leaves for the first time
I finished House of Leaves last night and I just realized my wristwatch spontaneously broke around the time I finished chapter 21 O.o Is this some sort of omen
Tapping the sign that says “NSF, NIH, and public investment into basic research are the real engines of US innovation”
I love going on here and using fandom posts to piece together what different video games/shows/movies/etc are about without actually touching the source material myself, just like how archaeologists try to piece together ancient lost texts with what scholars at the time had to say about them
It looks like Texas NWS doesn’t want to take any more chances but they don’t have the resources to actually *predict* the weather anymore so I guess we’re just on permanent flood watch now
If an author can’t be bothered to write it why should I be bothered to read it
Peer review
If this is the level of engagement you can offer then I don’t see a point in continuing this conversation.
The first thing I provided was a link to the actual study, which cites 30 primary studies, is peer-reviewed, accredited by the American Society for Nutrition, and cited 171 times by other food scientists. I provided screenshots to highlight the parts I thought were most relevant.
I already shared a comprehensive review going into this and you didn’t engage with it
The risks of moderate alcohol use are less severe and more widely known than those of raw milk consumption. There also aren’t high-profile influencers and government officials telling people that the science-backed health risks are exaggerated and that alcohol is healthier than other drinks.
I don’t think you’re trying to take over the industry, I just think that if you’re going to tell the general public to drink raw milk then there should be regulations that make it as safe as pasteurized milk first. If the dairy industry is fighting it that doesn’t change my opinion.
People who safely drink raw milk often are intimately aware of the health of their cows, which requires a degree of accountability that you can’t expect from the dairy industry at large without government regulations.
This is not “unsupported opinion,” it’s the result of my own education and review of the literature, as well as the consensus of every major medical association.
Having extra safety testing for raw milk specifically could be a good workaround for the people who *really* want to drink raw milk, but until that’s already implemented, telling people to drink raw milk unambiguously does more harm than good.
It’s true that those strains are great probiotics but I don’t see how getting them through raw milk is better for you than taking probiotic supplements or eating safer probiotic foods. I also don’t see how, if it *is* somehow better, that outweighs the risk of bacterial infection.
I’m not aware of any science-backed health benefits of raw milk
Recession indicator
You personally drinking raw milk doesn’t necessarily affect other people’s health, but influencers and government officials telling the public to drink it results in people who don’t know better to get 100% preventable bacterial infections, hospitalizations, long-term complications, and deaths.
P.S. I haven’t gotten through the Newsflesh series yet but it’s currently sitting on my bookshelf.
I read the Parasite trilogy in high school and it was part of why I got interested in pharmaceutical science. Highly recommend!
I read your Parasite trilogy in high school and it was part of why I got interested in pharmaceutical science. Highly recommend!
God Loses $400 Betting On Cardinal Tagle
it’s Him
I don’t understand this flavor of contrarianism. What is the point exactly
So deep dish in the Vatican now?
It's just sitting there...
White smoke spotted, crossing my fingers
Sixtus VI would be very fitting
I recently deleted all my social media except for here (I only look at the following tab here) and Instagram (I only look at cat videos and check my friends’ DMs there) and frankly nothing has improved my attention span more
I thought my use of “carcels” would be enough to hint that my jab at drivers was in jest. You don’t need to denigrate drivers but you do need thicker skin
It’s unintuitive but being able to walk to get groceries several times a week is so much more convenient than driving there once a week. I lived across the street from an Asian grocery store in undergrad and it was actually life-changing. Carcels will never understand
All I want is a world where people can figure out who they are without fear. Out-of-the-closet trans people are brave but I wish they didn’t have to be
The alternative to naloxone (Narcan) for a fentanyl overdose outside a healthcare facility - where almost all of them in this country occur - is death. Dead people don’t recover. Fentanyl overdose is the leading cause of death for Americans 18-44. Every single fentanyl overdose death is preventable.
Elon doesn’t actually run his companies (or know what’s going on) for the most part, he doesn’t raise any of his children, and he even lies about how much he plays video games, so I’m wondering what he *actually* spends his days doing
The only prerequisite for becoming the next Pope is being a Catholic male, which technically makes me eligible for the position. The Papal Conclave WILL be hearing from me soon.
I’d be tempted to take the little guy home He seems oddly unbothered by your presence, I wonder if it’s a sign of toxoplasmosis or he’s just used to being around people
How many times do you have to listen to a song to get it out of your head Or am I approaching this wrong
Did he get the idea before or after he bankrupted three casinos
I kind of hate pop science because the reporting is often inaccurate and/or focuses on the novelty of the studies instead of the actual implications
THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed an antiviral chewing gum that may help reduce the spread of viruses. In lab studies, it cut down viral loads of two herpes simplex viruses (HSV-1 and HSV-2) and two influenza A strains (H1N1 and H3N2) by more than 95%. 🧪🧵⬇️
There is a plethora of studies that look into this already and they consistently report regret rates of less than 1%
I thought the rule of thumb for people in power was that when they say something insane you believe them
What was he filibustering against? That wasn’t included in the article.
Twitter employees artificially boosting Musk’s tweets really wasn’t a lie huh
I’m very close to cancelling my ESPN+ subscription, buying binoculars, and watching the next Longhorns game from the top of the parking garage
If I can’t watch March Madness or college baseball with ESPN+ then what am I even paying for and why do you have it on your website as if you provide it
The temptation of watching Elon’s decline firsthand is making me consider redownloading Twitter
Real-life King Midas
It feels walkable *despite* the gov’s best efforts. And yeah, by “walkable,” it’s just barely so
Ramen, but it’s just one really long noodle
If only
RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won’t Be Upsetting Anymore
Wait does Zotero work for SCP articles? I need to check this ASAP
One thing I’ve noticed about TERFs snitching on trans women using bathrooms is that, even when it’s a “false alarm,” it seems to always end in said TERFs inviting a bunch of men (cops) into the women’s bathroom.
Honestly this is pretty fitting given that the first organism was probably RNA-based phys.libretexts.org/Courses/HACC...
