I enjoyed reading The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger in part because of the sheer novelty of the research and the argument. The book presents fresh insights into how plants communicate, adapt, and thrive in ways that often go unnoticed. […]
Peter Attia’s book Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity (Amazon link) came out right before I did a 3-day fast during summer 2023. One of my friends dropped out of the fast because they read in the book that […]
If NFTs are securities, then maybe OpenSea is an unregistered securities exchange. “Non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace OpenSea received a notice from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it intends to pursue an enforcement action, the company disclosed on […]
“Fertility is collapsing worldwide. We lack a coherent theory for why this is happening.” … “I propose that there is, in fact, an under-appreciated fundamental cause of these trends, which manifests in the form of different proximate causes (real and […]
This is long and provocative and starts with conflating elite cultural status and high IQ, which is a leap you may or may not agree with. “High-IQ immigrants will have major impacts on the places they end up not only […]
A point of view certain to be controversial in some circles. “These sorts of findings are commonplace in the empirical food desert literature: objectively increasing availability and access to food doesn’t seem to do much to what people choose to […]
“A study by researcher Intouch Insight found that nearly half (49%) of delivery orders have a discount attached. That included 65% of orders on DoorDash, 55% on Uber Eats and 27% on Grubhub.” ~ learn more
“One approach to that problem is to identify contradictions between published scientific papers, which can point the way to new discoveries. In our paper, we describe how ContraCrow, an agent built on top of PaperQA2, can evaluate every claim in […]
Peter Attia reviews a newly published paper and he doesn’t hate it. “A proteomics model may provide an alternative method for estimating risk of mortality and chronic disease.” ~ learn more
“Injecting regulatory T cells or Tregs, which control the body’s immune responses, directly into damaged bone, muscle and skin significantly boosts healing, according to new research. The door is now open to developing a universal cell-based method of enhancing healing […]