to your health
The internet’s richest fitness resource is a site from 1999.
An ode to ExRx.net. After reading this I checked it out, reading about the most common weight training mistakes. ~ learn more
better doing
How to do hard things.
Casey Rosengren describes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and how it helped him to approach the stress and uncertainty of entrepreneurship in a new way. “At a high-level, ACT (pronounced “act” not “A-C-T”) looks at how our thoughts influence our […]
better doing
The carrot problem.
Instead of admitting that a new kind of radar allowed British WW2 pilots to shoot down their German adversaries at night, “they invented a propaganda campaign that claimed their pilots had developed exceptional eyesight by eating “an excess of carrots.” […]
better doing
Reality is very weird and you need to be prepared for that.
Scurvy is a horrible and dangerous disease that results from a vitamin C deficiency. Mostly, it afflicted sailors who ate only preserved food for months at sea. The cure was repeatedly discovered and lost over time. This article builds on […]
tech, startups, internet
Too much extrapolation.
“There are two types of common discontinuities in AI. One is when performance jumps much more than expected – e.g. you double the amount of data you have but triple the performance of the output from that. The other is […]
fun facts
Vial: reimagining clinical trials.
“Vial is inventing new technology with the goal of reducing the cost of clinical trials by an order of magnitude. … For the first time, Vial is providing a glimpse into Act II: Battery Bio. Building on its substantial cost […]
fun facts
Criminals views on crime.
“People imprisoned/convicted ever and respondents arrested last year are similarly concerned with crime as the general public and overwhelming majority of them say too little is been done to stop it.” ~ learn more
fun facts
Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
“As the historian David Courtwright notes in his book Forces of Habit, the past five centuries have been profoundly shaped by the rise of several drugs which have one big thing in common: they became global commodities during the early […]
fun facts
The greatest scam ever written.
“How a Montreal copywriter swindled victims out of $200 million by pretending to be a legendary psychic.” ~ learn more
staying thirsty
Portable sun-powered water harvester could combat water scarcity.
“University of California Berkeley researchers have designed an extreme-weather proven, hand-held device that can extract and convert water molecules from the air into drinkable water using only ambient sunlight as its energy source, a study published in Nature Water shows.” ~ learn […]