Shared from Twitter: Top 10 Design Flaws in the Human Body: Our Bodies Are Full of Hack Solutions

Top 10 Design Flaws in the Human Body: Our Bodies Are Full of Hack Solutions from C. Michael Gibson MD's Tweet

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Nine Questions, Nine Answers. « Science-Based Medicine

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/nine-questions-nine-answers/


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Human genome shaped by vegetarian diet increases risk of cancer and heart disease

https://www.researchgate.net/blog/post/human-genome-shaped-by-vegetarian-diet-increases-risk-of-cancer-and-heart-disease


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Shared from Twitter: The Craze for Coconut Oil and Its Many Magical, Miracle Uses

The Craze for Coconut Oil and Its Many Magical, Miracle Uses from Cornell DNS's Tweet

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Eating green could be in your genes

http://phys.org/news/2016-03-green-genes.html


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Having trouble choosing the right cooking oil? So is everyone else. | Public Radio International

http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-07-03/having-trouble-choosing-right-cooking-oil-so-everyone-else


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Fats of Life Home - Fats of Life

http://www.fatsoflife.com/


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Hummus

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/03/30/zahav_s_hummus_recipe.html


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100 Great Literary Quotes of Fernando Pessoa | Nishant Mishra

http://nishantmishra.com/2014/08/17/100-quotes-fernando-pessoa/

18. "I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided."

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Philip Graham

http://www.philipgraham.net/


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Turmeric

Not quite the panacea the natural advocates would hope.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3535097/

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/turmeric-tasty-in-curry-questionable-as-medicine/

It's bioavailability is very poor also: "In humans receiving a dose of 2 g of curcumin alone, serum levels of curcumin were either undetectable or very low." So in most medical trials some aid to absorption or decrease in metabolic destruction is also used: Neither curcumin nor turmeric taken orally is well absorbed unless taken with black pepper or piperine, a constituent of black pepper responsible for its pungency.

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Therapeutic roles of curcumin: lessons learned from clinical trials. - PubMed - NCBI

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23143785


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10 places to grab a bite after midnight in Flagstaff | Local | azdailysun.com

http://azdailysun.com/business/local/places-to-grab-a-bite-after-midnight-in-flagstaff/collection_fdf212be-069c-5dff-9852-c9ad489b9773.html


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Shared from Twitter: Collaboration and Tribalism in Science

Collaboration and Tribalism in Science from Sean Carroll's Tweet

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Half the World's Population Lives in Just 1% of the Land [Map] - Metrocosm

http://metrocosm.com/world-population-split-in-half-map/


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Nobel Prize Economist Says American Inequality Didn’t Just Happen. It Was Created. - Evonomics

http://evonomics.com/nobel-prize-economist-says-american-inequality-didnt-just-happen-it-was-created/


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Tweet by We Are Indie Jazz on Twitter

	We Are Indie Jazz (@WeAreIndieJazz)
3/27/16, 10:17 AM "Jazz washes away the dust of every day life." - Art Blakey, American #jazz drummer and bandleader

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Slang, ctd: Malarkey | The Economist

http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2012/10/slang-ctd


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AMD: Street Shrugs at Bloomberg Report Intel May License Graphics Patents - Tech Trader Daily - Barrons.com

http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2016/03/17/amd-street-shrugs-at-bloomberg-report-intel-may-license-graphics-patents/


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What Research Says about Defeating Terrorism - Scientific American

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-research-says-about-defeating-terrorism/


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Runs in the Family - The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/03/28/the-genetics-of-schizophrenia?mbid=social_twitter

The Stevens and Barres study, published in the journal Cell in 2007, documented one of the most arresting instances of repurposing in biology: a protein designed to ticket germs and junk for destruction had been co-opted by the nervous system to ticket synapses for destruction. "It reinforces an old intuition," my psychiatrist friend Hans, in Boston, told me. "The secret of learning is the systematic elimination of excess. We grow, mostly, by dying."

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Enjoying Sedona, AZ with Adam Craig and Carl Decker - Video - Pinkbike

http://www.pinkbike.com/news/sedona-az-adam-craig-carl-decker-video-2016.html


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Ancient viruses lurk in our DNA | Lunatic Laboratories

http://loonylabs.org/2016/03/22/ancient-viruses-lurk-in-our-dna/


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Road rage and toxoplasmosis: Return of the parasite | Lunatic Laboratories

http://loonylabs.org/2016/03/23/road-rage-toxoplasmosis-parasite/


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Bringing grassroots organizing and science to Vandana Shiva | Cornell Alliance for Science

http://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/bringing-grassroots-organizing-and-science-vandana-shiva?utm_content=buffer76753&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer


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One Genius’ Lonely Crusade to Teach a Computer Common Sense | WIRED

http://www.wired.com/2016/03/doug-lenat-artificial-intelligence-common-sense-engine/


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Imodium's Survival Applications: What It Is & Why Carry It Everywhere

http://morethanjustsurviving.com/imodium-for-survival/


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TEAM VENTANA, LLC Bankruptcy (3:14-bk-17915), Arizona Bankruptcy Court

https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/5434428/TEAM_VENTANA,_LLC


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Kaibab National Forest - Dogtown Lake Campground

http://www.fs.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsinternet/!ut/p/c4/04_SB8K8xLLM9MSSzPy8xBz9CP0os3gDfxMDT8MwRydLA1cj72BTJw8jAwjQL8h2VAQAzHJMsQ!!/?ss=110307&navtype=BROWSEBYSUBJECT&cid=FSE_003705&navid=110130000000000&pnavid=110000000000000&position=BROWSEBYSUBJECT&recid=11656&actid=29&ttype=recarea&pname=Kaibab%20National%20Forest%20-%20Dogtown%20Lake%20Campground


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Prescott National Forest - Camping & Cabins:Campground Camping

http://www.fs.usda.gov/activity/prescott/recreation/camping-cabins/?recid=67155&actid=29


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Coconino National Forest - Blue Ridge Campground

http://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/coconino/recreation/camping-cabins/recarea/?recid=54896&actid=29


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Coconino National Forest - Double Springs Campground

http://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/coconino/recreation/recarea/?recid=79307&actid=29


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Shared from Twitter: 61-Year-Old Man With Chronic Diarrhea

61-Year-Old Man With Chronic Diarrhea from Mayo Clinic's Tweet

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Shared from Twitter: A New View of Appendicitis - NYTimes.com

A New View of Appendicitis - NYTimes.com from The New York Times's Tweet 

the appendix serves as a repository of healthy bacteria that can replenish the gut after an extreme attack of diarrhea

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Shared from Twitter: Dietary advice on added sugar is damaging our health, warns heart expert | The BMJ

Dietary advice on added sugar is damaging our health, warns heart expert | The BMJ from Dr Aseem Malhotra's Tweet

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Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up for Sale in Robotics Retreat - Bloomberg Business

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-17/google-is-said-to-put-boston-dynamics-robotics-unit-up-for-sale


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The comparative safety of legal induced abortion and childbirth in the United States. - PubMed - NCBI

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/22270271/

CONCLUSION: Legal induced abortion is markedly safer than childbirth. The risk of death associated with childbirth is approximately 14 times higher than that with abortion. Similarly, the overall morbidity associated with childbirth exceeds that with abortion.

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Clinton and Sanders and Trump and Kasich and Also a Bit About Cruz and Rubio – Whatever

http://whatever.scalzi.com/2016/03/16/clinton-and-sanders-and-trump-and-kasich-and-also-a-bit-about-cruz-and-rubio/

And what about Marco Rubio, who exited the race last night? Honestly, I can't be bothered to think of him any further. He was always underready, and the fact that the GOP ever seriously considered him as their answer to Obama is a reminder that the GOP neither understands Obama nor understands anyone who isn't white as paste. Look! A young ethnic person! The kids love that! Surely we shall win the White House now! Meanwhile, Rubio's politics were those of a conservative 73-year-old white dude shaking his cane in the yard at the kids riding their bikes in the road (Cruz's politics are the same, except the 73-year-old is also praying for God to send a bear to rip the children to shreds). Dear GOP: Voters do pay attention to policies and positions, not just packaging. Which is why (among other things) an old white man is more popular with under-30 Democratic voters than his opponent.

But now Rubio is gone, and good riddance. He'll soon be gone from the Senate as well, and where he goes from here I have a complete lack of interest, so long as it is in the private sector and I never have to deal with him again. I'm sad for the GOP that he was their Great Establishment Hope for '16, and that what we have left is Kasich, who has no chance, Cruz, who should have "well, actually" in blinking neon over his head, and of course Trump, the walking embodiment of political nihilism and sub-standard cuts of beef. The GOP deserves no better than this, but our nation certainly does.

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Shared from Twitter: A Song-by-Song Look at What Made George Martin the Fifth Beatle - The New York Times

A Song-by-Song Look at What Made George Martin the Fifth Beatle - The New York Times from The New York Times's Tweet

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Social Media News: Mathematicians Discover A Conspiracy In Prime Numbers

Mathematicians Discover A Conspiracy In Prime Numbers
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Two mathematicians have uncovered a simple, previously unnoticed property of prime numbers — those numbers that are divisible only by 1 and themselves. Prime numbers, it seems, have decided preferences about the final digits of the primes that immediately follow them. Among the first billion prime numbers, for instance, a prime ending in 9 is almost 65 percent more likely to be followed by a prime ending in 1 than another prime ending in 9. In a paper posted online today, Kannan Soundararajan Read the full story

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Far right-wing party makes gains in German elections

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/03/13/far-right-german-regional-elections-merkel-migrant-crisis/81725556/


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Shared from Twitter: Food poisoning expert reveals 6 foods he refuses to eat | Features | Lifestyle | The Independent

Food poisoning expert reveals 6 foods he refuses to eat | Features | Lifestyle | The Independent from The Independent's Tweet

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There's no benefit big enough to take away the risk of drinking products that can be made safe by pasteurization," he says.

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Political realism and elite

http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Research/Files/Reports/2015/04/political-realism-rauch/political-realism-rauch.pdf?la=en





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Dietary Guidelines for Americans

http://cspinet.org/nutritionpolicy/dietaryguidelines.html


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State laws on how electors are selected and bound in voting might be critical to the outcome of the upcoming Presidential election.

Those of us who view Trump as an outrage to American decency are now starting to see the dangers hidden in a true democracy. Is Trump the prototype of why the Electoral College was conceived, or even if not, can it still be the last desperate tactical bunker to hold the nation away from a disastrous presidency?

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If a lion did a good deed, would we understand it? ...

https://aeon.co/essays/if-a-lion-did-a-good-deed-would-we-understand-it


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Everything I Wish I'd Said To My Abusive Gymnastics Coach

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/everything-i-wish-id-said-to-my-abusive-gymnastics-coach_us_56df47dee4b03a40567a804a?pbx=25&te=Upworthy


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NPR: Going, Going, Gone: Master Go Player Loses Best-Of-5 Match With A.I.

Going, Going, Gone: Master Go Player Loses Best-Of-5 Match With A.I.
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Lee Sedol has lost three games in a row to Google's AlphaGo program, which means the program has officially defeated the human. Sedol said the pressure was intense, and he felt "powerless." Read the full story

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Business Insider: Amazon's cloud boss told us something that should terrify a $140 billion industry

Amazon's cloud boss told us something that should terrify a $140 billion industry
Business Insider

Rob Price Mar 12, 2016 | 10:00 AM ET If you build enterprise hardware, start freaking out. Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images There's no question Amazon is turning the screws on the $140 billion data center tech industry. Amazon has grown to become the single-largest player in the rapidly growing cloud industry as its cloud platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), celebrates its ten-year anniversary. And in the process, AWS has sent shockwaves through the traditional enterprise sector. In an interview Read the full story

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Arguments from Global Warming Skeptics and what the science really says

http://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php


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Moore ocean acid

https://fcpp.org/sites/default/files/documents/Moore%20-%20Ocean%20Acidification%20Alarmism.pdf

Deaths Oregon trail

http://www.nps.gov/scbl/planyourvisit/upload/Death-and-Danger-Along-the-Trails.pdf

Raw milk az

https://agriculture.az.gov/sites/default/files/Raw%20Milk%20Dairy_0.pdf

Shared from Twitter: How the internet flips elections and alters our thou...

How the internet flips elections and alters our thou... from Kas Thomas's Tweet

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Dear Person Whose Dog "Just Wants to Say Hi" — Taking Fountain

http://www.takingfountain.com/blogstream/dear-person-whose-dog-just-wants-to-say-hi


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City of Sedona : News : Household Hazardous and Electronics Waste Collection Day on March 19

http://www.sedonaaz.gov/Home/Components/News/News/3790/1317?backlist=%2Fyour-government%2Fdepartments%2Fpolice-department


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"Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List" is an actual science paper accepted by a journal - Vox

http://www.vox.com/2014/11/21/7259207/scientific-paper-scam


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A feminist glaciology | Climate Scepticism

http://cliscep.com/2016/03/03/a-feminist-glaciology/


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Drexel professor's new book: it's impossible to be vegetarian | PhillyVoice

http://www.phillyvoice.com/new-book-drexel-professor-argues-its-impossible-be-vegetarian/


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Rationally Speaking: Peas and quiet

http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.it/2012/05/peas-and-quiet.html

But we have to be careful: science isn't in the business of confirming our intuitions, and so our everyday terms may not be adequate to capture the weird, wild, wondrous things that science finds. It's fascinating that peas can send warning signals to one another, but that doesn't mean that those peas are talking, even if "talk" is the term that most easily describes what the peas are doing (6). Once we lose track of our linguistic limits, we fall prey to the dangers of rhetoric.

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WHO | Electromagnetic fields and public health

http://www.who.int/peh-emf/publications/facts/fs304/en/


Considering the very low exposure levels and research results collected to date, there is no convincing scientific evidence that the weak RF signals from base stations and wireless networks cause adverse health effects

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Statisticians Found One Thing They Can Agree On: It’s Time To Stop Misusing P-Values | FiveThirtyEight

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/statisticians-found-one-thing-they-can-agree-on-its-time-to-stop-misusing-p-values/


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The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey - Rinker Buck - Google Books

https://books.google.com/books?id=vQH5CQAAQBAJ&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&dq=surplus+carnal+results&source=bl&ots=E7FTun__wd&sig=Mll0GUmY7sFsoc3FWW3VB0wYH_I&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiitf_Bwa_LAhWjlYMKHaWZCfcQ6AEIGzAA#v=onepage&q=surplus%20carnal%20results&f=false


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Shared from Twitter: Understanding Libertarians |

Understanding Libertarians | from Steven Brust's Tweet

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Shared from Twitter: Sterilization’s Cruel Inheritance | New Republic

Sterilization's Cruel Inheritance | New Republic from Matthias Rascher's Tweet

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Uncensored John Simon

http://uncensoredsimon.blogspot.com/

Before a grand landscape, she declared that "this was the work with which Mr. Church plummeted to fame." A rather unique mistake from charming lips, forgivable with friendly titters.

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Solar

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/03/solar_power_doesn_t_threaten_electric_utilities.html


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Videos - Stated Clearly

http://statedclearly.com/videos/


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HotWhopper

http://blog.hotwhopper.com/


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Tourist trap or living history? A review of Union Oyster House at 190. - The Boston Globe

http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/food-dining/2016/02/29/tourist-trap-living-history-review-union-oyster-house/Xru3c9Q7LmKAZKsCD9NLXJ/story.html?event=event25
And that nobody can be bothered to rinse down the outside of the oysters' shells suggests a kitchen that has had 190 years to find its laurels and rest on them.

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Former Scalia Clerk Has a Powerful Message

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2016/02/29/former-scalia-clerk-has-a-powerful-message/

Scalia passed away in his sleep at a luxurious hunting lodge. He died as he lived, gun at hand, dreaming of killing helpless prey from a position of safety and comfort. May his successor on the Court have a loftier vision of law, and of life.

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We polled 1,060 Americans about abortion. This is what they got wrong. | What Americans think about abortion

http://www.vox.com/a/abortion-statistics-opinions-2016/poll


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Justices OK child porn sentence in war of words

What? Only Kagan on the Supreme Court can read basic English?

Justices OK child porn sentence in war of words

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/03/01/supreme-court-child-pornography-scalia-sotomayor-kagan/81148620/


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