Derek Lowe, pro-vax science writer, is upset and wants RFK Jr and others to be fired. Sorry, Derek, but if you were able to keep silent while Daskalakis was at the CDC, and while Rachel Levine allowed churches and schools to be shut down but allowed BLM protests, then you have no credibility. You're just another partisan hack. Bernie Sanders feels the same way as Derek, but he's even easier to brush off. Right, Senator Climate Change?
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No one wants to use modern dishwashers anymore, now that it takes 2.5 to 4 hours to complete a cycle. And supposedly people like the zen of handwashing dishes. If you have an old style fast running dishwasher, you're lucky.
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Intriguing. Smelling a specific rose scent for a month was associated with gray matter growth in the brain. Paper here. Interesting that the paper does not source the rose essential oil. The parts of the brain that were enlarged were the posterior cingulate cortex and the whole brain in general, but not the amygdala. Interesting that the benefits of meditation appear to affect the posterior cingulate cortex, too. Maybe the rose scent elicited meditative thoughts. The study was done only in women, though.
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Aspirin was shown recently not to have preventive benefit against heart attacks, but clopidogrel apparently does. This is an old drug, and the study was actually a meta-analysis of 7 prior randomized trials. Back in May 2025, South Koreans physicians arrived at a similar conclusion with clopidogrel although in that study, the drug was administered after stenting, and all participants had prior heart attacks.
But catching up on sleep on the weekends also lowers risk of heart attack by 19%, too. I can do that!
Google's Gmail sends email with conservative content to the SPAM box more than those with liberal content. Such is the politicization of AI. And another reason to reconsider using Gmail.
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Does work-life balance make you mediocre? Yeah, being super wealthy at a young age requires sacrifices that not everyone is willing to make. And that's OK. You have to find the level of work commitment that works for you. Being a billionaire requires having a life I'm not willing to have.
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Whoa. Sobering take of how ChatGPT took a man for a ride. People really need to know how to use this generative AI tool. It seems like it should be easy to use, but it can be very dangerous.
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Why is Southeast Portland smelling like "rotten asshole"? There's a headline you don't see every day. The sewer system hasn't grown up with the city, it seems. And it's only been ten years since the last upgrade. But he's right about NYC – the city smells like sewer and diesel fumes all the time.
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Lewis and Clark marked their trail with laxatives. Mercury-containing laxatives, that is. Thunder-clappers they called 'em.
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