A sleeping agent, suvorexant, was found to reduce build up of amyloid-beta and tau proteins, linked to Alzheimer's disease. Improving cognition has been linked to reading more fiction, and walking faster. But correlation is not causation. Smarter people read more and walk faster than demented people. Reading more fiction and walking faster isn't going to make you smarter.
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Really? "Kotek inherited the societal residue of her fellow progressive Democrat, Gov. Kate Brown. Generally speaking, governors in Oregon haven’t been popular for a long time." Yeah sure, blame Oregon.
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Good taste. Steve Jobs was a fan of shin-hanga style of Japanese art, especially that of Kawase Hasui.
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Best ways to stay awake without caffeine. Someone has also discovered my sunflower seeds trick!
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Can't wait for this to go online. The Catfish Test. This is a test to see if someone is really who they say they are. I can see several applications for this.
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I just deleted the Signal app from my phone. I didn't realize that the Chairman of the Signal Foundation is the same person as the CEO of NPR. That person has no background in tech, and has a dangerous political tilt. I thought Moxie Marlinspike was still in charge. Times sure change.
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Really? There are 15 places in Oregon where a couple can just live on Social Security. You probably have to be Tier One on PERS, though, I bet.
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Einstein said famously that "Problems can't be solved with the same kind of thinking that created them." When Democrats face consequences of problems that they created, their solutions often make things worse. Here's an example. Oregon is flooded with illegal immigrants – a consequence of Democrat policy. Now there a report that Deschutes County doesn't have enough public defenders. The article includes this statement: "We had an individual who did not have English as his primary language”. So to deal with the shortage, Oregon's solution is to remove the bar requirement to get a license.
Here's another problem: a lot of people have been maxing out their credit cards to get by in this lousy economy with high inflation.
That's not healthy, so what does the Biden administration want to do – legislate capping credit late fees to just 8%. This is unfair to credit card companies, who are essentially providing unsecured loans.
Here's another example: California's tax base is diminishing due to their Democrat policies, and now they went from a huge surplus in 2022 to a huge deficit in 2024. Newsom doesn't want to cut spending. And in California, spending is indeed crazy, like giving free vodka to the homeless.
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Does college pay off? Sometimes. Depends on your field of study, how much you invest, and what your degree is. Masters degrees may not be as worthwhile. At this time, I'm not sure that paying for an expensive school (especially an elite school) is worth it anymore.
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Lesbian and bisexual nurses have a substantially higher all-cause mortality compared with straight nurses. No cause given. Just speculation.
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