Don't want to grow old? How a cup of coffee and fruit could be the answer you're looking for. Coffee and "dark fruit". Berries. They'll protect your telomeres. Well, I'm not so sure it's this easy to stop aging, but I love coffee and berries of different sorts. There certainly are people who seem to age much more slowly, so I suppose a reduction in the aging process is possible.
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Brains, brains! There's a startup, Bexorg, that is using living brains, harvested after death and kept alive, to study various treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, testing for efficacy, etc. Here's a YT video of their facility. The brain is such a high-energy demand organ that it's amazing that they can keep it alive. I suppose that it's possible to keep most of the cells alive for study, which may be enough to achieve their goals. Still, one wonders if there is any consciousness or thought process that lingers. What goes on in those "dead" brains?
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"Fasting, when done safely, is an effective weight loss intervention. Popular diets that incorporate fasting, such as intermittent fasting, claim to have health benefits beyond weight loss. Our results provide evidence for the health benefits of fasting beyond weight loss, but these were only visible after three days of total caloric restriction -- later than we previously thought."
Eating ice cream or cheese can really cause nightmares. Especially cheddar cheese, which is the cheese used in Welsh rarebit, a potent inducer of nightmares.
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Hard lesson to learn. A guy came up with an idea to make foods last longer by coating it with a special wax. He called his company Apeel. But then social media spread the word that it was somehow linked to a floor cleaner chemical. Also there was a link to Bill Gates and the two Facebook posts ended up killing the product. The article attaches the blame to "MAHA influencers" but does not name names. Why implicate MAHA in this? Sounds biased to me.
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Hong Wang may be the youngest female winner of the Fields Medal for solving the 3D Kakeya Conjecture. I can't even grok the 2D version of the conjecture. Seems impossible but it's true.
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Phosphene is a video wallpaper engine for macOS Tahoe. Let's you create stuff like Aerial. I might play around with this someday.
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Congrats. Well, that $10,000 treasure chest buried in the San Francisco area has been found.
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I can't believe Trump was going to sign an order that might treat AI models like how the FDA treats drugs. Thank goodness he listened to saner minds. That would have been a disaster for AI in the United States. This is like CRISPR technology. At first, there wasn't going to be experiments on humans, but China started doing it, so U.S. scientists started doing it, too. As with many things in life, our actions are driven by the actions of the worst players in the game. You may want to exercise restraint and caution, but when everyone else is raging ahead, you will lose.
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Vega: Zero-knowledge proofs for digital identity in the age of AI . Yes! Someone at Microsoft must have read my blog. Or at least read the post I read. There is a way to achieve age-verification without banning VPNs, for goodness sakes.
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Never satisfied. It's that time of the year again. Portland Public Schools teachers to vote on proposed cost-of-living pay raise.
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It happened again. Labor-backed candidates in 2 ultra-close Washington County races for Legislature have claimed lead, new results show. Aren't we sick of this already? On election night, the non-radical candidate wins. But a couple days later, "new results" come in, showing that the progressive radicals won after all. This is precisely why we need to get rid of mail-in ballots. You never see the radical left candidate win on election night, only to lose later. It's always in one direction.
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Oregon has the 2nd highest paid nurses in the nation. Only Hawaii tops Oregon.
And Providence Health Plans is shutting down. The Medicare Advantage plans are still being shopped around, but everything else will end. Nobody wanted to buy that asset from Providence. Wow, how the once-mighty have fallen.
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