Slow it down by seeking novelty? Maybe, but the fact that when a year is ten percent of your life to date, as opposed to on sixtieth of it, it’s going to seem to go by faster.
Category Archives: Science And Society
All the Doomsdays
Zero out of the last thirty predicted have actually come to pass. Someone should show this to Greta Doom.
Meadow’s Father
“Guns didn’t kill my daughter; Democrat policies did.”
I would be at least as outraged as he is.
Meanwhile, exposing the ignorance, lies, and irrationality of gun “buy backs” and “assault weapons” bans.
A Sci-Tech Symposium
…at which whites need not apply.
Biological Age Reversal
Can it be done with a drug cocktail?
I’ve known Greg Fahy for decades, going back to Alcor days, when he was doing research on organ preservation for the Red Cross, but which would be applicable to cryonic suspension. He was in Rockville, MD back then, but he’s now in southern California. Unfortunately, it’s out in Riverside, so not particularly convenient to visit him.
Sleep Apnea And Blood Pressure
The combination can increase risk of heart attack. This seemed strange to me, though:
Patients with severe obstructive sleep apnea had blood pressure readings 5.72 mmHg higher than those with normal obstructive sleep apnea.
That seems to be like a trivial increase if one has hypertension. It would be about three percent of my systolic.
A Basement Discovery
…undermines decades of crap dietary advice:
Analyzing the reams of old records, Ramsden and his team found, in line with the “diet-heart hypothesis,” that substituting vegetable oils lowered total blood cholesterol levels, by an average of 14 percent.
But that lowered cholesterol did not help people live longer. Instead, the lower cholesterol fell, the higher the risk of dying: 22 percent higher for every 30-point fall. Nor did the corn-oil group have less atherosclerosis or fewer heart attacks.
I’m scheduling a follow up with my cardiologist. I’m guessing that he’ll probably want to put me on statins, despite my clean bill of health from my angio scan, because my total cholesterol is a little over 240. I’ll tell him to take a hike.
The Insanity At The Dem Debate
Blame academia.
[Update a few minutes later]
Bobby Frank O’Rourke: “Hell yes I’m going to violate my oath to defend and protect the Constitution.“
And yes, vicious scapegoating is the point of Beto’s attempted gun grab.
[Late-morning update]
The Democrats let their fascist gun-grabbing freak flag fly.
The Lunar Tardigrades
A good discussion of the legal issues involved.
Those Plant-Based Burgers
They aren’t better for you, so why are you eating them?
They’re not only not better for you, but almost certainly worse, nutritionally. I don’t want “plant based” food. I want affordable lab-grown meat that is indistinguishable, in both nutrition and taste, from the real thing. And I’d want it in space, too.
[Update a few minutes later]
I just got around to reading it myself. It’s not about the calories or the salt, or even the saturated fat. If you don’t eat meat, you’re not getting (among other things) choline, which is essential for everyone, but particularly for growing kids.