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We enjoy Matt Reynolds’ writing (especially this piece on ORS), so it was very nice to receive a shout-out in his new piece for WIRED: Potatoes Are the Perfect Vegetable—but You’re Eating Them Wrong A...
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Lithium in American Eggs
1. Introduction In our previous analysis, we tested the lithium levels of ten American foods. All ten foods were found to contain levels of lithium above the limit of detection, but some foods...
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Lithium Hypothesis of Obesity: Recap
Imagine you’re us. You’re looking into the idea that the obesity epidemic is caused, in part or in whole, by some kind of environmental contaminant. The idea already seems pretty strong, but you want...
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Case Report: Took 500mg of Potassium and all my melancholy instantly transmuted into rage. What’s the limit on how much of this shit you can take??? Humans 1, Chimps 0: Correcting the Record – You may...
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Philosophical Transactions: AS on Potatoes-By-Default (Plus Sauce)
Previous Philosophical Transactions: JP Callaghan on Lithium Pharmacokinetics Lithium in Scottish Drinking Water with Al Hatfield M’s Experience with Potatoes-by-Default Jon on One Year...
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DefenderOfBasic: “one of the most popular tools I ever made was this thing to explain how JPEG images are created out of these mathematical patterns … made in a couple hours for a talk, didn’t even...
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The Batrachomyomachia (“Battle of the Frogs and Mice”) is a comic epic parody of the Iliad and a good source of names for your pet mice. Like Artepibulus, “he who lies in wait for bread”. Greek...
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Third Potato Riffs Report
For many people, eating a diet of nothing but potatoes (or almost nothing but potatoes) causes quick, effortless weight loss. It’s not a matter of white-knuckling through a boring diet — people eat as...
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The Dukakis Theory of Donnie Darko
Do you remember the opening line of 2001 cult classic Donnie Darko? That’s right, it’s “I’m voting for Dukakis.” Donnie Darko is set on the eve of the presidential election of 1988, where Texas...
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Links for October 2024
“You pant after the garlic and melons of Egypt and have already long suffered from perverted tastes.” “Bembo is a serif typeface created by the British branch of the Monotype Corporation in 1928–1929...
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