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You may know this, but DIY fecal transplants are supposedly very doable

And it's as a result of this that length([a, b)) + length([b, c)) == length([a, c))

The other nice property of [closed, open) intervals is that they concatenate perfectly: [a, b) ++ [b, c) == [a, c)

I'd say start with Babel-17. It's short, exciting, and dense with both lyricism and great ideas. The first book of his I read was Dhalgren though, and though I couldn't really break into it until the third try, once I did it was amazing, like no other book I've read before or since.

Boo clickbait title. What the article actually says (from what I can see on the first, ungated page) is that what people refer to as "porn addiction" differs from substance addiction in certain ways (physiological responses to the target of addiction). So maybe "addiction" is a poor metaphor for the problem some people have in regulating porn consumption. Which is very different from denying the existence of the problem.

Biggest surprise to me is that it's Bloomberg reporting this. A signal that the mainstream corporate media is starting to care about climate change?

I'm investigating this very question myself. I think it's probably something each person has to figure out for themselves. Anecdotally, the mathematician Paul Erdos took amphetamine (not coffee but same idea) every day and considered it crucial to his work. Also, I've been trying drinking only small amounts of coffee: 10g beans + 160g water that I make myself every morning with pour over. And it's great! I can definitely feel it, but I don't get jittery/anxious/unable to focus like I used to gulping down big cups of coffee.