xanthopan
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Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
Maybe only tangentially related, but Michael Pollan's recent book about psychedelics "How To Change Your Mind" goes in-depth on this. There's something about being able to quiet the "default mode network" that lends the mind to transcendental/creative thought. The same effect can be achieved through meditation or breathwork.
Comment · 8 years ago
i'd bet that proto-beer and proto-bread appeared around the same time, and techniques were developed over generations to calibrate different recipes until they resembled what we might recognize as "beer" and "bread" today.
Comment · 8 years ago
> America in 1950 had orders of magnitudes less diagnosed depression than America in 2018
America in 1950 also had orders of magnitude less access to medical professionals for proper diagnosis.
And,
- The theory was still fairly nascent. "Major depressive disorder" wasn't termed until the 70s.
- Depression and anxiety were much more stigmatized back then. Men were told to "man up".
- Husbands could medicate/institutionalize their wives just because they were "hysterical".
I'd say we had a long way to go back then, and we still have a long way to go.
Comment · 8 years ago
> In most other contexts we encounter, stuffing an adjective in there means "NOT".
I think that's less a comment on grammar and more about how there's a tendency to name stuff that is similar to other stuff, yet markedly different, in oxymoronic ways. For example:
"virtual reality", "business ethics", "educational television", "military intelligence", "magic realism"
Comment · 8 years ago
Recently finished The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte and How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan. I would have been embarrassed to have been caught reading the latter given the subject matter, despite how influential he's been on how I think about food, but it was a real insightful treat.
Currently reading The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South and Safe Area Goražde, a comic book about the Bosnian War.
Also reading Bertrand Russell's The History of Western Philosophy in between books, but that's a book I'll never really finish.
Comment · 8 years ago
* Trail Running
* Yoga
* Cooking
* Gardening
* Photography
* Reading
I've found that a lot of my hobbies are inextricably related to one another in some way, like a strange loop :)
Comment · 8 years ago
there aren't riots over the state of elder care because the elderly can't riot
Comment · 8 years ago
1. OTOH, it also means there's now a need for manual pollination.
Comment · 8 years ago
I can attest to this. I've struggled with anxiety/depression/insomnia/adhd for years, and over the past couple years I've learned that careful attention to exercise, diet, and sleep are the most reliable ways I can ensure a healthy baseline.
I used to run a couple miles in the morning and evenings, on streets, until I injured my leg. So I switched to hiking after my leg recovered. Short 2-3 mile hikes turned into 12 mile stretches, which turned into short trail runs, and now I'm running 5-6 miles of trails 2x a week and 12+ mile runs/hikes on weekends (I'm secretly training for an ultra). I'd always thought I'd hate running, because it was too strenuous or something, but I haven't looked back. Maybe I'm just literally running away from my problems, but, it's far more rewarding in any case.
Comment · 8 years ago
feed and water are very expensive, as is the calf
Comment · 8 years ago
> they started falling apart within weeks
isn't that kind of the point?
Comment · 10 years ago
From my understanding, the reason it hasn't been opened yet is to preserve whatever's inside, not so much out of fear for mercury poisoning. For instance, the terracotta army was actually painted before it was excavated [1], but the paint curled and flaked off within minutes of opening the mausoleum, leaving us with a sea of drab stone statues. I think they're just waiting until they have the tech to properly preserve the interior.
[1] http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-09/09/content_112783...
So I may be playing devil's advocate here, but isn't this a net improvement over the last few decades? Kids getting hooked on something that's significantly less deadly? It's not ideal, sure, but it's better than a slew of cancer epidemics.
What is the FDA trying to achieve?