Is having an abusive family grown up a real lifelong challenge? Is having poor brain chemistry leading you to making decisions you don't "want" to make a real enough challenge? Is crippling anxiety that prevents you from doing anything and not having emotional support to fight it difficult enough?
Who are you to judge what a person's mind is feeling like? You have no way to know someone else's demons. So the bad taste in your mouth is no one else's doing.
You ask me who I am? I had a more complicated and fucked up life then 99% of the population, if not 99.99%. So I feel fucking qualified to tell others to get their shit together. Yes. And this nosey type of writing of yours is not going to change my mind.
The 40% in a vacuum does not really complete the picture for me. Is it possible to get the same book at a lower price somewhere else? If it were the case why would there not be other retailers undercutting Amazon?
Maybe I am missing some monopoly related issue here, but I would love to know more.
Sugar is not fundamentally toxic. This is a very poor conclusion to draw, and even more so when, as someone else suggested, expanding this to all carbs.
Glucose is used in IV drips, and in emergency conditions, providing someone with glucose and electrolytes can prevent them from passing out.
When people say sugar they are generally referring to sucrose. When they say that sugar is toxic, it's not because it's broken down into glucose, it's because it is also broken down into fructose.
The metabolism of fructose is somewhat analogous to that of ethanol.
Of course not, because that study analyzes concentrates and not natural source of fructose. Eating the equivalent amount of fructose used in those studies in fruit will never get you similar effects to ethanol. These studies are interesting but vacuous.
But parent is not talking about calling out people for having social media accounts. He/She is talking about those having a social media account judging those not having one as paranoid. You've just propped up a straw man here without addressing the point the parent comment made.
This looks interesting and I want to use it. It seems to not be available on melpa, and the installation instructions for linux are missing, though. Are there any instructions for installation on linux that I miss? Apart from the cloning and tinkering that I will inevitably do if there is no easier way.
I have not looked at the underlying study, but that article definitely does a terrible job of being clear on the caveats of the study. E.g. this nugget was left for the last paragraph of the article:
"Our exercise intervention was a simple home strength exercise program, which likely was not challenging enough in our unexpectedly active study population, where over 80% already engaged moderate to high intensity exercise," she said.
I would take anything from this study with a pinch of salt. I doubt if it was a well controlled study.
Curiously, most of the historians from the west blatantly ignore significant contributions from the other part of the world's, for their own versions of biased history. They just conveniently sweep the other people contributions as their era of dark ages. The dark ages are for them and not for other part of the worlds.
This Brief History of Surgeons article is another proof of this biased narrative. The five volumes of The Canon of Medicine book by Ibnu Sina (Avicenna) was used as one of the main reference textbooks throughout Europe including Oxford and Cambridge University for several hundred years until 18th century [1]. It also has significant original contents on surgery that were based on the work of Galen and extend them [2]. If you think the title is familiar it is because the English word "Canon" is derived from the title of this book, in a similar fashion that the word "Algebra" is derived from the title of another book by Al-Khwarizmi.
There are many other significant medical works from Middle Eastern scholars on the subject of surgery since they are the pioneers of modern university based hospitals that are common in the world today.
You're very right. I am guilty of not being familiar with Middle-Eastern contributions to Science, although I am familiar with extensive mathematics contributions. I'll look through this. Thank you!
Eurocentric biases are dominate across various academic disciplines. they either deny the attribution to our culture or call it plain superstitious belief.
enlightening article on devastating effect of it by śri lankan biologist:
then the onus of proof lies with us to prove suśruta was indeed a great surgeon, whereas we never see Europeans giving evidence to establish that Euclid was a real man.
Following book by prof. CK Raju on Euclid is a worthy read for anyone who wish to learn how Academic Imperialism works to perpetuate the aforementioned biases.
Euclid and Jesus: How and why the church changed mathematics and Christianity across two religious wars
Thanks for the sources. I'll be sure to go through them.
I am quite familiar with how Western history tends to misrepresent contributions of the East. It is rather unfortunate, and certainly extends beyond the realm of science.
In simple terms, colonial hangover is still there despite countless discourses over racism. Anyway, enjoy reading Prof. Raju. He has dobe a conference on the issue of Academic Imperialism, which is worth a watch on youtube.
Who are you to judge what a person's mind is feeling like? You have no way to know someone else's demons. So the bad taste in your mouth is no one else's doing.