Articles by hilux
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Do turmeric and curcumin have any actual health benefits? (newscientist.com)

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Kibble-fed dogs have worse metabolic outcomes than raw-meat-fed dogs (sciencedirect.com)

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Ig Nobel Prize: UVC light sterilizes shoes, kills odor (bbc.com)

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Cinnamon for diabetes – Vitamin D for Covid-19 – BAD SCIENCE (gidmk.substack.com)

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Alternate-day fasting reduces fat more than time-restricted eating for non-obese (sciencedirect.com)

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New York skyscraper had a 1-in-16 chance of collapse (cnn.com)

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Should you take collagen? [Or gelatin? ] (economist.com)

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Denmark zoo asks people to donate their small pets as food for captive predators (pbs.org)

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Tom Lehrer, Performer of Lobachevsky, New Math, and Alma, Goes to Valhalla (avclub.com)

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1 in 3 US teens have prediabetes, new CDC data show (go.com)

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Inulin (Fiber) Supplement Appears to Boost Brain Function in Older People (sciencealert.com)

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The Undervalued Medical Power of Muscle (medscape.com)

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Neanderthals operated prehistoric “fat factory” on German lakeshore (archaeologymag.com)

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Of Course Overeating Makes Us Fat Except When It Doesn't? (uncertaintyprinciples.substack.com)

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VMware perpetual license holder receives audit letter from Broadcom (arstechnica.com)

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Authorship for sale: Nature investigates how paper mills work (nature.com)

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The nose knows: Humans' nasal breathing patterns are like fingerprints (timesofisrael.com)

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Exercise Is Great but It's Not a Cancer Drug (sensible-med.com)

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Sesame Scheme: Unintended Consequences of Allergen Food Labeling (choicesmagazine.org)

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Chinese arms emerged as the biggest winner in the India-Pakistan conflict (thinkchina.sg)

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Dolphins Communicate with 'Fountains of Pee' (scientificamerican.com)

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US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon thinks AI is "A One" (steak sauce) (qz.com)

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India's repair culture gives new life to dead laptops (theverge.com)

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Myths and Facts Regarding Low-Carbohydrate Diets (mdpi.com)

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Cannabis Use Linked to Epigenetic Changes, Scientists Find (sciencealert.com)

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Timeframe of 8-hour restricted eating irrelevant to weight loss (nih.gov)

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China Claims Its Infrared AI Can Beat Even the Best Fighter Pilots (eurasiantimes.com)

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Developer convicted for "kill switch" code activated upon his termination (arstechnica.com)

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Coffee reduces risk of Type 2 Diabetes; okay to add cream, but not sweetener (nutrition.org)

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PhD student says U of Minnesota expelled him over unfair AI allegation (mprnews.org)

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Low-carb diets work. Why does American Diabetes Assoc. push insulin? (2024) (theguardian.com)

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AI column-smashes words, concocts scientific term now used in 20 papers (boingboing.net)

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Tesla sees German car sales plunge in January (reuters.com)

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Magnus Carlsen on why the future of chess lies in freestyle (economist.com)

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Carl Sagan Predicts the Decline of America (1995) (openculture.com)

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Physicists Confirm the Existence of a Third Form of Magnetism (sciencealert.com)

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Unsweetened caffeinated coffee assoc. with lower rates of Parkinson's, dementia (sciencedirect.com)

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Lessons Learned from Epidemiology of Type 2 Diabetes in South Asians (diabetesjournals.org)

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AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt (arstechnica.com)

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Bryan Johnson Is in an Actual Pns-Measuring Contest With His Teenage Son (vanityfair.com)

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Carb ingestion improves exercise endurance in both LCHF and HCLF triathletes (physiology.org)

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The Xbox game that made Microsoft apologize to the Saudi Arabian government (polygon.com)

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Higher potassium intake at dinner linked to fewer sleep disturbances – study (nutraingredients-asia.com)

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UW and CS student reach truce in spat over 'HuskySwap' scheduling app (geekwire.com)

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Lead and cadmium found in muscle-building protein powders (cnn.com)

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Meta-Analysis: Weight loss requires >150 minutes per week of aerobic exercise (jamanetwork.com)

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[dupe] Man who exploded Cybertruck in Las Vegas used ChatGPT in planning, police say (npr.org)

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Dietary cholesterol or moderate egg intake not associated with risk of obesity (sciencedirect.com)

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Intense exercise found to suppress appetite more than moderate workouts (medicalxpress.com)

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Carvana Is Cooking Its Books, Hindenburg Research Claims (gizmodo.com)

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All LTE smartphones can use Starlink to make calls anywhere on Earth (jasondeegan.com)

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As obesity skyrockets, Dietary Guidelines go from pro-vegetable to anti-meat (uncertaintyprinciples.substack.com)

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Hair Loss Breakthrough: A Sugar Gel Triggers Robust Regrowth (sciencealert.com)

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Genetics of people who need little sleep (knowablemagazine.org)

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Health impact of seed oils versus tallow: the evidence (uncertaintyprinciples.substack.com)

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US life expectancy, currently 49th, expected to fall to 66th by 2050 (cnn.com)

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Mexican Cartels Lure Chemistry Students to Make Fentanyl (nytimes.com)

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Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars (propublica.org)

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AI overwhelmingly prefers white and male job candidates (geekwire.com)

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World leaders traceable via their bodyguards' Strava workouts [video] (youtube.com)

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At major US universities, tenure-line faculty are teaching less and less (chronicle.com)

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Ex-FTX exec Nishad Singh spared prison sentence (kron4.com)

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Child-parent estrangement surprisingly common in America (economist.com)

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Time-restricted eating – a non-drug approach for managing metabolic syndrome (acpjournals.org)

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[flagged] A third of Americans agree with Trump that immigrants 'poison the blood' of US (theguardian.com)

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Dutch national soccer player moonlights as drug trafficker (msn.com)

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Barcelona subway uses regenerative braking as EV power source (grist.org)

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GLP-1 agonists (Wegovy, Ozempic,) cause disproportionate muscle loss (ft.com)

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Google's VP of Online Partnerships claims he has never heard of "ad network" (journalismliberty.org)

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Has anyone here worked with Sam Altman? What's he like?

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Antechinus: Male marsupials have sex until death, then females eat them (livescience.com)

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Secret calculator hack brings ChatGPT to the TI-84, enabling easy cheating (arstechnica.com)

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Seventh Day Adventists, fighting onanism, and selling veganism to America (josepheverettwil.substack.com)

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How long can you leave pizza out? An experiment (clickondetroit.com)

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[dupe] Russia is signaling it could take out the West's internet and GPS (businessinsider.com)

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IBM [in China] closes two research labs, announces large-scale layoffs (scmp.com)

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Microsoft Copilot falsely accuses reporter of child abuse, gives home address (osnews.com)

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European iPhones are more fun now (theverge.com)

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Israel's GPS spoofing confuses Tinder and Bumble (economist.com)

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Modern-day spying: sometimes old technology is more secure (economist.com)

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In 1962, "Starfish Prime" space nuke destroyed 1/3rd of LEO satellites (thespacereview.com)

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South Korea administrative robot defunct after apparent suicide (channelnewsasia.com)

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Omega-3 fatty acids (fish oil) could combat depression (psypost.org)

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Some fundraisers pay >90% of the funds to themselves (propublica.org)

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US has the highest rate of maternal deaths among rich nations. Norway has zero (cnn.com)

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San Francisco sees sharp loss in sales-tax revenue (sfchronicle.com)

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Ketamine bladder: Special clinics as youth addiction 'explodes' (bbc.com)

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British water company dumps sewage, claims "no right to swim in the sea" (inews.co.uk)

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DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis is knighted (independent.co.uk)

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Slate Debunks Andrew Huberman (slate.com)

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Jo Boaler Accused of Academic Fraud (piratewires.com)

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Borderline personality disorder symptoms linked to music preference (psypost.org)

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HP-Autonomy acquisition: UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch's fall (theguardian.com)

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Paul Erdős, the most prolific mathematician (scientificamerican.com)

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Paul Erdős – the most prolific mathematician (scientificamerican.com)

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Home-schoolers perform better on reading than on math exams (washingtonpost.com)

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Healthy BMI cutoff for Asian Indians is 23.0 (not 25.0) (nih.gov)

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Evernote further limits free plans (engadget.com)