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Your Smartphone May Be Off On Your Exercise Calories By 25%
There is only one way to stay at a healthy weight; burn more calories than you ingest. High-fructose corn syrup does not matter, organic food does not matter, gluten-free doesn't matter. Even quinoa d...
Earth Sciences
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Rain Gardens: Placement Matters More Than Square Footage
The Canadian capital of Ottawa was bombarded with 167 millimetres of rain in five hours earlier this summer in what the city called a one-in-200-year event. Close to 5,800 basement-flooding reports fo...
Life Sciences
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Are You Your Brain Or Your Body?
Neuroscience treats consciousness as something produced by the brain but a recent paper suggests that conscious experience is shaped through a continuous, rhythmic dialogue between the brain and body;...
Medicine
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Tariffs Have Been Good For U.S. Whiskey Drinkers
Alcohol is a legitimate class 1 carcinogen but if you are going to roll the dice with cancer, tariffs have made it more affordable. In 2018, the Trump administration began to place retaliatory ta...
Physical Sciences
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When A Bump Gets Greedy: A Connection I Had Missed For 25 Years
Back in 2009 I wrote in this blog a rather technical post about something I had called the “greedy bump bias.” (GBB) The effect I referred to had emerged from a 2003 CDF study of mine, where I conside...
Social Sciences
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If You Like Stories, Thank The Inventors Of Fire
Gather 'round, listeners, and learn of the storytelling ape.A new paper suggests that storytelling may have have been why human communication evolved from the ape-like systems our primate cousins stil...
