Kim Jong-un is believed to have a BMI of 44.9. That is off the scale, so if you weight the average by power within the cabinet Best Korea beats most countries in the corruption olympics. The question then becomes if median is the right measure.
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Narz
keeping it real
https://www.theguardian.com/science...oo-much-free-time-to-lower-sense-of-wellbeing
Ideal free time 2-5 hours per day unless you're really productive w it.
Ideal free time 2-5 hours per day unless you're really productive w it.
Narz
keeping it real
https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/how-animal-protein-can-affect-longevity-and-why-collagen-wont
Collagen doesn't seem to negatively affect longevity as much as other animal proteins
I'm a lil skeptical as collagen is a up and coming month maker supplement.
Collagen doesn't seem to negatively affect longevity as much as other animal proteins
I'm a lil skeptical as collagen is a up and coming month maker supplement.
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I didn't see anywhere what they mean with "productive"...
Is doing an activity productive? Because in that case, yes, I'd like to have some more free time after my 2h of gym
.Ah...uh... I'm very sceptical about the results here.
An average animal should have... well... let's say a mammal somewhere between 10.000 to 20.000 different proteins (or more).
Pretty sure these generalizations will not hold.
@Kyriakos Is this why you asked about cheap forms of collagen?
The thing about dietary protein is that we all get far more total protein than we need, but we cannot convert between all the amino acids. 9 out of 20 amino acids acids are essential, and the branched chain amino acids including leucine are one class of these. If you are missing an essential amino acid then it makes little difference how much other amino acids you are getting, the protein synthesis system shuts down.
I am not quite sure what would happen, but if you were to just live off pure collagen and get no leucine at all then you would end up dying of malnutrition as if you were getting no protein at all.
However, there is credible evidence that branched chain amino acids are a significant mediator of the Sirt pathway, the top candidate for the mediator of caloric restriction. Caloric restriction is the most widely demonstrated age extending technique across the animal kingdom.
The answer to this is not to eat collagen. That will do no good, as you will need to get the essential amino acids from somewhere.
The answer is to eat just enough. One way to eat just enough is to eat a largely plant based diet, which is generally deficient in branched chain amino acids, and make it up by either eating a bit more total protein than one would other wise and/or adding a (really) small amount of animal protein to the diet.
This diet has the added benefit of being pretty environmentally friendly.
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Berzerker
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The researchers found that the dinosaur was between 7.5 to eight meters (24 to 26 feet) in length and likely weighed over 1,000 kilograms (2,204 lbs). At the time Ulughbegasaurus roamed the earth, the T-Rex wasn't fully evolved and was much smaller in comparison, weighing less than 200 kilograms (440 lbs).
the headline was predator 5x the size of T-Rex has been found, but as you can see the T-Rex was small when this critter was around
the headline was predator 5x the size of T-Rex has been found, but as you can see the T-Rex was small when this critter was around
Berzerker
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https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-virus-lungs-metastatic-cancer.html
black eyed peas and lung cancer
'Using a virus that grows in black-eyed pea plants, nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego developed a new treatment that could keep metastatic cancers at bay from the lungs. The treatment not only slowed tumor growth in the lungs of mice with either metastatic breast cancer or melanoma, it also prevented or drastically minimized the spread of these cancers to the lungs of healthy mice that were challenged with the disease.'
black eyed peas and lung cancer
'Using a virus that grows in black-eyed pea plants, nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego developed a new treatment that could keep metastatic cancers at bay from the lungs. The treatment not only slowed tumor growth in the lungs of mice with either metastatic breast cancer or melanoma, it also prevented or drastically minimized the spread of these cancers to the lungs of healthy mice that were challenged with the disease.'
Cows learn to use the loo, and that may help their climate impact
Though I am not convinced. Most of the impact is methane produced by ruminal fermentation and released by belching. I am not at all sure urine has anything to do with it.
Though I am not convinced. Most of the impact is methane produced by ruminal fermentation and released by belching. I am not at all sure urine has anything to do with it.
Emissions are higher in animal-friendly husbandry offering cattle more space — a trade-off we call the ‘climate killer conundrum’.
A herd of calves has been successfully trained to pee in a designated location. Researchers rewarded the calves with sweet treats when they used their latrine, and sprayed them with water from lawn sprinklers when they didn’t. In weeks, 10 of the 16 cows had been potty-trained. Collecting the excreta of cattle could reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and soil and water contamination while still allowing cows to roam freely. “Cattle, like many other animals, are quite clever and they can learn a lot,” says animal psychologist and study co-author Jan Langbein. “Why shouldn’t they be able to learn how to use a toilet?”
Grundiad writeup PaperA herd of calves has been successfully trained to pee in a designated location. Researchers rewarded the calves with sweet treats when they used their latrine, and sprayed them with water from lawn sprinklers when they didn’t. In weeks, 10 of the 16 cows had been potty-trained. Collecting the excreta of cattle could reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and soil and water contamination while still allowing cows to roam freely. “Cattle, like many other animals, are quite clever and they can learn a lot,” says animal psychologist and study co-author Jan Langbein. “Why shouldn’t they be able to learn how to use a toilet?”
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Berzerker
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https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/rel...latest-edition-of-guinness-world-records.html
'Because the paint absorbs less heat from the sun than it emits, a surface coated with this paint is cooled below the surrounding temperature without consuming power.
Typical commercial white paint gets warmer rather than cooler. Paints on the market that are designed to reject heat reflect only 80%-90% of sunlight and can’t make surfaces cooler than their surroundings.
Using this new paint formulation to cover a roof area of about 1,000 square feet could result in a cooling power of 10 kilowatts, Purdue researchers showed in a published paper. “That’s more powerful than the air conditioners used by most houses,” Ruan said.'
Paint it white, Mick
Sounds cool...and blinding
'Because the paint absorbs less heat from the sun than it emits, a surface coated with this paint is cooled below the surrounding temperature without consuming power.
Typical commercial white paint gets warmer rather than cooler. Paints on the market that are designed to reject heat reflect only 80%-90% of sunlight and can’t make surfaces cooler than their surroundings.
Using this new paint formulation to cover a roof area of about 1,000 square feet could result in a cooling power of 10 kilowatts, Purdue researchers showed in a published paper. “That’s more powerful than the air conditioners used by most houses,” Ruan said.'
Paint it white, Mick
Sounds cool...and blinding
Fossilized footprints show humans made it to North America much earlier than first thought
(CNN)North and South America were the last continents to be settled by humans, but exactly when that started is a topic that has divided archaeologists.
The commonly held view is that people arrived in North America from Asia via Beringia, a land bridge that once connected the two continents, at the end of the Ice Age around 13,000 to 16,000 years ago. But more recent -- and some contested -- discoveries have suggested humans might have been in North America earlier. Now, researchers studying fossilized human footprints in New Mexico say they have the first unequivocal evidence that humans were in North America at least 23,000 years ago.
More with pics here:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/23/americas/footprints-humans-arrive-in-north-america-scn/index.html
(CNN)North and South America were the last continents to be settled by humans, but exactly when that started is a topic that has divided archaeologists.
The commonly held view is that people arrived in North America from Asia via Beringia, a land bridge that once connected the two continents, at the end of the Ice Age around 13,000 to 16,000 years ago. But more recent -- and some contested -- discoveries have suggested humans might have been in North America earlier. Now, researchers studying fossilized human footprints in New Mexico say they have the first unequivocal evidence that humans were in North America at least 23,000 years ago.
More with pics here:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/23/americas/footprints-humans-arrive-in-north-america-scn/index.html
Zkribbler
Deity
When I was in grade 1 & 2, my family lived in Alamagordo New Mexico. Through our living room window, we could see White Sands, where the fossilized footprints were found. 
Angst
Rambling and inconsistent
So I'm a bit late for the OP article but I want to note something. Being a little personal here, but I want to note something about medicine and side effects in general, particularly when it comes to sexuality and implicit values.
The point is choice and weighing what is most important for the patient itself, in regards to balancing side effects. Which hurt the patient more, and whether you should listen to the patient.
I've been on a number of different medications, and they all had different side effects. It's a tradeoff. Aripiprazole made my body constantly feel on fire, figuratively. Was not feasible. Risperidone completely removed all of my sexual behavior and drive. All of it. I was comfortable with it myself (when you don't need it, you don't care), but A) I had a girlfriend that I had to take care of and B) my doctor and shrink felt the side effect was unacceptable, as if it took away part of my humanity or something. So they took me off that. Quetiapine is what I'm currently on. It works, but initially it had a powerful muscle relaxant side effect which, while not actually physically taking away from me, was uncomfortable to the degree it was anxiety inducing. There's been a period of like 3-4 years where I had anxiety for 2 hours every night, where I felt my muscle relaxed body was a living cage, unable to communicate with people about it during the relaxant due to it being so potent - which also cut into my ability to rest in general, always sleeping too little. Luckily I lost that side effect of quetiapine over time - I've found tools to work with it - but there are other side effects - I still have vastly increased appetite and am constantly tired, sometimes sleeping about 14 hours per rest in stressful periods, plus naps of 2-3 hours each day. You can't functionally be present like that. Or at least I can't. I need medication to not go nuts, so I have to take something. Risperidone and quetiapine were the only useful ones so far, as aripiprazole made every second living hell.
So here's the point. In regards to sexuality, if I don't have any sexual interest whatsoever, I don't need sexual behavior to satiate it. Now I'm single, and I'd rather just opt out of my current side effects and abandon the romantic part of my life. Because otherwise I'm healthy with risperidone. It fixed everything else, sleep, mental state, psychoses, etc. But I'm not sure the psychiatric system is amenable to me taking it. I can maybe force it and choose it at some point (switching meds is always tough, so I don't want to yet)? But they were not happy about the side effects. I'm not healthy enough to be in a relationship regardless, I'm choosing abstinence atm, maybe for the rest of my life if I remain as sick as I am. And I'm being abstinent while still having a sexuality, which is unpleasant.
My point is just that an implicit idea that it's a necessary part of life or whatever actually overrides the very fundamental fact that life can be wholly full without getting together with someone. If that makes sense. Let the patients taking the meds be aware of potential side effects (particularly the most prominent ones), watch for the side effects the patients don't want, and then go from there. Doctors shouldn't start treatment with the assumption that you're robbing someone of their humanity because they're not having sex.
Like, would I prefer sleeping forever - would I prefer 2 hours of being buried alive each night - plus putting on massive weight - or would I prefer not being interested in sex? I know what my own choice would be if they started me on risperidone now, and it feels icky if people feel I have something taken from me. This is just what I want to underline, even if carefully, about the article. It's great that doctors and patients are more aware of the consequences of medication, and to many people, it would be inhumane to become infertile without knowing it. In this sense, the article is very important. But in regards to antidepressants... If you're alive and not having kids, you're still a full person. You're not a full person if you're dead. And the latter is a very real potential outcome of depression. In this particular situation, I had a cure taken away from me because of the implicit idea that I was lesser without sexuality.
And yes, I want to stress again that I get the point of the article, and that it's bad that people who want romantic futures are robbed it. I get it.
(There's also the smaller point that asexual people are living whole lives as well. Of course, we're talking about a comparison between someone who has a sexuality taken from them and someone who naturally doesn't have one, so the two don't really mesh - but I think people get the point. You're not less of a person because you're not getting any, and you're not a lesser person when you're not having children. At least fertility and relationships are not something that should implicitly be forced on people.)
The point is choice and weighing what is most important for the patient itself, in regards to balancing side effects. Which hurt the patient more, and whether you should listen to the patient.
I've been on a number of different medications, and they all had different side effects. It's a tradeoff. Aripiprazole made my body constantly feel on fire, figuratively. Was not feasible. Risperidone completely removed all of my sexual behavior and drive. All of it. I was comfortable with it myself (when you don't need it, you don't care), but A) I had a girlfriend that I had to take care of and B) my doctor and shrink felt the side effect was unacceptable, as if it took away part of my humanity or something. So they took me off that. Quetiapine is what I'm currently on. It works, but initially it had a powerful muscle relaxant side effect which, while not actually physically taking away from me, was uncomfortable to the degree it was anxiety inducing. There's been a period of like 3-4 years where I had anxiety for 2 hours every night, where I felt my muscle relaxed body was a living cage, unable to communicate with people about it during the relaxant due to it being so potent - which also cut into my ability to rest in general, always sleeping too little. Luckily I lost that side effect of quetiapine over time - I've found tools to work with it - but there are other side effects - I still have vastly increased appetite and am constantly tired, sometimes sleeping about 14 hours per rest in stressful periods, plus naps of 2-3 hours each day. You can't functionally be present like that. Or at least I can't. I need medication to not go nuts, so I have to take something. Risperidone and quetiapine were the only useful ones so far, as aripiprazole made every second living hell.
So here's the point. In regards to sexuality, if I don't have any sexual interest whatsoever, I don't need sexual behavior to satiate it. Now I'm single, and I'd rather just opt out of my current side effects and abandon the romantic part of my life. Because otherwise I'm healthy with risperidone. It fixed everything else, sleep, mental state, psychoses, etc. But I'm not sure the psychiatric system is amenable to me taking it. I can maybe force it and choose it at some point (switching meds is always tough, so I don't want to yet)? But they were not happy about the side effects. I'm not healthy enough to be in a relationship regardless, I'm choosing abstinence atm, maybe for the rest of my life if I remain as sick as I am. And I'm being abstinent while still having a sexuality, which is unpleasant.
My point is just that an implicit idea that it's a necessary part of life or whatever actually overrides the very fundamental fact that life can be wholly full without getting together with someone. If that makes sense. Let the patients taking the meds be aware of potential side effects (particularly the most prominent ones), watch for the side effects the patients don't want, and then go from there. Doctors shouldn't start treatment with the assumption that you're robbing someone of their humanity because they're not having sex.
Like, would I prefer sleeping forever - would I prefer 2 hours of being buried alive each night - plus putting on massive weight - or would I prefer not being interested in sex? I know what my own choice would be if they started me on risperidone now, and it feels icky if people feel I have something taken from me. This is just what I want to underline, even if carefully, about the article. It's great that doctors and patients are more aware of the consequences of medication, and to many people, it would be inhumane to become infertile without knowing it. In this sense, the article is very important. But in regards to antidepressants... If you're alive and not having kids, you're still a full person. You're not a full person if you're dead. And the latter is a very real potential outcome of depression. In this particular situation, I had a cure taken away from me because of the implicit idea that I was lesser without sexuality.
And yes, I want to stress again that I get the point of the article, and that it's bad that people who want romantic futures are robbed it. I get it.
(There's also the smaller point that asexual people are living whole lives as well. Of course, we're talking about a comparison between someone who has a sexuality taken from them and someone who naturally doesn't have one, so the two don't really mesh - but I think people get the point. You're not less of a person because you're not getting any, and you're not a lesser person when you're not having children. At least fertility and relationships are not something that should implicitly be forced on people.)
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AmtrakQuebec
King
That's a lot of angst there.
Angst
Rambling and inconsistent
Wonder where my username comes from
Saudi camel sculptures are world's oldest animal sculptures
Writeup Paper
Stunning reliefs of camels in a rock formation in Saudi Arabia are far older than was first thought: they were carved more than 7,000 years ago, when the climate of Arabian Peninsula was markedly cooler and wetter than it is today.
We combined results from a wide range of methods, including analysis of surviving tool marks, assessment of weathering and erosion patterns, portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, and luminescence dating of fallen fragments. In addition, test excavations identified a homogenous lithic assemblage and faunal remains that were sampled for radiocarbon dating. Our results show that the reliefs were carved with stone tools and that the creation of the reliefs, as well as the main period of activity at the site, date to the Neolithic. Neolithic arrowheads and radiocarbon dates attest occupation between 5200 and 5600 BCE.
We combined results from a wide range of methods, including analysis of surviving tool marks, assessment of weathering and erosion patterns, portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, and luminescence dating of fallen fragments. In addition, test excavations identified a homogenous lithic assemblage and faunal remains that were sampled for radiocarbon dating. Our results show that the reliefs were carved with stone tools and that the creation of the reliefs, as well as the main period of activity at the site, date to the Neolithic. Neolithic arrowheads and radiocarbon dates attest occupation between 5200 and 5600 BCE.
Writeup Paper
tjs282
Stone \ Cold / Fish
What I find really impressive is that the proportions even look accurate (well, for a camel!), which seems quite unusual for stone-age art (what little I know of it, anyway).
Shame the head is missing. I guess it weathered away and/or fell off a long time ago...
Resistance to front-line malaria drugs confirmed in Africa
Write up Paper
Scientists have confirmed that malaria parasites in Africa have developed resistance to a key family of drugs used to protect against them, and it seems NOT to have spread from SE Asia but developed de novo in Africa.
In the six Southeast Asian countries that make up the Greater Mekong Subregion, Plasmodium falciparum has developed resistance to derivatives of artemisinin, the main component of first-line treatments for malaria. Clinical resistance to artemisinin monotherapy in other global regions, including Africa, would be problematic.
In this longitudinal study conducted in Northern Uganda, we treated patients who had P. falciparum infection with intravenous artesunate (a water-soluble artemisinin derivative) and estimated the parasite clearance half-life.
The independent emergence and local spread of clinically artemisinin-resistant P. falciparum has been identified in Africa. The two kelch13 mutations may be markers for detection of these resistant parasites.
In the six Southeast Asian countries that make up the Greater Mekong Subregion, Plasmodium falciparum has developed resistance to derivatives of artemisinin, the main component of first-line treatments for malaria. Clinical resistance to artemisinin monotherapy in other global regions, including Africa, would be problematic.
In this longitudinal study conducted in Northern Uganda, we treated patients who had P. falciparum infection with intravenous artesunate (a water-soluble artemisinin derivative) and estimated the parasite clearance half-life.
The independent emergence and local spread of clinically artemisinin-resistant P. falciparum has been identified in Africa. The two kelch13 mutations may be markers for detection of these resistant parasites.
Write up Paper
EnglishEdward
Deity
I enjoy a little quinine in my tonic water.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinine
I tend to take that neat or with lime cordial.
Though I suppose that I am really supposed to take it with gin.
Now quinine's official use against malaria has been discontinued for a while.
I wonder if the malaria parasite has temporarily lost its immunity to quinine.
If so, aid drones loaded with @ GinandTonic might be despatched?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinine
I tend to take that neat or with lime cordial.
Though I suppose that I am really supposed to take it with gin.
Now quinine's official use against malaria has been discontinued for a while.
I wonder if the malaria parasite has temporarily lost its immunity to quinine.
If so, aid drones loaded with @ GinandTonic might be despatched?
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