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| location | Detroit, MI | |
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| visits | member for | 2 years, 2 months |
| seen | Mar 22 at 20:49 | |
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Can write code, as I have done for the past 15 years. In another 15 years, I should be writing excellent code.
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Aug 5 |
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Are sunscreens necessary? I live in Detroit. I never got sunburnt because I am dark skinned. Hope that satisfies your inquisition :-) |
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Jul 17 |
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Does Jenny Craig's weight loss program work? It has the same effect as the lucky/birth stone. If you lose weight, it worked; if you did not lose weight, that is because you did not follow all the steps. |
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Jul 17 |
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Can people forget how to ride a bike? Last year I rode a bike after 18 years to show my son, and it took less than 5 seconds to get oriented. |
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Jun 25 |
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Are small and frequent meals better for health? @ChrisW, that article talks about hunting. Excerpt earliest ''hunts'', which took place around 30 million... Over the next 3 million years, humans learned methods of hunting... kill larger prey by throwing rocks at it... weapons and machines... were developed... to defeat even bigger prey. Hand-eye coordination... Among other things, (i) the ease in availability of food in the past 1000 years does not change our genetic makeup, (ii) it is not about being good for us, it is about what a body is built for. For e.g., fat is good for us, it yields highest calories per gram. |
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Jun 15 |
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Are sunscreens necessary? Good point @david, your natural selection argument sounds correct... |
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Jun 14 |
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Are sunscreens necessary? +1 @erekalper, found some interesting results here, and also that melanoma is old |
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Jun 14 |
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Are sunscreens necessary? @DJClayworth, how did prehistoric women survive the sun? How do people in Asia/Africa where relatively fewer people use sunscreens (and sun is stronger) in those parts of the world? |
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Jun 7 |
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Is reviving an extinct species possible? +1, good answer. Thanks. |
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Jun 5 |
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Is reviving an extinct species possible? +1 @Alexandru - true, at least for complex organisms. |
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Jun 5 |
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Is reviving an extinct species possible? +1, interesting; I guess the concept of life encompasses everything. |
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Apr 29 |
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Do some casinos use extra oxygen to increase gambling, or is this a myth? It has to be true, Tyler Durden himself said so |
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Apr 24 |
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Is suicide through thought possible? @user-unknown, eating/drinking/mating is not entirely controlled by self: it has an external dependency. Your argument is akin to, "what if there is no oxygen? Life cannot preserve itself." Agreed, animals with very high intelligence, like yours faithfully, are different. It is possible to commit suicide with extreme inedia, but that may not qualify as death by thought |
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Apr 24 |
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Is suicide through thought possible? @user-unknown, nature may not have desires, but it is natural to have desires and desires have specific natures. |
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Apr 23 |
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Does astrology work? What probably started as a statistical experiment--to use past to predict the future--has now become a pseudo-science. This is no different from palmistry, homeopathy and every other similar efforts. |
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Apr 23 |
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Is suicide through thought possible? @Sklivvz, good point, you should make it into an answer. |
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Apr 15 |
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Are we eating too many carbs? And do we need to switch to the primal/paleo diet? @Borror0, her article in her blogroll has the references |
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Apr 15 |
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Are small and frequent meals better for health? @Sklivvz, my question was if humans are genetically adept for this at all. Was expecting counter-arguments like LagerBaer had... |
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Apr 15 |
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Are small and frequent meals better for health? +1 @Konrad, well put! @Lennart, Konrad's point is my question. |
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Apr 15 |
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Are small and frequent meals better for health? @Lagerbaer, I agree, it is an excellent point that evolution does not end. Humans are omnivores, so adapting is possible. On your other point, just to make things clear, lactose intolerance is only among certain genetic groups: most of civilization in tropics ~10k years ago had dairy farming, much before Europeans ventured out of their caves cf.1 cf.2 |
