Ammonia smells like Windex. Any piss connoisseur will tell you the importance of dimethyl sulfide, butyric acid, and trimethylamine

Never underestimate the strength of small town loyalty, where obviously everyone knows better than a century-spanning corpus of medical research

You could take genes out of the picture and the story would hold. Just assume people raised by impulsive parents distracted by 8 other kids are more likely to repeat the cycle. Contrary to supporting eugenics, that idea is inclusive and powers progressive welfare reform.

Reddit is gamed like that. Even before LLMs there were highly active users that caught bans for using multiple accounts to boost all their posts.

Facebook didn’t catch on in a similar way, because people didn’t have personal feeds yet. The way startups are funded now seems to follow your model though. Decisions on high about what people should see/want.

His powers expand if he can claim a state of emergency. He likes to keep lots of them happening

Collapsing people’s multidimensional political beliefs onto a single line hides a lot of the data. As long as “conservative” and “liberal” group membership directs votes, the meaning of the terms are actively warped and shifted.

More housing ≠ more people. We aren’t going back to a 3+ child average unless a lot of other things change

Two photon microscopy doesn’t even think about them at all.

TechnologyConnections yt channel. I see his video on dishwashers mentioned a lot.

I’ll always remember chatting with a guy at the airport who asked what I was in grad school for. Unexpectedly, he was thrilled to talk about neuroscience, and asked what I thought of a recent study. Some researchers had put dogs in fMRI to “prove” that dogs can feel love.

RFK Jr would like to remove scientific scrutiny from the drug approval process, which is the agenda of pharma companies. He’s already been successful with this in the med device space using the same argument.