The Economist calls for legalizing cocaine. economist.com/leaders/2022/1…

I’ve been thinking about the ‘doctors defraud Medicare’ piece for hours. It’s my considered view that it’s a shitty piece of investigation. Not because doctors don’t defraud Medicare - a minority do; this is abhorrent. But because most of what’s in the piece isn’t fraud.👇🏽

BREAKING: BBC Persian reports that Iranian sport climber Elnaz Rekabi has now gone missing. Yesterday she competed without the regime’s compulsory headscarf at the International Federation of Sport Climbing’s Asian Championships in Seoul.

Don’t know nothing about Gas but don’t like this from Tiktok, Streisand Effect gogogo

i always figured cold showers were a dumb grindset thing, but after seeing some research on how deliberate cold exposure facilitates fairly high levels of dopamine release, i decided to give it a rip and i’m a believer now.

✅ BMedSc(Hons) ✅ PhD ✅ MD

We confirm that Jordan Shank’s home was firebombed last night.He is safe. We hope that every possible police resource is dedicated today to securing evidence and intel. It might even warrant a Strike Force focused upon terrorism and attempted homicide rather than dangerous jokes.

Apple has released a software update limiting the use of AirDrop in China in light of recent protests. AirDrop was being used by protesters to transmit info directly phone to phone, bypassing the Great Firewall of China.

Try starting the day (post sunlight viewing) w/1-3min of uncomfortably cold (yet safe) water exposure (shower or immersion to the neck). The research-supported benefits are significant & long lasting elevations in dopamine & adrenaline, & thereby elevated mood, alertness & focus.

Not an article I wanted to write. The deadly H5N1 bird flu is spreading widely, including to mammals. For the first time, it's now likely spreading mammal-to-mammal, among minks which are exceptionally well-suited conduits to humans. We must act now. nytimes.com/2023/02/03/opi…

Grateful to the ABC for reminding us of the real battlers in the housing crisis

1. Build more housing 2. land value tax now

Social media is an existential threat to humanity

Following Elsevier's decision to raise the APC for NeuroImage to $3,450, all editors (inc. EiCs Stephen Smith Til Ole Bergmann Birte Forstmann) from NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports have resigned, effective immediately. I am joining this action and have also resigned imaging-neuroscience.org/Announcement.p…

"But the thing about risk is that when it happens, it happens fast. And the magnitude of that first loss will be directly proportional to the length of time it takes for that first loss to occur." On the benefits of taking your L's early. youngmoney.co/p/upside-delay…

Heard joke once: man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him."

any good Australian knows this is, actually, the correct way to call our your mate

When you see a review open like this you just know it hit some home truths & unearthed some uncomfortable feelings. brb putting in an order