Exercising 150 minutes per week for four months straight is *equally effective* as a prescription antidepressant. Dozens of peer-reviewed studies validate this... Why isn't this discussed more?

#WindofChange is picking up in Russia. We need to support & inspire these brave Russian women. The tide 🌊 will reach a breaking point, and we must help precipitate that, for the sake of the entire free world.

Everywhere in Warsaw are signs of support for Ukrainians & Ukrainians. Flags. Food & clothing collection points. Poles are taking in Ukrainians. All just happening. As a Polish friend put it, “Poland is the world’s largest humanitarian NGO.”

I give many interviews these days. The most frequent question is: how healthcare in Ukraine is affected by the war? Well, this is how. 1/3

Survived after Russian bombs.

The tragedy in Pakistan is a stark reminder of climate injustice. The top map shows which nations are most responsible for excess emissions. The bottom map shows which nations are most impacted by it. Climate breakdown is playing out along colonial lines.

The world's elite have arrived at #COP27 on hundreds of private jets to lecture you about climate change. Sponsored by Coca-Cola.

The problem is not simply that capitalism produces too much, but that it produces the wrong stuff: SUVs, fast fashion and planned obsolescence instead of public transit, affordable housing and universal healthcare. It overuses resources and still fails to meet even basic needs.

Researchers studied the effects of a 20-minute walk on the cognitive performance of a group of children. This is fascinating…

"Picking a permanent side in some grand ideological struggle – with its prepackaged set of principles & values, enemies & heroes – might bring psychological comfort in the short term, but it'll erode the capacity for intellectual honesty in the long term." world.hey.com/dhh/nobody-kno…

Lex Fridman I think that if the mutual objective is not agreement, but learning and companionship, it changes the dynamic drastically. We sacrifice a lot of wonderful relationships on the altar of our ego. A truly silly thing to do.

Lex Fridman Relatedly, learn to enjoy being wrong. Value finding the truth over being right. Retrain your mind to embrace new information that forces a change in viewpoint. View each "software update" as an improvement upon the old. Open mindsets rule the world.

“Our lifestyle is not up for negotiation." This has been the basic position of the Western ruling class on the environment since it was first uttered by US president George H.W. Bush at the UN Earth Summit in 1992. The sheer violence of it becomes more apparent every year.

We need to stop using the term ‘anti-vaxxer’ and treat it in the same way as using racist terminology. It’s derogatory, it’s divisive and is used by Big Pharma and bent scientists to deflect from their own fraud & research misconduct.

If you're fascinated by the far-seeing visions of Marshall McLuhan, you'll love this 1968 exchange with novelist Norman Mailer. In 2 minutes, he redefines violence as a quest for identity, and explains how information overload makes all of us confirmation-bias machines.

Anyone can change. The question is: will they choose to?

Absolutely devoured this book. I suspect it might cause quite a stir... Published 29 June by Chris Smaje with Chelsea Green Publishing. Get your pre-orders in! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/saying…

me, experiencing fatigue, hair loss, skin issues, and brain fog doctor in the US: you’re getting older, try going on birth control and taking antidepressants, that’ll be $200 :) doctor in Chile: your blood work shows multiple vitamin deficiencies causing your hormones to go

1986 Chernobyl radiation spread

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.