― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

Primrose and Feather, 1899, by Alphonse Mucha

'The Frog Prince' by Franz Von Stuck, 1891 #illustration #fairytale

Happy Franz Kafka's "July 1. Too tired." day

Daily reminder: Neurotic people invent problems for themselves and others.

'The Sleeping Beauty ' by Konrad Dielitz, 1879

Across trials, genetic variants, and longitudinal studies, the more LDL goes down, the lower the risk of heart disease falls. The evidence on this is extremely clear: get LDL down and heart disease risk declines with it.

If mechanistic reasoning was sufficient to understand drugs, medicine, and diet, then drugs would not fail in expensive clinical trials. Yet they do in >90% of cases, despite always having a mountain of mechanistic and preclinical evidence to support them.

Interesting new study- 1.8 million people, vegans had highest rate of colorectal cancer- 40% higher than red meat eaters

The absolute darkest truth about how society views men is that we do not actually value male life; we only value what a man is willing to destroy himself to provide. Think about the male archetypes we actually celebrate. The soldier who doesn't come home. The father who works

America has decided that it prefers subsidizing the lifestyles of the old and infertile to young people settling into homes and having kids. Our policy increasingly serves the interests of the old and puts them before the young, who actually need a leg-up. Or, in other words:

Es increíble lo subsidiada que tienen la capital. Muchísimas más líneas y no quieren pagar más de 5 pesos, un asco la centralización.

Auto-translate feels like releasing invasive species into Japan. I saw a Japanese threatening a Russian by pirating Dostoevsky, only for the Russian to reply with a pirate site and some book recommendations. They have no natural defenses against these people. RIP the ecosystem.

Waleed Sneij 𝙟𝙤𝙨𝙝 𝙛𝙖𝙧𝙠𝙖𝙨 💊 There is point of care EEG now. It’s a game changer in status and especially NCSE. We have it in all our EDs and ICUs. In fact it was shown in the episode! (It even says “status epilepticus” on the screen!) It makes Abott’s decision making re Sux vs Rocc even more indefensible!

I would like to live in a high-trust society. The decline of trust is something worth caring about, and reversing it is something worth doing. We should not have to live constantly wondering if we're being lied to or scammed. Trust should be possible again.

Being afraid of reading "problematic authors" is due to your own insecurity with your beliefs and identity. You think that if you read "bad people", you'll become bad yourself, soaking up their toxins like a dim sponge. This is because you are stupid and can't trust yourself.

Teachers average among the least intelligent university graduates. Little of what they 'learn' is even relevant to what they end up doing. In a given year, the lowest-scoring groups on the GRE, SAT, and ACT are usually those pursuing degrees in education.

Most cattle-coded beliefs: - doctors could cure cancer and don’t for some reason - a kid in Gzorglstan built a perpetual motion machine but the government killed him - moon landing / flat earth / creationist stuff obviously - there are X homeless people and X+1 vacant homes