Scott Alexander recently named five criticisms of A Chemical Hunger, our series on the obesity epidemic, and asked for our responses. These criticisms come by way of a LessWrong commenter named Natália (see post, post). We appreciate Scott taking the time to identify these as his top five points, because this gives us a concrete […]| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
In the beginning, scientific articles were just letters. Eventually Henry Oldenburg started pulling some of these letters together and printing them as the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal S…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
Previous Philosophical Transactions: JP Callaghan on Lithium Pharmacokinetics Lithium in Scottish Drinking Water with Al Hatfield M’s Experience with Potatoes-by-Default Jon on One Year Post-Potato…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
Previous Philosophical Transactions: JP Callaghan on Lithium Pharmacokinetics Lithium in Scottish Drinking Water with Al Hatfield M’s Experience with Potatoes-by-Default Jon on One Year Post-Potato…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
Previous Philosophical Transactions: JP Callaghan on Lithium Pharmacokinetics Lithium in Scottish Drinking Water with Al Hatfield M’s Experience with Potatoes-by-Default Jon on One Year Post-Potato…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
I. Cholera gives you severe diarrhea, which leads to agonizing, life-threatening dehydration. Doctors long realized that cholera patients needed electrolytes, but electrolyte solutions …| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
Eating a diet of nothing but potatoes (or almost nothing but potatoes) causes quick, effortless weight loss for many people. It’s not a matter of white-knuckling through a boring diet — people eat …| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
When we finished the Potato Diet Community Trial, we found ourselves in a pickle. The diet worked — people lost 10.6 lbs on average over only four weeks — and we had basically no idea why. No idea …| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
So we did this half-tato diet community trial. People signed up for a minimum of six weeks — two weeks of baseline, so we could see how their weight changed when they were eating as normal, and the…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
