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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
1. Introduction How much lithium is in your food? Turns out this is harder to answer than you might think. You might be interested in this question because clinical doses of lithium (50-300 mg/day)…| 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 was a participant in ou…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
Previously in this series:N=1: IntroductionN=1: Single-Subject ResearchN=1: Hidden Variables and SuperstitionN=1: Why the Gender Gap in Chronic Illness? N=1: Symptom vs. SyndromeN=1: Latency and Ha…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
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In case you missed it — we were on a podcast, spreading the good word about cybernetics! Check it out here: Two Psychologists Four Beers Episode 121: A New Paradigm for Psychology? Also making wave…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
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Cartoons Hate Her tests the internet’s current favorite question: Do Women Have to Lie About Their Jobs to Get More Hinge Matches? Results are sadly paywalled but otherwise it’s a great effort, more of this please! This blog post is ostensibly about AI, but it’s also one of the most lucid descriptions of academic incentives […]| 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
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Finding the Best Sleep Tracker Environmental allergies are curable? (Sublingual immunotherapy) Is Australian Sunscreen ACTUALLY stronger than Asian Sunscreen? I put them to the test! Join the Big T…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
5 posts published by slimemoldtimemold during February 2025| 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
[PROLOGUE – EVERYBODY WANTS A ROCK][PART I – THERMOSTAT][PART II – MOTIVATION][PART III – PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES][PART IV – LEARNING][PART V – DEPRESSION AND OTHER DIAGNOSES][PART VI – CONFLICT AND OSCILLATION][PART VII – NO REALLY, SERIOUSLY, WHAT IS GOING ON?][INTERLUDE – I LOVE YOU FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL REASONS][PART VIII – ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE][PART IX – ANIMAL […]| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
[PROLOGUE – EVERYBODY WANTS A ROCK][PART I – THERMOSTAT][PART II – MOTIVATION][PART III – PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES][PART IV – LEARNING][PART V – DEPRESSION AND OTHER DIAGNOSES][PART V…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
[PROLOGUE – EVERYBODY WANTS A ROCK][PART I – THERMOSTAT][PART II – MOTIVATION][PART III – PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES][PART IV – LEARNING][PART V – DEPRESSION AND OTHER DIAGNOSES][PART VI – CONFLICT AND OSCILLATION][PART VII – NO REALLY, SERIOUSLY, WHAT IS GOING ON?][INTERLUDE – I LOVE YOU FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL REASONS][PART VIII – ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE][PART IX – ANIMAL […]| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
[PROLOGUE – EVERYBODY WANTS A ROCK][PART I – THERMOSTAT][PART II – MOTIVATION][PART III – PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES][PART IV – LEARNING][PART V – DEPRESSION AND OTHER DIAGNOSES][PART VI – CONFLICT AND OSCILLATION][PART VII – NO REALLY, SERIOUSLY, WHAT IS GOING ON?][INTERLUDE – I LOVE YOU FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL REASONS][PART VIII – ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE] When people talk […]| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
[PROLOGUE – EVERYBODY WANTS A ROCK][PART I – THERMOSTAT][PART II – MOTIVATION][PART III – PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES][PART IV – LEARNING][PART V – DEPRESSION AND OTHER DIAGNOSES][PART V…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
[PROLOGUE – EVERYBODY WANTS A ROCK][PART I – THERMOSTAT][PART II – MOTIVATION][PART III – PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES][PART IV – LEARNING][PART V – DEPRESSION AND OTHER DIAGNOSES][PART V…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
[PROLOGUE – EVERYBODY WANTS A ROCK][PART I – THERMOSTAT][PART II – MOTIVATION][PART III – PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES][PART IV – LEARNING][PART V – DEPRESSION AND OTHER DIAGNOSES][PART V…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
[PROLOGUE – EVERYBODY WANTS A ROCK][PART I – THERMOSTAT][PART II – MOTIVATION][PART III – PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES][PART IV – LEARNING][PART V – DEPRESSION AND OTHER DIAGNOSES] It is …| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
[PROLOGUE – EVERYBODY WANTS A ROCK][PART I – THERMOSTAT][PART II – MOTIVATION][PART III – PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES][PART IV – LEARNING] There’s a thermostat that regulates the t…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
[PROLOGUE – EVERYBODY WANTS A ROCK][PART I – THERMOSTAT][PART II – MOTIVATION][PART III – PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES] Reward and punishment is the lowest form of education. — Zhua…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
[PROLOGUE – EVERYBODY WANTS A ROCK][PART I – THERMOSTAT][PART II – MOTIVATION] Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree,…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
[PROLOGUE – EVERYBODY WANTS A ROCK][PART I – THERMOSTAT] Inland Empire: What if *you* only appear as a large singular body, but are actually a congregation of tiny organisms working in unison? Phys…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
[PROLOGUE – EVERYBODY WANTS A ROCK] When the hands that operate the motor lose control of the lever;When the mind of its own in the wheel puts two and two together… — Thermostat, They Might Be Gian…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
We who have nothing to “wind string around” are lost in the wilderness. But those who deny this need are “burning our playhouse down.” If you put quotes around certain words it sounds more like a m…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
The study of obesity is the study of mysteries.| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
The potato diet is a diet where you get most or even all of your calories from potatoes. Surprisingly, this is easy for many people to stick to, and participants who stayed on the diet for a full 2…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
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In November 2021, we finished our series A Chemical Hunger, where we argue that the obesity epidemic is the result of environmental contaminants, and that one of those contaminants might be lithium…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
I. A thermostat is a simple example of a control system. A basic model has only a few parts: some kind of sensor for detecting the temperature within the house, and some way of changing the tempera…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
[PART I – MYSTERIES][PART II – CURRENT THEORIES OF OBESITY ARE INADEQUATE][PART III – ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS][INTERLUDE A – CICO KILLER, QU’EST-CE QUE C’EST?][PART IV &#…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
[PART I – MYSTERIES][PART II – CURRENT THEORIES OF OBESITY ARE INADEQUATE][PART III – ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS][INTERLUDE A – CICO KILLER, QU’EST-CE QUE C’EST?] Evidence s…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
DefenderOfBasic: “one of the most popular tools I ever made was this thing to explain how JPEG images are created out of these mathematical patterns … made in a couple hours for a talk, didn’…| 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 The below is an email we received from M, a reader who tried a limi…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
Previous Philosophical Transactions: JP Callaghan on Lithium Pharmacokinetics Al Hatfield is a wannabe rationalist (his words) from the UK who sent us some data about water sources in Scotland. We …| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
In the beginning, scientific articles were just letters. Scholars wrote to each other about whatever they were working on, celebrating their discoveries or arguing over minutiae, and ended up with …| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
[PART I – MYSTERIES][PART II – CURRENT THEORIES OF OBESITY ARE INADEQUATE][PART III – ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS][INTERLUDE A – CICO KILLER, QU’EST-CE QUE C’EST?][PART IV &#…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
[PART I – MYSTERIES] Current theories of the obesity epidemic are inadequate. None of them hold up to closer scrutiny, and none can explain all of the mysteries mentioned in Part I. But these…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
We enjoy Matt Reynolds’ writing (especially this piece on ORS), so it was very nice to receive a shout-out in his new piece for WIRED: Potatoes Are the Perfect Vegetable—but You’re Eating Them Wron…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
[Content warning: Food, culture shock, milk] They say that the past is a foreign country, and nowhere is this more true than with food. The book is A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Gr…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
Erik Hoel makes a list of predictions for 2050. This may seem like the far-flung future, but as Hoel points out, it’s only 28 years away. Making predictions for 2050 based on what we see today is j…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
I. Maciej Cegłowski’s essay Scott And Scurvy is one of the most interesting things we’ve ever read. We keep coming back to it — and we hope to write more about it in the future — but today we…| 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
We recently wrote a post about Maciej Cegłowski’s essay Scott And Scurvy, a fascinating account of how the cure for scurvy was discovered, lost, and then by incredible chance, discovered again. At …| 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
A few people have asked us why we didn’t preregister the analysis for our potato diet study. We think this shows a certain kind of confusion about what preregistration is for, what science is all a…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
In the original potato diet study, we asked people to try to eat nothing but potatoes. This worked pretty well — people lost 10.6 lbs on average over just four weeks. But we also told them, “perfec…| 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
Previously in this series:N=1: Introduction History Single-subject or single-case research designs date back to at least the 1980s — though as you can see from the sparse Wikipedia page, they haven…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
In French, the word for potato is pomme de terre. This literally translates to apple of the earth. By this logic, potatoes are the lowest-hanging fruit of all. More seriously: We keep getting more …| 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
Science education usually starts with teaching students different tools and techniques, methods for conducting research. This is wrong. Science education should begin with the scientific virt…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
