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2024-05-17 04:52:01
A control system is a mechanism — mechanical, biological, or otherwise — that forces a measure towards a reference. One example is a thermostat. You set the desired temperature of your house to 73 degrees Fahrenheit, and the thermostat springs into action, to get its reading to 73 °F or die trying. The usual assumption […]
2024-04-28 23:09:32
“I would like to thank the Idaho Potato Commission for assembling a categorized database of 1,700 potato recipes from around the world. I consult it frequently and it has become my favorite potato resource.” And here it is. While Lucas M. Miller was serving in Congress, he proposed a Constitutional amendment to change the country’s […]
2024-04-03 05:41:14
Previous Philosophical Transactions: JV is a reader and intrepid high-dimensional pioneer who wrote us with some thoughts and comments on the exploration of brinespace. His email is reproduced below, lightly edited for clarity and to help preserve anonymity, but otherwise the same as we received it. Hello Slimes I’m a long time reader of your […]
2024-04-01 02:15:45
potassium-weight-loss.org — Alex Chernavsky conducts a N=1 study of potassium supplementation taking ~8000 mg of potassium a day for two months, loses about 4.2 lbs: We Used To Eat A Lot More Without Becoming Obese by Sven Schnieders: The mainstream theory regarding the obesity crisis is that people consume excessive calories and move insufficiently – […]
2024-03-30 22:38:18
Previous Philosophical Transactions: From deep within the metabolic mire, “Leo” sent us a transmission on a potato riff: SWAMP TATERS. Potatoes as high fat, high carbs, low protein. The exchange is reproduced below, lightly edited for clarity. First Exchange Leo: Hey y’all: A friend of mine and I have been doing an unsanctioned potato-riff (didn’t […]
2024-03-21 05:51:43
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 as much (potato) as they want, and at the end of a month of spuds they say things like, “I was quite […]
2024-03-16 00:55:52
I. Cholera gives you severe diarrhea, which leads to agonizing, life-threatening dehydration. Doctors long realized that cholera patients needed electrolytes, but electrolyte solutions didn’t seem to help. In fact, giving patients electrolytes in IV or in an oral solution often made them worse. After decades of trial and error, they discovered a mixture of water, […]
2024-03-01 04:15:22
Friend of the blog ExFatLoss beats obesity: In honor of this accomplishment, we present the Wikimedia chart of milk products and production relationships, including butter. Beware, the mark of the British is present: “soured cream”. Adam Mastroianni: Declining trust in Zeus is a technology To us, coin flips are random (“Heads: I go first. Tails: […]
2024-02-06 08:36:49
Previous Philosophical Transactions: Hi SMTM, I’ve now had the pleasure of watching many people encounter A Chemical Hunger for the first time. Some of them get wide-eyed with wonder, and some of them make the same expression that babies make when they taste lemon juice. Those with the lemony reactions are always certain they know why the obesity […]
2024-02-04 06:22:46
A few weeks ago we spent some time sitting around tasting different alkali metal salts with Adam Mastroianni. To us, the difference between NaCl (sodium chloride, also known as normal table salt) and KCl (potassium chloride) seems very obvious, but Adam said they taste about the same to him. Since this can be tested empirically, […]