Laziness is a great motive. Much work has been done by lazy people trying to make life less work for themselves :D

Can be useful for training your vocabulary I guess. Is that its use-case? Edit: Oh I see, it's like a Merriam-Webster 'word of the day' kinda thing.

Time for our immune system to do something useful for once, instead of giving us autoimmune :D

Small chance anyone will argue against this post :D

A friend of mine recently blamed climate change on capitalism, and it started me thinking about whether it's capitalism's fault or the opposite: i.e. nature being public property. I remember how in school

Yeah that's another interesting cultural difference!

Genetics is certainly an interesting one. Where I live people tend to add the weight around their belly. But in some other countries I visited people tend to add it around their ass and thighs!

@agmoore Irrelevant to the topic but I just watched this vid by my favorite, and imo most scientific, nutrition channel on youtube and thought it might be of interest to you. Do I remember correctly that

The short word snippets together with the photos make for some engaging storytelling!

Probably a bit of both innate and environmental. A human can talk, but only in the right environment. A horse can't talk, even with the right environment.

Never thought cleaning could be this interesting :D

I think most people avoid the vaccine viscerally, you're one of the few who can back it up with research! China had the lowest rates of unwillingness: 2% Hard to square such a 'docile' percentage with

Cardio-megaly literally means heart-big in Greek. It never ceases to amuse me how difficult-sounding words are just simple and often childish-sounding words in Greek :D

Yeah the clinical death criteria are ever-shifting, as technology makes us ever more capable at bringing people back from 'death'! Here is an example of a relatively recent article about research in pig

There's some debate in some communities, like the vegan community, about whether fats should be avoided in general, including good fats, but I'm in agreement with you that the science so far seems to tell

There's an image outside my window that I'm used to seeing: a cat, or cats, sitting patiently and waiting for a neighbor to throw them something to eat from her balcony. And then, a month or so ago, for

I know a cat breeder who has very healthy cats, and she also feeds them with raw meat. It's definitely how they're supposed to eat it in nature, I guess one just has to make sure the meat is untainted.

Space technology might prove vital, considering what we're doing to this planet :D

Recently I was reading a book by cardiologist Joel Kahn, and he was saying that when he began his practice, only one state in the US had more than 20% of its population as obese, whereas now only 5 states

Yeah I watched a documentary, Cries from Syria, and Sarin gas was mentioned, it was used by the absolutist Syrian government regime against its own people in the civil war.