My old laptop used to shut down during summer because of overheating, and I ended up buying one of those external cooling pads with fans that you place the laptop on, and it solved the issue.

One of my most reflex-like thoughts whenever I talk to any anarchist is, "But wouldn't the gangs/mafia just take over everything?" Peaceful people don't naturally form groups and train with weapons

This certainly sounds familiar. My two last phones used to be slow and problematic during summer in Cyprus. I kinda automatically attributed it to manufacturers not making phones with the Cypriot summer

I guess it's possible to overdo it? As when you're a fruitarian for instance?!

Then conditioning on that variable means that I will look at male and female separately. Good luck with that in this political climate :P I wonder if there's ever an 'X directly causes Y' relation. Seems

Antibiotics are hypothesized to be a possible causative factor in autoimmune. My own autoimmune I suspect was triggered by a long course of antibiotics to clear Helicobacter pylori.

If you look at the bigger picture, one of the major property of life is to keep the system away from equilibrium. Yes I once described life as anti-reality! Sometimes I even describe life as anti-life!

Thorough response! Is it correct to say that our body/genes don't cause aging? I mean, there's no gene for aging, let's say. Aging happens because the mechanisms that keep us alive are imperfect, and because

I kinda learned to call it a disease too, partly from the work of Aubrey de Grey. Whether or not it's a disease, it's responsible for most diseases, it's a precondition: young people don't usually get

That's an original way of looking at the top cause of death! We're used to it being heart disease, but you're saying the ultimate cause of death behind heart disease and other stuff could be attributed

I met a friend recently who was telling me about his panic attacks, and shortness of breath and feeling like he was gonna have a heart attack were two of the symptoms.

I like this new format of yours. Probably more approachable for most people than your usual deep-dives. For those who like to skim-read, the 'verdict' sections are useful too.

Is it true that most cholesterol we eat doesn't get absorbed, and it's mostly our body itself that makes the cholesterol?

Maybe it's all the clubbing!

Yeah this used to happen to me when I was a kid, but I definitely wasn't completely awake, but was more like in a state of half-sleep, like you describe toward the end.

Is there anything that lives in water that has an open circulatory system? That would be interesting!

I wander what it could do with people who talk a lot during their sleep :P

some would literally come my consulting room crying because its a sunny day and would ask what's wrong thinking they are sad because of perhaps some pain they are going through, then they would tell me

And so on a sunny day, a highly photosensitive individual may not be able to walk through at all and would have to literally close their eyes to walk through, they mostly squint to keep as much light away

Either you're big or many of these weapons are smaller than I expected! (And I'm not talking about the toys!)