Based on what you say, this is a benefit for all exercise - but you tied it with your personal experience with the gym which makes sense. I guess these benefits might be even larger with more social sports,

Agreed with everything you said. But in my mind the word "blog" has bad connotations. In my normal life, I don't know if I've ever read/followed a science blog - never mind enjoyed - but I definitely

No, not a far stretch at all. I remember reading or listening to biologists saying we used to live in small groups of people where everyone knew each other, and they went on to hypothesize on how this

Yeah this crowding thing is quite interesting, and one can only wonder how it impacts people. I had noticed this phenomenon in animals myself when I was a kid because of a fish aquarium my mom had. When

If you ask which one among their 5 senses people would rather lose last, I think most would choose their sense of sight. I think we feel our sight gets us closer to Reality than any of our other senses,

I guess one could equip one's 'backside' with millions of tiny cameras, and one's front side with millions of pixels like on a TV, and then project on the front whatever's on the back! But one would need

I think smallpox accounts for the majority of the inadvertent genocide of the American Indians by the Europeans.

I guess pelican orthopedists ask their patients to open their mouths wide!

They look a bit like ravens from certain angles. Related? Definitely beautiful!

Good thing about this particular book is that it's really short: I read it in a day! (well, it was my off day, but still!) Snyder is objectively one of the world's best historians, but this particular

I recently read a book by Timothy Snyder, one of my favorite historians, titled 'Tyranny: 20 lessons from the 20th century'. Part of lesson 9 was: "Make an effort to separate yourself from the internet.

Is there enough light for them to still do photosynthesis in the shade?

It's perhaps an interesting thought that from the point of view of these microorganisms, we (birds, humans, other mammals) are practically the same animal, since we serve the same function for them as

I didn't encounter this much in my culture, but when people do say it, it's usually understood to be hyperbole, like "I can't see my own nose without my glasses", or meeting a relative and jokingly

One example of 'regression' is perhaps over-specialization. Knowledge is so vast, that the only way to be an expert today is to specialize in some very small area of knowledge. But then you lose 'wisdom',

I find it interesting that people avoid salt to avoid hypertension, but they usually don't know that sodium is actually necessary in amounts that you won't ordinarily get from food unless you salt it,

If it's the bacteria that are doing the job, I wonder if other fermented products like cheese, yogurt, kombucha, etc., also lower blood pressure, or if the bacteria is specific to the apple cider vinegar.

If the population does not grow above replacement level, that means the average age of the population will get older and older, like in Japan where the average age is now ~48 years old. That means a greater

Yeah I kinda wanted to experiment with fasting too, for convenience and to see if I could improve my health, but nothing I read really gave me the confidence that this would be ideal, for example that

"Over"-population is not the problem. Over-consumption is the problem. Poor people in Africa having tens of kids don't affect the planet negatively. If the planet's population stops growing above