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Maybe worth noting that you have to eat a pretty large dose of fructose for it to make it all the way to the liver. More than in a few pieces of fruit. The small intestine converts up to 1g/kg (of bodyweight) fructose to glucose and other metabolites before it enters the liver portal vein.


The presenter in this video claims there is evidence of a desire for "fairness" in many species: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meiU6TxysCg . Maybe it's a different concept than "Inequality aversion"?


We usually make miso soup when we make sushi. We use the fish bits and pieces to make the dashi. This adds some nice flavor abd mouthfeel to the finished soup.


I suppose the lady usually has an umbrella in this kind of situation, so it felt the umbrella should be included in some way: https://youtu.be/492tGcBP568


In truth, that's not a woman in a green dress, it's a bunch of penguins disguised as a woman in a green dress. That explains the gait. As to the umbrella, they assumed that humans, intelligent as we are, always carry polar bear protection around.


Someone formatted the story like a Wikipedia article: https://i.imgur.com/i0sze4U.jpg


My friend had a chemistry set that included a lead bar. We liked to chew on it -- imagine, a metal soft enough that you could easily dent it with your teeth!


Joules can be converted to Bitcoin.


Money is an exchange medium through which any transactable commodity, good, service, or asset may be exchanged for another.

The fact of one such conversion is only a subset of the larger whole.


Life within the current means of humanity is not good.


Is it currently at its peak? if not when was the peak quality of life of humanity?



I love the animation of the bike unfolding on the landing page.


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