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  • Research suggests that how a body reacts to a vaccine is altered by the type of microbiome a person has. Studies on the Covid-19 vaccine, for example, suggest it affected the snot’s microbiome, and in turn, the microbiome affected how efficient the vaccine was.

    I hope those researchers get paid extra.

    The researchers asked 22 adults to shoot themselves up the nose with a syringe full of snot from healthy friends and partners each day for five days. They discovered that symptoms like cough and facial pain, for instance, dropped by almost 40% for up to three months in at least 16 of the patients.

    <shudder> There’s no way those 22 could have been paid enough.


  • The researchers examined about 222,000 menu items from over 2,000 restaurants in Boston, about 1.6 million menu items from roughly 9,000 restaurants in Dubai, and about 3.1 million menu items from about 18,000 restaurants in London. In Boston, about 71 percent of the items were in the USDA database; in Dubai and London, that figure was 42 percent and 56 percent, respectively.

    So only 3 cities, with London getting the best dataset.

    In Dubai, the researchers did not have the same types of health data available but did observe a strong correlation between rental prices and the nutritional value of neighborhood-level food, suggesting that wealthier residents have better nourishment options.

    This makes a case for “correlation does not mean causation”. The title usues the word “link”, but it sounds like poor neighborhoods have cheap restaurants because that’s what customers can afford, which is just another way of saying there’s a correlation between obesity and low incomes.

    The research moves toward evaluating the complex mix of food available in any given area, which can be true even of areas with more limited options.

    Okay, I appreciate that this is now adding to the data about what food options are available. So even though it sounds like something we already knew, having more proof from a different view is a Good Thing.

    Notice that A is obesity prevalence and F is housing prices, which we’d expect to be opposites. There seems to be correlation with A and C. It would be easier to read all of this if F was reversed to ‘lowest housing rates’ or some such.
    From source paper
    Edit: above image of the London breakdown is from the cited paper which also breaks down the same factors for Boston and Dubai.


  • I’ve played this game enough that I’m tired of it. New DLC won’t change my mind.

    The game got me to figure out that I don’t want to play a game where the people are always going to be really unhappy no matter how far I advance. If I’m playing a city/world builder, I want a game where my advancment also means things are better for the NPCs. In this game, my advancement means I can start with some tiny different perks, but nost of those are wiped out by Prestige runs, so the NPCs have really brutal conditions all the time. And if things start going well? Poof! You’re on to the next town before you can enjoy the last one.






  • But the point of Fermi’s Paradox is that we are not seeing evidence of alien intelligence anywhere. We don’t expect it here on earth, but we look out in space and see no light/radio/other waves that look like messages; no energy bursts or other anomalies that don’t have better explainations (though some have no explaination at all). The Great Filter is simply a hypothesis – like the Dark Forest – as to why we don’t see evidence of intelligent life in space.

    If we went back to caves, we’d have great-filtered ourselves.


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    I would make sure the owner knows about this behavior. Napping is probably the pup’s coping mechanism to deal with a potentially scary/chaotic/dangerous new environment, BUT there might be a medical issue. If the pup is sleepy/low-energy all the time or is in pain such that moving hurts, the owner will probably want to tell their veterinarian.