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by black_son_of_gray
Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:45 pm
Forum: Health and Food Questions
Topic: What doesn't kill you might make you dumber?
Replies: 28
Views: 1236

Re: What doesn't kill you might make you dumber?

Also, in the short span of years since the onset of the Covid epidemic, the potential to be realized through human/AI collaboration has emerged as MUCH greater than 3 to 10 IQ points, at least in terms of efficiency. For example, I could cut the time to write a paper assigned on any given topic at ...
by black_son_of_gray
Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:29 pm
Forum: Health and Food Questions
Topic: What doesn't kill you might make you dumber?
Replies: 28
Views: 1236

Re: What doesn't kill you might make you dumber?

It remains unclear how permanent this effect is ... insofar it actually is an effect. Regardless, it's definitely worth paying attention to. One of the few risks of ERE is losing intellectual capacity. ERE does require the ability to think. Indeed, it also remains unclear whether this problem accum...
by black_son_of_gray
Wed Oct 04, 2023 3:57 pm
Forum: ERE Community
Topic: Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg (Discussion + Book Club Meeting)
Replies: 62
Views: 12459

Re: Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg (Discussion + Book Club Meeting)

FYI - Just checked my library. The book is pretty popular (Bay Area, CA) and has a fairly deep wait-list to get a physical copy. (I was able to instantly download the audiobook through Hoopla, though). YMMV.
by black_son_of_gray
Fri Sep 22, 2023 2:51 pm
Forum: Health and Food Questions
Topic: V02 Max Challenge
Replies: 396
Views: 125172

Re: V02 Max Challenge

This was reinforced when spending time a lot of time in the desert with rationed water. Nose breathing reduces the amount of water loss. Yes! I do feel like I am less dehydrated after runs than I used to be. I imagine it doesn't matter much for <1 hr, but for long duration endurance runs, there mig...
by black_son_of_gray
Fri Sep 15, 2023 7:29 pm
Forum: Health and Food Questions
Topic: V02 Max Challenge
Replies: 396
Views: 125172

Re: V02 Max Challenge

[This thread seems to be where most people on the forum are talking about it, so I'm posting it here, and I'll make a tie-in to athletic performance.] Regarding nasal breathing... Very early on in the pandemic period e.g. late 2019-early 2020, I came across the topic of nasal breathing. Specifically...
by black_son_of_gray
Wed Sep 13, 2023 4:11 pm
Forum: Health and Food Questions
Topic: Poor Air Quality - High AQI
Replies: 63
Views: 9587

Re: Poor Air Quality - High AQI

For a chic look crossed with DIY, you could make the box in the style of a Japanese andon floor lamp...throw a couple of LEDs inside and add kumiko panel inserts so that the HEPAs look like rice paper. (Do they pass light or are they too thick?)
by black_son_of_gray
Thu Aug 03, 2023 2:55 pm
Forum: Health and Food Questions
Topic: fish oil or real fish?
Replies: 17
Views: 2973

Re: fish oil or real fish?

The figure 5 I was referring to was, as Anesau has linked, from this paper (PDF link) I'm still not fully understanding how the literature supports the benefits of omega 3s to the extent that William Harris is claiming. I realize medical statistics is not my specialty S'all good. I'm certainly not a...
by black_son_of_gray
Wed Aug 02, 2023 2:35 pm
Forum: Health and Food Questions
Topic: fish oil or real fish?
Replies: 17
Views: 2973

Re: fish oil or real fish?

I'll admit to having been a bit unfairly suspicious of William Harris at the start given the replication crisis & his findings seeming to make much stronger claims than others', but after digging deeper it looks like most of the literature agrees with the direction he's moving. I totally unders...
by black_son_of_gray
Tue Aug 01, 2023 8:08 pm
Forum: Health and Food Questions
Topic: fish oil or real fish?
Replies: 17
Views: 2973

Re: fish oil or real fish?

Google Scholar is your friend, here. With respect to omega-3 fatty acids and (cardiovascular) health, I would start with the publications of William Harris . For context of the importance of omega 3's in the diet (and how much/what kind you might want to consume), a wonderful place to start might be...
by black_son_of_gray
Fri Jul 28, 2023 6:03 pm
Forum: Health and Food Questions
Topic: B12
Replies: 12
Views: 2534

Re: B12

In addition to the dramatic problems that can arise from severe deficiency, I would argue that subclinical deficiency is bad as well (perhaps insidiously so), as B12 is involved in certain pathways that reduce homocysteine and oxidative stress... things that contribute/associate to the biggest kille...
by black_son_of_gray
Thu Jul 20, 2023 3:10 pm
Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
Topic: Confusing your emotional reaction to another's action with the action itself
Replies: 7
Views: 930

Re: Confusing your emotional reaction to another's action with the action itself

@OP, I don't know if this was covered in the podcast (didn't listen), but, outside of the emotional context, what you are describing is essentially nominalization . e.g. "To cringe" (verb) > is "cringe" (noun) This process can also work backwards, e.g. "Google" (a searc...
by black_son_of_gray
Mon Jul 17, 2023 12:30 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: GreenMonsta Journal
Replies: 68
Views: 8452

Re: GreenMonsta Journal

Regarding Thoreau (and Emerson for that matter), I have definitely found him to be one of the more challenging reads out there. That said, I reeeeeally like Life Without Principle.

There are so many pithy lines, and a ton of relevance to ERE.
by black_son_of_gray
Sun Jul 16, 2023 3:34 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: black_son_of_gray's Journal
Replies: 169
Views: 47106

Re: black_son_of_gray's Journal

Thanks! Every once in a while I'll stumble upon something I'd written years ago. I usually think one of the following things: "I don't remember writing that at all ." < This happens a lot. "Huh! That's actually pretty good!" < Sometimes. "Wait, I wrote that ?" < More th...
by black_son_of_gray
Mon Jul 03, 2023 2:52 pm
Forum: Mastermind Groups
Topic: Fiction Writing MMG
Replies: 37
Views: 27666

Re: Fiction Writing MMG

I would like to join.
by black_son_of_gray
Sat Jun 17, 2023 6:14 pm
Forum: Emergent Renaissance Ecology
Topic: Is art good for anything?
Replies: 52
Views: 13143

Re: Is art good for anything?

I think it's probably a mistake to get children and teenagers to read literature on the deepest and most fundamental aspects of being a human. This is especially true in our times, where children/teens are cloistered and are living a life devoid of any objective problems. 100 years ago, children co...
by black_son_of_gray
Sat Jun 17, 2023 5:59 pm
Forum: Emergent Renaissance Ecology
Topic: Is art good for anything?
Replies: 52
Views: 13143

Re: Is art good for anything?

@jacob I can certainly relate to finding a deeper appreciation of art late. I too was a STEM dullard for far too long. As others have noted as well, there is a mismatch between the sophistication of art we expose to children, their maturity/developmental capacity in relation to that art, and their t...
by black_son_of_gray
Sat Jun 17, 2023 3:07 pm
Forum: Emergent Renaissance Ecology
Topic: Is art good for anything?
Replies: 52
Views: 13143

Re: Is art good for anything?

Perhaps it's worthwhile to suss out what we are calling "art". In my post above, I used portrait painting as an example because that was in the OP post. I have a broad definition. I'm not exaggerating when I say "art is as old as humans and is literally everywhere" and "anyt...
by black_son_of_gray
Fri Jun 16, 2023 5:30 pm
Forum: Health and Food Questions
Topic: V02 Max Challenge
Replies: 396
Views: 125172

Re: V02 Max Challenge

I am curious about the fastest mile I could run. That's the shortest distance that interests me. Again though, fear of injury has stopped me from a 100% effort. One of the not-obvious-at-the-time benefits to having run on the cross country team in high school is that I have been to 100%. I know exa...
by black_son_of_gray
Fri Jun 16, 2023 5:11 pm
Forum: Emergent Renaissance Ecology
Topic: Is art good for anything?
Replies: 52
Views: 13143

Re: Is art good for anything?

Is art good for anything? [...] If I were a farmer, a breeder, a producer, at this point I'd be tired, but at least I could say: "My milk is good for something. It fed so many children today.", or "I've produced so many eggs and so many people will eat them." However, art is a p...
by black_son_of_gray
Sat Jun 10, 2023 4:01 pm
Forum: ERE Community
Topic: IQ Test
Replies: 160
Views: 412648

Re: IQ Test

I don't think there's a magic cut-off number in terms of adjusted and not adjusted. (Also see guitarplayer's plot above.) Rather, it's all a matter of statistical distribution with individuals differing. Samples with higher means have a correspondingly and increasingly much higher incidence of the ...