The latest gimmick that defies physics and probably won’t work. But hey, it’s worth a shot.
Category Archives: General Science
The Secrets Of Ice
Unlocking them with anti-freeze and microscopy.
Why Cats Meow
This is interesting, but doesn’t really seem like news to me.
Learning To Slow Down Time
An interesting (and entertaining) post on why time seems to accelerate as we age and what to do about it.
New Vitamin D Guidelines
These recommendations are far too non-quantitative for me to have any idea what to make of them.
Lunar Lander Problems
Climate Science Versus Climate Activism
On the importance of distinguishing them.
As noted, that this was published in Nature may be an indication that there are growing cracks in the wall of the hysteria.
Good News For Now
Why robots can’t outrun the fastest animals.
A Propellantless Drive?
As usual, it’s unlikely that this will pan out, but it’s certainly worthy of further investigation.
A “Fasting-Style” Diet
Seems to have previously unknown benefits to the brain.
The problem with this article is that (a) they don’t really describe what the “fasting-style diet” is, in terms of how long the fast, or what days they do it, and (b), as with most nutrition studies, it’s probably based on self reporting, and it’s not clear that there are any controls.
I do suspect, though, that we didn’t evolved to three squares a day, which would have been hard as hunter gatherers, which is one of the ways that agriculture screwed up our health, though it allowed the existence of orders of magnitude more unhealthy people.
I personally fast almost every day until evening. Dinner (or supper, depending on your local vernacular) is my literal breakfast, though I don’t have bacon and eggs then.