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I think for most of the last 20 years I've counted myself in the recovered mental health catagory. but In the last couple years I've been abused and neglected to such a degree that it's wrecked my mental health. I find myself at once desperate for reassurances that I won't continue down a long painf...

There is too much information here for me to readily make a point-by-point review. A couple of things about which I would have liked to have seen more discussion: Fracking and the extent to which this fairly new technology has increase the potential level of fossil fuel production What a shift to a...

that feels a might bit like Malthus all over again. and the gaps in his models were big enough to fit a world of billions more through. I'm not sure we are going in for a rude encounter with the great filter, but the chances are also not zero. And given dipsticks in charge of piloting our future sur...

This started as a sort of laugh, thinking about hippie communes but technologically empowered and separated around the country or world. But the more it rattles around my brain, the more it seems possible. people with access or production or resources or raw materials sending them to each other who ...

I'm feeling pessimistic after some health issues, though I do recall a saying that pessimism is often more likely to be realism. So let's start with the premise of longevity and health span. This is not likely to be a single pill, or one treatment. This is more likely to come as multiple things that...

singularity is an evolution, and as such is only observable in retrospect. there isn't a single point where there was a pre human and the next person was a human. It happens through accumulations of differences and the boundary is fuzzy. We will have life as we know it, life as we know it with some ...

Lyme disease 'stay safe' warning issued as cases on rise in UK 13:08, 23 APR 2023 Lyme disease cases in the UK are rising, prompting a warning for people to stay safe this spring. The infection, which can cause severe symptoms for those infected, is reported to be on the rise in this country as we ...

For over a year now I've been in what some call a neurodivergent shutdown. The horror show of abuse and strain from the job I was working legitimately destroyed me and left me with panic attacks and sleep issues. The slum I'm forced to live in compounds that problem. And in the last 2 years I lost m...

some older stuff but worth knowing https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110919073845.htm what if you could find out how our genes respond to the foods we eat, and what this does to the cellular processes that make us healthy -- or not? That's precisely what biologists in Norway have done......

Spoke too soon. Found something on affecting the activity of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) and/or aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) enzymes through dietary sources. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266592711930005X#:~:text=Pear%20showed%20the%20highest%20positive,%25%20and%2033.47%25%2C%...