Vesuvius Challenge: An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time

Prove You Are Worthy to Post About Diets:

People make a lot of claims about digestion, nutrition, and diet on the internet. … It is helpful, then, to have a heuristic to tell the iconoclastic geniuses apart from the grifters and bullshitters. 

I end up with a pretty similar strategy to what I do when I see or hear random claims about finance (e.g. on Twitter.) I keep some questions in my head that test basic understanding, then either ask the person or, if I feel like I have enough data, imagine how they would answer. …

Some of these questions have objectively correct answers, others are more of an opportunity to say something stupid that hopefully, the person you’re talking to will pass up. “I don’t know” is a wonderful answer.

SovietRxiv — Translating forgotten Soviet research papers into English.

“Kevin Smith dropped a wild story on Joe Rogan: After his heart attack, he tried the extreme ‘just potatoes’ diet for two weeks, nothing but plain baked potatoes, no butter, no salt, no nothing. He lost 19 pounds (8.6 kg) in 14 days” – h/t @JamesMcDaniel

The Independent Science Society:

The Independent Science Society is testing if good science can be done the ol’ fashioned way — at home and in your free time.

Doing science means hypothesising and testing the natural world. This requires a lot less than people think. Most scientists in history worked independently. They worked outside of formal institutions, and often part-time. We think more people should be doing this.

​​Draft: Amos and the Alphabet Society

Deadlock in the Parliament of the Self

GitHub repo with data of 156 countries’ obesity rates measured from household surveys as often as it’s comparably available. You may ask, “why does this repo exist? I was unsatisfied with existing obesity-rate data. For example, the data at  @OurWorldInData uses outputs from a model, so it’s *predictions* instead of real data.”

We’re All One Crisis Away From Taking Unlicensed Research Peptides

“Since time immemorial, man has sought to destroy Florida. But people may not realize how close the United States once came to severing that cursed peninsula from the mainland and liberating us all.” Visualizing the Past (Part Four)

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