"Required To Run? Professor Proposes Harvard Bring Back Required Phys Ed"

Dan Lieberman, reactionary.

"The 100 best films of the 21st century"

Number four is a surprise, although only that it's recognized by the critics.

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"Can we target cancer with ketogenic diets? Can you help?"

Seems worth a shot!

Link via Richard David Feinman

"Frodo's Lord of the Rings journey on Google Maps"

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"Understand the Brain? Let’s Try Donkey Kong First."

Absolutely brilliant approach. "Here we take a simulated classical microprocessor as a model organism, and use our ability to perform arbitrary experiments on it to see if popular data analysis methods from neuroscience can elucidate the way it processes information. We show that the approaches reveal interesting structure in the data but do not meaningfully describe the hierarchy of information processing in the processor. This suggests that current approaches in neuroscience may fall short of producing meaningful models of the brain."

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"The Sad State of Human Dietary Research"

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