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Christmas Gift Book Reviews - Clay By Franck Bouysse
Lard wasn't that long ago. Given the renewed prevalence of Health Whisperers, those progressive forms of trad wives who fetishize the ancient ways and call soup "bone broth", it is probably an alternative sold at high cost to people who also buy raw milk.
For my father, lard was a way of life. Bread made in my grandmother's kitchen with lard and salt and pepper was his school lunch. That wasn't bleak to him, he didn't go to therapy about it, it was just his life. We were poor when I was a child, below the poverty line most of the time, but not as poor as he'd been. He had provided us a better life than he'd had.
For my father, lard was a way of life. Bread made in my grandmother's kitchen with lard and salt and pepper was his school lunch. That wasn't bleak to him, he didn't go to therapy about it, it was just his life. We were poor when I was a child, below the poverty line most of the time, but not as poor as he'd been. He had provided us a better life than he'd had.
Categories: Science 2.0
Living At The Polar Circle
Since 2022, when I got invited for a keynote talk at a Deep Learning school, I have been visiting with increasing frequency the northern Sweden town of Lulea, and its Technology University (LTU). In 2023 I spent three months there, invited by Marcus Liwicki and Fredrik Sandin to join the Machine Learning group for some studies of neuromorphic computing applications to particle detectors. Then toward the end of 2023 they were able to secure funding to invite me as a WASP Guest Professor. I thus spent at LTU some four months in 2024, but this year I have spent there over 6 months, as the research collaboration with the computer scientists of LTU has become more intensive.
Categories: Science 2.0
Alcohol Causes Cancer - How Much Shouldn't Even Enter Your Thoughts
A doctor who told you to smoke cigarettes "in moderation" would likely lose their license, but alcohol has long been known as a legitimate class 1 carcinogen, deemed such before the International Agency for Research on Cancer was hijacked by activist epidemiologists as likely as not to be caught signing contracts with predatort trial lawyers, and has gotten 'in moderation' hand-waving by the medical community.
Maybe it is due to the amount of money the American Medical Association gets from the alcohol industry, maybe it is because there are 6X as many alcohol drinkers as there are smokers, but one thing certain is 'in moderation' free passes have nothing to do with science.
Maybe it is due to the amount of money the American Medical Association gets from the alcohol industry, maybe it is because there are 6X as many alcohol drinkers as there are smokers, but one thing certain is 'in moderation' free passes have nothing to do with science.
Categories: Science 2.0
The Scorched Cherry Twig And Other Christmas Miracles Get A Science Look
Bleeding hosts and stigmatizations are the best-known medieval miracles but less known ones, like a scorched cherry twig miraculously sprouting, a diseased swamp becoming fertile land, and healing the broken leg of an ox, are getting a new look.
Categories: Science 2.0