Affirms my recent decision to get back in the gym at Google. :-)
- Jeff Eddings
Yes, exercise is rewarding and reduces stress. This shouldn't be news to anyone :p
- Charles Bihis
It's been shown over and over again that one of the best ways to build a strong mind is cardiovascular exercise (see: http://piaw.blogspot.com/2008...). Yet our offices and schools aren't designed around that!
- Piaw Na
Wow, I've never seen comment spam like that here before. :-(
- Ruchira S. Datta
@ev Hi Evan..I went to school with you at Columbus High School...I can't figure out how to send these tweets..I keep trying..let me know if it works. I just heard about what you have done..Cami and you lived in Lincoln, and that was the last I heard from you..I'd love to hear from you...I can't believe what you have accomplished:-)! Michelle Loseke
- Michelle Loseke
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. - http://news.stanford.edu/news...
Your mind can never change
Unless you ask it to
Lovingly re-arrange
The thoughts that make you blue
The things that bring you down
Only do harm to you
And so make your choice joy
The joy belongs to you - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” -Bertrand Russell
- Eivind
"It makes you wonder how many incurable ailments of the modern world - depression, autism, hypertension, obesity - will turn out to have equally simple solutions, once we are able to see them in the correct light." - http://idlewords.com/2010...
Bear in mind that Amundsen, who beat Scott to the South Pole, had already figured it out, and he and his men didn't suffer from scurvy. http://www.amazon.com/gp...
- Piaw Na
I don't know, I'm starting to see a lot of these problems as symptoms of societal disease rather than just individual pathology. The solutions will probably be conceptually simple, but will involve a lot of sacrifice, and a lot of redefining of what our society considers desirable. It's the implementation of a simple solution that always proves challenging.
- Victor Ganata
But there ain't no cure for the summertime blues.
- Josh Haley
Our most common treatment for cancer involves injecting toxins into the body and expecting the cancer cells to die first. I suspect we'll look back on that as sheer lunacy as well.
- DGentry
I wonder how many of those ailments are simply due to having a diagnosis. Time was, you weren't autistic, you were shy or retarded. You weren't obese, you were fat or lazy.
- Gabe
DGentry: Almost all medicines work that way though. You add something that is toxic to the thing you want to get rid of, but not quite toxic enough to kill the bits you don't.
- Otto
For every ailment there is a cure, the trick is how to find the cure that does the least amount of harm.
- Shakeel Mahate
I wouldn't be surprised at all to learn that a majority of afflictions today to be environmental in nature. We humans have a terrific zeal for implementing all kinds of technology without full (or fair) examination of the impact it might have directly (or otherwise); interaction with factors seemingly beyond the scope of study have often been concluded as causal.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
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"...a striking demonstration of the problem of induction." Yep. Induction before deduction.
- Greg Biggers
"They had a theory of the disease that made sense, fit the evidence, but was utterly wrong. They had arrived at the idea of an undetectable substance in their food, present in trace quantities, with a direct causative relationship to scurvy, but they thought of it in terms of a poison to avoid. In one sense, the additional leap required for a correct understanding was very small. In...
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- Clare Dibble
With regard to autism, hypertension, obesity, and depression, we do have an advantage over the state of affairs with regards to scurvy in the 19th century-early 20th century--we know something about the pathophysiology of these conditions. We know at least some of the molecules involved, and some of the physiologic processes that cause these conditions. We have theories about synaptic...
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- Victor Ganata
Synchronicity. A couple weeks ago Wikipedia featured that South Pole expedition on its front page. I was reading it and was stunned that scurvy was an issue, which led me to read up on scurvy, etc. But this entry really helps clear up that question for me. Thanks!
- Spidra Webster
Victor, I love your posts & comments and miss them when you're gone. You make my brain hurt. In a good way.
- Spidra Webster
http://ff.im/oOdNy Hello Paul, is said by many that our beloved FriendFeed could close. These days many people are alarmed and are intended as Cliqset different social networks. For my part I hope that FF will continue its excellent service, that even better with new initiatives since it is more than a year that no longer run no news. Can you tell us something? Friendfeed will remain open? Sorry if I write here, but it is the fastest way to contact you. PICCHU
- PICCHU
So, to summarize: Google is responsible for Orkut, Wave, and Buzz. Ex-Googlers are responsible for Facebook, Foursquare, and Twitter. Discuss.
- Vince Maniago
If they spend so much time on being creative, how are they going to have enough time to be rockstars? (partying, drugs, fighting, getting arrested, etc.)
- Brian Johns
Naz has an excellent writeup of the current state of Rdio and almost all of his suggestions are things we're actively working on. Very much appreciate him taking the time out to comment thoughtfully.
- Wilson Miner