Robert G

Love beats fear, every time. Making business data useful since 1999, SQL

[Playteaux @Playteaux1]

Happy Father’s Day

[Noah Ryan @NoahRyanCo]

If you are moving into a new house, test for mold.

If you get sick at your house but better when you leave, test for mold.

If you are tired all the time, have brain fog, and deal with constant sinus issues, test for mold.

I effectively lost a year of my life (and tens of thousands of dollars) to mold poisoning. Water damage does not discriminate between new and old homes. Mold wasn't as big of an issue when we had concrete houses and indoor/outdoor living. But we've effectively created super-strains with EMF-induced epigenetic changes and anti-fungal resistance.

Combine this with insulated, water damaged, and cellulose-rich drywall/sheetboard buildings and you have a perfect storm to oneshot anybody with a compromised immune system (most people).

Those Amazon mold plates are notoriously inaccurate. get a qPCR dust test from @themoldcompany to actually analyze mold DNA in your home.

[MoldCo @themoldcompany]

Brain fog: When exposure to mold mimics a brain injury.

Let's explore the science ⬇️

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Women don’t have to turn their heads to check someone out.

Dr. Daniel Amen explained on Modern Wisdom: Men have stronger narrow focus and coordination (better at throwing, tracking, darts), while women have superior peripheral vision.

That’s also why men get diagnosed with ADD 5x more often, lower prefrontal cortex activity on average.

Chris Williamson brought up old (now-unethical) studies showing massive differences in spatial tasks and dodging tennis balls. Men dominate in some areas, women in others.

Fascinating how our brains are wired differently.

What’s your take, how much do these biological differences actually shape everyday behavior between men and women?

[Zaid K. Dahhaj @zaidkdahhaj]

You can only appreciate the offensive nature of conventional LEDs at night when you make the nights dark with low lux firelight and incandescents

The relative experience is key

Otherwise, you’re blind to what your nights should look like from a circadian and evolutionary perspective because the societal default is circadian disruption through bright nights

[Robert G @RbertGriffin]

@newstart_2024 Lusting has put out some decent content over the years, unfortunately none of it is in this video. He knows not of what he speaks when it comes to cattle farming, especially his birth to slaughter remark.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

🚨🧵 BREAKING - The "conservative" protest against AI data centers has an anti-ICE NGO organizer, a DSA member, Facebook money.

Other than that, totally grassroots.

Axios ran an "exclusive" Wednesday about a "conservative group" called Humans First planning a nationwide day of protest against AI data centers on July 18. Amy Kremer is chairing it and invoking the Tea Party.

Axios didn't mention that Humans First was incubated by the Center for AI Safety, an organization funded with millions from Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz. Or that its original staff included a Sunrise Movement organizer who sat in at Pelosi's office with AOC and a DSA member who organized for Kamala Harris.

NBC News described CAIS as having founded Humans First "to be a sort of Trojan horse to make AI safety issues more palatable to a conservative political audience."

@ParkerThayer exposed the Action Network backend.

As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇

[Avi Roy @agingroy]

The eye doctor has been taking a photo of the back of your eye for years. You glance at it for two seconds, they file it, you go home.

Turns out that photo was holding onto something nobody was reading.

The retina is the one place a doctor can look straight at your blood vessels and nerve tissue without cutting you open. It’s brain tissue, pushed to the surface. For a long time we knew the signal was probably in there. We just couldn’t pull it out.

A new study in Lancet Digital Health shows an AI can. Feed it that same routine retina photo and it reads out a picture of how the brain is aging.

A photo they were already getting, turned into an early look at the brain.

[Robert G @RbertGriffin]

Good way to travel

[Oasis @oasishealthapp]

Norway shipped over 2,000 lbs of their own food for World Cup to avoid American diet.

They weren't leaving performance to chance:
- 300kg of Atlantic salmon and fish
- 116kg of Norwegian brown cheese
- 6,000 oranges
- 3 Norwegian chefs

The lead chef, Aron Espeland, has cooked for the national team for 35 years. He flew in with brand new kitchen equipment and juicers shipped from Norway.

Why go this far?

Norway follows European food law, stricter than the US. They restrict ingredients on reasonable doubt, not after proof of harm.

And their star takes it even further.

Erling Haaland treats his body like a science project:

- Morning sunlight and red light panels
- Organ meats, grass-fed steak, ~6,000 cal a day
- Mouth tape, blue-light glasses, bed by 10:30
- Ice bath into sauna, 4-5x a week
- Filters his own water

[The Fourth Musketeer @IV_Musketeer]

Before the 1950s, clover was a STANDARD component of American lawns.

Seed mixes included it on purpose.

Then broadleaf herbicides were invented.

They killed clover along with "weeds." So the chemical companies rebranded clover as a weed — to sell more herbicide.

That's it. That's the whole story.

Clover is not a weed. It's the future of your lawn.

White Dutch clover (Trifolium repens):
Self-fertilizing — fixes nitrogen from the air into the soil. No fertilizer needed. EVER.

…and it feeds the grass around it for free.

Drought-resistant — stays green when grass goes brown.

Bee paradise — constant blooms from May to frost.

Chokes out weeds — dense growth shades out weed seeds.

No mowing needed (stays 4-6 inches) — or mow monthly.

Soft underfoot — kids love it.

Costs $5-10 to overseed 1,000 sq ft.

How to add clover to your existing lawn:
Overseed in spring or fall.

Scatter seed (2 oz per 1,000 sq ft).

Water lightly for 2 weeks. Done.

Stop using broadleaf herbicides (they kill clover).

Stop fertilizing (clover makes its own).

Mow at 3-4 inches.

The lawn industry told you clover was a weed so they could sell you chemicals.

Take your lawn back.

[Robert G @RbertGriffin]

This could get spicy

[Michael Guimarin @Guimarin]

This guy collected every local law in America and put them in a single database.

2.2 million laws.

This might seem to you like some nerds side project, and while it is technically, it is also much more important than you think.

Historically, whenever anything is made transparent to the voting bloc it undergoes radical change.

Every. Single. Time.

To the extent governments work overtime to make things opaque. (And I expect that to happen to this dataset too very soon, in a thousand different ways.)

The internet makes everything including politics “global/local” and local laws won’t escape.

It’s hard to understand right now how profound this will be, but we live in interesting times for sure.

Thank you Joe, and all the other nerds who do stuff like this because they are personally curious and they can. This is how history moves forwards

[Michael Guimarin @Guimarin]

This guy collected every local law in America and put them in a single database.

2.2 million laws.

This might seem to you like some nerds side project, and while it is technically, it is also much more important than you think.

Historically, whenever anything is made transparent to the voting bloc it undergoes radical change.

Every. Single. Time.

To the extent governments work overtime to make things opaque. (And I expect that to happen to this dataset too very soon, in a thousand different ways.)

The internet makes everything including politics “global/local” and local laws won’t escape.

It’s hard to understand right now how profound this will be, but we live in interesting times for sure.

Thank you Joe, and all the other nerds who do stuff like this because they are personally curious and they can. This is how history moves forwards

[Dr. Ammous @AmmousMD]

Melanin splitting water is the source of all energy in the body.

The electromagnetic frequencies you're exposed to are critical to your health.

[Manifest History @ManifestHistory]

Most history enthusiasts know Robert E. Lee famously graduated second in his West Point class.

But who beat him for the top spot?

Charles Mason.

In the Class of 1829, Mason scored 1,995.5 out of 2,000 — the highest graduating score in West Point history. Lee finished second with 1,966.5, still the #2 all-time mark. Both had zero demerits during their entire time at the Academy.

Mason taught engineering at West Point for two years before resigning his commission. He became a patent attorney and went on to become Chief Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court.

The only man to outscore Robert E. Lee at West Point.

[Robert G @RbertGriffin]

@brian_armstrong Better troubleshooting skills tho

[Sandeep Palakodeti, MD MPH @DrDeepMD]

This basically captures it

Your choices MATTER

In our 20s, resilience is king

In our 40s and 50s, we have to program it in

[Dr. Ammous @AmmousMD]

Processed foods are deuterium bombs.

Industrial processing removes the lower-deuterium parts of food and concentrates the higher-deuterium sugars and starches.

[History With Jacob @HistoryWJacob]

The Great Seal of the United States could have been this: Moses drowning a king in the Red Sea.

Benjamin Franklin pitched it in the summer of 1776, just weeks after the Declaration of Independence.

His scene: Pharaoh in his chariot, crown on his head and sword in his hand, swallowed by the returning water. Moses standing on the shore, hand outstretched, lit by a pillar of fire to show he acted on the command of God.

The motto read:

Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God

It was the entire Revolution in one image. King George was the Pharaoh. The colonists were Israel walking out of bondage. And rebellion against a tyrant was not a sin. It was obedience to a higher law.

Jefferson loved the line so much he put it on his own personal seal.

Congress set the design aside. Six years and two more committees later, the bald eagle won instead.

[Robert G @RbertGriffin]

Not surprised at all

[Craig Brockie @CraigBrockie]

Stanford pitted a high-fiber diet against a fermented-food diet for 10 weeks.

The result SURPRISED even the researchers.

They took 36 healthy adults and split them into two.

One group loaded up on fiber. Beans, seeds, whole grains, nuts, fruits, and vegetables.

The other ate fermented foods.

Yogurt, kefir, kimchi, kombucha, and other fermented vegetables.

About 6 servings a day.

You would expect the fiber group to win.

The fermented group did.

Their gut bacteria grew more diverse, one of the clearest signs of a healthy gut.

And 19 separate markers of inflammation in their blood went down.

One of them is tied to rheumatoid arthritis, type 2 diabetes, and chronic stress.

The high-fiber group?

Their gut diversity barely moved, and not one of those 19 markers dropped.

Fiber still matters. This is not an argument against it.

But if your gut needs help, the jar of fermented food in your fridge may be doing more than the fanciest supplement.

You do not need six servings tomorrow.

Start with a few forkfuls of real sauerkraut, or a glass of kefir.