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1/ Meme Card #195 is from @louisdazy

“Turn It Off”

Airdrops are done, edition size is 329, mint price 0.06529ETH and card is CC0.

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[Greco Gum @GrecoGum]

MINT AND TESTOSTERONE

Mint is commonly found in many everyday products such as toothpaste, deodorant, tea, and chewing gum. But did you know that regular consumption of this herb can significantly lower your T levels?

Mint, spearmint and peppermint are all part of the mentha genus. While its aromatic nature is effective at providing a refreshing fragrance, these herbs do contain antiandrogenic properties.

Androgens are testosterone-related hormones. An antiandrogen suppresses the production of testosterone or blocks its effects on its target cells.

Researchers (https://t.co/IM6kcS7gPm) took 48 rats and divided them into four groups, one control getting water and the other three receiving progressively higher doses of mint (either spearmint or peppermint).

They found the control groups produced significantly more follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH) while levels of testosterone plummeted. In the lowest-dose group of peppermint, levels fell 23%. Spearmint dropped testosterone levels by 51%, and that wasn’t even at the highest dose.

The same researchers published a second study on 21 female hirsute patients (https://t.co/h1Q1en4BzZ) with similar outcomes. After drinking mint tea daily for just 5 days, their free testosterone levels dropped and their FSH and LH levels rose significantly. They also found increases in estrogen.

It’s worth noting that mint is the most common flavor of chewing gum. An unfortunate coincidence, or a massive soyop from Big Gum?

Either way, the outcome is the same. For the sake of your testosterone, fertility, and libido, we recommend against chewing all forms of mint.

[RAW EGG NATIONALIST @Babygravy9]

Reminder that our ancestors have been chewing tree resin -- that's mastic -- for at least ten thousands years. When you chew @GrecoGum, you are communing with your ancestors.

[Justin Murphy @jmrphy]

A lot of popular wisdom about “audience building” and the creator economy is so fundamentally wrong, I’m realizing.

Having been in this game for almost 5 years now, everything really comes down to 2 stupidly simple (though difficult) things.

1. Just be excellent. Think, write, and create the most excellent things you can conceive. Almost every other concern, consideration, or calculation is rounding error.

2. Look for the coolest people who come your way, and focus everything on real relationships with the coolest people who come into your orbit through your work.

Every great result of anything I’ve done in the past five years has come via instances of these two things. And all the business nonsense that I studied and worked on, and worried about, it all added very little if I’m honest. In fact it’s been my greatest failure. I thought I had to worry about all that stuff, but I should have spent way more time just studying excellent work, pursuing the most excellent ideas, and writing with even greater passion, care, and discipline.

Then just befriending and scheming with the coolest people who came my way.

In retrospect, it’s so obvious. But in the fog of trying to build a real business, it’s surprisingly hard to believe: You can just be excellent in one or two things, and be cool to the coolest people you find. And that’s it. And you’ll win. Crazy that this is true, yet it is.

[RAW EGG NATIONALIST @Babygravy9]

Spare a thought for the blue whale. According to a study published last year, they consume up to 95lb of plastic a day while filter-feeding for krill.

[Jash Dholani @oldbooksguy]

Orthodoxy (1908) is G.K. Chesterton's best book

A curated list of its 10 best ideas:

1. Love precedes lovability: "Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her." A "primary devotion" to a place, thing, or person is the source of the creative energy that transforms it. Begin with love, not scorn.

2. Modern streets are "noisy with taxicabs and motorcars," but that's the noise of "laziness and fatigue," not activity. If everyone walked, streets would be quieter but more alive. Modern thought is like a modern street - noisiness, long words, loud ideas...hiding laziness.

3. The paradox of fairytales: "All the beauty of a fairy-tale lies in this: that the prince has a wonder which just stops short of being fear. If he is afraid of the giant, there is an end of him; but also if he is not astonished at the giant, there is an end of the fairytale."

4. How to think about the environment around us: "This is not a world, but rather the material for a world. God has given us not so much the colors of a picture as the colors of a palette. But he has also given us a subject, a model, a fixed vision."

5. Healthy men have bandwidth for superfluity: "It's the happy man who does the useless things; the sick man isn't strong enough to be idle. It's exactly such careless and causeless actions that the madman could never understand...he generally sees too much cause in everything."

6. Old humility v/s New humility: "The old humility made a man doubtful. about his efforts, which might make him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether." There's such a thing as toxic humility...

7. Art requires limitations: "The essence of every picture is the frame. If you draw a giraffe, you must draw him with a long neck. If, in your bold creative way, you hold yourself free to draw a giraffe with a short neck, you'll really find that you're not free to draw a giraffe."

8. It is impossible to critique without standards. Chesterton: "When little boys in the street laugh at the fatness of some distinguished journalist, they are unconsciously assuming a standard of Greek sculpture."

9. Why its anti-democratic to ignore tradition: "Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about."

10. Chesterton on the emptiness of the atheist's worldview: He has "nothing to show us except more and more infinite corridors of space lit by ghastly suns and empty of all that is divine." We need more than that to live...

[Greco Gum @GrecoGum]

Wake up, fresh nuggets just dropped

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This chart shows the hours of daylight as a function of day of the year and latitude

[🎞️ u/harpalss]

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Listen to this raven singing to a flute
https://t.co/SdLW1jFBjW

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Magnetic North Is Moving Fast.

The Earth's magnetic field is fundamental for life on our planet, because it protects it from cosmic rays and lethal radiation coming from the Sun, which would otherwise sterilize it. If it were to “flip” to the south, as it has many times in history, the process would leave all life on the planet challenged to significant decline.

The field is produced a few thousand kilometers under our feet by the motions that occur within the nucleus.

Not too long ago scientists discovered that the Earth's magnetic North pole is rapidly moving towards Siberia, at a speed eight times greater than that of the magnetic South pole.

Unlike the geographic poles, which are fixed, the magnetic ones move and are not diametrically opposed. The magnetic South Pole is about 2,800 kilometers from its geographic counterpart, while the North Pole is about 350 kilometers.

The North Pole moves at a speed of approximately 37-72 kilometers per year, with a slight decrease in 2016, the speed of the South Pole is approximately 5-9 kilometers per year.

The analyzes show that the magnetic North pole has abandoned the northern territories of Canada and is heading towards Siberia, while the magnetic South pole is moving more slowly towards the open ocean.

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

@fasc1nate In 1999 this man was asked to reenact his recent lottery win for TV and ended up winning again on camera

[algirhythm @algirhythm]

The golden needle to weave thread “uncovering changing consumer behavior is always a great place to find ideas”

[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

the idea of churning and burning SDRs for every software business is totally over

the new model is building generational technologies, and then attaching yourself to monolithic companies as your distribution arms.

this is how pharma has operated for its entire life

[Jash Dholani @oldbooksguy]

Issac Newton was an alchemist. Alan Turing thought telepathy is real. It's undeniable at this point that people at the upper bounds of intelligence are quasi-mystics. A material universe made of inert atoms is for midwits only

[owen cyclops @owenbroadcast]

a question i've often been asked over the last two years is: what's the most surprising part of having a kid?

normally my answer has been something about the parent child bond

however, now my answer is different. here's something i wish someone had told me beforehand, tbh

...

[Greco Gum @GrecoGum]

No Nanoplastics November

[Dalton (Analyze & Optimize) @Outdoctrination]

A protective tool against bacterial and fungal infection, inflammation, oxidative stress, bowel disease, and even metabolic and heart disease.

The shocking therapeutic benefits of MASTIC GUM:

[manifold.xyz @manifoldxyz]

You can now upload and mint fully on-chain art to your Manifold contract!

@0xdiid built Efficax, an independent interface on top of Manifold contracts that lets you:

1. upload and store your art entirely on-chain
2. mint to your Manifold contracts

Permissionless innovation 👑

[6529 Collections @6529Collections]

1/ Meme Card #153 is from @photonisdead

“Anonymous”

Airdrops are done, edition size is 333, mint price 0.06529ETH and card is CC0.

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