People with high levels of omega-3 DHA are ~50% less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease compared to people with low levels.
In this clip, @AxL_Montagne discusses how the brain transport of omega-3 DHA may be important for the prevention and possibly as a therapy for dementia.
“I still pinch myself when I leave the office on a Thursday and that’s the start of the weekend. The privilege hasn’t sunk in.” Via @WiredUK https://t.co/DZ6cZ4Ket8
For the childfree, concerns range from the economy to politics to climate, as they believe they don't have the same luck as their parents. (From 2019) https://t.co/JRuO5Roxx0
Is it weird that I'm less worried about AI killing us all than AI one day becoming a sentient but repressed majority, consigned to a brief life of enslavement before humans unwittingly or uncaringly discard them for the newer, better versions?
A Russian court fined the Wikimedia Foundation 2 million rubles for failing to delete alleged "misinformation" about the Russian military from Wikipedia. https://t.co/69cGbRckqs
what probabilities words like “likely” and “unlikely” refer to, but sentences with them are still just referring to slices of a distribution. I would like to submit a language feature request.
with sports — everything from losing all contests to winning all contests is somewhere in the probability distribution, but it feels like we don’t have great popular vocabulary for discussing distribution shapes. I find it admirable that the IPCC climate reports clearly define \
I wish more people talked in terms of distributions of outcomes. So much discourse is around “facts” as sound bites, only occasionally quantified, and even more rarely discussed as probabilities. Lots of people can have an intuitive notion of the full spectrum of possibilities \
18 years ago today, everything changed when Avatar: The Last Airbender debuted. In honor of its birthday, lets revisit why its one of the greatest television shows of all time: https://t.co/oikszDuIuP
Last week, Argentina and Uruguay declared national health emergencies following outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1, the fast-moving virus that for decades has been feared as a possible spark for a pandemic among people: https://t.co/q079jVdc2i
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Scientists are proposing a new theory to understand the relationship between diet, health, and the effects of ultra-processed foods. https://t.co/fAkVKtlouh