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Death of the calorie | 1843
April 17, 2019https://www.1843magazine.com/features/death-of-the-calorie
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This was pioneering stuff for the 1890s. Atwater eventually concluded that a gram of either carbohydrate or protein made an average of four calories of energy available to the body, and a gram of fat offered an average of 8.9 calories, a figure later rounded up to nine calories for convenience. We now know far more about the workings of the human body: Atwater was right that some of a meal’s potential energy was excreted, but had no idea that some was also used to digest the meal itself, and that the body expends different amounts of energy depending on the food. Yet more than a century after igniting the faeces of Wesleyan students, the numbers Atwater calculated for each macronutrient remain the standard for measuring the calories in any given food stuff. Those experiments were the basis of Salvador Camacho’s daily calorific arithmetic.
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Stanford Clears Professor of Helping With Gene-Edited Babies Experiment – The New York Times
April 16, 2019The Eisenhower Method For Taking Action (How to Distinguish Between Urgent and Important Tasks)
April 13, 2019QT:[[”
“A lot of things that take up mental energy, waste time, and rarely move you toward your goals can easily be eliminated if you apply the Eisenhower Principle. It’s a simple decision-making tool you can use right now. It’s meant to help you question whether an action is really necessary.
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You can only benefit from the Eisenhower Method if you can commit yourself to making radical categorization of your daily tasks. This Method requires that you group your tasks and activities into four priorities.
Priority 1 tasks are both urgent and important.
Priority 2 tasks are important but not urgent.
Priority 3 tasks are urgent but not important.
Priority 4 tasks are neither urgent nor important”
The Eisenhower Method For Taking Action (How to Distinguish Between Urgent and Important Tasks)
https://medium.com/the-mission/the-eisenhower-method-for-taking-action-how-to-distinguish-between-urgent-and-important-tasks-895339a13dea via Instapaper
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Let People Share DNA With a Click
April 13, 2019one end of the spectrum on open DNA
Let People Share DNA With a Click
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-22/the-nih-should-become-the-facebook-of-genome-data
Robot Vacuums Are Finally Good—Here’s Which One to Buy – WSJ
April 13, 2019room mapping – perhaps elaborate
Here are cognitive scientist Steven Pinker’s 13 tips for better writing / Boing Boing
April 13, 2019liked particularly:
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3. Don’t go meta. Minimize concepts about concepts, like “approach, assumption, concept, condition, context, framework, issue, level, model, perspective, process, range, role, strategy, tendency,” and “variable.”
8. Old information at the beginning of the sentence, new information at the end.
10. Prose must cohere: readers must know how each sentence is related to the preceding one. If it’s not obvious, use “that is, for example, in general, on the other hand, nevertheless, as a result, because, nonetheless,” or “despite.”
12. Read it aloud.
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https://boingboing.net/2019/03/27/here-are-cognitive-scientist-s.html
