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Worries about Semaglutide
The UK’s health service has just approved the miracle weight loss drug Semaglutide for NHS use. I know 99.99% of things called a ‘miracle weight loss…
Sam Atis
Mar 10
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February 2023
Hot and cold takes
Some bad news: I’m travelling at the moment and have had to chuck away my ADHD meds because apparently they’re extremely illegal in Japan (jail time…
Sam Atis
Feb 19
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January 2023
Stuff I found interesting in January
1) Some research from about a year ago on the personality traits that predict interest in EA. The finding isn’t very surprising, but the whole thing is…
Sam Atis
Jan 30
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Personal null results
If you do a Google search for ‘meditation’, you might find results like this: ‘Meditation Completely Changed My Life’ ‘How meditation can change your…
Sam Atis
Jan 26
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How do people lose weight?
Most diets fail. I’m not sure if this “fact” is actually true, but it’s repeated often enough to make me think there’s something to it. It also just…
Sam Atis
Jan 3
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December 2022
Stuff I found interesting in December
Happy holidays all, and thank you to everyone who donated in response to my matching offer, the full £300 limit was reached (plus quite a bit more)! I…
Sam Atis
Dec 31, 2022
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More random studies I found interesting
Apologies for not posting much recently, here’s a quick post summarising some of the more interesting papers I’ve read recently. Haven’t checked if…
Sam Atis
Dec 20, 2022
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Sam's 12 rules for life
I haven’t had a cheesy post for a while, so why not this? Fairly obvious where this idea is from, so no need to give credit. Advice is from a…
Sam Atis
Dec 3, 2022
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November 2022
Stuff I found interesting in November
1) An oldie but a goodie: guess the correlation. 2) I really, really enjoyed this 80k episode on probability. One thing that stood out (and I’ll…
Sam Atis
Nov 29, 2022
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Of Boys and Men
On the recommendation of Tyler Cowen, I’ve been reading Richard Reeves’ book Of Boys and Men. The most interesting parts of the book are the evidence…
Sam Atis
Nov 27, 2022
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Nature, nurture, environment & culture
I. There are a few books I’ve read recently that make the case that when it comes to nature versus nurture, nature is pretty much winning. Take this…
Sam Atis
Nov 19, 2022
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Why do you guys hate school so much?
Loads of people I meet seem to really, really hate schools. Not in a ‘schools have a ton of problems that we should probably get to work on fixing’ sort…
Sam Atis
Nov 6, 2022
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