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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…
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February 2023

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…
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January 2023

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…
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If you do a Google search for ‘meditation’, you might find results like this: ‘Meditation Completely Changed My Life’ ‘How meditation can change your…
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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…
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December 2022

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…
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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…
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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…
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November 2022

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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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