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I’m a doctor. Here’s what opened my mind about the future of medical care.
AI didn’t replace me as a doctor. It made me better.
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Feb 261 min read
Why Doctors Can’t Agree on How to Diagnose Alzheimer’s
Divergent diagnostic criteria is raising concerns that some patients are being misdiagnosed and unnecessarily treated
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Feb 191 min read
What Happens Inside Your Brain When You’re Sleep Deprived
Recent research reveals we dip into a sleeplike state as our brains flush out waste buildup
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Feb 171 min read
The Sweet Lesson of Neuroscience
Scientists once hoped that studying the brain would teach us how to build AI. Now, one AI researcher may have something to teach us about the brain.
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Feb 161 min read
The dimming light of "The Sciences" (UII w/Claude)
Good morning! I've increasing concerns regarding cognitively myopic, limited, narrow and/cloistered phenomena of "The Sciences" within modern societies. Here I refer widespread institutional prejudice, paradigmatic hobbles, reductionist fiefdoms, mathematics worship, overt hubris and empirical tethering, all of which which seems to be failing today's humanity (as to the myriad wastes, needless sufffering/despair and onto dangerous trajectories). There were pre-enlightenment w
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Feb 1316 min read
HOW THE U.S. GOT SO SICK
The health of a nation reflects the health of a democracy.
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Feb 101 min read
U.S. to Repeal Landmark Climate Finding in Huge Regulatory Rollback
Move would reverse legal determination that greenhouse gases threaten public health
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Feb 101 min read
‘A Giant Leap’ Review: Disruption for Doctors
Digital innovation in healthcare has proceeded in fits and starts. Will generative artificial intelligence solve more problems than it creates?
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Feb 91 min read
Emotions and personality within the Universal Holophren™
DM Good morning. I've incubated for many weeks regarding where emotions and personality may reside within the Universal Holophren™, particularly the human version of it. Before I offer my conjecture, where do you believe these to be (...inclusive of genetic, epigenetic and experiential aspects), based upon our multitudes of prior-related conversations? I also attach the graphical representations to date of both The Universal Holophren and its "human version" (two PDF graphics
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Feb 818 min read
At 82, he’s as fit as a 20-year-old. His body holds clues to healthy aging.
Scientists are studying Juan López García, a world-record holding ultramarathoner, to learn how we can stay healthy as we age.
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Feb 41 min read
A Role Model for How to Die
What if you really did live every day as if it were your last? That was Brian’s plan.
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Feb 31 min read
A U.S. Life Expectancy Milestone
It hit 79 years in 2024, which is a record and regains pandemic losses.
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Feb 31 min read
THE NEW OLD AGE
What a new life stage can teach the rest of us about how to find meaning and purpose—before it’s too late
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Feb 11 min read
Six Ways to Start Your Day By Lifting Your Mood
Try my protocol for a happy start to the day and see what works for your own well-being.
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Jan 291 min read
Memorizing London’s 25,000 streets changes cabbies’ brains — and may prevent Alzheimer’s
One of the toughest vocational exams in the world requires candidates to memorize 25,000 streets in an area five times the size of Manhattan.
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Jan 271 min read
‘The Great Shadow’ Review: Sickness and Civilization
Only four to five generations ago, most people, most of the time, died of infectious disease.
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Jan 241 min read
The science of aging
The quiet biological changes that shape your future health.
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Jan 241 min read
Is AI hurting your ability to think? How to reclaim your brain
Essentially, AI is replacing tasks many people have grown reluctant to do themselves – thinking, writing, creating, analysing. But when we don’t use these skills, they can decline. Excerpt: " The retirement of West Midlands police chief Craig Guildford is a wake-up call for those of us using artificial intelligence (AI) tools at work and in our personal lives. Guildford lost the confidence of the home secretary after it was revealed that the force used incorrect AI-generated
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Jan 221 min read
The Heritage Foundation Wants to Send American Women Back Half a Century
" The Heritage Foundation — the think tank behind Project 2025, which has had an outsize influence on executive branch policy in the second Trump administration — seems to want to take a time machine back to when women were financially dependent on men and gay marriage was not legal, but the authors can’t decide exactly how far back they want to go. They call the report “a culturewide Manhattan Project that marshals America’s political, social and economic capital to restore
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Jan 211 min read
The Real Reason for the Drop in Fentanyl Overdoses
Drug deaths are finally falling—but the cause may be far outside of U.S. policy makers’ control.
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Jan 211 min read
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