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If I was a reporter there I would have asked WS if the same flight in his youth would have changed him as a Star Trek actor

Key to Witt’s later views was his notion that language is strongly prescriptive. Here in maths he is applying the same argument: if we think mathematics is purely descriptive we trap ourselves within…

I bet so

Yes, seems to be counter to the ideology of keeping government out of the private sector

"Don't worry the doc said to the mother, Ritalin is as safe as cocaine, it's well proven in human studies." I'm not talking about big pharma, I talking about the bogus but com…

From the link provided below, article by Volkow, re: cocaine and Ritalin in the brain (Eight healthy male subjects, 20 to 51 years of age): For both drugs, their fast uptake in striatum paralleled t…

Nothing along those lines, more to the point that what makes a good drug (say Ritalin) versus a bad drug (eg cocaine) has nothing to do with pharmacology.

The Rx industry knows if it can make it synthetically the rules totally change, as with the dangerously potent fentanyl. The head of NIDA showed in brain studies that cocaine and Ritalin were indistin…

The Rx system of synthetics has both sides happy: big pharma and the cartels

Difficult question. As I document in the book, America has a long tradition of embracing synthetic ‘solutions’ to human problems, from barbiturates to Ritalin and Oxy. While at the same time demonisin…

This was already posted a few days ago. I thought HN automatically assessed submissions for duplicates?

Weird to be scrolling HN and see a link to my own book from years back; totally out of the blue with a different title. Thought someone had ripped off my title. Hmm... and a link I put up hours ago is…

Some examples here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_artificial_non-nucle... …

Psychology research has long shown that outside factors impact poor performance but are not a factor in skilled work, which may apply here

I’ve discouraged friends from investing in CC as I could never see a material basis for value, present or future. I wonder what if anything exists that is similar that is not a Ponzi scheme. Ask yours…

I was only making a joke, because my experience is a shocker, but then again, I'm referring to letters being mailed, on a stamped envelope. If you look at something like shipments from Amazon, th…

overseas? well that's a lot of places; USPS to NZ can be insanely slow, everybody knows that

wow, can't believe you have time to write all that. I agree with your examples, not sure the hostile tone, though, as if I have some big agenda. hardly. I just think that what Roderick is saying …

That's not news worthy! I'm from the US, living in NZ, and let me tell you, unless the delay is more than 6 months, the average time it takes won't change significantly. My mother still…