- Dec 2024
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www.standard.co.uk www.standard.co.uk
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for - adjacency - climate crisis - raw milk - Boevar food supplement for cows to lower methane emissions of farting cows - misinformation - far right conspiracy theories - deeper issue - blindspot revealed by anxiety - Deep Humanity - progress traps
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- Dec 2019
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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Case histories are presented showing rapid recovery (less than 7 days) from major depression using 125-300 mg of magnesium (as glycinate and taurinate) with each meal and at bedtime. Magnesium was found usually effective for treatment of depression in general use.
Sounds like 500-1200 mg per day (i.e. 125-300 mg four times daily). While 500 mg daily seems fairly normal, 1200 mg is rather high. That dose may require highly bioavailable forms to avoid side effects. I think that this is the study I've been searching for ever since I lost track of it. So far, this is the highest dose of elemental magnesium that I'm aware of being studied.
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- Dec 2018
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www.fidomate.in www.fidomate.in
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Fidoace is a liver support supplement for dogs. It not only helpful for dog’s liver but also develop a resistance to fight against wide range of dog diseases. It is helpful in improving digestion and liver function in dog and cat.
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- Nov 2018
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activelearningps.com activelearningps.com
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Just a political science professor's thoughts on using Slack in his class; points out how it can be useful (1/5)
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- Jul 2018
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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Essential, far-reaching
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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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The biochemical changes are impressive.
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- Aug 2016
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arxiv.org arxiv.org
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machine learning canreify existing patterns of discrimination—if they are foundin the training dataset, then by design an accurate classifierwill reproduce them
See ProPublica for a very practical example of machine bias in action.
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- Feb 2015
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well.blogs.nytimes.com well.blogs.nytimes.com
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The New York State attorney general’s office accused four major retailers on Monday of selling fraudulent and potentially dangerous herbal supplements and demanded that they remove the products from their shelves.
As early as the opening, we can see issues with the handling of the subject matter that give ample room to herbal supplement apologists.
The apologist could start with the semantic objection, "What is an herbal supplement that does not contain the ingredients on the label -- it is just a filler pill." He will go on to establish that this constitutes supplement fraud for sure. But the author seeks to smuggle the idea of danger into the idea of herbal medicine and would not be able to do that if the products were more carefully engineered. In other words, these fraudulent herbal supplements only present dangers because they're fraudulent; if they contained what they were supposed to they would be safe.
The apologist would be deeply mistaken.
Sadly, even though this is just one little paragraph, the problems do not stop there. The 4 major retailers targeted by the investigation are being set-up (through the use of that "major" label) as giants in the industry. While this may be true by the numbers, it's also a very easy point for an apologist to knock down. One can almost imagine the smaller scale "herbal remedy" operation -- "Is it really any surprise big corporations fail to provide a quality herbal product? They care about you. They only care about their bottom line."
Suffice it to say, the handling oo the reporting, as well as the circumstances of the investigation look like they're going to leave much to be desired. If thee early presentation fails persist throughout the article, it would have the effect of turning this should-be exposé into little more than a flash the pan.
We'll see this is exactly what happens.
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