AdamSmith

Joan Rivers of all people said a very sensible thing for weight control: ‘Eat whatever you want, within reason, but stop at 3:00!pm.’ Then just a snack of a little bit of steamed broccoli or some such at dinner.

Yes! Lipids in the bloodstream and then on down come primarily from refined carbs/sugar consumed, not from healthy fats eaten in moderation.

That was a big unexpected mess. Informative.

My experience from 40 years ( ) studying engineering-design software is likewise that the how-to-use documentation provided by the developer is almost always incomplete, out of logical order, emphasizes the wrong things, glosses over the key stuff that is truly difficult (not wanting to admit same), etc etc. That is too blanket a statement, but not by much. Thus users set up independent user-group online forums, sometimes even annual meetings in person, to share best (and worst ) best practices for working around all that.

CLIMATE, GENERAL EARTH INSTITUTE, HEALTH How Climate Change Is Exacerbating the Spread of Disease https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2014/09/04/how-climate-change-is-exacerbating-the-spread-of-disease/

Also: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/nov/28/breakfast-health-america-kellog-food-lifestyle

Turns out this travesty which privileges (processed) carbs uber alles was secretly supported by ‘research’ from a nincompoot ‘expert’ paid by the breakfast cereal industry, which after WW2 ended was desperately seeking what to do with its now unneeded capacity for producing troop food (K9) rations. So General Foods & General Mills found this great feeding trough available to them of breakfast cereals! Worst way possible health-wise to start our day.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/02/opinions/trial-witness-snl-senate-impeachment-obeidallah/

The world is very strange...

Pretty good. What I learned watching Bernie and Biden for hours on end Biden is a creature of the Senate. Sanders is a creature of the campaign trail. Seeing them back to back in these two settings clarifies the choice. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/30/biden-sanders-2020-election-109416At

‘I am that I am...’ The Jewish god defining himself. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_that_I_Am

No question but that he is winning this war that he — not started, you above identify multiple causes thereof — but added much fuel to the fire therefrom.

Absofuckinglutely. For a long time I thought Warren was our last best hope. But now I now think Bloomberg may just emerge as our new J. Robert Oppenheimer in this battle for the nation’s soul.

Eco''s great precursor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sanders_Peirce

A Theory of Semiotics From one's professor Umberto Eco. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Eco ..". the greatest contribution to [semiotics] since the pioneering work of C. S. Peirce and Charles Morris." -- Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism..". "...draws on philosophy, linguistics, sociology, anthropology and aesthetics and refers to a wide range of scholarship... raises many fascinating questions." -- Language in Society.. ". a major contribution to the field of semiotic studies." -- Robert Scholes, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.. ". the most significant text on the subject published in the English language that I know of." -- Arthur Asa Berger, Journal of CommunicationE "Eco's treatment demonstrates his mastery of the field of semiotics. It focuses on the twin problems of the doctrine of signs -- communication and signification -- and offers a highly original theory of sign production, including a carefully wrought typology of signs and modes of production." https://books.google.com/books/about/A_theory_of_semiotics.html?id=RaFrAAAAIAAJ

Rather very useful concept... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuse_of_notation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_equation

I don't know. I think we are now in the age of 11th-dimensional politics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory And I think Nancy has sensed and mastered this mode more than any other of either her colleagues or her competitors. Again, 2020 will tell.

Do you not get the concepts of mirroring, contempt, ironic out-doing, belittling, disgust? AND proving herself the better puppet-master than the one who at base finds whatever power he can find in being one himself?. We’ll see what the voters decide when time comes around. I think she is playing the long game deadly effectively.

Their charges look absurd in light of this. Either they chose to ‘forgive’ him for the supposed ‘rape,’ or they decided it was not rape and went back to bed with him; then much later wanted to cash in on the (entirely valid in itself) #MeToo movement. Rank opportunism.

At first I was annoyed (as if my opinion mattered ) that he threw his fedora into an already too cluttered ring. But now one is very much interested to see if his infinite bucks, and his native New Yorker personality, are what it will take to take down his Bizarro alter-ego The Donald. Policy views evidently meaning nada to the electorate any more.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ5RVX_xM1o