It was also the cause of most American Indians' deaths, I think. Just meeting the Europeans caused 95% of them to die, and the main cause was smallpox.

I wonder whether there's any way color perception can be objective, e.g. if you have all the cones! There's philosophical literature on this issue, a sub-field called "the philosophy of color",

I guess this is the dark side of Madonna's "Like a Virgin"!

With mosquitoes, I noticed that approaching slowly doesn't set off their alarm, and then you can swat them when you're really close and they don't have time to escape.

Interesting distinction. It's almost like the traditional distinction in formal logic, deductive vs inductive logic. One gives definite results but can only give you what it already knows. The other relies

Interesting. But with 8 billion people alive, and so many more dead, and no one ever witnessing someone else spontaneously catch on fire, I think it's doubtful that this ever really occurs.

Informative, actionable post. Thanks!

Given how most these foods are specially manufactured to appeal to our taste palate, it's not strange at all that Golden likes them so much!

I think you're right: it's impossible to eliminate biases completely, or adequately. And therefore we need to come up with alternative mechanisms to do it for us. One is the method of science that you

There are no naked pictures here. Disappointing :P

Overeating can be solved with a bit of overexercising :P

Apparently viruses are the solution to everything, including themselves!

Knowing about the Dumb canes is perhaps particularly useful for pet owners of pets who might chew on anything.

I guess the girl in The Exorcist movie was misdiagnosed 😄

There's no cons or side-effects in using creatine?

For hand washing, I've been using traditional Greek olive oil soap for a few years now, it only has like 4 ingredients and my hands don't get rashes when the weather's cold as often as they used to. And

There are situations where the reverse occurs. Both I and relatives were told many times by our primary physician that we were perfectly okay, but upon insisting we were directed to specialists who diagnosed

Green's my favorite color, and I've wondered whether that's somehow influenced by our ancestors living in the forests! We certainly like certain bright colors in fruits cos they indicate maturity, so maybe

Probably no healthy person needs any vitamin if they're eating correctly except maybe vitamin D, and that's only if they don't go out into the sun.

Does the reverse also hold? That bad food - like skittles - takes a really long time to spoil?