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Aerobic exercise lowers blood pressure, which tends to increase with age. Calories can be used to slow aging. How do we define aging anyway?

I was only criticizing your explanation, the idea that the aging process requires calories, as if the body was designed to grow old, and expended energy to make it happen. I suppose a more benevolent reading is that aging is a byproduct of growth, which does require calories. For StringJunky's hypothesis, there must exist certain aging processes that are inhibited at all levels of calorie reduction.

There could be privacy concerns. It would have to make the data unretrievable by overwriting it several times. Whoever controls the locking mechanism mustn't abuse it, e.g. underhandedly making you wear your psychiatric wristband outside the hospital.

The opening poster is thinking about homeostasis, the maintaining of constant internal conditions. That's absurd. Then somebody who spent life starving should live very long. They wouldn't have enough calories to exercise, so they would develop poor immune function, poor brain function, poor circulation, low bone density, etc. SJ was very, very bad.

More Examples Without seeing the research, I would guess that depression is deleterious. This case might involve a U-shaped curve rather than a depression-opposite, but it's the same situation if you think in cytokine levels. http://discovermagazine.com/2014/julyaug/9-depressions-dance-with-inflammation Skin tone presents another balancing act where it's either vitamin D absorption or UV resistance.

Too hard to draw quickly.

TAR clearly must quick at processing bytes to the point that a yet more succinct notation is merited.

I think Robert Sternberg's triangular theory is still the most prominent model for the psychological components of love.

I was thinking about the now supported imprinted brain theory, which shows that autistic and psychotic conditions are at least somewhat opposed, with autism spectrum conditions resulting from a paternal bias in gene expression, and psychotic or mood disorders from a maternal bias. I wondered whether most variability can be explained by graded characteristics with an optimal inbetween, an optimal point which may covary with the individual's other traits or his environment. For instance, purely anti-autistic selection might have eliminated autism. Instead, perhaps nature wants the right mix of autism and psychosis, and our variability results from nature's inability to get this balancing act exactly right every time. This could also apply to other graded characters such as size, strength, or skin tone. In summary, if a deleterious trait persists, there is an equally deleterious opposite, a situation which maintains genetic variability. What do you think?

That's *disruptive selection*, but it could just be directional. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directional_selection#/media/File:Genetic_Distribution.svg Look up *epistasis*. Don't assume the ancestor had to be something inbetween. To answer your question, I'm thinking changing environment. Otherwise, if the trait is continuous / graded, maybe it began as directional selection but eventually stabilized on an optimal point. I'm not that deep into evolution yet.

You could easily expand it to more bytes. It's merely a shape with 8 pieces that lend themselves to an intutive ordering, and where included pieces are 1 and excluded are 0. You could express the next byte as a square along the perimeter, with straight line pieces touching the vertical and horizontal lines, and corner pieces toughing the diagonals. The next byte could be a 45o rotated square, and the next could be an extra set of lines beyond the perimeter, and so on and so on. It certainly has an advantage in only requiring you to draw the 1s and not the 0s. Furthermore, your shape allows 180o opposite lines to be fused, making it a very concise drawing indeed.

I think a raindrop shape or D shape would be easier to draw by hand.

I learn more reading the textbooks than from the classes. Although the classes do motivate me to read harder.

Thermopylae sounds like some hot microbiology... but it isn't.

IMO "devolving" could only reasonably mean mutation accumulation, or increased mutation load & mutation rate, presumably due to—I'm about to invent terms—a lowered survival threshold on genetic integrity. Rates and Fitness Consequences of New Mutations in Humans (Peter D Keightley) Otherwise, IMO, you can't call it "devolving" just because nature isn't selecting what you want it to.

They might, but psychology is complicated and multifaceted. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/epiphenom/2015/01/why-are-american-atheists-disagreeable-and-unconscientious.html We're less agreeable, but this might require a further breakdown. We might be less trusting of the scientist's professionalism, or just less sympathetic to the guy claiming to be in pain... but even then, he really is faking the pain so it's all good. What's rit.org?

"White Lies" was okay, but then I watched some of "Across The Tracks" and disliked the hackneyed bad boy image.

That encompasses most language, not just math, and code fits that description equally well. Interestingly, math expresses no raw sensory or affective experiences, but a higher order processing of the patterns found in them. It could not stand on its own. Yet any language needs some math to be useful.

My bad. imatfaal posted an artist, but I thought it was a song. Grizzly Bear is good though. "Southern Point"

Apparently it charges a battery for night flight (9/17). Imagine if they were only flown during the day, and that extra energy was put back into the grid.

Are we trying to spare as many lives as possible, or just punishing the intimidating person? If I carry a gun, that's not only intimidating but unreasonable on my part. If I look sinister when I smile, that's also intimidating but largely out of my control.

Hundreds or thousands of years in our time, but maybe a few minutes in theirs. As the ship accelerates toward Earth, the waves hit the ship in rapid succession, so they will watch Earth in fast-forward (and blue-shifted). Furthermore, I recollect that they would appear in slow-motion to us although I can't work out why. Plus, if my head is on straight, all that light from the ship would reach us in rapid succession only shortly before the actual arrival. No, special relativity by itself does not rule out visitors. However, it does suggest that our visitors might become stranded, with their planet unreachable and their pals long gone. I don't believe the conspiracies, but AFAIK aliens are untestable unfalsifiable. Ghosts, or aliens???

You can do some nasty ones with penetration testing, but I do integrity checking.