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You don't have to be vegetarian to get the benefits. This doctor keeps animal products low in her diet  Could what we eat be the difference between life and death – between a light fever or a stay in intensive care? We know that obesity, high blood pressure or diabetes can lead to severe Covid-19 complications. Does this mean, our diet our destiny? Could eating fewer animals and more plants be the solution?A new study suggests it could come down to a survival of the vegetarians.[embedded...

 YouTube star and rapper invested less than a year agoKSI says he is still enthusiastic about Bitcoin. KSI has revealed he lost a staggering amount of money due to the Bitcoin crash.He continued: “Well, I say Bitcoin. I put [in] £2m last year – November, December – but this was into cryptocurrencies. I made £7m and now I’ve lost it all. It’s mental.The IndependentKSI says he made £7m in cryptocurrency investment but ‘lost it all’ because of Bitcoin crash

Americans as a whole remain confident in science, but compared with the mid-1970s, a large partisan gap has emerged, with Republicans becoming much less confident at the same time Democrats are becoming more so. It appears that science, like many other issues, has become a politicized topic.Republican mistrust may stem from conservative thought leaders' allegations of liberal bias in the scientific community, perhaps because colleges and universities employ many scientists. Republicans also...

 Some numbers. No it's not mostly about elephants and pandas.The Vineyard of the SakerSitrep: Here Comes China: Giant Pandas, Elephants and DecouplingGodfree Roberts

False claims about vaccines has proliferated on the social network, and on other sites including Twitter and YouTube, says presidentI've been a bit of a warrior on twitter in the past fighting the climate change deniers, the anti-vaxxers, and the covid conspiracists, and ended up getting blocked by a number of people. I've learnt, though, how to be far more diplomatic and how far I can push it. And I also got fed up with prolonged debates, so nowadays I just put a tweet out, say my bit, and...

Competition. Previously, the prevailing notion was that American monopolies were necessary to confront foreign monopolies as a matter of scale. That thinking may be shifting to competition among domestic firms as the driver of domestic innovation. This is assumed to be the liberal answer to authoritarianism.BIG at SubstackBiden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan: Monopolies Are a National Security ProblemMatt Stoller h/t Naked Capitalism

Excellent article on MMT and political economy.Independent AustraliaIf you want to promote democracy, think modern moneyDarren Quinn

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 Jan Scheffel, Professor from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, argues that the insolvability of the mind-body problem enables free willIn summary, we have found that reductionistic scientific understanding of subjective conscious processes is not possible; emergence lies in the way. Ontological emergence, in turn, leads to ontological openness which enables downward causation and free willOpen Access Government The unsolvability of the mind-body problem enables free will