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News Briefs 25-08-2016

I should know better

Thanks @AnomalistNews and @ProjectArchivis.

Quote of the Day:

If the present growth trends in world population, industrialisation, pollution, food production, and resource depletion continue unchanged, the limits to growth on this planet will be reached sometime within the next one hundred years. The most probable result will be a rather sudden and uncontrollable decline in both population and industrial capacity.

The Limits of Growth, 1972

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  1. Elysium Basis
    As a “subscriber” now to Elsysium Basis I can say unequivocally that it has beneficial metabolic effects, but it is probably most noticeable in people such as myself who are either diabetic or pre-diabetic. The shooting pains in the feet that often accompany diabetes because high blood sugar first accumulates in the extremities and causes nerve damage cease very quickly upon taking Elysium. I have compared notes with friends who take metformin, and the effects seem similar. That metformin is being trial studied for life extension hints that both metformin and NR+ probably share a metabolic mechanism. However, you need a prescription to get metformin, and some people do not tolerate metformin’s side effects very well.
    Elysium also has the other oft reported effect of boosting energy, but it does so very benignly – rather than “speed you up” it somehow just creates a reservoir of available energy that kicks in when you exert yourself. It is very much like having a younger metabolism but without the de-clutched hyper of other supplements I have taken in years’ past.
    My old bag of bones cat Mia also rallied very quickly after I began putting the powder from an opened capsule in her food. She very quickly began to fill out again, and it was obvious that her worn out kidneys were beginning to function again.
    I could care less whether or not this stuff extends lifespan – it’s the quality of life effects that have me impressed.

    1. Niagen Again
      I’m still taking one pill a day of the Niagen. My muscle tone has improved, but then again I don’t use my muscles for much (haha). I’ve had a productive summer, creativity-wise, but that may be due to other factors. So, not sure if I’ll continue taking Niagen. I mainly got it for my Dad, but it hasn’t helped with the two conditions that he suffers from. I gave one of the bottles away to an 84-year old neighbor who was experiencing chronic fatigue (imagine that).

  2. The Expert Syndrome
    The problem with experts is not “false memories” but all of the false knowledge they have to memorize, internalize and regurgitate upon command in order to be considered experts. The process of becoming an expert (in an Academic setting) effectively makes you a conformist thinker. Academia attracts a certain type of intellect that thrives on memorization and also thrives on recognition of their particular type of intellect. These personality types would far rather be respected in the present and have little concern for posterity.

    I also find it very interesting (from a psychological standpoint) that conformist thinkers would patronize the memory and martyrdom of Giordano Bruno. The last thing that a conformist thinker wants is to be rejected by their peers. They love their titles and accolades too much for that.

    1. Psyche
      Pardon my “conspiracy theory” but the establishment position on psychedelics makes perfect sense when you consider that the current crop of “world event managers” engage in constant mass media facilitated “trauma based conditioning” in order to render the masses more tolerant of the steady erosion of civil liberties and the embracing of an all pervasive nanny/police state. Of course they have no interest in the survival of any readily available psychoactive that might alleviate the very symptoms they are inculcating globally.
      Not only that – psychedelics are famous for de-conditioning and de-brainwashing the human mind in general, and we can’t have that now can we.

      1. Minority Reports
        Intelligent culture embraces alternate explanations and opinions. Surprisingly, even ancient culture preserved opposite perspectives on the same people and events. That’s why we have so much trouble understanding the Bible and Mythology today. One passage in the Bible hails a particular leader as a hero and another makes the very same person a villain. One ancient myth makes a god or demi-god a champion. Another turns him/her into a chump. We don’t celebrate flip-sides like that now!

        One of my pet peeves is chronology. If you dare suggest in an Academic setting that the standard chronology is in error by more than a few years here and there, you will be stoned (not in a good way) and excoriated. If you dare suggest to an Archaeologist that Akhenaten was somehow connected to the Moses story, you will likewise be scoffed at. They don’t know and don’t want to know anything but their myopic little world view.

        I doubt that the typical Academic even knows what the term “Minority Report” means (haha)!

  3. LMAO
    Know better: Hehe I love Rhymes with Orange. One of my favorite comic strips.

    Purple Squid: Oh dear God that face O_____O It stares into your soul. This is why you don’t play Pokemon GO underwater! LMAO I want this squid as my spirit animal.
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    Damn it, I demand memes! XD

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