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There ain’t no one reading “in search of lost time“ in less than two weeks

And no, reading does not burn calories

This is totally nuts, the whole article

I'm not sure how you can rule out reading burning calories. Our brains burn more calories than the rest of our bodies, and taxing a brain more oughta burn more.

I'm reminded of finding out very recently that professional chess players burn a lot of calories.

Looks like the brain will burn 110cal/pound/day. So an average brain weight of 3lbs means 330cal/day total.

Hard for me to believe this number can increase to 10x that amount if we're to believe chess grandmasters are burning 6000cal/day (let's say 2300cal for the rest of the body, thus 3700cal for the brain). 6000 calories being the figure thrown around if you google it.

Sounds a bit like bullshit to me that a chess player can burn as many calories as a professional cyclist on an all-day race.

Have you ever put your finger on a CPU which has been pegged for a couple of minutes?

I'm sure it does, but even in a coma it burns something like 1200 calories a day. There's seems to be a pretty narrow window between the baseline and maximum.

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