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germainemalcolmon The Art of Not Dying: the First Emperor’s Pursuit of Immortality

Was I the only person hoping this article would go into the daoist concept of immortality and its meeting with modern day sciences understanding of physiology?

germainemalcolmon Anti-aging stem cell treatment proves successful in early human trials

Can anyone think of an endogenous way us to do this?

germainemalcolmon Why the World Trade Center Buildings Collapsed: A Fire Chief’s Assessment

To add to the confusion the BBC reported WTC 7 had collapsed before it had actually collapsed. A fact an old work colleague's husband used as evidence (to support not paying his TV license) in court. He suggested that the BBC colluded with terrorists.

This is the only coverage I could find that isn't the Daily Mail. [https://www.sott.net/article/266268-UK-man-wins-court-case-a...]

And this is the BBCs explanation. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2007/02/part_of_the_co...]

germainemalcolmon How yoga helped me become a better programmer

Yoga includes focus on meditation and breathing techniques. Brain waves associated with flow state (alpha and theta) have been reported as increasing with yoga practice. In addition brain waves associated with eureka moments (gamma waves) have also shown an increase with yoga practice.

germainemalcolmon Ask HN: What books have made the biggest impact on your mental models?

Dao De Jing - Lao Tzu

A Thousand Plateaus - Gilles Deleuze + Felix Guattari

germainemalcolmon Human Cells Eat Nanowires

Anyone know why these cells so readily do this?

germainemalcolmon What Happened, Miss Simone?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Paper_Bag_Test

germainemalcolmon A Review of Google Glass In the Operating Room

To be honest it just tells us what we already knew. This product has potential. Needs development

germainemalcolmon Why the last 20% of work takes the same amount of time as the first 80%

Applies only to software programming? Maybe its the same for any life task?

germainemalcolmon The Internet is experiencing severe outages across North American and Asia

Hopefully this phase of centralising the cloud will quickly succumb.

germainemalcolmon Existence?

I would be honoured with any feedback on this concept.