a syndrome whereby patients become intoxicated without ingesting alcohol. The underlying mechanism is thought to be an overgrowth of yeast in the gut whereby the yeast ferments carbohydrates into ethanol.
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Real Estate lowers GDP
Less developed countries have consistently higher levels of homeownership, while more advanced nations combine higher levels of economic development with substantially lower levels of homeownership.
the reason for this is that real estate is very poor asset allocation: it takes investment away from productive things like lending money to companies, and it makes the workforce unable to go where the jobs are.
The first blog?
Today I would probably describe Archipelago as a group blog. It was a computer-based system that allowed ~12 members to regularly post short essays and whimsical observations. Each member had his or her own icon which appeared next to postings which contained pictures, sounds, and hyperlinks. All pretty standard except for 1 thing: the year was 1988.
Apostles Fanfic
Fanfic explains how the christian gospel was developed:
Way back when, there was a popular show called Jesus of Nazareth. Unfortunately it was canceled by the network after just 3 seasons, leaving behind a small but very devoted fandom. The fandom spread. Some of the fans told and retold all the episodes of the show that they had seen. Others copied out samizdat versions of the tie-in novels. Yet others wrote original fanfic.
Fermat’s Last Theorem
pretty accessible.
FLYING KITTENS vs FLYING PUPPIES
word
1B earths in the galaxy
Wedding websites
a perfect send-up of the soul-destroying snoozefest that is 99.9% of weddings.
Newly engaged couple Tom Kerry and Jessica Tompkins unveiled their wedding website on Tuesday, helpfully posting the page online for the benefit of guests attending the upcoming October nuptials to mock, ridicule, and repeatedly insult, sources report.
Beer deextinction
dogfish got me into craft beers. their beers aren’t always winners but they certainly go into interesting directions:
Kvasir was developed with the help of evidence taken from a 3500-year-old Danish drinking vessel: wheat, lingonberries, cranberries, myrica gale, yarrow, meadowsweet, honey and birch syrup. “This beer is something no one has done for 1000s of years“
Security vs corruption
this is a great essay about the NSA fiasco, and how privacy vs security isn’t at all what is going on. rather:
The value we are trading away, under the surveillance programs as presently constituted, are quality of governance. This is not a debate about privacy. It is a debate about corruption.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 