The scientific explanation is the straightforward one. You are eating as much as you are burning.

Unfortunately lots of nutrition information is junk. There is a lot of money in confusing the issue to sell weight loss tips and tricks, and bars, and pills and diet books. The only thing that actually matters is calorie deficit.

The idea of “survival mode” in the article and your summary is not supported by the evidence. Your body didn’t evolve to waste energy, and doesn’t magically burn less calories doing the same things. Here is the evidence from the article

Rondo is poison to every team he’s been on since the Celtics.

For me the “intrinsic motivation” that can actually be built is habit. It’s not about suddenly falling in love with exercise, its about having exercise be your default behavior. For any habit, the tipping point is when your default is to do the habit rather than not do it. If your default is to wait till you get…

Love how this clarifies the distinction between the two. For me its all about basing your confidence on reality. If you base it on arrogant assumptions about how great you think you are, you will be totally unprepared when reality rears its ugly head with evidence that you are not that great. Instead, work at…

So this is one thing that doesn’t cause balding, but doesn’t make it clear what does cause it. The medical name for it is androgenetic alopecia or male pattern baldness. People with it have a gene that causes certain hair follicles (ones in the pattern) to respond differently to dihydrotestosterone than hairs usually…

You have to understand that burnout is as inevitable as a car running out of gas. It’s going to happen if you keep driving. Either take the time you need to relax on a day to day basis, or you are going to need it all at once later. If you can convince yourself that you get more done when you work 40-50 hours a week…

I was wrong! Looks like location changes can and will restart a killed app on iOS.

It is difficult to capture the idea of neural networks in a way that makes sense to a layperson, since people in general don’t spend all their time with algorithms and statistics. However, I feel that some of the comparisons in the article add confusion over what NN are and what they are not.

I think a big missing one on this list is to just say - I don’t know. - A frank admission that you don’t know some information makes you seem very confident and trustworthy, even it means you don’t know the information the questions is looking for. As with many skills, knowing what you don’t know can be just as…

Teasing can be great for friendships, romantic or not! They do require a lot of confidence in the relationship on both sides though. If one person isn’t sure that you mean it lovingly, it can come off as just straight up mean. I think it is my duty as a friend to tease everyone around me. How else would people…

Two places where i’ve been slapped in the face by in-group overconfidence: Ping-pong and Smash Bros. I would play and play and play against the same 5 people, and get really good, win every game, and hear oh you’re so good at ping pong, baudboi is the best at Smash Bros! Then after a long time in my bubble, I…

I agree, we’ve entered a media era where everyone can find their own “facts” or “fact checking” to support any opinion. I think NPR still is a source that is more closely tethered to reality than most, even if their promotion of the arts and the idea of public good makes them liberal in today’s environment.

So do you have any basis for the charge against NPR you threw in there? Did you see any evidence of bias in this article?

Can I just say I F’n love soup. SOUP IS THE BEST!

In my opinion self-awareness is the key to happiness. How many people have that friend that says “Oh I’m so laid back” when they are the most particular person on the planet? People without it are often confused as to how to make themselves and others happy. It takes effort to learn about who you are and to…

Good friend of mine just had his colon removed due to Crohn’s. Was an extensive, invasive procedure, followed a few months later by an even more extensive, more invasive procedure to make a j-pouch. He is now completely cured and feels amazing though. If other treatments aren’t working this could be an option. …

Also, the “gift tax”  I think is generally very misunderstood. A person receiving a gift from family (not employer or other company) never has to pay any taxes on it, whether its less than 14,000 or more than 50 million. The 14,000 number is the the gift tax exemption. Which says that if you give someone a gift of…

As a sailor, it’s funny to see that called out directly in the article. I did 4hrs on 4hrs off for 21 days on a sailing trip across the Atlantic. I definitely got used to it, but found that each 4 hour on period was like a mini day - wake up sleepy, food and coffee and feel wide awake, work my shift like normal, eat…