In this case, he actually cast coins and using I Ching passages to alter the history. But you’re totally right that his run ins with psychosis were influential. That said, he was pretty lucid with a few exceptions, so maybe he was going for a literary exploration of that experience, rather than being stuck in it. UBIK…

40, but still. The thing people don’t realize is that most of the good ones die in the defeat or retreat following it.

As someone who recently went from the weird side of normal (ADHD dx only), to the normal side of weird (ASD dx w/o significant communications issues, with sensory and executive issues), I am living proof of the population inflation. And yet, I think this is a good thing. It was really helpful to have some kind of red…

That’s what I said, all but B12 are from plants, i.e. that one is not from plants. At least B9 and likely some others are best consumed from plants, however.

All B vitamins but B12 have plant sources. The best sources of Folate (B9) are leafy green vegetables.

Well, west was a little... I mean there were many, many unrehabilitated Nazi party members around. By contrast, the Stasi was a little more ‘thorough’ while the Bundesrepublik Polizei who happily looked the other way. The Youth movement of the 50s that folks like Jurgen Habermas were a part of called for, among other…

Honestly, the answer is racism against Southern and Eastern Europeans by Anglos. There was a belief that yhey were healthy and caused degeneration. Henry ‘I <3 Hitler’ Ford’s sociological squads actually visites workers homes and encourage esp. Italian and Polish workers to moderate their consumption.

I did The City and The City as an audio book on a country commute and I found it had a great pace that way. The 2.5 languages of the cities just kind of jump into the vocabulary pretty nicely. Wonderful book!

But in opposite ways, to the point that people who are heavily medicated for psychosis can get the Parkinsonian gate, balance problems and tremors (extrapyramidal side effects). Hell, they may be smoking to fight off side effects from meds most of the time and just keep at it if they go off meds (or it could be that…

It takes dedication, but 10 years ago, I could smoke 25-30/day. The trick is doubling up on smokes during breaks and work and school. I never even smoked indoors, I just went out a lot and read on the porch or whatever. Pretty gross, but had to feed that monkey on my back.

I used to self medicate my ADHD and daytime sleepiness with cigarettes and loved that they are the only legal stimulant that doesn’t cause lingering sleep disturbance when used in the evening. But I quit years ago for the usual reasons.

It is a tech demonstrator. They think there may be spinoffs for hybrid power in aviation, for instance electric assist for take off. I think in the big picture as well, they look back to the beginning of chemical fuel aviation and see how far it’s come over 100 years.

I just checked the results myself: “The amount of ethanol ingested per event ranged from about 2.5 to 84.9 ml...”
and earlier on, they characterize the chimps as get 10ml per dip, with ~9 dips per minute and drinking sessions lasting 50 to 1920 seconds with an average sap consumption of ‘1.0’ (I’m assuming litres…

If it’s the ethanol content of what they’ve drunk, then it’s about right - 85ml of pure ethanol is comparable to the 90ml of pure ethanol contained in 750ml of 12% wine.

This is pretty much Northern Alberta’s culinary claim to fame in a nutshell. A ground bison meat burger served on a bannock bun. The bannock is not the scone-like stuff from campfire cookouts, but Cree frybread, which is light with a kind of croissant-like texture. I don’t eat bison myself, but it’s definitely the…

Or, they bake in sweetened water, making the delicious Montreal Bagel instead. But I agree that outside a few select locals, there is an epidemic of round bread.

I was in Cary for work a couple years ago and enjoyed the hell out of Danny’s there - I wish I had known about the others.

Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson

The Peripheral is seconded hard. I didn’t like the ending, but it was a great ride.