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Every limbed animal has the Sonic hedgehog gene. And in every single animal that we have studied, Sonic hedgehog is active in the ZPA tissue. If Sonic hedgehog hadn’t turned on properly during the eighth week of your own development, then
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“When a reporter from The Detroit News showed up at Nazi Party headquarters in Munich in December 1931 to interview Hitler for her “Five Minutes with Men in Public Eye” series, she was surprised to find, hanging on the wall behind Hitler’s desk, a large, framed portrait of America’s most famous antisemite. “I regard Henry Ford as my inspiration,” Hitler explained to the newspaperwoman”
― Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
― Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
“Like the Tsimane, the Shuar have high rates of infection. Sam found that Shuar kids five to twelve years old have BMRs that are about 200 kcal per day higher than kids in the United States and Europe, a 20 percent difference. The energy demand of fighting infection steals calories away from growth. When our immune system responds to an infection, it makes a number of molecules (immunoglobulins, antibodies, and other proteins) that circulate in the blood—telltale signs of the battles fought against bacteria, viruses, and parasites. Sam found that Shuar kids with more of these markers in their blood grew slower than those who had fewer. The cost of immune response, in terms of both calories and growth, is probably one big reason that indigenous populations like the Shuar, Tsimane, and Hadza tend to be short-statured.”
― Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy
― Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy
“Our brains form, strengthen, and prune synapses throughout our lives (it’s happening in your brain right now as you form new memories from reading this book) but by far the most active period is in childhood, when we’re soaking up the world around us. Work by Christopher Kuzawa and colleagues has shown that in children three to seven years old, the brain accounts for over 60 percent of BMR, three times more than in adults. So much energy is channeled to the brain during these early critical years that it actually slows down growth in the rest of the body.”
― Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy
― Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy
“And so for the past ten years I have been convinced that the destruction of the Soviet myth was essential if we wanted a revival of the Socialist movement.”
― Animal Farm
― Animal Farm
“The personality elements of the funnel of misbelief
Personality—broadly understood as individual differences—plays a role in explaining why some of us are more susceptible to misbelief than others.
It is extremely difficult to do personality research on misbelievers, since they instinctively mistrust the motives of the researchers. However, some common traits have been observed.
Being more prone to misremembering, falling into the trap of false recall and false recognition, feeds misbelief.
Seeing patterns where none exist is linked to misbelief.
Overtrusting our intuitions is linked to misbelief.
Decision-making biases such as the conjunction fallacy, illusory correlations, and the hindsight bias are more pronounced in misbelievers.
Narcissism plays a role in misbelief.
Personality cannot be easily changed, but knowing which traits correlate with misbelief can help us to identify risky points.”
― Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things
Personality—broadly understood as individual differences—plays a role in explaining why some of us are more susceptible to misbelief than others.
It is extremely difficult to do personality research on misbelievers, since they instinctively mistrust the motives of the researchers. However, some common traits have been observed.
Being more prone to misremembering, falling into the trap of false recall and false recognition, feeds misbelief.
Seeing patterns where none exist is linked to misbelief.
Overtrusting our intuitions is linked to misbelief.
Decision-making biases such as the conjunction fallacy, illusory correlations, and the hindsight bias are more pronounced in misbelievers.
Narcissism plays a role in misbelief.
Personality cannot be easily changed, but knowing which traits correlate with misbelief can help us to identify risky points.”
― Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things
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