What Would Ian Do?

05/12/2019

I'd exercise before eating protein, chew my food, eat around 25-35g of protein each meal, and sit up straight while I eat.

The protein and muscle guru Luc van Loon wants you to bulk up—and keep what you've got

05/12/2019

It's amazing how much analytics can improve performance. If you're a runner, you might find this useful. If you're not, it's a metaphor for pretty much everything else in your life. Be better by doing things differently, not by doing more.

Nicholas Thompson had been running marathons for years. At 42, he set out to reverse his slowing speeds with, science, tech, and new dedication.

05/11/2019

It's finally up. All of my bartending friends; all of my entrepreneurial friends; hell, all of my friends in general, watch this. If you're not getting enough sleep, it's not a badge of honour. It's literally killing you. There are a heap of negative outcomes associated with getting < 6 hours of sleep. And I *know* you all think that "you're one of those special ones who gets by with only 4 hours of sleep". But you can't *all* be right.

Sleep is your life-support system and Mother Nature's best effort yet at immortality, says sleep scientist Matt Walker. In this deep dive into the science of slumber, Walker shares the wonderfully good things that happen when you get sleep -- and the alarmingly bad things that happen when you don't,...

05/11/2019

I'd get more sleep, or die early. "I'll sleep when I'm dead" is remarkably prescient.

Sleep is your life-support system and Mother Nature's best effort yet at immortality, says sleep scientist Matt Walker. In this deep dive into the science of slumber, Walker shares the wonderfully good things that happen when you get sleep -- and the alarmingly bad things that happen when you don't,...

04/23/2019

I'd watch this and my head would explode.

This is what I came to see at TED. Groundbreaking research. They engineered their own protein, and when that didn't work, they *evolved* one, and that was just a tiny tool they used to edit genetic point mutations. High hopes for this science.

David Liu also makes it so understandable. Great job!

In a story of scientific discovery, chemical biologist David R. Liu shares a breakthrough: his lab's development of base editors that can rewrite DNA. This crucial step in genome editing takes the promise of CRISPR to the next level: if CRISPR proteins are molecular scissors, programmed to cut speci...

04/22/2019

I'd sleep more.

Matt Walker just spent his 18 minutes at slapping the masters of the universe upside the head, letting them know that their all-nighters and 3:30 AM wake-up times will put them in the ground.

As an aside, I just started going back through my old posts here and holy crap there is some gold there! I need to revive this as a place to post stuff that I think is cool. I went down a rabbit hole just on the strength of my WWID? posts. I'm just sad some of them have reached zero people.

At TED 2019, neuroscientist Matthew Walker argued that sleep deprivation is having a catastrophic effect on our health and safety—here are all the ways.

03/18/2019

I'd read this story about the how an intrepid group of explorers tried to bring closure to the families of lost WW II Naval men.

In 1942, a volley of torpedoes sent the U.S.S. Wasp to the bottom of the Pacific. For decades, the families of the dead wondered where in the lightless depths of the ocean the ship could possibly be. Earlier this year, a team of wreck hunters set out to find it.

03/09/2019

What Would Ian Do? I'd read this, break things, and step away from the computer for a while, in tears. Holy Christ. This fu***ng world.

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03/07/2019

Pretty cool. Artists FTW!

Lines (57° 59´N, 7° 16´W) is a light installation in Lochmaddy, Scotland that visualizes h

02/14/2018

Watch this. An Oscar nominated short doc that you can see for free.

Knife Skills tells the story of a restaurateur in Cleveland who decides to open an upscale French restaurant, almost exclusively employing recently released convicts.

01/07/2018

More of this, please. Thank you for the share , Kris Chau.

10/14/2017

Holy afternoon gone. Want to know what fidget house or Aussietronica sound like? Mesmerizing.

There is a lot of different types of music out there. Like, a lot. Don’t believe me? Check out this time-sucking tool called Every Noise at Once.

10/10/2017

Yes. Our Thanksgiving was first, and Pete Wells can be a schmuck. Thanks for this, Ivy Knight!

A very Canadian response to Pete Wells' discovery of the the Great White North's Thanksgiving tradition.

10/01/2017

This is a mind-boggling piece of reporting on how the Dutch are changing the way the world thinks (or at least, *should* think) about agriculture. Would love to see more vertical farming close to consumers here in Canada. We have lots of fresh water, but we shouldn't be squandering it if we can reduce usage by an order of magnitude.

The Netherlands has become an agricultural giant by showing what the future of farming could look like.

09/18/2017

Joe DiMaggio helped support breast cancer research. Too click-baity?

THE BLOGThe Week My Husband Left And My House Was Burgled I Secured A Grant To Begin The Project That Became BRCA114/09/2017 17:19|Updated3 days agoDr Mary-Claire KingAmerican Cancer Society Professor at the University of Washington in SeattleThe week of April Fools' Day of 1981 began badly. That Su...

09/18/2017

Man, this tech has so many crazy potential applications, and it's not vaporware, it's not even really in stealth mode. This method of interacting with screens and robotics and as-yet-undeveloped prosthetics is pretty disruptive.

This startup lets you control machines with your mind—no implants required.

09/11/2017

The XKCD Feed, nailing it like always.

This is an incredible way to visualize global warming.

09/08/2017

This is kinda interesting. Some places never claim insurance so that you'd never know that that used car you're buying was in a flood. Comments are informative, too.

There are estimates that as many as half a million cars were damaged from the flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey along the Texas Gulf Coast, and many people are wondering what happens to those cars now. While some believe that they will be dragged off directly to junkyards or maybe even crushed, th...