Interesting Links for 11-03-2024

[andrewducker]

1. Children with lazy eyes at higher risk of developing diabetes, heart disease and other serious health conditions later in life

(tags:disease eyes heart )

2. Plastic Found Inside More Than 50% of Plaques From Clogged Arteries (increases risk of strokes and heart attacks more than 4x)

(tags:plastic heart stroke disease doom )

3. Really in-depth look at the past, present and future of Moore's Law

(tags:technology history thefuture cpu processor )

4. Princess of Wales: Kate image withdrawn by four news agencies amid manipulation concerns

(tags:monarchy UK fraud photo )

5. "This is just weird": BuzzFeed News' former royals reporter on Kate Middleton, Palace PR, and distrust in the media

(tags:journalism monarchy conspiracy UK )

6. "AI gives the news you need" (a short story)

(tags:ai short_story scifi )

7. CaltonHillitus - this chronic condition affects hundreds of photographers.

(tags:photography photos edinburgh )

8. Lead in gasoline blunted IQ of half the U.S. population, study says

(tags:lead Intelligence usa )

9. LocaLSend - Share files to nearby devices. Free, open-source, cross-platform. (Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android)

(tags:sharing Technology )

10. One quarter of adult children estranged from a parent

(tags:children parents )

11. Single dose of LSD provides immediate, lasting anxiety relief

(tags:anxiety lsd )

Comments

[channelpenguin]

Been pissed off about 8 for many years now

[andrewducker]

I'm just relieved it's been banned for decades now!

[channelpenguin]

Well yes, of course.

But that doesn't do me any good (or you, or anyone of our generation). We're all brain damaged by something unavoidable that was known at the time to have these effects.

[cmcmck]

10. I was estranged from both, but you know the story.

[andrewducker]

Yeah. I hope that there are less awful parents now.

[cmcmck]

I know there are thankfully because I've met some of them! :o)

[greenwoodside]

11. I'll be first in the queue. Also, it reminds me of Gül Dölen's work on MDMA response in octopuses.

[nancylebov]

Very tentative theory, but lazy eye could lead to less physical skill and more likelihood of being bullied, and being bullied is bad for people.

[channelpenguin]

Stress can be nasty!

I was more wondering about some common underlying cause, in metabolism or physiology that makes lazy eye AND poor heart health more likely. The brain can learn to ignore an eye if it can't see clearly - COVID has shown us that blood vessel / cell energy problems can lead to poorer eyesight ... And more heart issues. That's what I'd bet on as common cause, if there is one.

[snippy]

8. there are so many reasons I am less intelligent than I should be IMO. Lead is definitely on the list but not sure how it compares to, e.g., not eating regularly, or the other general and specific traumas of my childhood.

[magedragonfire]

Interesting how that article is weighted so much towards the parental side of estrangements, and doesn't engage with the children who do so at all. Kind of sort of like the article writer might not like what we might have to say.

(I cut my father out for a long time after he stole $3000 from university-aged me to fund his addictions. He didn't see much at all of me until he was dying from one of said addictions.)

[cellio]

6 - I disagree that the metaphor was too distracting. The post you linked is much better than the alternate that the author offers as a link there.

[andrewducker]

Huh. That update happened after I saved the link. And I agree with you.