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As a young surgeon, ER doctor, Peter Attia felt contempt for a patient with diabetes. She was overweight, he thought, and thus responsible for the fact that she needed a foot amputation. But years later, Attia received an unpleasant medical surprise that led him to wonder: is our understanding of diabetes right? Could the precursors to diabetes cause obesity, and not the other way around? A look at how assumptions may be leading us to wage the wrong medical war.
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Lagrangian points, I like it how you can see that the center of gravity isn’t at the center of the star.
I love Lagrangian points.
The summary is beautiful ;-)
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All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again.
Boston, MA
Has twitter wrecked modern communcation?
Sydney, Balmain, Hornsby.
Fortunately, as I'm informed, it had all calmed down again by the time of my parents' generation.
"Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things." -- Douglas Adams
Oviedo, Florida
Nice commentary on modern commentary.
Cambridge, UK
@mahea50 Word.
San Diego, California
now let's make one for "damn kids are spoiled and have no respect for their elders these days"
DC
Brilliant.
The Golden Age Fallacy in action.
“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” — Ecclesiastes 1:9
Escondido, CA
Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things. -- Douglas Adams
the public comments on this comic seem to imply everyone swallows the premise of the letters...I had though Munroe's point was more that we keep hearing the same arguments over and over again in each age.
New York, NY
Those who fail to learn from history... yada yada yada...
Definitive proof that human faculties have been dwindling since at least 1871, and show no signs of abating in their sad dwindleMent...
Canada
Nice to see it spelled out to people that "nostalgia" is of all times. And the that troubles of today were often already there earlier, but people just remember them differently.
Netherlands