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GarpRules t1_j94hus7 wrote
Reply to Mindfulness-based attention training vastly improves the focus and emotional regulation of high school students by TimTars
It ain’t just great high school students. I discovered it in my 40’s
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Reply to comment by sharingsilently in Mindfulness-based attention training vastly improves the focus and emotional regulation of high school students by TimTars
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thatbstrdmike t1_j94g67l wrote
Reply to Mindfulness-based attention training vastly improves the focus and emotional regulation of high school students by TimTars
Yay, the world will be saved now.
Tidesticky t1_j94fthv wrote
Reply to comment by reddittisfreedom in Physicists nail down the most precise value yet of the electron magnetic moment. A newly measured value of an electron’s magnetic moment — a property of its spin and charge — is twice as precise as the one physicists have used for the past 14 years. by MistWeaver80
I suspect you gotta be an average 29 year old quantum particle spin physicist to use this info.
an0maly33 t1_j94f46g wrote
Reply to comment by tamaoiah in Reflexive fear responses tend to linger in people with anxiety disorders, study suggests by chrisdh79
Growing up and through my 30’s I never had an issue with anxiety or depression. Dealing with a divorce and subsequent issues with my kids had traumatized me to the point where I need meds to function. Without them I feel like I’m on the verge of a panic attack (which I didn’t even know what that really was until a few years ago.) I hate to diminish the significance of what PTSD is but I really feel like I have what I would call PTSD.
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xxdxrmxn4xx t1_j94e9ai wrote
This is common sense. Stop being stupid.
SuperGameTheory t1_j94e1v0 wrote
Reply to comment by alizenweed in Scientists have figured out a way to engineer wood to trap carbon dioxide through a potentially scalable, energy-efficient process that also makes the material stronger for use in construction by giuliomagnifico
God damn, I'm glad someone else is saying it.
Shity_Balls t1_j94e1gs wrote
Reply to comment by FlipBikeTravis in A broad-spectrum synthetic antibiotic that does not evoke bacterial resistance by geoxol
Can’t reply to your comment or see it, so I copied it and will respond here.
>So its just a matter of classification to you, the fact I can swish it into my mouth and disrupt bacteria or even kill them is not "medicine" to you in this "context" you call medicine, isn't that an arbitrary classification potentially? I'm not arguing, by the way
None of this is arbitrary. Neither of us are classifying alcohol into our own categories. This is the agreed upon terminology in the medical field. In medicine, which is the current topic we are discussing alcohol under as it pertains to antimicrobial agents, and not in the effect is has on an individual when ingested. You can ingest it, but it has limited to no therapeutic benefits as far as antimicrobial properties are concerned past the point of swishing, which even then, is generally recommended against doing.
If you swish it and spit it or ingest it, it’s still an antiseptic. I can drink a cup of hot urine and tell myself it’s an antibiotic, that doesn’t make it an antibiotic. I’m most certain that the Colgate brand that used to use ethanol even labeled alcohol as an ‘antiseptic.’
SuperGameTheory t1_j94dow9 wrote
Reply to comment by Dry-Conference4530 in Scientists have figured out a way to engineer wood to trap carbon dioxide through a potentially scalable, energy-efficient process that also makes the material stronger for use in construction by giuliomagnifico
Who cares? It's solar-powered CO2 sequestration.
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SuperGameTheory t1_j94d3fs wrote
Reply to comment by DGrey10 in Scientists have figured out a way to engineer wood to trap carbon dioxide through a potentially scalable, energy-efficient process that also makes the material stronger for use in construction by giuliomagnifico
Goddamnit, I demand my 40 m^3 of concrete. I have some steps to build.
hookertime t1_j94cysi wrote
Reply to comment by dwf1967 in Plants are spreading up mountains faster than thought in North America by BlitzOrion
I went to geology field camp in the Wind River Range in 2012. What's the difference been?
sharingsilently t1_j94ct7t wrote
Reply to Mindfulness-based attention training vastly improves the focus and emotional regulation of high school students by TimTars
Don’t tell the Republicans! They’ll outlaw this immediately. Educated young voters is their worst nightmare!
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Reply to comment by Apprehensive_Ad1744 in A broad-spectrum synthetic antibiotic that does not evoke bacterial resistance by geoxol
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yogo t1_j94cids wrote
Reply to comment by Paulbunyip in Patient Reported Outcomes Using Medical Cannabis for Managing Pain in Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease by Psi_in_PA
Thank you for telling us the Tooth.
SuperGameTheory t1_j94cea2 wrote
Reply to Scientists have figured out a way to engineer wood to trap carbon dioxide through a potentially scalable, energy-efficient process that also makes the material stronger for use in construction by giuliomagnifico
"Right now, there is no biodegradable, sustainable substrate for deploying carbon dioxide-sorbent materials"
Correct me if I'm wrong, but growing vegetation in and of itself is a biodegradable, sustainable, carbon dioxide-sorbent process. Maybe we should look at fast growing, strong plants to harvest for building materials. Also, plant growth is solar powered...so that's neat.
The delignification process they describe sounds like the first steps of paper making, which isn't a pretty process when we're talking about wood prep and digestion. After all that, is this product going to be a net carbon sink? I really doubt it.
Can't we just genetically engineer bamboo for better viability?
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Reply to comment by bog_w1tch in Depression can lead to memory dysfunction. This study may pave way for new drugs. Results of a large study involving brain scans show that patients with moderate to severe depression have 7-10 per cent fewer serotonin 4 receptors in the brain than healthy test subjects. by Wagamaga
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Reply to comment by Apprehensive_Ad1744 in A broad-spectrum synthetic antibiotic that does not evoke bacterial resistance by geoxol
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nigeltuffnell t1_j949qas wrote
Reply to Scientists have figured out a way to engineer wood to trap carbon dioxide through a potentially scalable, energy-efficient process that also makes the material stronger for use in construction by giuliomagnifico
Yeah, I've noticed a small problem with this. Lignin (which their process will remove) provides much of the woods rigidity. Not sure how you would get something with as predictable properties as the natural wood itself.
manfeelings839 t1_j94hyll wrote
Reply to Mindfulness-based attention training vastly improves the focus and emotional regulation of high school students by TimTars
Mindfulness meditation is the best thing I ever encountered. It is so simple yet so effective. Train your mind to pay full attention to the present moment and not to identify with the feelings that arise in those moments. No religious or new age mumbo jumbo, just attention training.