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Yeah, yeah, yeah; BMI is not the end-all be-all indicator for 100% of the population and you know some power-lifter who has a BMI of 80 but 4% bodyfat.
BUT CHECK IT OUT ANYWAY! -It’s fun. Compare your score to the averages of people from around the world and report back.
And Yes, the ‘Murica-Hating Brits made the one super-fattie included on their page, Michelle, an American. -Thanks ‘Beeb, thanks alot!…
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+Oh, and also: She’s a 17-year-old high-school junior and winner of this year’s Google Science Fair Grand Prize.
As if that weren’t enough, BW tried out a bunch of commercially-available Neural Networks and decided they just weren’t accurate enough.
So, spurred-on by the difficulties one of her cousins was going through, she just picked up a programming textbook, taught herself Java and Built Her Own Damn Neural-Network…
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By 2045?
No.
Just No.
By 2445?
As cited by both Reddit and Geekosystem, the following XKCD cartoon seems more appropriate…
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(if you’ve had your wisdom teeth out)
In a vein similar to our wily friends on Long Island, Jose Cordova, heir to the Chrysler Cordoba Fortune and Erich Astudillo have discovered an interesting molecule that fights cavities.
But unlike “Cavistat”, the Chilean scientists aren’t introducing a molecule-set that reinforces teeth.
It supposedly kills off Streptococcus Mutans, the bacteria that creates the greatest number of…
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SnackWell Ninjas+Glucose Grenades+Corn-spiracies==NO SOUP FOR YOU!!!
Mad King Dr. David Ludwig and his team of Insulin-Warriors published a study on diet results for macronutrient types in the JAMA that challenges a few inaccuracies and throws a +/-surprise or two.
They took a group of 21 obese individuals, brought them down about 30 pounds,…
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And in-keeping with the recent theme of Mind/Brain, NPR,
And the inspirational invention of thought-to-text fMRI computer-brain-interface by Bettina Sorger and her team,
A [love] story that will absolutely destroy every single last gram of public composure you thought you had.
Better sneak off and find yourself a private spot where you can just bawl your eyes out and not be embarrassed…
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Not JUST a 2-legged, 1-dimensional, walking plot device ala much of the ‘character dialogue’ in “Dune”,
Not JUST a way to better pretend your pornographer-teddy-bear has come to life,
Not JUST a way for Emma Stone to reveal her true feelings in a romantic comedy about the highschool crush she doesn’t have the guts to talk to;
Something much more serious…
If you ever wondered how Aspirin or Ibuprofen do their thing to blunt the worst effects of your various relatives at the yearly family gatherings,
(ok) before you hit the Wild Turkey,
or just liked learning well-explained technical stuff from cutely-illustrated videos, this basic TED-Ed short is for you.
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