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Statins Starve The Brain: Cholesterol Correlated Cognition

Statins stealthily strain and starve the brain leaving us stuck in a stupendous stupor; statins make us stupid. Alliteration aside, cholesterol is clearly correlated with cognition, since our Central Nervous System (the brain) stores a quarter of our body’s cholesterol, despite being representative of only 2% of our body’s mass. “The human brain is nearly 60 percent fat.” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/20329590/ Statins are drugs that lower cholesterol. High cholesterol is ostensibly the cause of heart disease, and since heart disease is the number one cause of death -save for iatrogenesis or deaths caused by allopathic intervention– cholesterol lowering drugs are arguably the most prescribed and profitable drugs in the universe. The statin drug called Lipitor was the singular most prescribed drug between 1996-2012 with sales of over 140 million. The second most popular prescription drug Plavix, another heart medication, didn’t even come close with about 74 million…

12 Tips To Trick People Into Thinking Your Smart

Ive recently come across a few ways to trick people into thinking that I am super smart. This is especially useful on social media when you want to impress your friends. The following is a list of tips on how to appear intellectually superior, even though your not the brightest tool in the shed, or sharpest crayon in the drawer… 1. Use big words when small ones will do just fine. Put another way; Employ a grandiloquent vernacular when banal rhetoric will suffice. A superlative verbiage is likely to impress those friends from high school whom scored higher than you on your verbal SAT. 2. Use a lot of semicolons. It doesn’t even mater if you use them correctly; most people don’t know exactly how they work; so you can get away with it; quite easily. People are stupid; but you;ll super look smart.…

A Guide to Political Discourse at the Dinner Table

by Aedon Cassiel As a philosophy buff, I can admit that a great deal of “philosophy” is irrelevant in most practical terms for most people’s actual lives—even for the way that they think and argue and reason. For example, one of the first things we’re given in Philosophy 101 is a list of fallacies of logical reasoning. It includes something called the “ad hominem fallacy.” Ad hominem translates to “against the person,” and it refers to “a general category of fallacies in which a claim or argument is rejected on the basis of some irrelevant fact about the author of or the person presenting the claim or argument.” To really get anywhere useful with this, what we’d have to do next is try to decide on some principles to use to determine whether a fact about the author is “irrelevant” or not. For example,…

Fiat Current Sea: Maritime Money

Our currency is like current in the sea The stream ebbs and flows, directed by the banks on either side The river-banks control the current; but the money-banks control the currency This is why our ‘cash flow’ is a ‘liquid asset‘ ‘Liquidity’ is literally available current-sea Water is a metaphor for money We use marine and aquatic vernacular to generically describe financial terms every day without even realizing it. When we make a lot of money, we make barrels of it. But if we are broke, we’re in deep. We’re drowning in a sea of debt. Or maybe we’re in hot water. Our bank accounts have dried up. But the economy can be tough, and we’re often just trying to stay afloat or keep our heads above water. (above) The Black River Bank of Watertown, New York was established in 1844 and ran until 1864…

Peak Petroleum, Abiotic Fossil Fuel: A Bone To Pick With The Oilagarchs

We’ve been trained to believe that petroleum is a fossil fuel. It’s supposed to have been generated over millions of years from the remains of dead organisms that were buried beneath sedimentary rock long ago. There’re only so many of these ‘fossils’ left, therefore they say, we’ll eventually run out. This is what ‘peak oil’ is all about, and it’s absolutely ludicrous. As the story goes, since there are only so many dinosaur bones, zooplankton, algae and other decayed biological matter from long ago; there is only so much oil. This is good news for the ‘oilagarchs‘ since they can create artificial scarcity and raise the price due to the supposed lack of supply. This happened in the 70’s for those old enough to remember. But what if this wasn’t the case? What if oil isn’t a so called fossil fuel, but simply a product…

Welcome to the Golden PAge

A friend of mine has put together quite the collection of art. He has a tremendous talent not only for geometry and math, but for aesthetics and composition.

Rich owns the Facebook page called Welcome to the Golden PAge. I encourage you to check it out. There are some real gems in there. He also makes short films, which I feel are way under-viewed for how cool they are.

I’ve compiled some of my favorite pieces here. You might have seen some of his art floating around the internet and weren’t sure who made it. Now you know. I hope you enjoy these as much as I have.

Covert Communism in Marxist ‘Merika: Red October, White & Blue: 100 Years In The Making

Today (November 7th, October 25th of the old Julian calendar) marks 100 years since the Russian Bolshevik Revolution began. Otherwise known as Red October, this aptly named movement is responsible for the bloodshed of around 100 million lives. Communism, Marxism, Bolshevism, whatever you want to call it, this false ideology is to blame for the pain, suffering, and death of so many innocent people. Never in the history of the world has there ever been a more deadly movement. Yet Marxism is taught in schools today as if the professors have no recollection of history. The ultimate evil that is communism sails under the guise of altruism. As Solzhenitsyn put it, “In order to do evil, [one] must first believe that what they are doing is good.” It’s been a hundred years since Red October, named after the communist Red Army that fought the White…

The Endocannabinoid System, CBD Hemp Oil, & The End Of Suffering

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In the last few decades there’s been an unbelievable amount of research into the understanding of something called endocannabinoids. With that said, right now my spell-checker is currently blinking at me when I right out the word. This just goes to show that although medical science can make leaps and bounds in the light of contemporary research containing cannabis, the stigma still remains. The very word conjures up propaganda films made in the 30’s like ‘Reefer Madness’. It’s as Max Planck put it, “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. Science advances one funeral at a time.” Scientists coined the name endocannabinoid from its namesake, cannabis, or ‘cannabis sativa’, more popularly known as marijuana. Endo simply means…

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