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V interesting study in @bmj.com
USA Taxi drivers & ambulance drivers are less likely to die of Alzheimer's disease than people of other professions

Links made to Eleanor Maguire's famous discovery that the posterior hippocampus of London taxi drivers was larger than controls.

My thoughts in🧵

A neurologist with 2 APOE4 copies tells us about his experience with #Alzheimers disease
washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

So a voxel would be a point in 3D space?

My time-crunched athlete's "Hierarchy of Needs" pyramid:

You need:

1/ Movement to calm your stressed nervous system

2/ Mobility work to undo the sitting

3/ Metabolic work to stop your fat-burning from ⬇️

You don't need:

High-stress, high-glucose anaerobic work!

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Most have it upside down!

Chapter 15: Fueling the Work - High performance nutrition for endurance athletes. When I was in the middle of my Masters’ program, working with the Olympic Swimmers at the Australian Institute of Sport, I was fortunate to live “on campus” with the athletes.

For more detail on how to calculate energy and carbohydrate needs for the different types of training days, might I suggest...

(It's so nice to be able to post a link without having to hide it so that the Big Brother X algorithm lets it be seen. Aaaah) 😊

alancouzens.substack.com/p/chapter-15...

Screenshot which reads: If not for a delay in a connecting flight, the incendiary bomb would likely have burst into flames in the belly of a plane flying high above the European Union. Instead, it ignited on the ground in Germany’s Leipzig airport, setting fire to a DHL air freight container.

This 👇 is how Politico chose to begin its recent article on “Europe is under attack from Russia. Why isn’t it fighting back?”
This morning, a transport airplane coming from Leipzig crashed near Vilnius.

Article www.politico.eu/article/euro...

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Chechnya bans dance music that is either too fast or too slow Ruling means music in Russian republic must ‘conform to Chechen mentality and sense of rhythm’

The culture minister said all music must “correspond to a tempo of 80-116 beats per minute” to “conform to the Chechen sense of rhythm” ... Artists have until June 1 to rewrite tunes.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/a...

The War in Ukraine Is Not a Stalemate Last year’s counteroffensive failed—but the West can prevent a Russian victory this year.

“The West faces a crucial choice right now: support Ukraine so that its leaders can defend their territory and prepare for a 2025 offensive or cede an irrecoverable advantage to Russia,” writes Jack Watling.

This picture is from the vote on the Cuba blockade, not about Gaza. The cease fire vote was but the security council, not the general assembly.

would love to hear from you and others here--I left X and not coming back, and Threads is not yet available in my country (and not sure I would like to be on more social media anyway)

How long can the Hamas-Israel and Russo-Ukraine Wars go on? In the former civilian casualties create pressure for an early cease-fire. in the latter military casualties raises questions about sustaining the war.
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/c...

@phillipspobrien.bsky.social is always a must-read, but this is particularly good. The impact on Ukraine's future & European security of declaring that the war is a stalemate & forcing territorial concessions on Kyiv wd be disastrous - yet it's where many W analysts & politicians are headed.

Great video on Zaluzhny's interview in the Economist youtu.be/jSwIAVelw9o?... by Anders Puck Nielsen

Urban Warfare, Sieges, and Israel’s Looming Invasion of Gaza - War on the Rocks With Israel’s looming ground offensive against Hamas, and considering the population density of Gaza, urban warfare will certainly be a significant

Honestly, Amos Fox's article for @warontherocks.bsky.social about sieges in the context of the Gaza war is the best thing Ive read -- so far -- on the conflict.

warontherocks.com/2023/10/urba...

To start things--if you have codes and want to have them distributed, Ive just set up an email account you can email them to:

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I will then pass them to my long waiting list at twitter. We want to get codes out asap, to start spreading.

There is a chrome extension, a bit tedious but works: "sky follower bridge"