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By the way, a lot of the flavor you perceive comes from when you breathe out, as the food molecules waft up to your olfactory epithelium.

The cavity of your mouth is shaped in such a way as to circulate air that way.

It’s called retronasal olfaction.
Oddly enough, no other species seems to be able to do this.

Or if there are any, there are very few.

It’s partly because of the way our bodies are shaped. Makes it so smells can travel to our nose much more efficiently from the inside of our mouths.
Interestingly enough, the olfactory epithelium is very small.

3x3cm. About the size of a quarter.

If that’s damaged, you lose a great part of your ability to taste food.
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Bret Weinstein once said every civilization comes to a point where it runs into finite resources.

In that world, the worst in people is brought out and winner-take-all strategies unfold.

Bret says we can look at ancient civilizations as examples for dealing with scarcity.
He points out that the Mayans built pyramids and were an unusually old civilization.

As soon as one was finished, they’d begin work on another layer.

The work never stopped.

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Bret says humanity needs a new kind of fourth frontier, to avoid the pathological biological tendencies that activate in times of scarcity.

To give people a sense of abundance.

And I wonder, whether video games will become our Mayan pyramid.

They are limitless digital domains.
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Social media has probably accelerated prostitution by a considerable amount.

Young women be out there hustlin’
And men be paying for it when they can’t get it anywhere else.
I don’t know if it’s a good or bad thing, but it’s certainly interesting.
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For the most part, I don’t understand Nassim Taleb’s arguments against IQ.

All I know is that nobody has actually addressed the points he’s made.
I wonder how many years and classes and books it would take before I could develop an intuition for the statistics and probability he knows.

5 years? 6 years of intense study?
More importantly, I don’t suppose it would be interesting to me, unless it has some utility in my life.

I don’t find puzzles interesting unless they have a purpose.
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Breathe, said the wind.

How can I breathe at a time like this,
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Just breathe, the wind insisted.
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Easy for you to say, if the weight of injustice
is not wrapped around your throat,
cutting off all air.

I need you to #breathe.
I need you to breathe.

Don’t tell me to be calm
when there are so many reasons
to be angry, so much cause for despair!
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