Elizabeth Van Nostrand
Freelance research analyst and writer of the blog Aceso Under Glass, known for 'epistemic spot checks' of non-fiction claims.
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Their wordsIt let me build runway and develop into the kind of person who could do these weird things and I heartily recommend the general idea to young people, although the specific path of programmer is not looking so hot anymore.
- 7 weeks earlier
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Their wordsIf the city said no we could have an argument about procedures and decisions, but as it stands its all shadowboxing.
↗Why can’t we have nice things? Like, specifically?acesounderglass.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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In California, lack of money is not what stops public beautification projects from getting built.
Their wordsThe client was hoping for an instruction manual on buying beauty, but at least in California, money isn't the bottleneck.
↗Why can’t we have nice things? Like, specifically?acesounderglass.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 3 months earlier
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behavioural scienceanimal welfare
Their wordsAn advantage cows have that egg chickens lack is that stress immediately and measurably decreases their economic productivity.
↗Dairy cows make their misery expensive (but their calves can’t)acesounderglass.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsif we can't solve the sadist problem in nursing homes I don't see how we can assume it's solved in cows.
↗Dairy cows make their misery expensive (but their calves can’t)acesounderglass.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsI have a pet theory that removing the option for antibiotics forces farms to treat animals better, because bad conditions engender disease and without the quick fix of antibiotics that can get very expensive.
↗Dairy cows make their misery expensive (but their calves can’t)acesounderglass.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 2 weeks earlier
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Their wordsThe link between venture capital and evangelical Christianity was closer than I thought. They're not just analogous; they deliberately cross-pollinate.
↗Church Planting: Lessons from the Commentsacesounderglass.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsCreative destruction is even more built into evangelism than I thought.
↗Church Planting: Lessons from the Commentsacesounderglass.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 5 months earlier
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Our reading
Designed experiments can reveal causal relationships that observational data alone cannot determine.
Their wordsBut even more important than efficiency, designed experiments can inform about causality, which is very difficult to determine from collected observed data.
↗The Boring Part of Bell Labsacesounderglass.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsThere is a feeling that a lot of tail-chasing in industrial improvement is due to interactions not being recognized.
↗The Boring Part of Bell Labsacesounderglass.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 5 weeks earlier
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Their wordsIn general your body would rather use glycogen than fat, because glycogen loses almost no energy in the conversion from and to sugar and fat loses a lot.
↗The Biochemical Beauty of Retatrutide: How GLP-1s Actually Workacesounderglass.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsempirically cortisol promotes fat storage and muscle breakdown, and increases insulin resistance.
↗The Biochemical Beauty of Retatrutide: How GLP-1s Actually Workacesounderglass.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsIn rodent studies, semaglutide and tirzepatide were both found to increase the rate of thyroid tumors.
↗The Biochemical Beauty of Retatrutide: How GLP-1s Actually Workacesounderglass.com 3rd of 3 in this piece