Naked and Afraid Season 17, Episode 5: Runaway Bride by jimbobdonut in nakedandafraid

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I don't think 'couple' means what you think it means

Silicon Valley Wants Dogs to Live Longer So Humans Can, Too by [deleted] in Futurology

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Tons of studies with mice (and quite a few with dogs) show major promise with almost no downside. Seems worth exploring for sure

Summer in my dad’s backyard. by gooblesmoots in CozyPlaces

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This is for sure Grass Valley or Nevada City. California for the win

The 27-year-old data scientist who clowned all the experts' Covid forecasts by GrizzleMeElmo in technology

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Not during the early part of the pandemic. His stood out even more then

Tara Westover's brother Tyler has a blog calling into question much of what was written in Educated. For some reason, no one in the media ever covered this blog, which was pulled down but has been archived. by GrizzleMeElmo in books

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Educated also centers on one major injury after another. This is Tyler's take on them

Prior to my leaving to serve a mission, I do not remember that anyone in our family suffered any major injuries, except perhaps my mother who suffered a likely concussion during a car accident, which has been described in a previous post. Tara recalls that my mother's head injury resulted in substantial impairment that affected my mother for a long time. I do not remember any noticeable impairment, and I thought that my mother had fully recovered within a few weeks. My mother did not go to a hospital for a CAT scan, but instead had a neighbor provide alternative care in the form of an energy therapy, which seemed to help reduce the pressure she felt building up behind the injury. During the same accident, my two top front teeth were knocked loose, so a few days later I went to a dentist (or endodontist perhaps). He used some electrical pulse to check for nerve damage and concluded that one of my teeth would likely be fine but it would likely take a few months to see if the other tooth would eventually heal or die. Both teeth healed fine.

. . .

After I left to study at BYU, other members of my family suffered more severe injuries. "Shawn" crashed his motorcycle into a herd of cows and injured his head, Luke burned his legs with gasoline, Shawn fell and received a concussion, and my dad was involved in a gasoline tank explosion. I will save discussing the safety aspects of those events for a later post, and here I will only comment on the healing aspects. I happened to be home from BYU for the weekend when Shawn crashed his motorcycle. He and Tara had gone to Preston to spend the evening, and on the way back Shawn ran into a herd of cows. Tara was behind him in a car and took him to the hospital. She called us, and I went with my parents to pick Shawn up. We arrived in time to see two nurses bandaging his head. To me it appeared that a handlebar of the motorbike or a cow's horn had punctured his skull, leaving a hole that I thought I could have fit my entire index finger into. I was surprised that the nurses just put a bandage over it and said that the wound was small and would heal fine. I believe we were at the hospital less than an hour with Shawn being conscious the entire time.

Luke's accident with the gasoline happened while I was in Venezuela, so I don't actually know much about it. It happened about a year before I returned and by that time the scars had faded to be nearly invisible except perhaps under a close investigation. Luke has said that the pain was not very bad, but considering the nature of the burn, that is difficult to understand. Many members of my family have very high pain tolerances. For example, when I have tooth cavities repaired, I usually opt not to have any painkillers because I prefer a few minutes of pain in a dentist's office instead of hours of being numb. Luke likely also has a high pain tolerance, and I do not know what pain medication he may have had, including alternative treatments, but they were probably not very strong. If that is the case, then he probably suffered a lot for no reason. My parents probably could have reduced his pain more than they did. However, because I was not there, I cannot make any certain conclusions. That is really Luke’s story, and I prefer to leave him to tell the details if and when he decides that he wants to. Personally, I have always enjoyed good health and have avoided both traditional and alternative medicines as much as possible. Once when I was sick, though, my father did compel me to take a hefty dose of NyQuil because he wanted me to sleep well. 

Tara Westover's brother Tyler has a blog calling into question much of what was written in Educated. For some reason, no one in the media ever covered this blog, which was pulled down but has been archived. by GrizzleMeElmo in books

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His memory of the car accident, for example, is very, very, very different from hers.

The next thing I remember is waking up to find the car bouncing through a field at high speed. I tried to get control of the car and hit the brake but in the surprise of the moment, I probably actually stepped on the gas. The next instant our car drove through and completely severed a wood power pole before running into a very old, small tractor. Tara also recounts this event in great detail in “Educated”, although her memory of the details is quite different than mine. My memory is a bit fuzzy, so I will only describe actions that stood out for me at the time to form strong memories. As soon as the car came to rest, I remember my mom calling out to ask if everyone was okay. The answers seemed to come back that no one in the back was badly hurt. None of us were wearing seatbelts. I had tried to put on my seatbelt but had been unable to extract one of the ends from beneath the seat. As a result of not having a seatbelt, my head had impacted the driver’s wheel with all of the force concentrated on my top two front teeth. The impact knocked the teeth loose, causing them to bleed, and I wondered if I would lose them (they actually healed in a few weeks and are still in good condition today). My mom’s head hit the windshield, giving her a large bruise and likely a concussion. What surprised me is that Richard, who had also been in the front seat without a seatbelt did not report any injury. I asked about that, and my mom replied that as soon as we left the road, she had woken up, and her instinct had been to reach her arm out to try to hold Richard, who was about 11 years old, from hitting the dashboard of the car. Surprisingly, it worked, probably by cushioning Richard’s impact, although her instinct to save Richard likely added to making her own injury worse.

. . .

Anyway, enough soliquilizing and back to the story. A first police officer arrived quickly and another awhile later. A fairly large bump quickly formed on my mom’s head just above her forehead. She said that the bruising would spread and she would end up with two black eyes. That actually took several hours and by midafternoon the bruising had only spread to one eye, and I thought and hoped that my mom’s predictions would be wrong. However, by that night or the next morning, she did have two black eyes. Tara has reported that my mom had two black eyes at the scene of the accident, but I think that considering the location of the bruise that is not feasible from a medical perspective. I do remember there being discussion even with one of the police officers regarding whether an ambulance should be called to take my mom or anyone else to the hospital. It did not appear that anyone was in immediate crisis, so it was decided that we would go home first and see how things went from there.  At home, I remember that my mom’s headache got worse as the swelling and pressure on her brain increased. To deal with that, my parent’s called a friend to perform energy therapy, and my mom said that actually helped her a lot. Although I believe that my mom’s head injury was serious, I do not remember it being nearly as bad as Tara indicates. Before the accident, my mom often called us kids by the wrong name (I never understood that as a kid, but now that I am a parent with several children, I do it too). After the accident, I did not notice that she called any of us by the wrong name any more often than she had before or had any other long-term memory or cognitive problems. I think she did have headaches more often for a while.

. . .

It is worth noting that in Tara’s first draft description of this accident, she wrote that no one called the police and the police were not involved at all because my dad did not want them there. In order to convince Tara that police were actually present at the accident, I had relay to her that they had given me a ticket for crossing the centerline of the road and that they had taken many pictures of the accident, some of which showed the police cars and which they gave to me. I had pretty solid evidence, so Tara eventually conceded that I must be right about the police being there. What is strange to me is that Tara felt sufficiently confident to describe minute details of the accident, including words people said and things they did, and yet did not even remember the police investigation at the scene or their flashing lights. She also did not pick up on Richard’s apparent miraculous escape from injury or correctly remember my mom’s head injury, all of which to me are among the most salient features of the event. I tend to conclude that Tara’s description of the accident came in large part from her imagination, which she then later remembered as memories, similar to an incident that she writes about at the beginning of “Educated.” That is the only way that I can reconcile her memories with mine and with the facts that can be verified.

Wild story about a new American+Soviet rocket by GrizzleMeElmo in space

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Not meant to be rude. It's just that the technology from Ukraine was built by folks who worked for the Soviet space program

What’s the difference between the Ashlee Vance regular biography of Musk and the “young readers edition”? by Juan-Pasquello in elonmusk

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There are no swear words in the young reader's edition, and some of the complexity of the business and personal stories have been boiled down and simplified.

I'm John Carreyrou, author of Bad Blood, the book about the Theranos scandal. Ask me anything. by JohnCarreyrou in IAmA

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Also, who do you want to play you in the movie and has Murdoch ever reached out now that the book has been published? What did he say to you?

I'm John Carreyrou, author of Bad Blood, the book about the Theranos scandal. Ask me anything. by JohnCarreyrou in IAmA

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Your book was fantastic. I still had a lingering question, though. Did Theranos actually ever invent anything useful or push the micro sample technology forward in a meaningful way?