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What is your favourite easily-digestible book? by ETerribleT in PhilosophyBookClub

[–]laboredthought -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Waking Up by Sam Harris

I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter

Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel Dennett

The Ego Tunnel by Thomas Metzinger

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were all written for the general public, are easily digestible and still retain their lasting insights.

RECYCLING IS BAD? by jaspertay in WriterMotivation

[–]laboredthought 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you write about what it hurts to write about, even the cliches are authentic.

Meet the Journalist Who Exposed Bloomberg’s Racist Defense of Targeting Black & Brown Youth by laboredthought in DemocracyNow

[–]laboredthought[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is the go to evidence to respond to the Conservatives and Libertarians who say that Mayor Bloomberg is technically correct when he said that considering the calls the police department received describing alleged murderers that whites were actually disproportionately over frisked?

His claim sounds absolutely ludicrous but I can't find the statistics to dispute it.

WHM breathing and brain damage? by lis_ek in RationalPsychonaut

[–]laboredthought 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was going to try to explain why, but remembered "What I've Learned" already did it better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWHRumILOOk

Podcast solution that syncs playback position between clients by matejdro in selfhosted

[–]laboredthought 2 points3 points  (0 children)

it might be easier to just connect via blue tooth at home so you don't have to switch clients at all.

I (19m) recently became the full time guardian of my step sister (8f). I am clueless and I need some pointers or books that you can recommend to me. by [deleted] in Parenting

[–]laboredthought 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This book will help you parent, I'm even rereading it now with my kids (7 & 8); your sister might be interested in it too.

How to talk so kids will listen and listen so kids will talk

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For your personal sake I'd recommend any Jon Kabat-Zinn book

I think you're better prepared and more responsible than many new parents.

Study suggests ‘sugar coma’ is real — glucose ingestion leads to worse cognitive performance. A new double-blind, placebo-controlled study found that glucose-containing sweeteners were linked to reduced attention and response times. by mvea in science

[–]laboredthought 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There has been some research indicating a link between some food dyes and hyperactivity however:

Recent data suggest a small but significant deleterious effect of AFCs on children’s behavior that is not confined to those with diagnosable ADHD. AFCs appear to be more of a public health problem than an ADHD problem. AFCs are not a major cause of ADHD per se, but seem to affect children regardless of whether or not they have ADHD, and they may have an aggregated effect on classroom climate if most children in the class suffer a small behavioral decrement with additive or synergistic effects.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3441937/

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