Aim for the Brain

Learn Some History

Meet the Economist Behind the One Percent’s Stealth Takeover of America 
Painful, but essential reading.

This one explains nicely how food and medicine became disconnected.
The Peckish Patient

To teach my sick husband how to eat again, I turned to 19th-century recipes for bone broths, gruels, and custards.

Correlation Games

Dehydration study says as we get parched, cognition can easily sputter.

There are more suicides in US and Mexico when the temperature rises.

We have always been at war with the Persians

Follow the Money. 

State of the Insanity

Tucson’s First Rage Room Is Now OPEN!

Wanna smash something? Tucson’s first and only rage room, The Breaking Point, is now open for business.  Customers to the Breaking Point can schedule time inside a room filled with smashable items like televisions, kitchen appliances, bottles, and anything else you can think of to destroy.

I have been too out of it.   I should have known this was a real thing now.  If it's here, it's everywhere.

I am just gonna suggest these tattooed people would be better off spending their money on dentistry.

ThisClose

Incel Memes Aren’t a Joke

One meme that clearly has taken hold in incel communities is “millimeters of bone,” in which side-by-side photos of similar-looking men run alongside the caption “The difference between Chad and non-Chad (incel) is literally a few millimeters of bone.”
In incel jargon, a Chad is a strong, well-liked, testosterone-loaded man who has sex with a disproportionate number of women. Incels resent women for choosing to sleep with Chads rather than non-Chads like themselves. Chins and jaws, the most enhanced facial features in the millimeters of bone meme, are particular obsessions of many incel communities, as members believe women are biologically drawn to men with prominent ones, while guys with weak chins and slight overbites are doomed to lives of solitude.

Yes, you got the location right.  Many white people have underdeveloped lower jaws.  But your lack of social success is not about bone, it's the oropharyngeal microbial activity and nerve dysfunction that causes your problems, boys...
Turns you into whiners.

Things I am reading

Scientists discover oldest evidence of bread

People with schizophrenia account for more than one in 10 suicide cases
Suicide risk assessments early in the course of illness should be emphasized, researchers say

Our intestinal microbiome influences metabolism -- through the immune system
Study teases out how 'good bacteria' keep us metabolically fit

Health of mom's gut a key contributor to autism risk, study suggests

Gut's 'taste buds' help school the immune system in the thymus
Kind of advanced, but so interesting...

Neural inflammation plays critical role in stress-induced depression

Caffeine from four cups of coffee protects the heart with the help of mitochondria
A new study shows that a caffeine concentration equivalent to four cups of coffee promotes the movement of a regulatory protein into mitochondria, enhancing their function and protecting cardiovascular cells from damage.
(Okay, I need a doctor to come to my house and personally apologize for all you fuckers who told me the EXACT OPPOSITE all of my life.)

See the Red Wave

Happy 4th of July.

Republican Congressmen are in Russia schmoozing and partying with Putin's government officials.
Donald Trump wants to have a private meeting- no witnesses-  with Vlad himself.
And you're paying for all of it...

Enjoy the fireworks.
It may be your last chance.