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Subtitle: On vegan advocacy, effective altruism, and FIFA
I turn 40 today. Here are some hot takes.
On factory farming
1. Our biggest challenge is salience. If factory farming led the evening news, it wouldn’t last lo...
Impressions from the 21st Annual U.S. Cluster Headache Patient Conference, organized by Clusterbusters.
On the morning of the last day of the conference, E. was hanging out with other “clusterheads” outside the conference hotel when he started having a cluster headache attack. Before he could go back to his hotel room, J. offered E. his DMT v...
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The movement has an evidence problem. To solve it, for each intervention we need to know:
* What types of evidence that intervention needs
* What types of evidence different sources can give us
In this post, we outline a framework for evidencing an intervention through five stages:
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Biology and/or Biochemistry most likely (but i'm not in this space myself). You also want to carefully consider who you want to be your supervisor when you write your masters thesis if you want to become a researcher.Â
A useful tip I use when it comes to these kind of career questions is finding the people 1 or 2 steps ahead of you and asking them for advice.Â
Are there any biohacking societies or students blogging about anti-aging research that you could reach out to? Finding someone who has gone down the path you want to follow and asking them for advice is very valuable, and they'll likely be happy to give it.Â