Most multivitamins have these 2 toxic minerals in them

Summary: Chromium and Manganese are probably just toxic, even though they’re in almost all multivitamins. There are roughly 3 competing theories seeking to explain the widely replicated result…

3500-4500 calories / day used to be the recommended caloric intake for men in 1929

This is what US diet recommendations looked like 85 years ago: If the housewife is a dietetic genius, 3,500 calories per man per day purchased in the market…

MIRI’s Experience with Google Adwords

My write-up detailing how MIRI uses our $40k/mo Google Grant.

Comparing Research Productivity Across Disciplines and Career Stages

New Meta-Research: Researchers looked for evidence that researchers became less productive over their careers. Instead they found the opposite for math and computer science: Junior faculty in those…

What makes a person who publishes a lot of papers?

Why some researchers are more productive than others. Based on William Shockley’s paper “On the Statistics of Individual Variations of Productivity in Research Laboratories”.

New High-Impact Jobs Available at Machine Intelligence Research Institute

MIRI is seeking candidates for 3 new professional-level positions: Grants Manager, Science Writer, and Executive Assistant.

The “Lynn Effect” – How the world’s IQ is in decline

Remember the “Flynn Effect”? It turns out that even James Flynn now agrees with the new mainstream consensus that genotypic intelligence is declining over time. The Flynn Effect was merely capturing enviromental…

The Countries With the Fastest Internet Are All in Asia

If you’ve ever used the internet in Japan or Taiwan, you know the pain of coming back to the US and having to endure our much slower “high-speed”…

Sugar batteries could be greener, cheaper, and store more energy than lithium-ions… or they could be super pretend vaporware

Tech Reporters: WOW! Sugar batteries have energy densities “an order of magnitude higher than” lithium-ion batteries!! #future #i<3science #reprintingthepressrelease Louie: Yeah, and sugar batteries have voltages an order…

Agent for Android

Automating your life is a key way to become more effective. It’s nice to see some context-aware automation finally hitting the market — and in this case, it’s…

Finally, A Video That Advocates Lifting Weights With Your Vagina

#seemslegit