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Cake day: April 19th, 2024

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  • My guy Mark selling everyone out for 50k in 2016. Cheap bastard.

    The UCSF researchers analyzed more than 340 documents, totaling 1,582 pages of text, between the sugar industry and two individuals: Roger Adams, then a professor of organic chemistry who served on scientific advisory boards for the sugar industry; and D. Mark Hegsted, one of the Harvard researchers who produced the literature review.

    To conduct the literature review, the sugar industry paid the Harvard scientists the equivalent of $50,000 in 2016 dollars, then set the review’s objective, contributed articles to be included, and received drafts. Yet the industry’s funding and role were not disclosed in the final NEJM publication.

    The literature review heavily criticized studies linking sucrose to heart disease, while ignoring limitations of studies investigating dietary fats. The review argued that blood cholesterol levels were the only significant risk factor for coronary heart disease, which made the high sucrose content of the American diet seem less hazardous than if blood triglycerides were also considered to be a risk factor.










  • Thankfully, LG doesn’t make disabling Live Plus too hard, though you do have to click through a few menus. If you want to turn it off, here’s how:

    1. Press the Settings button on your remote (the gear icon).

    2. When the side menu pops up, select Settings.

    3. Chose the General option.

    4. Scroll down and select System.

    5, Select Additional Settings.

    6. Toggle Live Plus off.

    In the Settings menu on its TVs, LG says, “By turning Live Plus on, you understand that the content displayed on your TV can be recognized, and that the viewing information may be used to provide you with an enhanced viewing experience and personalized services including content recommendations and advertisements.”





  • Yep, college profs are regularly failing students for being illiterate at the top 10 uni my partner works at. We had a doom and gloom conversation about this after an event recently. These students should be the cream of the crop. Profs say the decline predated but seems accelerated by the covid pandemic. As you said, they say administration had been pressuring profs to keep averages up so some of the decline has been obfuscated by padded data (grades). Remedial reading classes are needed even at top universities. Students use AI for both papers and presentations and profs are worried that they are skipping the steps that train your brain to think deeply and analytically.