Dr. Paul Mason – ‘Blood tests – what your cholesterol results mean Everyone should watch this video by Dr Paul Mason. Every time I see a video from this good doctor he is busting age-old dietary and medical myths with…
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How to Read your Blood Test Results. And Reading Cholesterol is not What you Think
Tagged with: blood test, Cholesterol, Dr Paul Mason, Science, Triglycerides
Posted in Health, Science
Posted in Health, Science
Reflections on The World’s Toughest Man – David Goggins
The World’s Toughest Man – David Goggins I like watching interviews like this while I have my feet up on the couch, still in slippers at 4 o,clock in the afternoon and sucking back on a block of chocolate. That’s…
Tagged with: David Goggins, motivational, The World's Toughest Man
Posted in Health, Reflections, Sport and Adventure
Posted in Health, Reflections, Sport and Adventure
Readdressing the Dietary Guidelines Which Have Made us Fat and Unhealthy
Did you every get that disdainful look on an acquaintance’s face when you said, ‘I consume high fats in my diet’ and soon after enter into a fierce debate about what is good for our health and mostly talking past…
Tagged with: carbohydrates, diet, Dietary Guidelines, doctor, Dr Paul Mason, Dr peter Attia, facts, fat, fibre, longevity, Low carb, myths, saturated fat, Science, unhealthy, University of technology sydney
Posted in Health, Science
Posted in Health, Science
Longevity Expert Peter Attia is My New Hero! Nutrition and Health
Apart from Dr Paul Mason’s highly illuminating dietary myth busting videos at the UTS, I think longevity specialist Dr Peter Attia’s advice concerning diet is second to none. He undoubtedly suffers a kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder regarding his personal dietary…
Tagged with: diet, Dr Paul Mason, exercise, health, ketogenic, Longevity expert, Nutrition, Peter attia
Posted in Health, Science, Sport and Adventure
Posted in Health, Science, Sport and Adventure
Overlooking the Observer – What Buddhism Seeks to Address
The Nature of Reality: A Dialogue Between a Buddhist Scholar and a Theoretical Physicist Some reflections on Buddhist scholar’s Alan Wallace’s argument. We left something out…And that is us. A blind spot in the scientific view. Introspection plays no role…
Tagged with: Alan Wallace, Buddhism, material determinism, Physicist, religion, Science, Sean Carroll, The Nature of Reality
Posted in Reflections, Science
Posted in Reflections, Science
The Physics and Philosophy of Time – Carlo Rovelli Lecture
The Physics and Philosophy of Time – with Carlo Rovelli Short and snappy thought provoking excerpts from the talk (see video at end of this post). Some of what is written below is verbatim and some of it is redacted…
Tagged with: Carlo Rovelli, curve space-time, Einstein, Entropy, galaxies, macroscopic, Newton, Philosophy of Time, Physics, Quantum Gravity, stars, The past, The present, Time
Posted in Science
Posted in Science
Is the Intellectual Dark Web Starting to Eat its Own?
Reflections on the Joe Rogan Experience #1203 – Eric Weinstein…. I would propose the Intellectual Dark Web movement arose (perhaps in a hybrid form) from the now almost defunct 4 horsemen of Atheism counter culture phenomenon. Social media lapped up…
Tagged with: 4 horsemen, Atheism, Dark Intellectual Web, Eric Weinstein, Joe Rogan, religion, richard dawkins, Science, truth
Posted in politics, Reflections, Science
Posted in politics, Reflections, Science
Moneyball and Wallstreet
One of my favourite sporting movies is Moneyball. Those outside of the US may not have watched it or even heard of this Oscar nominated picture. It’s a movie about the adaption of innovative saber-metrics which changed how the game…
Tagged with: baseball, bill james, billy beane oakland athletics, michael lewis, MLB, saber, sabermetrics, scouts new york yankees moneyball, wall street
Posted in Movies and TV, Sport and Adventure
Posted in Movies and TV, Sport and Adventure
Two Astronomers Discuss Alien Lifeforms, Science Fiction Movies and Astrophysics
From the end of the much acclaimed 1997 Sci Fi Thriller ‘Contact’: ‘You are not real, none of this real….. You are an interesting species…In all our searching all we found is each other.’ If you are a Sci Fi…
Tagged with: 2001 A Space Odyssey, Alien Lifeforms, aliens, astronomers, astrophysics, Black holes, Contact, DNA, documentary, ET, event horizon, Gravity, Independance Day, Interstellar, sam Harris, Science, Science Fiction Movies, telescopes Parkes, truth, worm holes
Posted in Movies and TV, Science
Posted in Movies and TV, Science
Keep On Sleeping With Ham Sarris #1 – Against Empathy (With Plaul Boom)
I am a big fan of Ham Sarris’ podcasts and this one in particular really got me thinking: If you are after more insightful podcasts by Ham, tune into the follow up podcast with Peter Jordanson: Related Articles: 1. What…
Tagged with: Ham Sarris, Jordan Peterson, Keep On Sleeping, Paul Bloom, Peter Jordanson, Plaul Boom, podcasts, sam Harris, Waking Up Podcast
Posted in Movies and TV
Posted in Movies and TV
