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Interesting relationships when you stare at phylogenetic trees of edible plants.

https://webdoc.agsci.colostate.edu/cropsforhealth/pdf/Evolutionary_Tree_of_Plant-based_Foods.pdf
Everyone needs and deserves therapy. The only question is can you afford it? The financial, social and other costs...
Credits to Naxxatra team
Yep nearly 50% child mortality rate for kids under 5
Notice how the modal Indian person is 20 while the modal Chinese person is 50.
Technology adoption lap changes as we get better at moving it from science to engineering to commercial product - source
Africa is a big boi
This shows the impact of controlling for three different types of variables: confounders, colliders, and mediators.

With confounders, control is good. With the others, you ruin your result by controlling.
Starts hitting the asymptote soon. What's next?
I saw Irish here and wondered how close it was to Indian languages.

Minna Sundberg’s illustration maps the relationships between Indo-European and Uralic languages

The left side of the tree maps out the Indo-Iranian languages

The size of the leaves on the trees is intended to indicate – roughly – how many people speak each language. The European arm of the tree splits off into Slavic, Romance and Germanic branches.
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comparison of voting systems
I think indirect realism makes a lot of sense

The self not having a centre also makes sense considering how our brains do distributed computing
We control the reproduction of other species to suit our interests
illusions show us the blind spots in our consciousness
Two-party consent means all parties have to be informed that the call is being recorded, and the party recording the conversation must obtain prior consent from the other party

For instance, let’s take North Carolina as an example—it is a one-party consent state. It means—a meeting participant can actively or passively imply consent to a meeting recording as long as they’re notified that the meeting or call is recorded.
The ancient Greeks were sophisticated