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Why ‘Drink More Water’? – James Hamblin – The Atlantic

Sadly the myths about drinking 8 glasses of water keeps getting resurrected. It is pretty amazing how someones comments can be repeated so often that people start to believe it as a fact and even widely cite it.  Why ‘Drink … Continue reading

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Overcoming Bias : Beware Star Academia

Also, I have seen people take arguments that others have made and express them with a bit more elegance and status, sometimes using more difficult methods, and get famous for originating such arguments, even when they mostly repeated what others … Continue reading

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