Consumption Weeks 47
My notes from some of the media I consumed this week.
Charted: Hours Worked vs. Salaries in OECD Countries
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/hours-worked-vs-salaries-in-oecd-countries/
Tags: Work, Work-Life Balance
Children’s brains shaped by their time on tech devices, research to-date shows
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1008150
- The research finds screen time leads to changes in the pre-frontal cortex of the brain, which is the base of executive functions such as working memory and the ability to plan or to respond flexibly to situations. It also finds impacts on the parietal lobe, which helps us to process touch, pressure, heat, cold, and pain; the temporal lobe, which is important for memory, hearing and language; and the occipital lobe, which helps us to interpret visual information.
- This was deemed as both potentially positive and negative, but mainly more negative.
Tags: Children, Neuroscience, Technology
Nanoplastics Promote Conditions for Parkinson’s Across Various Lab Models
- “Our study suggests that the emergence of micro and nanoplastics in the environment might represent a new toxin challenge with respect to Parkinson’s disease risk and progression. This is especially concerning given the predicted increase in concentrations of these contaminants in our water and food supplies.”
Tags: Health, Disease, Plastic
6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person
https://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-you-better-person
- The World Only Cares About What It Can Get from You → have a useful skill
- The Hippies Were Wrong → you are your usefulness (see above)
- What You Produce Does Not Have to Make Money, But It Does Have to Benefit People
- People will like you for what you can do for them. Be useful. Develop skills (through practise, which often isn’t fun). It’s doesn’t matter if you’re a “nice person”. Actions speak louder than words.
Tags: Attitude
15 Years of Money Lessons in 5 Minutes
https://contrarianthinking.co/15-years-of-money-lessons-in-5-minutes/
- Passive income is a myth
- Speak the language of money
- People before profit
- Don’t wear your money (live poor to be wealthy)
- Leverage + expertise + time
- Sell the pain
- You want to be free, not rich
- Your job isn’t safe
- Have grit
- Time + focus + consistency
- Pay attention to $$$
- Get in rooms you don’t fit
- Master negotiation
Tags: Wealth
Coffee grounds may hold key to preventing neurodegenerative diseases
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1008697
- A team found that caffeic-acid based Carbon Quantum Dots (CACQDs), which can be derived from spent coffee grounds, have the potential to protect brain cells from the damage caused by several neurodegenerative diseases (e.g. Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s)
Tags: Coffee, Health, Brains, Disease
Speech is really SBEECH!
https://youtu.be/U37hX8NPgjQ?t=225
- Speech = s-beach, store = s-door, screen = s-green, discussed = disgust
Tags: Language
If Americans Can Find North Korea on a Map, They’re More Likely to Prefer Diplomacy
Tags: USA, North Korea, Ignorance, Geography, Geopolitics, Democracy
How Much Horsepower is a Horse?
- Great idea and surprisingly entertaining! And 1 horse is more than 1 horsepower.
Tags: Cars, Engineering
[The Jordan Harbinger Show] 924: Chris DeArmitt | Rethinking Plastic’s Environmental Impact
https://www.jordanharbinger.com/chris-dearmitt-rethinking-plastics-environmental-impact/
- Plastic appears to be, if you consider the entire lifecycle, “greener” than most other materials. We shouldn’t reduce usage, we should dramatically increase recycling.
Tags: Plastic, Environment, Sustainability