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Anno Online open beta

 

Anno Online sails into open beta | Joystiq

Ubisoft’s Anno Online has opened the city gates for an open beta, granting all access to the free-to-play city building strategy game. Interested lords and ladies should set course to anno-online.com for access. New players logging in during the first week of the open beta will receive a “premium ship.” Players who participated in the closed beta will receive several rewards. The greatest gift? Their data won’t be wiped per the standard beta transition, so they can continue on.

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The 7-Minute Workout

This sounds a lot like Body by Science. Instead of 5 exercises done every 7-10 days, it’s 12 exercises done three times a week. It’s roughly the same time per week. My understand of the aforementioned book, though, is that exercising more often will slow strength gains. The 7-minute workout might be optimizing for something other than strength, of course. Of course, how it works for you matters more than any results from a study.

The Scientific 7-Minute Workout – NYTimes.com

In 12 exercises deploying only body weight, a chair and a wall, it fulfills the latest mandates for high-intensity effort, which essentially combines a long run and a visit to the weight room into about seven minutes of steady discomfort — all of it based on science.

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Does mental illness really exist?

We all know first hand that mental anguish exists and that at least a hug or an hour of someone listening to you offers relief. Beyond that, knowledge in the field is clouded by entrenched interest groups each preaching the solutions they find most profitable. Rigorously applying the scientific method is the only way forward.

Medicine’s big new battleground: does mental illness really exist? | Society | The Observer

The latest edition of DSM, the influential American dictionary of psychiatry, says that shyness in children, depression after bereavement, even internet addiction can be classified as mental disorders. It has provoked a professional backlash, with some questioning the alleged role of vested interests in diagnosis.

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Antibiotics for Chronic Back Pain

The hyperbole of the reporting sets off my skepticism alarms.

Antibiotics could cure 40% of chronic back pain patients

Up to 40% of patients with chronic back pain could be cured with a course of antibiotics rather than surgery, in a medical breakthrough that one spinal surgeon says is worthy of a Nobel prize.

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Richard Nikoley on Resistant Starch

Interesting hack.

Resistant Starch: 4-Letter Word? Nope. Goal: Create Mashed Potatoes A Diabetic Can Eat Every Day | Free The Animal

Here’s the reference: Prepare for the “Resistant Starch” Assimilation; Resistance is Futile. It started off slow, rather as I’d expected, because: STARCH! (Fingers raised across face in the sign of a cross.) But, comments began picking up and even though the post is quite a ways down in the scroll, it’s what’s getting the most play currently. And…