I use a deodorant without antiperspirant, mainly because I always seem to end up with less sweat under my armpits that way. I don’t sweat excessively, but every once in a while on a humid day it can get a little uncomfortable, as you probably well know.
Robin Hanson over at Overcoming Bias has a quick [...]

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New Scientist has an interesting article about what chiropractic really is. I - like many people, including some practicing chiropractors if the article is to be believed - have always thought they sounded semi-reasonable for back pain, but am fairly freaked out by “preventative spinal manipulation”, and telling people to stop their cancer treatments.  I’ve [...]

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Freakonomics has a link to an interesting study about the relation between living abroad and creativity. Basically, if you have lived abroad, there’s a positive correlation with solving creative tasks. (And before you go patting yourself on the back for being worldly, if you’ve only traveled abroad, that actually had a negative correlation with the [...]

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