(Part 2) Best industries books according to redditors
We found 2,397 Reddit comments discussing the best industries books. We ranked the 738 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
It would be a good idea to give the source where you took the text from. The book is called Blood, Sweat, and Pixel by Kotaku's Jason Schreier:
https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Sweat-Pixels-Triumphant-Turbulent-ebook/dp/B01NAKSWW1
There was a whole chapter about them specifically under Kiffin's tenure in The System. It was... eye-opening.
Bernard Goldberg, a 28-year veteran CBS news reporter and producer, wrote the book on how biased CBS News is. About a decade later Sharyl Attkisson, formerly an investigative correspondent in the Washington bureau for CBS News and a substitute anchor for the CBS Evening News, reaffirmed it in her book Stonewalled. She alleged that CBS News failed to give sufficient coverage of Obama controversies and stonewalled her investigations into them.
Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News January 21, 2003
by Bernard Goldberg
Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama's Washington – November 24, 2015
by Sharyl Attkisson
Hes also the journalist who did the exposes on Athems development, and rockstars horrid working conditions, and the development state of diablo. And he literally wrote the book on modern game development. He has more internal sources than anyone else in the industry
and there WAS a new diablo game announced last blizzcon, just not the one people wanted
If you move the decimal over. This is about 1,000 in books...
(If I had to pick a few for 100 bucks: encyclopedia of country living, survival medicine, wilderness medicine, ball preservation, art of fermentation, a few mushroom and foraging books.)
Medical:
Where there is no doctor
Where there is no dentist
Emergency War Surgery
The survival medicine handbook
Auerbach’s Wilderness Medicine
Special Operations Medical Handbook
Food Production
Mini Farming
encyclopedia of country living
square foot gardening
Seed Saving
Storey’s Raising Rabbits
Meat Rabbits
Aquaponics Gardening: Step By Step
Storey’s Chicken Book
Storey Dairy Goat
Storey Meat Goat
Storey Ducks
Storey’s Bees
Beekeepers Bible
bio-integrated farm
soil and water engineering
Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation
Food Preservation and Cooking
Steve Rinella’s Large Game Processing
Steve Rinella’s Small Game
Ball Home Preservation
Charcuterie
Root Cellaring
Art of Natural Cheesemaking
Mastering Artesian Cheese Making
American Farmstead Cheesemaking
Joe Beef: Surviving Apocalypse
Wild Fermentation
Art of Fermentation
Nose to Tail
Artisan Sourdough
Designing Great Beers
The Joy of Home Distilling
Foraging
Southeast Foraging
Boletes
Mushrooms of Carolinas
Mushrooms of Southeastern United States
Mushrooms of the Gulf Coast
Tech
farm and workshop Welding
ultimate guide: plumbing
ultimate guide: wiring
ultimate guide: home repair
off grid solar
Woodworking
Timberframe Construction
Basic Lathework
How to Run A Lathe
Backyard Foundry
Sand Casting
Practical Casting
The Complete Metalsmith
Gears and Cutting Gears
Hardening Tempering and Heat Treatment
Machinery’s Handbook
How to Diagnose and Fix Everything Electronic
Electronics For Inventors
Basic Science
Chemistry
Organic Chem
Understanding Basic Chemistry Through Problem Solving
Ham Radio
AARL Antenna Book
General Class Manual
Tech Class Manual
MISC
Ray Mears Essential Bushcraft
Contact!
Nuclear War Survival Skills
The Knowledge: How to rebuild civilization in the aftermath of a cataclysm
And the book Ready Player One in turn inspired Palmer Luckey during his Oculus building journey, and was a recommended read for new team members (according to the great book The History of the Future, which itself has a foreword by Ready Player One's author).
His book on the subject is very upsetting. A must-read for anyone in medicine.
https://www.amazon.com/Presstitutes-Embedded-Pay-CIA-Confession/dp/1615770178
Edit: Did some research and apparently there's an English translated version with a different title. Not sure how legit it is so don't take my word for it!
This article is not only wrong it's dangerous. The author dismisses Gary Taubes hypothesis as "not tested." The Case Against Sugar is a compilation of centuries worth of nutritional research. It's also a scathing look at the field of nutrition research that explains fully why it would be so difficult to prove. The basis of his hypothesis was even proven last year when evidence was uncovered that the sugar industry paid off scientists to downplay the link between sugar consumption and health problems.
The whole known story of Destiny's development has been explored in great detail on Jason Schrier's book Blood, Sweat and Pixels.
To elaborate, when the Supercut (a 2 hour video detailing the story) was shown by Joe Staten, many thought it was a mess. But the problem was with the way the story was presented, not with the story itself.
In the book it's even stated that...
>“[Joe] made a big push for sanity and rationality,” said one former Bungie employee. “He basically said, ‘People, the supercut can be saved, [but] if we try to re-create the game in six months, it’s going to make a lot of people miserable.’” Staten’s efforts failed, though, and by the end of the summer, he was gone.
In the book itself you can also notice that the "original" Bungie, that Bungie that made all those Halo games that many players loved, slowly started losing the people that made it that while bringing newer people on board. So long story short, the Bungie that we have today making Destiny is not the same Bungie that made Halo.
It kinda reminds me of the Ship of Theseus paradox: if you gradualy replace all the parts of a legendary ship, will it still be the same ship of legends or will it be a new ship? On this case, I think we clearly got a new ship, and it's not a better one.
Good news bucketeers! The third edition of the Cannabis Grow Bible is finally out, a few weeks before expected. You can get it here on Amazon. Hopefully many readers of the book will check out our community!
Cheers
I recommend you read a book called "A Slow Death: 83 Days of Radiation Sickness".
It's the story of Hisashi Ouchi, a nuclear infastructure engineer that was exposed to extremely high dosage of radiation during a severe criticality accident, effectively destroying his DNA. He lived for 83 days, if you can call it living.
As other commenters have noted, this is a picture of Hisashi Ouchi, one of the victims of the Tokaimura criticality accident which killed two people. The dogged efforts of the doctors to save his life, despite having very little medical precedent and history with which to work, are documented in great detail in the book A Slow Death: 83 Days of Radiation Sickness. As the of the book indicates, he died after 83 days, most of which were spent in coma. I purchased the book several years ago and, though the subject matter is sad, it is an absolutely fascinating account of exactly what happens when someone suffers lethal radiation exposure.
A reviewer of the book on Amazon summed up the situation as follows:
"The gentle and amiable patient did not realize for several days that he was what is termed a "walking ghost". While he appeared to be fine for a while, all of his cells were damaged and his death was certain. Pain medication to make him comfortable when symptoms arose would have ordinarily been the only intervention while awaiting the inevitable, but in his case the hospital staff and his family did not tell him that he received a lethal dose and maintained that fiction almost until the day he died. The doctors kept giving him transplants, transfusions, skin grafts, injections and cardiac massage -- a heroic effort overall -- to keep him alive until maybe something would actually help. Since severe radiation sickness is not common, these folks had no real idea what they could do and dealt with symptoms as they arose. And arose. And arose. The fact that Mr. Ouchi survived for months is nothing short of amazing, but perhaps honor and hope came at too high a cost: his incomprehensible CONSCIOUS suffering."
Here is the book on Amazon, if you are interested:
http://www.amazon.com/Slow-Death-Days-Radiation-Sickness/dp/1934287407
To those of you who are trading ETH, but aren't as familiar with the underlying tech of Ethereum as you'd like...
Read this book.
I just finished it because I wanted to be sure my foundational knowledge of the tech and Solidity were up to snuff. It's a cross disciplinary explanation of the tech, economics, and use cases of Ethereum. It's not a dry tech-manual, and is a rather quick read.
Side note for the lulz:
If you come from bitcoin land, you'll recognize the author of this upcoming tome.
The whole big story can be read in The History of the Future by Blake J. Harris https://www.amazon.com/History-Future-Facebook-Revolution-Virtual/dp/0062455966
This has been a long time in the making.
http://www.amazon.com/Bias-Insider-Exposes-Media-Distort/dp/0060520841
This was published way back in 2003 before Fox News was the giant bullshit mountain it is today- but they slowly rewrote the narrative to say that ALL news outlets are biased against conservatives. This isn't new at all. What you see today has been at the very least- ten years in the making.
I would be very cautious before you start this. You need to have a much better understanding of why you’re doing this before you start. I think breaking up ops teams may be an answer to a different question. That question should be: “how do I deliver better business value?”
The first step is to understand what you’re trying to achieve. Gene Kim, Patric Debois et al talk about the “three ways”. It’s essentially three steps towards embracing devops culture.
The first is all about increasing flow through the system - that system being your organisation. The idea is to look at how your organisation goes from a business need to realising business value. For instance, how do we go from wanting to provide another payment option on a website, to customers being able to use it?
One way of analysing and visualising your organisation as system is something called “value stream mapping”. This looks at how a piece of work gets requirements, gets developed and how it gets to customers (even if that’s internal customers). You need to understand the process, where the delays are, where teams hand off from one to another, where things go wrong. Ideally you want to optimise this process. One of the issues that many organisations look at just automation and essentially automate a slow and inherently crap process. This will never give the returns that many people are after. Looking at this level, you should be looking at organisation goals. How do you measure this work in a frame that other people are going to understand who are not IT? Is it how fast you can get a feature to market? Increasing individual spend? Increasing reliability of the service you provide to customers? If you’re not framing this initiative in those terms, then it’s doomed to failure. Be specific and measurable.
Once you understand your process, you can look at opportunities to optimise the feedback loops (the second way). It might be that infrastructure is required by dev teams that gets delivered by ops but isn’t what they need. There is a team hand-off here that needs to be addressed. There are many solutions to this problem, but it might be a start to move where the person provisioning that infrastructure sits. Put them in the dev team. You might still keep them as part of the ops team logically to start out with. The point is, you’re looking at the system, understanding the constraints and trying to optimise pain points.
You can achieve a lot without adding any new automation or technology solutions and this shouldn’t be underestimated, but ultimately, handcrafting systems isn’t repeatable or fast enough. This is where reorganising teams might look sensible, but you should know what outcomes you are string to achieve. That might be difficulties provisioning infrastructure fast or flexibly enough, it might be deployment of code to live being too slow, it might be that testing is too slow. Once you know you need improve, you can look at tooling to better achieve that.
/u/quailtop mentions:
>In my (admittedly limited) experience, you can solve needing faster development velocity (the first problem) through staffing a new team whose job it is to help improve the deploy, test and release process for all developer teams. Their job is necessarily cross-cutting across all dev teams. They would develop internal tooling e.g. a standardised build/release process that all teams can employ. This is a great pattern because it avoids encroaching on existing territory and is a very clear contract between engineering.
This is otherwise known as the DevOps “hub and spoke model” and is what my organisation has implemented. It’s worked very well for us and it’s a clever way to start a reorg.
For certain ops teams, you may want to keep them together. For example, you may have a large and complicated network setup and still need a dedicated networks team. My focus then, would be putting an obligation on those teams to allow others to better consume their services. They may need to add other people to this team to make that happen. For example, if you have a complicated network, with lots of steps, look at both automation of those steps but also to allow other teams to more effectively consume them. Amazon spent a lot of effort building the culture that ever system or service is an API that should be able to be consumed easily internally (have a read here: https://apievangelist.com/2012/01/12/the-secret-to-amazons-success-internal-apis/ . So, for this case, you may add a tech lead and some software engineers to build network APIs rather than splitting the team up. This may include some of your more traditional network admins to look at replacing on prem infrastructure to support this. The goal however, should always be about the organisation level goal. Improving the speed at which you can reliably deploy network changes should be in support of one of those strategic objectives.
The third way then focuses more on continual learning and experimentation. You should have embedded a set of objectives that you’re working on achieving but you’ll have lots of legacy systems, legacy processes and behaviours. Focusing on outcomes and consistent asking of “why?” will start to help. This is also where SRE becomes really relevant for me. IMO SRE isn’t something that is particularly useful to start out with. It’s best when you’re looking at elevating and existing DevOps culture to a new level. This will look more at observability of a systems and understanding where the more difficult optimisations can be done.
Let me be clear. DevOps is a long road for any organisation to change to. To really get mature it will take many, many years to properly bed in. My organisation started around 5 years ago and we still have more progress to make. One of which is to move from project based way of organising work to more long lived product teams. This organisational change is probably the biggest thing holding us back right now, and has nothing to do with automation or technical practices.
I wouldn’t start out by reading about SRE, I would start with a book called The Phoenix Project and then read The DevOps Handbook, at least twice. Start with the strategy before you make any changes. I would also look to see if you have a cloud strategy because many of these practices are much harder to implement purely on premise.
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Edit: Thanks for the silver!
Edit2: One thing that's also worth noting is that for many people, moving from traditional sysadmin to DevOps is a hugely scary change. It means that many of the staff won't have the job security they thought they had and they need crucial skills they don't have. To make this work, understand this point of view and support them. This requires really mature and experienced leadership at all levels. This is a good, short and free ebook to help the more traditional sysadmins understand why they have to change.
You can buy it under a different name...
Presstitutes Embedded in the Pay of the CIA
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https://www.amazon.com/Presstitutes-Embedded-Pay-CIA-Confession/dp/1615770178
http://www.amazon.com/Slow-Death-Days-Radiation-Sickness/dp/1934287407
Here's a book detailing the 83 days that doctors and nurses struugled to keep this man alive. Amazing book. They were pouring nuclear material from a steel bucket into a large metal container. The material went critical (bright blue flash/radiation). He did not turn into the hulk.
It is interesting to read about Ensemble Studios' experience as a Microsoft Developer in Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, I reccomend it if you are interested in the topic.
There is a section in the book The Only Rule is it Has to Work" that kind of speaks to the homophobia entrenched in baseball. Sean Conroy, first openly gay professional player (If you count indy ball as pro) strikes someone out and batter grumbling to himself says "I can't believe that faggot struck me out". 2nd at bat, guy Ks again doesn't say shit. The sections about Sean and his relationships with his teammates were my favorite parts of that book they kind of make it seem like there is hope for more inclusion in every part of baseball.
Anecdotal estimate on my part, I worked for the football stadium in 2004-2006 and I overheard one of the higher ups walking a guy through all the revenue streams. I seem to recall it was in the $4M-$5M range per game. So with 6 home games that's about $25M-$35M a season. BYU Basketball is probably 20% of that. TV deals and sponsorships are probably worth another $10M-$30M. So I could see the total revenue for school sports at around $75M. I could be way off and my data is 10 years old so it's probably over $100M. There is also money that comes from boosters etc because of the team, which is probably one of the main sources for the school.
Conference affiliation would be worth double that for the cougars at least. All that being said Jeff Benedict writes about this very topic in his book: The System and Scandal of Big Time College Football. The thing is, most programs run in the red. It's a pipe dream that too many try to live.
https://www.amazon.com/System-Scandal-Big-Time-College-Football/dp/0385536615
The book is now translated to English by a small publisher and under a different title
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1615770178/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1
Yup you can pre-order that too: https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Sweat-Pixels-Triumphant-Turbulent-ebook/dp/B01NAKSWW1/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
There's a great chapter on Dragon Age Inquisition in "Blood, Sweat and Pixels" that covers this a bit. Probably sources from what you're talking about.
Ideally the role of the mainstream media would be to aggressively pursue the truth regardless of ideology. We have never had an ideal mainstream media, it has long been filled with ideologues pushing their agendas.
While I'd not say they are the enemy of the people exactly, they certainly are not serving our interests.
/u/palmerlucky was working on this before he was fired, according to History of the Future.
I read the book "The Case Against Sugar" by Gary Taubes. Lots of information, other sources, and motivated me to continue without sugar.
Bigger question: have you ever actually read / watched CNN? Normally an opinion piece is labeled as such, to indicate to readers content that is not necessarily reflective of a news organizations' own values. John Blake is an official CNN Enterprise writer / producer, not some fringe opinion like you're waving it off as. CNN is literally riddled with this garbage, lest we forget the snickering CNN-host Don Lemon, the miserable tit CNN Analyst Keith Boykin, and pushing app notifications for fucking said opinion pieces?
A great place for you to start is Bernard Goldberg's "Bias" circa 2003, as I have a feeling you fall into this category. You simply cannot comprehend that the media, let alone 50%+ of it, has any sort of leftist bias.
Having a desire to sell ad space is not mutually exclusive with having another agenda. I would recommend the book Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News by Bernard Goldberg
Goldberg is a 28-year veteran CBS news reporter and producer.
Culinary student here. For our Skill Development class we use On Cooking. It's a really great resource and it teaches the basics: names of equipment, proper knife techniques, the mother sauces, etc. It also has a wealth of recipes that use fundamental skills, nothing overly complicated.
http://www.amazon.com/Cooking-Textbook-Culinary-Fundamentals-5th/dp/013715576X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1322589391&sr=8-1
Inverting the Pyramid
Soccernomics
Fever Pitch
Alex Ferguson
I am the secret footballer
The numbers game
>Female dairy calves may be reared as replacements for the “culled” cows who get sent to slaughter. Although the natural lifespan of a cow is around 20 years, dairy cows are usually killed at between five and seven years of age, because they cannot sustain the unnaturally high rate of milk production. Male calves who survive are sent to auction at an age when they can barely walk. Temple Grandin has strong views about that, too: “Worst thing you can do is put a bawling baby on a trailer. It’s just an awful thing to do.” The usual options for these male dairy calves are, as already mentioned, to be slaughtered immediately or to be raised for “milk-fed” veal. From the calf’s point of view, immediate slaughter is the better fate, for it spares him 16 weeks of confinement in semi-darkness, in a bare wooden crate too narrow to turn around. He will be tied at the neck, further restricting his movements. Already stressed by separation from his mother and unable to mingle with others of his kind, he will be fed only “milk replacer,” a liquid mixture of dried milk products, starch, fats, sugar, antibiotics, and other additives. This diet is deliberately so low in iron that he will develop subclinical anemia. That’s what the veal producer wants, because it means that the calf’s flesh, instead of becoming the normal healthy red color of a 16-week-old calf on pasture, will retain the pale pink color and soft texture of “prime veal.” Bought mostly by expensive restaurants catering to gourmet tastes, that kind of veal fetches the highest price. For the same reason, the calf will be denied hay or straw for bedding—if he had it, his desire for roughage and something to chew on would cause him to eat it, and since it contains iron, that too would change the color of his flesh. The wooden stalls and neck tether are part of the same plan. If the stall had iron fittings, he would lick them, and if he were able to turn around, he would lick his own urine—again, in order to satisfy his craving for iron.
The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter
u/the_jixxx - sounds like a classic case of a good developer throwing shit over the wall and unintentionally not being a team plater. I'd suggest reading this book as it describes EXACTLY the situation you are describing: https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Business/dp/1942788290
Your team/company will likely see a big benefit by moving to a more devops-style model of software development. Hope it helps you begin your journey
https://www.amazon.com/Cooking-Textbook-Culinary-Fundamentals-5th/dp/013715576X
This is honestly one of the better text books I have seen/read. A lot of information in it, along with literally thousands of recipes. You get access to their online recipe book as well.
For a more in-depth expose into the fraud and corruption in the olive oil industry, I would definitely recommend Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil by Tom Mueller
such an excellent, quick and uplifting read this book was http://www.amazon.com/Slow-Death-Days-Radiation-Sickness/dp/1934287407
An entire book, The History of the Future comes out tomorrow. It will cover this and the rest of Oculus's history. Supposedly it's really detailed. My copy isn't expected to get here until next Monday :(
"The History of the Future"
> What are some good cookbooks or preferably online resources that I can use to learn some of the basics?
My favorites:
Good Eats
America's Test Kitchen
Serious Eats
On Cooking
https://www.amazon.com/Case-Against-Sugar-Gary-Taubes/dp/0307701646
This book by Gary Taubes explains in depth, factually everything that you are purporting. Less Conjecture.
Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil
Great read about it.
No regulations. So people selling lamp oil can put anything they want on the label.
And Americans are cheap, they want their organic extra virgin cold pressed gluten free no animal cruelty vegan olive oil for $3. Lol
Since reading that book we only buy real shit now. It's expensive, as it fucking should be. But worth it.
In Becoming Batman the author points out that Batman would at least qualify in nearly every event in the summer Olympics. This one is up in the air for me.
> but has a huge and positive impact on their lives
Actually, I've read a lot of criticism about the EMA, particularly about its lack of transparency in terms of data and clinical studies but also in general not regulating drug approval scientifically. Not that the US's agency is much superior (the book linked above is mostly about the US).
Anyone interested in this, and how it affects them, should read the book Bad Pharma
Highly recommended, and though a little hysterical in parts, absolutely true.
Well, be glad you're not a Kindle user: many e-books on Amazon are more than their harcopy equivalents.
Example.
Read this book "Soccernomics" for a great ELI5 on the issue.
http://www.amazon.com/Soccernomics-England-Germany-Australia-Destined/dp/1568584814
Currently reading Soccernomics, which is a look at soccer through a sports economics/sabermetrics viewpoint. Really good so far!
Peter Singer. He's a great modern philosopher. Writes on a lot of practical issues and his arguments are just brilliant but his focus is animal rights. Try this one.
A great way to start is to grab a book. I read Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens.
http://www.amazon.com/Storeys-Guide-Raising-Chickens-3rd/dp/1603424695?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0
It's been reprinted under a new title.
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These books are quite comprehensive. As you may already suspect, True Living Organics is primarily about building living, organic soil, and the techniques that the author uses to maintain the soil and maximize the quality of the end product.
The Cannabis Grow Bible covers all things related to growing cannabis, as well as producing extracts. Very comprehensive and an excellent tome for any grower to have, from wide-eyed novice to salty veteran.
I have an older edition of Marijuana Horticulture from the early 2000s, and use it quite a bit less than the other two, but it was very useful to me when I was starting out. I would recommend The Cannabis Grow Bible first and foremost, however.
I hope this helps! Don't get overwhelmed by all the information out there; best thing I can recommend is to pop a few seeds and just give it a go. Don't let your inner perfectionist prevent you from attaining perfection through time and experience!
I think you're looking for a book called "The Phoenix Project". It is based on The Goal but focuses on visualizing the IT value chain in a company as if it were a factory floor. It also gives a solid understanding of the role of DevOps in companies.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1942788290/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0
I read about him in Blood, Sweat, and Pixels
...and after you've read the ME:A article, pick up a copy of Blood, Sweat, and Pixels by Jason Schreier for the -now familiar- development story behind Dragon Age Inquisition.
It will save you an unreal amount of money. I’ve worked as a chef for going on 15 years now. If you’re interested in learning to cook and have the time you could get yourself a beginner culinary school textbook like On Cooking or The Professional Chef. It’ll teach you a ton and is chock full of beginner recipes with explanations of why everything is done the way it is.
https://www.amazon.com/Cooking-Textbook-Culinary-Fundamentals-5th/dp/013715576X
https://www.amazon.com/Professional-Chef-Culinary-Institute-America/dp/0470421355
If you want to know the science as well as anecdotal evidence supporting low carb and against the Standard American Diet, here's a list of books for you to read:
Jimmy Moore is a lot more anecdotal but it's a good place to start if you want a simple way to understand keto, in my opinion. The rest contain lots of studies and evidence to convince you.
Taubes is also bringing out a new book. I've not yet read it but I've certainly pre-ordered!
The Case Against Sugar
Meat Market
And
The System
Are cool reads on the subject
This is discussed in to GREAT detail in "The System". The book was released last year right before my trip to Ohio State. It is a must read for any CFB fan. So many great stories covering many programs, coaches, players, and stories. It goes in to great depth on recruiting players and coaches, cheating, training, traveling, AD's - all aspects of the game. Over 300 taped interviews if I remember went in to that book.
There is a couple chapters throughout the book on Leach's move from TTU to WSU including the James debacle.
I read an interesting book a while back that ties in to some of what you are saying. It details how the pharaceutical industry does not report negative results from medical & pharmaceutical trials - they only report favorable results. And, because of that, scientists, doctors, and consumers are not given the complete picture of the risks and benefits of a given medication. Goldacre argues that ithould be mandatory for drug companies to release ALL DATA - favorable or not. Really interesting & informative read.
https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Pharma-Companies-Mislead-Patients/dp/0865478007
It seems this is the English translation, it just took ages to be published. I do agree that his political stance is more than a bit concerning, but it still might be a worthwhile read.
> The book is now translated to English by a small publisher and under a different title
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> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1615770178/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1
To steal from a book "The closer's the closer because he's the closer."
Seeds pricing depends on strain and breeder. Some dispensaries around her sell seeds so you'll have to call and ask.
Here is a great book to get you started: https://www.amazon.com/dp/193786636X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_c80ACbWZMBGN4
> What is DevOps? Developer operations? What does does Dev ops imply?
What you are asking is a HUGE and complicated question.
DevOps is a dramatic change to the way the business operations unit and their technology teams interact to create technology solutions to support business projects.
Yes, DevOps involves a lot of software development skills. But it can also require technology infrastructure skills, and it DEMANDS the involvement of the business unit.
DevOps can be a real and very serious game-changer if a company is willing to invest in it.
It is growing steadily throughout the industry. Not explosive growth. Not leaps & bounds. But steady growth.
I STRONGLY encourage you to invest $15 into this book, and spend 6 hours plowing through it. (I read it in about 4 hours)
The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
This is not a reference book. You will not search through it to jog your memory about how to do something.
But you very well might loan it to a bunch of people so they can learn from it too.
So, spending the extra money on the hardcover edition wouldn't be a terrible idea, but any edition is fine.
YOU need to read it once, and develop an understanding of the almost philosophical concepts. Then you're pretty much done with the book.
If your local library has it, that's even better.
This might also help:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DevOps
I picked this book up in March, and I think it's very well done:
Introducing Ethereum and Solidity: Foundations of Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Programming for Beginners
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XQFYL2M/ref=oh_aui_d_detailpage_o08_?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Just to help others see how middle of the road the New York Times is: Republicans Are the Real Extremists
And a good read from Bernard Goldberg about media bias is here
It's a good read... http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0060520841?pc_redir=1407570686&robot_redir=1
The book comes out next Tuesday and sounds interesting.
I used this book in school and it is highly recommended.
https://www.amazon.com/Cooking-Textbook-Culinary-Fundamentals-5th/dp/013715576X
"Sugar is bad" is the converse of "whole food is good." There are many resources that you can find by searching, but the TLDR is: it rots your teeth, it doesn't fill you up, it spikes your blood sugar, it overloads your liver, it causes insulin resistance, it makes you fat, and it's addictive.
Here's a book that's popular: https://www.amazon.com/Case-Against-Sugar-Gary-Taubes/dp/0307701646
Well I'll preface this by saying that 1) I don't have the exact figures (I doubt any people not involved with the NCAA do...), and 2) the term "student athletes" encompasses all manner of athletes from cross country runners to rowers to football players. If you sub-divide it out by sport affiliation, it probably skews different, and in that regard you'd probably see football and basketball players tend to be arrested more often than ordinary students. (At least if you're talking about the top-tier programs, which are typically attached to top-tier universities.) There are some stats to this end in Jeff Benedict's "The System," which /u/RobertNeyland's mentioned.
As for overall arrest rates, though, a report by the U.S. Dept. of Education states that 37,901, 37,299, 37,942 arrests occurred on 4-year college campuses in 2007, 2008, and 2009, respectively. Some issues I'm wondering: 1) I think those only count arrests made on college campuses (e.g. not at an off-campus tailgate or something), 2) I don't know the total number of college students at 4-year schools in the U.S. (though maybe this list is what we need).
Maybe someone with more time can track down arrest rates for all athletes, and we can cross-check rates against general student body rates.
> Why are we being matched up against a glorified high school? CFB doesn't make sense to me either.
Because the larger schools pay smaller programs to play them for easy wins/big point spreads. Its shady as fuck because College Football is shady as fuck.
Schools have recruit programs where they essentially whore out Co-Eds to get students to commit, will do anything they can to cover up rape/sexual assault cases, and other awful shit. I recommend reading The System.
For anyone interested, there is an interesting book about olive oil, its history, and rampant fraud in the industry called "Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil" which I recommend. If you want a quicker version of that check out this Gastropod podcast episode about olive oil, which heavily features Tom Mueller who write that book.
If you want good olive oil I recommend Queen Anne Olive Oil Co.
Extra Virginity
You might want to read this for more information. I read it last year after seeing a 60 minutes piece on fraud in the olive oil business. Enlightening.
>In facts italy produces best extra virgin olive oil
According to who? Citation needed.
The only true fact is that Spain produces more than 3 times the olive oil that Italy does, and not surprisingly Italy is the first importer of Spanish Olive oil which they repackage and sell as olive oil from Italy which it isn't.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com/Extra-Virginity-Sublime-Scandalous-World/dp/0393343618
Very good and informative.
I formerly bought extra virgin olive oil and also pomegranate juice at great prices, about half the going rate. Then I saw a list of foods most commonly counterfeited, and extra virgin olive oil and pomegranate juice were high on the list. No wonder the prices were so good.
I now pay the going rate and feel more secure regarding quality. For the full story on olive oil---surprisingly enjoyable and definitely informative---I recommend Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil.
I'm partial to Cloudera or Horton Works. Both have training courses.
I personally like good 'ol books. I've taken the Coursera intro and Hive/Pig training courses and while they were invaluable, nothing quite replaces sitting down and working your way through books like Hadoop: The Defininitive Guide or MongoDB: The Definitive Guide. I highly recommend Safari Books Online if you enjoy online reading. Perhaps some of your professional development money could go to paying for an account for that. For those who don't have the money for that, don't underestimate the usefulness of your public library. I currently have 3 books out from my local library on graph/network science (Linked is awesome and a great start for anyone interested in Networks/Graphs).
One thing I'll mention is that Hadoop has really become more of an ecosystem than a produce. HDFS, MapReduce, Pig, Hive, Sqoop, Flume, HBase, Storm, etc. Just saying "Hadoop" is like just saying JQuery. Half the battle with JQuery is knowing how to use the best plugins. It's the same with Hadoop.
Been wanting to check this book out
http://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Batman-Possibility-Paul-Zehr/dp/0801890632/ref=pd_sim_b_3
http://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Batman-Dr-Paul-Zehr/dp/0801890632
I am currently reading a book that answers this very question! Its written by a guy with a PhD in Neuroscience, a MS in Kinesiology (the study of movement, think advanced exercise science), and multiple black belts in several martial arts. He asks the question, what would it take, physically, to be Batman?
https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Batman-Possibility-Paul-Zehr/dp/0801890632
You're welcome
Why the interest? I read [this fantastic book] (https://www.amazon.com/Soccernomics-England-Germany-Australia-Destined/dp/1568584814) recently, and became interested. Occasionally, I've noticed the table in the Sunday New York Times, and now I've started to become more and more fascinated.
Interestingly enough, I just read some of this story that was included in another book, The Ethics of What We Eat which I'm not enjoying as much as I did the Omnivore's Dilemma.
The part I read was about the treatment of dairy cows & their calves, and though I have to commend the farm owners for allowing access to their farm, I was still slightly disturbed that they probably represent the best types of dairy cow people.
However, I realize this discussion isn't about the treatment of the animals, so: does the book go into detail on the corn-feeding and its impacts?
The "bible" for raising chickens is Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens by Gail Damerow. I bet you could get a copy from the public library.
Well, this is a good book to start with and has a bunch of useful information in it. I would be willing to answer any specific questions you may come up with as well.
As far as coops, you need decent wire (chicken wire is too weak to keep some predators out) and at least one solid wall and a roof (I'm in Texas, so one wall to block wind is enough to keep them warm. The rest of the walls are just wire). You also need to sink the wire into the ground a few inches so animals can't dig under. I actually dug 6" trenches around mine and filled them with concrete.
For health concerns I recommend this book, it has a lot of good info in it and is not too technical.
Get this book. I picked it up before I got my first chick and it taught me everything I needed to know from egg to old hen.
My first chicken was a Speckled Sussex and she was the best girl I ever had, friendly, smart and not flighty at all. Other breeds that have been easy for me: Orpingtons, Barred Rocks, Easter Eggers, Brahmas, Welsummers, and Barnevelders. Silkies are cute, but they are always the dumbest chickens of the flock it seems like. I would say the variation isn't so bad that you can't just get the breed of chicken you like best for whatever reason: egg color, egg production, feather pattern, etc.
Chickens can tolerate quite a bit of heat (with basic shade and lots of water), and quite a bit of cold (with shelter from the wind and friends to huddle next to). I would think you probably don't need anything special in SW Missouri, but if it looks like your mom's chickens are in extreme discomfort, there are ways to help them out then.
The most important thing is to make sure the coop is completely secure and protected against predators. The #1 cause of death for my chickens has been raccoons.
Good luck to your mom!
For the uninitiated
He was sure to die from being exposed to heavy doses of radioation, so they wanted to study the changes going through his body. There was a book written about it.
This is also a great book that was written by a doctor who happened to be there during the 83 days. Very haunting to read the details in which he describes Ouchi.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1934287407/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=JFZESI2L2NUJ&coliid=IUK73YX4RJWDE
Edit: Just realized OP already listed the book. Sorry about that.
Hello,
From my experience, the tool selected for a project will always become the wrong choice after a certain period of time. It is never obvious which tool is the best at the beginning of a project. An experimented team will more likely make reasonable choices but they should always keep in mind that the tool they use will be replaced at some points or modified. That's why architecture and good coding practice are the cornerstones of a project able to withstand evolution.
I had to work, one day, on the transition from SQL to MongoDB. There is no magic, all the code calling the SQL data source had to be rewritten. It is a costly process but the final cost of the operation mainly depends on how well the calls to the database are isolated from the rest of the software.
Sadly, I don't have any tools for handling this specific case. But I can recommend those books :
First, read our Wiki. It is very thorough and answers a lot of these common questions such as
day to day? The Practice of System and Network Administration
And the topical reference books listed below.
Books to help in shaping a sysadmin? The above &:
The Phoenix Project
Time Management for System Administrators
Topical Books I see mentioned often and have been very helpful to me:
Powershell in a month of lunches
Learn Python the hard way
Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook
Windows Server 2016: Inside Out
Group Policy
AbsoluteBSD
FreeBSD mastery:ZFS
CCNA
RHCSA/RHCE
Pro Puppet
SSH Mastery
On my docket:
FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS
Michael W. Lucas and Thomas Limoncelli are very good sysadmin writers, you can't go wrong with a topic they have chosen to write about.
Most of the *nix stuff assumes a baseline knowledge of how to use a unix-based system. I learned as I went but did pick up an old copy of Unix Visual Quickstart Guide not too long ago at a used books sale, which seems like a good starting place for someone overwhelmed with sitting at a terminal and being productive.
I notice I don't have any Virtualization books, perhaps someone else can fill in good books. Most of my knowledge regarding virtualization and network storage has been a mix of official docs, video training, and poking at it. Seems innate but it isn't.
It's really what works for you, this is the fundamental point of Agile which often gets lost, so if it's working for you that's perfect.
For our teams LEAN makes far more sense. As an example, Kanban replaces velocity with constraints. It makes it immediately obvious which parts of the process are bottlenecks.
Our priorities are set by the business on an available slot basis. We might be able to simultaneously work on three features. If three features are in flight there's zero capacity. The business can pause or abandon a feature, but they have to agree this by quorum (or dictatorially, hierarchy still exists :) ). Once a feature is complete a slot is available and the business can vote on what feature they want next.
So a feature takes as long as a feature takes. We still estimate, but there's no arbitrary sprint boundary to estimate around. We still subdivide tasks as an aid to estimation but again, not to fit in a sprint boundary.
We do stand ups (standing optional) in the morning, still meet as a team, but there's no need for a retrospective. If we are constrained by unanticipated volumes of support, or the task requires input from the business, the task sits in that column so we can see each day that support needs addressing or that someone needs chasing.
There's no formal backlog, the business set their priorities. This doesn't mean the team lead can't meet with the business, discuss future requirements and liaise with the team for informal estimates, complexities, etc. It sounds kind of chaotic but it works across many teams, although interestingly we still use scrum for the sort of transformational, multiyear multi team coordination.
If you're interested in taking a look at this, even if it's just to compare and contrast, take a look at this book. It covers pretty much all the above and a bunch of dev oppsy stuff in novel form. It's not dumbed down, and it is number 1 in its category.
That's not quite the case. I would recommend you give "Blood, Sweat, and Pixels" a read, it has a chapter on Destiny and if that book is to be believed then it was mostly just a mess of Bungie's own making.
Introducing Ethereum and Solidity. Chris Dannen
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XQFYL2M/ref=oh_aui_d_detailpage_o01_?ie=UTF8&psc=1
If anyone is interested in this topic Bernie Goldberg, a 30 year vet of CBS Evening News, wrote a fantastic book called Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News it's entertaining book that goes down easy, a great beach read.
>In his nearly thirty years at CBS News, Emmy Award winner Bernard Goldberg earned a reputation as one of the preeminent reporters in the television news business. When he looked at his own industry, however, he saw that the media far too often ignored their primary mission: to provide objective, disinterested reporting. Again and again he saw that the news slanted to the left. For years, Goldberg appealed to reporters, producers, and network executives for more balanced reporting, but no one listened. The liberal bias continued.
>Now, breaking ranks and naming names, he reveals a corporate news culture in which the closed-mindedness is breathtaking and in which entertainment wins over hard news every time.
Zuckerburg already was thinking about buying unity when they bought oculus. It was mention in the book the history of the future
https://www.amazon.com/History-Future-Facebook-Revolution-Virtual/dp/0062455966
this book is a textbook of mine form culinary school. also, the flavor bible is great for understanding balancing of flavors.
Start with the section on knife skills. You'll thank me later.
http://www.amazon.com/On-Cooking-Textbook-Culinary-Fundamentals/dp/013715576X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1344546738&sr=8-1&keywords=on+cooking
I read "The Case Against Sugar" and it brought me to research replacing the amount of sugar I was eating. I chose to try Keto because besides sugar, "keto" is all I ate, so it was easy for me.
I said I would trial run it. I had limited keto flu. I had a health screening at work in February, so I just used that as a benchmark. I have another screening next week, so I will see what this lifestyle has done over 2 months.
I enjoy rowing, lifting, and playing basketball. I have seen a decrease in performance. Some of this is due to not having a ton of energy while acclimating my body off of sugar. For the same reason I was pretty stationary for a week or two, which also added to the decrease. I am seeing progress, but I am also transitioning from SKD to TKD and seeing if that can help out.
I am also visibly happier, but this is most likely due to breaking my sugar addiction.
TL;DR I got rid of sugar, fell into Keto, and love it.
not nfl, but i liked this one about cfb:
http://www.amazon.com/The-System-Scandal-Big-Time-Football/dp/0385536615
Not based on an individual team but well worth the read.
Good book on the subject.
https://www.amazon.com/Extra-Virginity-Sublime-Scandalous-World/dp/0393343618
A phrase that you might be looking for is "rich get richer", or in mathematical literature, "preferential attachment processes". There's a very accessible pop-sci book about this:
http://www.amazon.com/Linked-Everything-Connected-Else-Means/dp/0452284392
Basic Economics - Thomas Sowell
Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age - Duncan Watts
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means - Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Theory of Networks - Mark Buchanan
The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
Sperm Wars: Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles - Robin Baker
Motley Crue: The Dirt - Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band - Neil Strauss
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The World is Flat - Thomas Friedman
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference - Malcolm Gladwell
The Wisdom of Crowds - James Surowiecki
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster - Jon Krakauer
The Climb - Anatoli Boukreev
Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner - Dean Karnazes
For a lighter read on graph theory try Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means. It's a Gee-Wiz kind of book (i.e. light on theory but full of fun facts). And it's likely within your budget.
If you're really that interested in the possibility of becoming Batman, someone wrote a whole book on it.
It's in the book Becoming Batman (this somehow turned up on my "recommended" list from Amazon a couple of years ago.
Also try the book Becoming Batman. http://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Batman-The-Possibility-Superhero/dp/0801890632
This is a bit late, but this might be up your alley: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0801890632/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0
I learned not long ago that our family's first microwave oven (1970s) was a pharma gift to my uncle, an oral surgeon. He didn't want it, gave it to us.
Years later (1980s), I was scrounging for food in my sister's house, and stumbled across these jars of jelly; when I opened them, they had a wax seal on top. Gift from pharma to my BIL. Sis told me to tuck in, they were free, a gift from pharma.
Sis's decadal birthday celebration was held at pharma's expense.
I forget what all else, but it's a seemingly unending flow of goodies and trinkets from thinly veiled bribery to writing pads and expensive gimmicky pens.
BIL goes on junkets around the country, talking about how wonderful Drug X is; gets put up in the best hotels, speaks for half an hour, goes home with an extra few thousand and a free trip. And he doesn't work in what is considered a particularly lucrative specialty, either.
Goldacre's Bad Pharma is an excellent book on what pharma does to get what they want.
difference is that we are richer than those two countries, with a stronger sporting culture, and lots of opportunity for athletes to forgo a real job to focus on a sport, even if it doesn't pay well. It is explained well in a book I read a while back called soccernomics. A country needs three things to be great at a sport. A population big enough to have enough elite athletes on the team at the same time. Enough wealth to find and train them. And I believe the third is built in knowledge or experience. You can bring in a coach from another country to give some experience, like the US soccer team did but you still have to build up a bit.
I don't know if the bot will let me link to the book on Amazon, but here is a try.
https://www.amazon.com/Soccernomics-England-Germany-Australia-Destined/dp/1568584814/186-1621754-3403460?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0
But yes, in 50 years, China and India will probably dominate the Olympics and other sports.
I suggest you read Soccernomics. I'd never advise you to download a pirated pdf version online, so don't do that. I'm sorry for the lame reply, it's 03:17am and I'm almost asleep. But you should find interesting answers to your question there.
Basically: people who used stats proved to be more effective (winning more) than those who didn't. Kind of how Moneyball did in American baseball.
There's a great book (Soccernomics) - which perfectly describes this scenario in its opening chapter
Book had a couple of dull segments - but overall was excellent
It is a little unusual for the whole flock to wait two weeks. But, Ive definitely had individual birds wait that long.
With the rain it sounds like they just arent getting enough sunlight. Like others have suggested you can put a light in and keep it on for 14 hours a stretch. I would leave the tarp up. Im in Texas so we dont get as much rain but even here if it rains it makes the hens....pissy...and they dont lay for me either those days :P To be honest unless you need the eggs right now I would just wait for the rain to pass and let them get used to the weather where they live.
But you know this is where animal husbandry kinda gets more into the art instead of the science. Everybody has to decide whats the best for their chickens in their yard given the information. Like, these are things that work for me but see in Florida you may never get a time when the rain lets up and so it would make sense to have a light in the coop. You can always try it. (of course be careful with electricity and rain)
If youre letting them into your yard, on top of feeding them chicken feed, they are most likely getting all the nutrients they need.
Yeah I would put some boxes in their coop. Ideally you want them so you can access them from the outside. The first coop I built I didnt do that and most of the hens figured out on like the second day where to lay so I had to crawl in to get the eggs.
It sounds like youre taking really good care of your chickens. Really I wouldnt worry too much right now.
One of the books that I got when I first got started is this one. It was just technical enough and just common sense enough to get me going. Of course this is a really good subreddit too!
I could only find a bootleg PDF which looks weird and unintelligible. Bootleg pdf: http://www.agmiw.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/GekaufteJournalisten-UdoUlfkotte.pdf
The only official version I can find is the German book on Amazon but it's twenty dollars. https://www.amazon.com/Gekaufte-Journalisten/dp/3864451434/ref=pd_sim_14_1/135-6879697-5879016?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=3864451434&pd_rd_r=baa083fb-8892-4434-8ef6-8e49892b1f4c&pd_rd_w=IY1d6&pd_rd_wg=e1Wih&pf_rd_p=04d27813-a1f2-4e7b-a32b-b5ab374ce3f9&pf_rd_r=4BRBSJD9CKQJ9GBBANFQ&psc=1&refRID=4BRBSJD9CKQJ9GBBANFQ
Last month it seems a very small independent publisher seems to have copied the original book in English and published it under a different title which is sold here at a very expensive 30 dollars: https://www.amazon.com/Presstitutes-Embedded-Pay-CIA-Confession/dp/1615770178/ref=pd_sbs_14_t_0/135-6879697-5879016?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1615770178&pd_rd_r=3e0a83df-f0f1-4ab1-bde6-298b65c9a020&pd_rd_w=QdjMV&pd_rd_wg=8EyBK&pf_rd_p=5cfcfe89-300f-47d2-b1ad-a4e27203a02a&pf_rd_r=7SD24B75M7DGK0K7P3VD&psc=1&refRID=7SD24B75M7DGK0K7P3VD
Here's the book, feel free to get this "forbidden knowledge" for only 35 dollarydoos. https://www.amazon.com/Presstitutes-Embedded-Pay-CIA-Confession/dp/1615770178/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=presstitutes&qid=1573810601&sr=8-1
Eh? Things are way worse than what you described already. Read Manufacturing Consent by Chomsky. The CIA is involved as well. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1615770178/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1#customerReviews
you gotta give the padres credit though. trying something so radical.
i mean, im probably just saying that cause im currently reading "The only rule is, it has to work"
excellent book.
I don't usually buy new release books, but $18 seems high? Is that the case or am I just an idiot?
If you really enjoyed Moneyball, then The Only Rule Is It Has To Work might be up your alley. In it, two basebal writers run an independent league team, The San Rafael Pacifics, entirely on saebermetrics.
Where Nobody Knows Your Name is a great read about life in the minor leagues.
Smithsonian Baseball is another good choice.
If you don't mind books being team specific, I'd also recommend looking onto Finley Ball, Aces, Holy Toledo! and any of the Brian Murphy/Brad Mangin Giants books (incredible photography in those).
He cowrote the book "The Only Rule Is It Has to Work", which I highly, highly recommend. He and the other author got to be gm's of an indy ball team and ran it according to all the craziest sabermetric principles.
It was my vacation book last summer, and my only complaint was that I finished it so fast and the only other thing I had was an LSAT prep book.
Yes, as well as that there has been a meta analysis comparing the adverse events in the published papers to the clinical study reports and there was a huge discrepancy (only 30% reported were included in the final paper). So even when patients do report adverse events they are hidden.
Even if you ignore the fact that negative trials go missing and assume that the data about the effectiveness of the drugs we use is sound (which it isn't). You still can't make an informed decision if you don't have good evidence about the harms of that medication.
If you are interested I recommend you check out this book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Deadly-Medicines-Organised-Crime-healthcare/dp/1846198844 You won't believe how much we have let industry corrupt science.
There's a book available through amazon about it. Interesting read.
http://www.amazon.com/Slow-Death-Days-Radiation-Sickness/dp/1934287407
This is a wonderful and highly educational book.
https://www.amazon.com/Cannabis-Grow-Bible-Definitive-Recreational/dp/193786636X
https://www.amazon.com/Cannabis-Grow-Bible-Definitive-Recreational/dp/193786636X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3N9MIBRHWTFAY&keywords=cannabis+grow+bible&qid=1569722339&sprefix=cannabis+grow%2Caps%2C205&sr=8-1
That should be your go-to. It covers everything basic and gives you a good starting point. With that book you'll be able to google problems you can't solve and have some idea of where to look and how to phrase your questions.
In-line fans are your savior. You don't need to vent out (for clarity, this is for smell. You'll need to do something about the heat). The goal is to cycle the air in the room through the fan. But also keep in mind that lights create heat and your plants like to exist in a specific temperature range and humidity. You will need some kind of way to cycle "fresh" air through your tent but generally a decent CFM fan will pull air from the main room.
Get a good tent that has decent sealing zippers and vents.
Drying in your tent is fine but you have to dry in complete darkness as light degrades your cannabinoids. So you'll have to put your grow on hold to dry, not a bad thing necessarily but it means potentially 2 weeks of not being able to do anything which cuts into a consistent harvest schedule. Consider curing is a few weeks too if done properly but that's done in jars and can be stored elsewhere.
Best advice, buy the book, read it and everything else you can about growing. Don't ask questions without trying to research it first. Every single thing you are questioning has been asked and answered online 100's of times. You will learn immense amounts of useful information (and learn to pick out disinformation) by reading through these posts. At that point buy your gear. It will save you a lot of time and money by having a basis before spending cash.
There's more than one way to grow cannabis, everyone thinks "their way" is the best. The truth is each method has it's advantages and disadvantages, do what works for you.
There is a wonderful book about process improvement from about 35 years ago called The Goal by Eli Goldwater that is written as a novel. Wonderful book - terrible novel: The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement https://www.amazon.com/dp/0884271951/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_AS.vDb6F2QH3T
And The Phoenix Project - on DevOps is an homage to The Goal and is also a novel: The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win https://www.amazon.com/dp/1942788290/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_9Y.vDb2981BYS
Also an amazing book and a terrible novel. Both of these are great examples of the power of different learning styles. The novel format accommodates Socratic Learning (questioning) and is just a terrific way to teach what would otherwise be very dry subjects. Humans are wired for storytelling and these books are exemplars of that.
Some of these are directly related to programming and some are not but are additional reading that touch on skills that most every programmer should have some concept or idea of.
I've read all of these at some point throughout my career and can attest to their usefulness. Here's my personal list:
This game looks awesome! Truly, truly. Be sure to post about it in /r/IndieGaming.
Spend the time on it; read the chapter in Blood, Sweat, & Pixels about Stardew Valley, then get the game right.
Cheers and best to ya.
You can download the Etherium Wallet here where you can at least start taking a look at some dev tools. This was also posted on /r/ethereum yesterday and it mentions Truffle which seems like a pretty great resource. Learning JavaScript will be helpful. Oh, and I just remembered there's a humble bundle happening right now that includes a book on Solidity and Ethereum (although you can get just that book as a Kindle version for ten bucks on Amazon). I haven't personally started doing anything with Solidity though, so I can't vouch for how great these resources are. Just passing along the information that I've seen in the last couple days.
It's absolutely not in that category.
The language isn't obfuscated at all. This is an incredibly new technology, so everything is geared towards those who can contribute to the project. Much of the prerequisite knowledge is implied.
There is countless articles and videos that attempt to explain the platform though. If you are having trouble understanding what these terms mean, you can easily purchase a
book like this.
My ELI5 for smart-contracts would simply be, "You rent your bike to a friend. Using a smart-contract their payment is automatically enforced every week. The smart-contact could also respond to non-payment in a number of ways, such as automatically placing the bike on a rental marketplace".
Whether Etherium succeeds or not, some variation of smart-contracts are likely to be used by major institutions in the distant future.
As a Conservative I always saw Fox News to be closer to the center, which means it's not left-leaning, and that upsets many.
There's a good book that confirms a bias in media from someone who was knee deep in it for 30 years called "Biased".
>Especially when you consider its closest competitor at least tries to give both sides of each debate, even during editorial segments
You obviously don't watch FoxNews and, instead, get all your info about them from other people. Given that, it's understandable why most of what you said above is wrong.
I'm not going to go through it all again, point by point. Read the experts. They make the case far better than I could anyway. They're everywhere.
I think that most mainstream U.S. media organizations do have a pro-government (and usually left-leaning) bias, but I also think that many conservatives would say that it is, for the most part, unintentional (as most biases are). As a right-leaning person myself, I wouldn't characterize it as a conspiracy, just a natural outcome of reporting the news from your perspective without trying to seek out (let alone include) a conservative's or libertarian's perspective on the story.
For further reading on this, I suggest Bernard Goldberg (formerly of CBS) and his book Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News. I know the title is a tad sensationalist (gotta sell books somehow), but he makes his case with plenty of anecdotes and personal experience from his career in the news industry.
It leaves a sour taste in my mouth as well.. It may have happened too.. may have to read a book to find out. or maybe not... Ugh.. I mean it says.. it's detailed in that book. dunno though.
Just finished a great book (The History of the Future) about history of Oculus (Palmer Lucky).
I thought it was worth a read and gave good insight into the founding of company and history between Oculus/Valve/ID Software and others in the early early days of VR.
https://www.amazon.com/History-Future-Facebook-Revolution-Virtual/dp/0062455966
No, he was forced out. The details are pretty interesting — someone wrote a book about it (among other things).
I was just joking about making him moderator though.
Here you go!
Order and read this book. The 4th edition is apparently hard to find as it was printed better. If you are a visual person, maybe try the video version. EDIT: That link has the book as well...
Also, watch America's Test Kitchen all the time.
On Cooking
its a text book that I used in Culinary school. It gives you the why and the how.
Alton brown and this book have been very helpful to me.
I suggest reading The Case Against Sugar by Gary Taubes and also The Obesity Code by Jason Fung.
Although it is most probably water, i would like to add another factor that might help: Sugar.
Just finished A case against sugar about it, and it lays out a really great case against sugar (who would have thought with that title). Hopefully it is obvious that sugar is no good, but a lot of people still have this idea that a carb is equal to all other carbs. Not really true. Some are better than others.
BTW, quick recap of the book: Sugar increase insulin, insulin tells the body to store fat, people get fatter. There is also some hints that well processed flour can be a culprit as well, mainly white flour. There are a lot more details, but that is the gist. So it might be water, but if you have cut out specifically sugar calories, then it could also be that that's in effect.
BTW, incase your not a reader but a listener, you can listen to sam harris interviewing the author on his podcast, or here on youtube.
Good luck on the weight loss.
Have you read "The cast against sugar"? If yes, what do you think of it?
I recommend you read Gary Taubes's latest book. 'The Case Against Sugar." It's very damning. Sugar is almost certainly the cause of the obesity epidemic.
I hear you. I remember reading this article when it first came out. It hurt my soul. I've known about a lot of corruption in the NCAA. My friend worked for the UT band for several years, and I have friends that work for various NFL teams. They've all told me real stories of various players being protected. I hate it. I LOVE college football. Just LOVE it. I obsess over it. I'm an Ohio State alum, and I spend my whole weekend watching games during the season. But the NCAA is so corrupt... I hate it. I do have trouble reconciling it at times. I keep hoping that it's going to get cleaned up, but I just don't know. I am happy that Ohio State has learned from their past mistakes, and are disciplining our players firmly. That's the best I can hope for. If they weren't, then I wouldn't be rooting for them so much. Urban Meyers did not do that at Florida. I was really afraid of how he'd handle players actions at Ohio State. He's changed. He's stepped up and he's holding them accountable. I'm happy about that. Have you read [The System] (http://www.amazon.com/The-System-Scandal-Big-Time-Football/dp/0385536615)yet? I want to, but I'm afraid I'll never be able to enjoy college football anymore. Sigh.
Apparently there's a whole book on the olive oil industry, and its connections to organized crime apparently.
Having tasted some fresh olive oil from a small winery in Tuscany where they did all the picking, pressing, and bottling, I am perpetually disappointed in the search for something equivalent here in America. However with that said, even that Tuscan olive oil producer acknowledged such problems with quality control existed even in Italy.
All I know is, that Tuscan olive oil, was the smoothest, cleanest oil I have ever tasted in my whole life, and I will go the rest of my days knowing exactly its textures in the search for something similar.
Yeah, I think it's pretty wild stuff. It just blows my mind that the biochemical network within a cell can be influenced by the emergent properties of the network itself (instead of any physical or chemical properties). The behavior of a network translates across applications - it's weird. Here's what got me into it - it's a pretty approachable read for the topic.
how does that compare to this
Understanding the depth, complexity and interdependency of the systems on which we are relying to base our daily lives on, it's tempting to imagine a world collapse if something breaks down. Heck, it's ever fun and productive - taking in mind all the implications of such a major event.
Power(\internet\financial computer systems) is off - what happens? demographically, economically, health-wize, politically(on both federal,regional and international levels) and in bazillion different aspects our life will change in ways we can't imagine.
However, these scenarios, though tempting, are unlikely to the negligible level. It's not because they are designed in a robust form to withstand all bumps and tensions. It's because they are not.
All these systems are dynamic, evolved complex processes that adjusted (and still are) to answer different gravities, shocks and shifts.
In essence, that means that a simultaneous failure of all the AOL servers(holding a major part of the internet backbone) will probably adjust the form of routing data physically and logically through the system. It will affect billions of people, dollars, jobs, email accounts and watts, but it will not kill the internet. It will change the internet as we know it, but facebook changed the internet as we know it. Every word of the implementation of TCP\IP changed it, maybe more than the outage of AOL servers. "Shutting it down" means a dysfunction in hundreds of thousands of machines, designed and functioning in various ways, connected with each other. (or, damage done to hundreds of extremly protected, backed-up and well designed machines). A good review of the vulnerabilities of complex, organically evolved networks are well described in a book I know (sorry for the ad. It just felt relevant)
TL;DR
the collapse the internet, or any complex organic system is very interesting but involves an extreme(very, very extreme) cataclysm that will alter the whole system to unknown, new system. Otherwise, randomly placed damages to the system are part of it's every day evolution and will not change the system as we know it.
(Replace "system" with "internet" so it'll be an easier read)
Thanks for asking. Very often our (hopefully undeserved) reputations keep others from asking us anything.
There are many good answers here, but if you wish to know how Christiany became dominate, perhaps you would enjoy the explaination in Linked: How Everything is Connected and What it Means.
What is really interesting (not in the book) is what happened to the Roman priests, or what didn't happen. It seems they just switched to being Christian Priests, in many cases they didn't even change their ceremonies or messages! Fun stuff.
http://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Batman-The-Possibility-Superhero/dp/0801890632 It's not a comic but I found this to be a really fun read and it sort of fits in with what you're looking for.
The points I'd make have already been made, so I won't repeat them. But if people are interested about this topic and the pharmaceutical industry in general, I learnt a lot from Ben Goldacre's book - Bad Pharma and I'd recommend it. He talks a lot about drug companies and marketing.
Bad pharma Ben Goldacre
And those fears are understandable: we all have anxiety about our meds, and what benefits we may derive from them. The problem is there are no long-term studies indicating CRABs are effective at maintaining remission, and (worse) relapse rate is not indicative of long-term disability anyway. The only one that has shown promise in the long run is Tysabri, which has that nasty brain thing going on, too.
I have a good friend with MS, and I don't tell her the Avonex probably does nothing for her, as there is the possibility she is deriving benefit from the placebo effect. Most of these MS drugs have horribly skewed clinical results because the ones that don't derive benefit from the drugs tend to drop out; the ones that stay on the drugs tend to have milder MS, and/or derive more benefit from the drug, skewing the results. These are very expensive medications, and it is reasonable to anticipate that the research behind them may be biased by the pharmaceutical companies; see Ben Goldacre's excellent Bad Pharma.
Interestingly, low uric acid is tied with MS relapses. There are ways to boost your uric acid levels (uric acid causes gout, and folks with MS relapses are at the opposite end of the scale of those with gout), which may reduce your rate of relapses.
Check out Soccernomics and Bamboo Goalposts.
"Fear and Loathing in La Liga" is essential, a must read.
Non-Barça, but still interesting read (but hey - if anyone writes about futbol - there will be mentioning of FC Barcelona and their players):
"Inverting the Pyramid" - evolution and analysis of game tactics.
"Soccernomics" is more general, but a very interesting read as well.
Didn't see electronic version, but this one is worth mentioning: "Angels with Dirty Faces", history of Argentinian football.
Singer's The Ethics of What We Eat: Why our Food Choices Matter covers the fishing industry along with the rest of the meat industry (and dairy and eggs). It was very eye opening.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Ethics-What-We-Eat/dp/1594866872
I haven't seen listed yet:
also upvote:
I think that article oversimplified things and that it is very misleading - cows are raised on grass to a certain point, but then the vast majority are switched to grain (corn, soy) on feedlots. Much of the soy and corn grown in the world is fed to cows.
>I get really weighed down by all the information. What do you think about the argument about all the small mammals and insects that get killed during harvesting?
I totally understand - you get met with so many arguments that you suspect are not good but you have to know your stuff!! If I understand the question correctly, the number of small animals killed during harvesting of crops for plant diets is much smaller than what is killed to support the diets of omnivores. (Remember, it's not only the animals raised for food but the animals/insects killed to produce the crops that the animals raised for food eat.) So even if we all switched to a plant-based diet, the numbers would be in the vegetarian's favor. I don't remember the exact statistics, but a great book for this is The Ethics of What We Eat by Peter Singer and Jim Mason I know they address that argument specifically, as well as many others. It's a great book.
I don't know how anyone could quantify the number of insects killed either way, but with factory farming and conventional farming more broadly, there is likely to be a lot of harm to organisms due to chemicals, monocrops, pollution, etc. I'm not an expert on this but I would like to learn more.
That all said, personally I think that the issue of killing/death is not the one to focus on, but rather suffering. Insects may be sentient, but their capacity to suffer at the hands of humans is a lot less than livestock. The amount of suffering that occurs as a result of an omnivore's diet is much greater than the suffering that occurs as a result of a vegetarian or vegan diet. Factory farms also harm human beings in many ways. Those who live near them bear the brunt of it, but also ffs are harming us and future generations through their contribution to environmental degradation and climate change.
These are recommendations from my friends:
The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter
Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition
Cowspiracy which is a documentary available on Netflix.
I haven't read or watched any of these but my friends are smart people and this is what they recommend. I'm also going to read these and watch Cowspiracy so I'm more current with my information. Also this website (click on Food Justice: Know The Issues): http://www.foodispower.org/
Just because it's done that way doesn't make it the most efficient.
"Rice is grown in California, under irrigation, but it takes a lot of energy to grow it there - about 15 to 25 times as much energy as it takes to grow rice by low-energy input methods in Bangladesh. The energy used in shipping a ton of rice from Bangladesh to San Francisco is less than the difference between the amount of energy it takes to grow it in California and in Bangladesh, so you would save energy by buying rice that has traveled thousands of miles by sea, rather than locally grown rice." - The Ethics of What We Eat by Peter Singer and Jim Mason
I can't find a direct pdf of that section to show you, but I pulled the quote directly from the hard copy in my hand.
I have read so many books but I got most of them from the library years ago and they are probably all out of fashion. I think this one from Amazon is good despite the fact it's geared towards larger flocks. The length is right for a comprehensive guide (400+ pgs) and cage design and development is discussed.
One of the reviews links to a book geared towards smaller flocks which only gives one cage design and skips over things like slaughter. That's not necessarily bad but I have always found more information to be better, which is why the library is awesome.
The tone is more lightweight in backyard or urban chicken books. Which can be good depending on the audience. Again, my only complaint is that this tends to lead to skipping information which may be valuable. I have no problem with people keeping their chickens as pets but I am not a fan of books which skip over the less pleasant details to appeal to that audience. While they may sell like hotcakes, the readers are just sticking their heads in the sand because they find certain authors distasteful.
No matter what design you choose here are some ways to keep your flock safe:
I hope that helps :)
Hit the public library and get a book. They'll no doubt have a bunch, especially if you live in a hipster backyard chicken area. Once you go through several, purchase the one you like best. Storey's is excellent, IMHO, as it is more "realistic" and less hobbyist. http://www.amazon.com/Storeys-Guide-Raising-Chickens-Edition/dp/1603424695
Over a website or blog, you might find a hard copy more convenient, as you can put post-its in it, take it to the store more easily, bring it out into the yard while working on the coop, etc.
Sounds like you're well along the path to becoming a crazy chicken lady--welcome aboard :)
Honestly, you don't need most of the stuff on your list. Chickens need an off-the-ground roost in a predator-proof space to sleep, access to water and food, a safe place to lay eggs, and that's about it. Feel free to go crazy with extra perches in the run, toys, mirrors, swings, etc. but don't feel like they are necessary. My chickens have far more fun digging through a big leaf pile than any other amusement I've devised.
Your chickens may have issues learning to use the treadle feeder. Mine have yet to manage it, so I changed to using a hanging feeder for the rodent resistance.
Sand as litter is controversial, with some bloggers claiming it's the best and easiest and others claiming it's unhealthful. You probably want to switch to what's sold in the USA as "builder's sand" rather than "play sand". It's coarser and much cheaper, and less likely to cause respiratory distress.
On constructing a dust bath: I'd only recommend this if they don't have access to dirt in their run. I meticulously created a beautiful dust bath in a sawed-off wine barrel, with the so-called perfect mix of sand and dirt, but my hens literally never used it. They preferred to dig their own dust baths in their run's litter or in my yard.
One optional addition is Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens; I'm not sure how much overlap there is with the book you already have, but Storey's is excellent.
I'd also consider buying nest pads, though you can just use wood shavings.
I personally find sweet PDZ to be helpful, and if you're using sand as litter (I use deep litter) you'll probably find it even more so. It absorbs ammonia, odors, and moisture.
You will never regret buying this book. Your library may have it also.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1603424695?pc_redir=1398414170&robot_redir=1
You may find this book interesting.
We're pretty excited too. We plan on reading both older and newer books, I'm sure authors will be more likely to join the cause when they're on their initial press tours. We have some ideas for coming months, but we're open to suggestions. This is the book I'm most excited about next year. It's about two writers/editors from baseball prospectus who got to be Co-GM's of an independent ball club last summer. Hopefully we can get them on the pod.
PS if you haven't already, shoot us your email so we can add you to the mailing list.
Not sure how that's relevant exactly...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/11/big-pharmaceutical-companies-are-spending-far-more-on-marketing-than-research/
Or this book if you prefer greater detail:
>In his latest ground-breaking book, Peter C Gotzsche exposes the pharmaceutical industries and their charade of fraudulent behaviour, both in research and marketing where the morally repugnant disregard for human lives is the norm. He convincingly draws close comparisons with the tobacco conglomerates, revealing the extraordinary truth behind efforts to confuse and distract the public and their politicians. The book addresses, in evidence-based detail, an extraordinary system failure caused by widespread crime, corruption, bribery and impotent drug regulation in need of radical reforms. "The main reason we take so many drugs is that drug companies don't sell drugs, they sell lies about drugs.
And before someone attackd the author:
> He became professor of Clinical Research Design and Analysis in 2010 at the University of Copenhagen. Peter Gotzsche has published more than 50 papers in 'the big five' (BMJ, Lancet, JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine and New England Journal of Medicine) and his scientific works have been cited over 10 000 times.
http://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Medicines-Organised-Crime-Healthcare/dp/1846198844#productDescription_secondary_view_div_1463489060335
Widespread crime, corruption and drugs being the third leading cause of death ? O wait that’s already happening
> The book addresses, in evidence-based detail, an extraordinary system failure caused by widespread crime, corruption, bribery and impotent drug regulation in need of radical reforms
https://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Medicines-Organised-Crime-Healthcare/dp/1846198844
You may find these books 1, 2, 3 and 4 quite interesting.
Sadly it is worse. Prescription Drugs Are The Third Leading Cause Of Death After Heart Disease And Cancer.
I would hasten to add that the author of the book is not some sensationalist quack, he co-founded The Cochrane Collaboration and is Professor of Clinical Research Design and Analysis at the University of Copenhagen. He has published more than 70 papers in the top 5 general medical journals, cited over 10,000 times.
This book won the British Medical Associations book of the year in 2014.
If you guys wanna read about it:
https://www.amazon.com/Slow-Death-Days-Radiation-Sickness/dp/1934287407
The Cannabis Grow Bible is what I'm reading now. The first few chapters at least are pretty dense biology and biochemistry, though. I majored in biology and some of it was over my head. However, once he gets to the grow techniques, it's probably easier to understand.
I'd still suggest it so far if you want to take a deep dive into your research!
Hello reddit! The SpaceBuckets community is proud to announce we have been featured in a 9 page article published in The Cannabis Grow Bible by Greg Green, article published with images by /r/Spacebuckets own bucket commander, /u/ekrof.
You should definitely read this book: The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win.
It's very fun to read and talks about a business transformation with DevOps / Agile.
The questions you ask are answered in the book.
​
Cheers, Johan
They should have read "The Phoenix project" book
https://www.amazon.ca/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Business/dp/1942788290?th=1&psc=1&source=googleshopping&locale=en-CA&tag=googcana-20&ref=pd_sl_36pzhuhqz5_e
There's a really excellent book called Blood, Sweat, and Pixels that talks about development on a bunch of different games. If you don't know a lot about game development, it's a very eye-opening read. It's kind of amazing that anything ever gets released at all.
I'm in the same position as you, but I've added these to my reading list:
• The Internet of Money: A collection of talks by Andreas M. Antonopoulos, by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
• Some Blockchain Reading looks like a good reading list, mostly whitepapers
• Introducing Ethereum and Solidity: Foundations of Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Programming for Beginners, by Chris Dannen
For the lazy:
Introducing Ethereum and Solidity: Foundations of Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Programming for Beginners by Chris Dannen http://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XQFYL2M/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_udp_api_zY8.yb1RR3MYB
For Video courses, try: https://www.udemy.com/courses/search/?q=solidity&src=ukw
Good intro book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XQFYL2M/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Then watch out for the Andreas Antonopoulos' Ethereum book coming out later this year.
You need to educate yourself sir. Type 1 diabetes is caused by the mother and grandmother's consumption of sugar and passed to the baby. Type 1 diabetes has increased dramatically over the past 200 years, Type 2 diabetes has dramatically increased over the past 200 years in concert with mass consumption of sugar (directly) and indirectly (added to food by manufacturers).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xvZuOlP61I
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/secrets-sugar/
https://www.amazon.com/Case-Against-Sugar-Gary-Taubes/dp/0307701646
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/07/the-sugar-conspiracy-robert-lustig-john-yudkin
Here is a list of studies conducted on Sugar and diabetes
https://www.amazon.com/Extra-Virginity-Sublime-Scandalous-World/dp/0393343618
Anyone here read Brave New War or Linked?
Wow.
OK, so I'm not used to such reasonable and cogent responses on reddit. Especially since I was being all ass-holey. You'll just have to give me a moment or two.
...
OK, yes I read what you posted. To be honest, it struck me as being a bit defensive (not by you, but by those who have a chip on their shoulder concerning foie gras). I'll be even more honest... I don't like pate, so even if there was a "humane/free-range" variety of foie gras (and in fact, there is ), I still wouldn't eat it. I just listed it because, along with sow-stalls and battery farms, it's considered a poster-child example of the "evils" of modern industrial farming.
I'm an omnivore. I eat meat. I actually often consider going vegetarian for both health reasons (our guts do not handle the huge amount of meat with which we stuff ourselves) and for ethical reasons (I don't really like the idea of killing other creatures). But then I smell the wonderful aroma of a lamb roast, or friend bacon and my resolve crumbles. Therefore, when I do decide to eat meat, I make a personal decision to only eat meat and meat products that I know come from producers that minimize (or at least reduce) the suffering of the animals concerned. I'm sorry, but in all that I have read and heard, foie gras is a product that is produced cruelly. I will concede there is an interesting article here on this argument.
These are the same reasons I don't eat veal (animals forced fed milk; their locomotion reduced; quite often the flesh is dyed etc). It just doesn't appeal to me.
When I eat chicken, I choose free-range. The same for eggs and, most definitely, the same for pork. It's a personal decision and it's not something I crusade about or indeed try to convince other of. As such, I think I'm perfectly entitled to hold such views.
I read The Ethics Of What We Eat and I would recommend it as a reasoned and reasonable approach to this problem. I have heard good things about The Omnivores Dilemma, but haven't gotten around to it yet.
Thank you for restoring my faith in reddit a bit.
Hahaha thats idiotic. Absolutely not true. MAny books have been written explaining how pharma manipulates medical science. See this one
Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare https://www.amazon.com/dp/1846198844/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_V7iYBbKT9Q0DF
>Saying “sponsored science” and big pharma are skewing all the facts is a conspiracy theory like the originating tweet.
Nah. More like the sober reality of an informed person.
>“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.”
https://ethicalnag.org/2009/11/09/nejm-editor/
Care to address the downfall of medical science?
Is evidence based medicine icon Peter Gotzsche making it all up?
>The "evidence tells us that it is likely that the DTP vaccine increases total mortality in low-income countries."
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dtp-vaccine-associated-with-increased-rate-of-total-mortality-in-low-income-countries-says-peter-gotzsche-in-new-expert-report-300902971.html
https://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Medicines-Organised-Crime-Healthcare/dp/1846198844
https://www.amazon.com/Truth-About-Drug-Companies-Deceive/dp/0375760946
but the science is settled, right?
You're a fucking dumbass.
Within the first TWO TO FOUR MONTHS of the bombings, the acute effects killed 90,000–166,000 people in Hiroshima and 60,000–80,000 in Nagasaki,[1] with roughly HALF of the deaths in each city occurring on the first day.
During the following MONTHS, large numbers died from the effect of burns, radiation sickness, and other injuries, compounded by illness. In a U.S.
http://www.amazon.com/Slow-Death-Days-Radiation-Sickness/dp/1934287407
"fairly quick" eh? Shut the fuck up.
Olive oil that can handle that high of heat is lampante - lamp oil. It's most likely been stored for months in huge vats, adulterated with other oils, and purfumed to mask it's musty aroma. It's useless in any culinary sense, and has no business being in any respectable kitchen.
Do some reading. http://www.amazon.com/Extra-Virginity-Sublime-Scandalous-World/dp/0393343618