Last month I wrote a post about what Bitcoin is and how it works and why it is important. I explained how the coins are mined and how nowadays mining Bitcoin is not something that I would recommend. I also mentioned that I planned on buying Bitcoin and in this post I explain the challenges and what I learnt in the process.
Good Paleo Recipes
A friend of mine asked me for some Paleo meal ideas
I have been on a paleolithic diet for a few years now. I have been interested in nutrition for about 10 years and have settled on this approach because I like the straight forward philosophy that underpins it which makes making decisions about good and bad food choices easy. Continue Reading
Fluoridation does not work
Fluoridation is a controversial issue.
I have recently watched a video of Dr John Colquhoun from New Zealand who was a leading fluoridation promoter who changed his mind through examining the results of the test that he was asked to conduct on behalf of the New Zealand Government.
This video shows significant evidence that shows that fluoridation made no difference to numbers of cavities. He also shows detrimental health effects caused by fluoridation.
There are many dental and medical professionals with years of experience that support fluoridation this was something that Dr Colquhoun was upset and confused about John made the comment on this later in this video
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The professional education they receive conditions them to accept their authorities rather than make independent judgement themselves. They are taught that this the accepted orthodoxy. This is what our experts say is the case and its a state of mind which shows a defect in the nature of our professional education.
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All roads lead to education. I have written at length about this on the usethetrivium site
Fashion Modelling
New career as a fashion model?
I have just conducted my first modelling assignment wearing socks made out of bamboo!
The photo-shoot was undertaken few weeks ago on location at the Aylston Estate. My feet are the ones with the fluorescent yellow green socks. I now have 2 pairs to trial. I’ll update you on how I get on.
UPDATE
I have now had the socks for about 12 months I wear them with my Blundstones whilst working at the estate. I’m actually a big fan. They wick away moisture really well and are lasting pretty well when I am digging holes and putting in plants.
Documentaries on TV dumb you down
I believe the biggest threat to our world is not global warming, war, or poverty, it is an absence of critical thought.
To solve any problem it first requires the skills of critical thought. These are skills that most people do not use and when do try to apply critical thinking it is often faulty.
I have witten more about the problems people have with critical thinking here . Television, after public schooling, is a significant cause of this reduction in our abilities to think critically. The North Korean propaganda video below shows how corrupt and stupid western society is. They didn’t have to try very hard as its all there….on television.
My Top 10 Books 2013
People that don’t read books are missing out.
I love books I also love consuming information through media such as podcasts. However books provide a method of learning complex topics in a way you cannot learn from other media. I wrote an article on the effect of media and critical though on the usethetrivium website.
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Christina Warinner Debunking the Paleo Myth
I have been listening to the Paleo Podcast with Rob Wolf talking about a video on Ted Talks. The video is by Research Associate from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma, Christina Warinner. The title of the talk is “Debunking the Paleo Myth”.
I am open minded to new information on this subject and watched the video before I listened to all of to Rob’s podcast. On watching the video I was surprised. Christina Warrina is either a sloppy researcher or she was cynically attempting to alter facts and focus to suit her narrative on a topic that will no doubt get her alot of publicity.
Windows Vista runs at a quarter the speed of Ubuntu in 64 bit mode
Recently I bought a PC laptop. I have windows XP at work and a mac at home. I installed ubuntu (the installation itself only took about 10 minutes as was the easiest installation I have ever done (of any operating system). The installation started just by running a small windows installer.
Podcasts on android are not as good as IOS
I love podcasts.
I listen to around two hours of podcasts every day. Recently I bought an android phone. I have now swapped the SIM back and am using my iphone 3gs so I can listen to podcasts again.
There are many podcasting apps you can get for android but my experience with ( I tried them all) is that none is as good as iTunes. This is bourne out by the fact that currently 89% of podcasts are listened to on IOS followed by 9% on android and 2% on RIM.
Unfolding Economic Shift
The world is changing, we are currently witnessing a shift in power which will have a huge impact on people that don’t see it coming. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are now Australia moving off the US dollar as reserve currency it marks a move in world power away from US and European dominance.