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A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
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We’re all trapped in the bodies of sly, social-climbing opportunists shaped to survive the savanna by policing each other.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
One of the earliest and most powerful insights on this came from a study of double-decker bus drivers and conductors in the 1950s. Researchers compared the health of the drivers, who sat for most of the day, with the ticket collectors, who climbed up and down the stairs checking fares.
The results were striking: the active conductors had far lower r... See more
The results were striking: the active conductors had far lower r... See more
Rob Galloway • archive.is
Humankind paid for its lofty vision and industrious hands with backaches and stiff necks.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
We are becoming static and our bodies are neither built nor prepared for it.
Vybarr Cregan-Reid • Footnotes: How Running Makes Us Human
With respect to disease, the human’s internal mechanical environment has been the least-discussed environment of all—a staggering oversight when almost every cell in your body has specialized equipment just to sense the mechanical environment. Kinesiologists and kinesiology departments—a field of academia supposed to, by definition, be studying hum
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