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The most reactionary and dangerous parts of our current politics and culture are driven by powerful people who claim to be the victims of groups that are far more vulnerable than they are.
The Power of Dave Chappelle’s Comedy | the New Yorker
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I believe the reason that animals on a low-calorie diet live longer is that there is a cost to putting on fat. The food we eat is either broken down into immediate energy (which we call adenosine triphosphate, or ATP) or turned into stored energy (such as fat). Usually the calories we eat are turned into immediately available ATP. To instead store these calories for later, our cells must reduce the production of ATP and divert the excess calories to fat. Our research group determined that this is done through exposing the cells’ “energy factories” (also known as mitochondria), where most of the ATP is produced, to a phenomenon called oxidative stress. Thus, the cost of storing fat is some oxidative stress to our energy factories. If sustained for decades, this stress can lead to reduced function in—and even the loss of—these factories, which are responsible for the energy we need to maintain our bodies at full throttle.
Nature Wants Us to Be Fat
Richard Johnson and David Perlmutter
There are even accounts of non-Anabaptists arrested on suspicion of being Anabaptists because they lived good lives-and escaping prosecution only by cursing freely and persuading their accusers that they were not really as holy as they appeared.
The Naked Anabaptist
Stuart Murray
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