'feigned' behavior is accurate according to the paper, but it's worth mentioning that this might not be as much about deception as it is about 'people pleasing' behavior. It seems that falls in line increased dominance behaviors which would be expected.

Endurance - about Ernest Shackleton and his crew during their 1914-1916 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance:_Shackleton%27s_In...

A top recommendation along these lines is The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garard; a member of the Scott expedition to the south pole, which goes into detail of his winter journey (which the title refers to). One of the best historical adventure books I've read

I came here to say this. Props.

Similar in nature is Farthest North: The Incredible Three-Year Voyage to the Frozen Latitudes of the North. Fridjtof Nansen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fridtjof_Nansen) led the expedition.

Second this suggestion. The one by Caroline Alexander is also very good.

It's a story of the most incredible leadership during spectacular difficulty overcoming multiple seemingly impossible things.

Yep came here to recommend this. Incredible story.

Just read this paper today.

Ketogenic Diet in the Treatment of Gliomas and Glioblastomas

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9504425/

This is a paper co-authored by Michael Levin, who is fascinating to begin with. Also this is the first time anyone has mapped electrical patterns across an entire living creature's body. It appears that immortal hydra had more depolarized cells (less negative membrane potential) compared to aging hydra. Given they can induce hydra aging just by changing the temperature, it's an efficient way to study how electrical patterns affect or are affected by (hydra) aging.

"The firefighters earn $5.80-$10.24 per day plus $1 an hour when responding to active emergencies"

"The CDCR crews have at times accounted for as much as 30% of the wildfire force in the state."

I'd rather do that than sit in a cell.

That's the definition of exploitation.

Or you could call it repaying a debt to society.

It’s not though. They are doing it voluntarily.

'Exploitation' doesn't mean people are physically or legally compelled. It means you offer vulnerable people a bad but 'voluntary' option, exploiting their vulnerability to not offer them a legitimate option.

In this case, the state saves money because of the incarcerated people's vulnerability. That vulnerability is the only reason the state gets to pay those very low wages.

TLDR:

current environmental laws (Clean Air Act, Endangered Species Act, and National Environmental Policy Act) make it extremely difficult to do controlled burns because they

(a) treat controlled burns as "human activity" requiring extensive review/permits

(b) make it easier for agencies to do nothing than to conduct preventive burns

(c) create major hurdles around air quality regulations, especially near cities

(d) paradoxically incentivize waiting for emergency wildfires, which are exempt from these regulations.

The authors argue these laws need reform to recognize fire as a natural process rather than treating it as human interference requiring heavy regulation.

> I'm going to reject that the "disease" and "spiritual" explanations are exclusive

Agreed.

His main evidence against the disease model seems to be that addiction "consumes and penetrates your entire being in ways that diseases, which normally have a physical location in the body, do not." Many established diseases like diabetes, autoimmune conditions, and depression affect multiple body systems and impact a person's entire life experience.

His preference for calling addiction a "disorder" rather than a disease seems more semantic than substantive.

Lots of money in calling something an “illness” or a “disease”…10% of US GNP is dedicated to medicine. That semantic difference can be quite profitable, if the illness model is correct.

But you can’t just “will” your way out of an illness. You can will your way out of an addiction. In fact the addicts I know who are no longer troubled with their addiction say it’s the only way to conquer it. It must be a deep transformative personal choice, an act of will. Supporting that new life often requires support, say AA, but not the sort of support normally associated with treating physical disease. Even “mental illness” isn’t a match, because again the will can’t be applied if the mind is broken. (Here assuming that the addiction alone is the issue, and physical pain or organic brain dysfunction isn’t the actual culprit.)

But there’s not a lot of money in strengthening/reorienting the will. Only actual deep, permanent healing. But if you can grift it into an “disease”, well…say hi to Matthew Perry for me.

Proposed MVP architecture combines facial expressions and body signals (heart rate, sweat response) using transformers that can analyze longer 1-2 minute clips, outperforming previous systems by better integrating voluntary (facial) and involuntary (physiological) responses for emotion detection. The model utilizes cross-attention where facial data provides keys/values and physiological data provides queries.