Ricardo J. Salvador
Free-living, aerobic, cursorial heterotroph.
Running fixes everything: your diet, health, and attitude.
Marathons, books, music, coffee, computers, justice.
“O Tierra del Sol, suspiro por verte.”
- Here. Here is the healing you need right now. Aquí está la curación que necesitas en este preciso momento.
- “Yo creo que a los escritores siempre les gustaría llegar a todo el mundo o por lo menos a los lectores que fueran capaces de leer sin perjuicios el libro, dejarse convencer, o no, pero digamos uno aspira a tener lectores que sean inteligentes, intuitivos, creativos, es lo que le gustaría más, ¿no?”
- “Researchers found that 13% of mild dementia cases could be avoided if all middle-aged adults exercised at least once or twice a week. While we have known about the benefits of physical activity for physical health, newer research is pointing to the positive effects on our minds.”
- One wonders just what “context” could explain, much less justify, “overseeing the exploitation and trafficking of girls, adolescents and women.” ‘Opus Dei has categorically denied the accusations and says they have been taken “completely out of context”.’
- Iowa is ground zero for fertilizer-intensive industrial monocropping. The maps and graphs included here show that also makes the state ground zero for nitrate contamination of surface waters, and all the human and social ills that come with that.
- Or, a smart watch and a dedicated sports watch. 😬 “…a lot of people have both a smartwatch and a classic watch.”
- Assisted suicide is legal in Oregon. The state’s annual survey finds that the main reasons for the decision among the terminally ill are: Losing autonomy: 89% Being less able to engage in activities that make life enjoyable: 88% Loss of dignity: 64% Feeling like a burden to their family: 42%
- Reposted by Ricardo J. Salvador
- You’ve got to admire committed folks like this.
- Après avoir vu une récente interview avec ce gentil monsieur, je me suis demandé s'il y aurait une présentation en direct de son magnifique album "Tchokola". J'ai trouvé ce concert à Varsovie, où se distingue la pièce "Mouna Bowa". Quelle magnificence!
- In addition to the incomprehensible beauty and artistry, this is every bit like an elite athletic performance. 🙌🏽
- “Designed by Steve Wozniak, the computers are sold wholesale by “Steven” Jobs. To finance them, Wozniak sells his HP-65 calculator, Jobs his VW van. Looking back, the Apple-1 seems quaint compared to the supercomputers we carry in our pockets today. But in 1976, its launch was a pivotal moment.”
- What scientists do. ‘Dr. Le Pichon initially defended the notions of a static Earth, but he came to realize that they were incorrect. He returned from the laboratory one day and told his wife, “The conclusions of my thesis are false.”’
- What!? “Farmers generally resist government handouts, but Mr. Ragland of the American Soybean Association said federal relief might be necessary in this case.”
- “As Alan Turing proved mathematically nearly a century ago, no approach guarantees the correctness of any sufficiently complex program.” Effectively hammered home for me by in 1979 by Hofstadter’s delicious “Gödel, Escher, Bach.” You can have a perfect system, or a complex system, but not both.
- 3: “You will be surprised how helpful a bad training session is. You made the effort, your body hit a challenge and had to learn to work with your mind to battle through.” 5: “Be disciplined, in life and in training. There are no shortcuts, do the work wholeheartedly. Only then can you succeed.” 🙌🏽
- ‘“Universities should draw a clear line: even if it means losing government funding, what they teach and research is for them to decide. “The free university”, said Dwight Eisenhower in his farewell presidential address in 1961, has been “the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery”.’
- “[Public funding of universities] has contributed to almost every technological leap that has boosted output, from the internet to mRNA vaccines and GLP-1 agonists to artificial intelligence. It is this compact—not bringing car factories back to the rust belt—that is the key to U.S. prosperity.”
- A farmer’s daughter supports despairing farmers via innovative therapies based on insight about their emotional ties to the land. I’m deeply sympathetic. And… I wish a fraction of this consideration were extended to the First Peoples for whom land loss was also about much more than just the land.
- “Heirloom seed keepers attempt to preserve the past, while plant breeders control genetic resources to commodify the seed. Neither camp is particularly focused on how to expand biodiversity into the future, as if biodiversity and seed varieties are fixed and finite things.”
- After critiquing the author, who invokes a new global food philosophy embodying “holism, circularity, pluralism and equitability,’ the reviewer grants: “Mr. Baggini’s book is valuable as a truly sweeping survey of the world’s food system…pointing to the ethical and environmental challenges we face.”
- Put aside the specific subject matter of this piece. Author Ed Hardy captures so much about the ethos of our era in that last clause. “It could be argued that a company with Apple’s huge resources could accomplish this under ordinary circumstances. What we have now are not ordinary circumstances.”
- In “The End of Agriculture in the American Portfolio” (1998) economist Steven Blank predicted that diminishing US comparative advantage in agriculture pointed to eventually offshoring the protected sector. If this report proves true, there goes the major market promotion agency for US agribusiness.
- “Here are three reasons for shorter U.S. lifespans: 1. Avoidable causes of death (firearms, alcohol, and suicide) 2. High rates of cardiovascular death 3. A weaker social state.”
- “Casa Bonita – affectionately called the Disneyland of Mexican restaurants…” In sure that’s prolly meant to be a compliment, but there is so much going wrong here…
- When economists see that “the market is ripe” to promote their textbooks on basic principles of economics. Featuring colorful supply/demand curves! “Why Do Domestic Prices Rise With Tariffs?” marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
- Sublime. Adjective. 1. elevated or lofty in thought, language. 2. Impressing the mind with a sense of grandeur or power; inspiring awe, veneration.
- The New York Times—in an effort to lighten the mood I assume—has given us this masterpiece of comedy. Wherein the apologist makes clear that the economy is not really about exchange, but about tribute. This would better have been titled: “When you’re bested at your own game, the gloves come off.”
- “The problem is that investment is driven by profit, not price, and operating solar and wind farms remains marginal business, dependent everywhere on the state’s financial support. An alternative to providing surrogate green profits through subsidies: take energy out of the private sector’s hands.”
- Spot all the ways this 24 February 2025 view is already hopelessly dated. “The Gulf of Mexico will be a hub of negative emissions technologies. It’s no coincidence that the “Clean Energy Marshall Plan” specifies geothermal, hydrogen, carbon capture, nuclear—areas in which the USA has an advantage.”
- Begging pardon… what? This reporter needs to get out more 😉. “Dr. @marionnestle.bsky.social is not a name on the level of the chef Alice Waters or the food writer Michael Pollan.”
- “She became the first American woman to break 50 minutes for 10 miles, averaged 4:59 per mile, and set a handful of pending records. Her time was a world record for a women’s-only race. And she broke the American 15K and 10 mile records as well. Between prize money and bonuses, she earned $30,000.”
- ‘The opportunity for price gouging or other forms of manipulation are high, per Errol Schweizer @grocerynerd.bsky.social, a veteran of the grocery industry who publishes The Checkout Grocery Update, a newsletter. “Consumers won’t know if things are priced correctly or they are getting ripped off.”’
- In his honor, and for the joy of it, have a listen to “Je pense à toi” (I think of you) from the album “Sou ni tilé.” 🙌🏽
- “It’s tricky because you’ve gotta hold the regular time-you can’t listen to him. And he told me that: ‘Don’t listen to me. Just play the vamp, and I’ll do what I do and I’ll get back to you.’ And he always does it, man!” Can attest. 🙌🏽
- Mimi Fox and band, featuring the one and only Dennis Chambers. 🙌🏽 #BluesAlleyJazz
- “If consumers are willing to pay for [regenerative] products, farmers would be willing to produce them. But consumers basically say, “anyone but me.” They put the government forward [as the party that should pay], which is interesting, because the government money is actually the people’s money.”
- Good medicine. 💕🙌🏽
- Surprise! “The diet highlights the intake of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, legumes and healthy fats, including omega-3s and polyunsaturated fats (like corn, soybean, and sunflower oil). It’s also lower in red meat, processed meat, sugar-sweetened beverages, sodium and refined grains.“
- “With such a wide range of vital tasks to perform, it is hardly surprising that faulty mitochondria cause or contribute to many diseases. If a technique to transplant healthy ones could be made to work, its potential would be enormous.”
- “In 1967 Bryan Magee, a British philosopher and author, dared to ask: “Does anyone seriously believe that Beatles music will be an unthinkingly accepted part of daily life all over the world in the 2000s?” The question now seems daft.”
- “London’s first coffee house opened in 1652. Coffee houses quickly took off. It wasn’t about the coffee, described as a “syrup of soot and the essence of old shoes”, but the atmosphere. Anyone could go to read the newspapers and debate the issues of the day. They were known as penny universities.”
- “The core business of the insurance industry is risk management. We are fast approaching temperature levels where the math breaks down: premiums required exceed what people or companies can pay. Entire regions are becoming uninsurable. No insurance means other financial services become unavailable.”
- “Roosting in their millions in the oyamel fir trees, the monarchs are like a single, fluttering being. When they stir all at once—lifting from branches that sag under their weight—it is like being in a waking dream. Fortunate observers are able to witness one of the most gorgeous sights in nature.”
- ‘Argerich has waded into politics, speaking in support of a Russian pianist and critic of President Putin who died last year in prison, and paying tribute to an Israeli pianist being held in Gaza. She said she felt it was important to speak out because “these are very dangerous days for the world.”’
- “Coral polyps are invertebrates, protecting themselves by building tiny cups of limestone. Millions of years before our first cities and pyramids, corals were expressing their architectural impulses. The Great Barrier Reef spans 344,400 sq km, redirecting ocean currents and deflecting tsunamis.”
- “During the kaleidoscopic first half of the concert the two women asserted themselves as the quartet’s engines of emotional intensity and a newly lustrous, rich sound.”
- “A politics of A.I. has yet to materialize. Society is utterly absorbed in the crises centered on Donald Trump; not with the technological transformation that’s about to engulf us. If we don’t tend to it, people creating the technology will be single-handedly in charge of how it changes our lives.”
- “Iowa farmer Seth Watkins thinks taxpayers should expect growers who get billions of dollars in federal support will provide environmental benefits such as preserving wetlands. But Iowa landowner Jim Conlan says in a lawsuit that the federal requirement is unconstitutional.”
