Black Holes, Denny’s Fist Fights & Japanese Handjob Culture - Rabbit Hole #4 - #1118

“exactly what this you know what this is so some people have heard of something called sulforaphane and i'm gonna pull this up so i don't misquote here uh let's see if i can find it bear with me”

“beverages i don't know yeah okay so this this stuff so sulforaphane people might have heard about like broccoli sprouts were kind of making the rounds a couple of years ago and i think ronda patrick uh should be giving credit for bringing this to light for a lot of folks and”

“this does not contain sulforaphane itself but a precursor and an enzyme so your body then uses sulforaphane and i'll explain why i'm bringing this up because i i've been taking”

“and in this case you know sulforaphane reliably activates nrf2 related pathways in humans all right so the it's promising but not proven slowing aging preventing cancer preventing dementia”

“like classical conditioning, operant conditioning, there's an amazing book called don't shoot the dog, which has terrible title. Maybe this is a good example of a book that failed don't shoot the dog, but it's written by this woman, Karen prior, who worked in training Marine mammals, right. Dolphins and so on.”

“completely off the rails. Yeah. Don't shoot the dog. Don't shoot the dog. Karen prior, when you're training, say a Marine mammal, right?”

“So mine, my, my kind of go-to for this is a little bit niche, but it's Mate by Tucker, Max and Jeffrey Miller to become the man women want to evolutionary psychology inspired dating book for men.”

“relatively well, but could have been significantly better for what it was. Mate by Tucker Max and Jeffrey Miller is one of the best, if not the best book for guys to understand, understand how women think, understand what their fears are. It's very like sort of both sides of the spectrum in terms of being understanding about women, being pro-men without being too apologetic.”

“was like that top one it's their top book so i read it and it was so good it was called a fraction of the whole by steve toltz he's this australian author takes place in australia and it is so funny and it's such an adventure and it's this just fantastic fiction book um and uh it's not that”

“look i mean sandman there's some real like genre busting yeah graphic novels this one is from france Aâma which i'm currently reading really deeply philosophical very psychedelic this one also gets pretty trippy as you would guess by the name uh what i'd suggest so this is impossible to”

“drugs uh so this this one is i'm still like jury's out but the data are pretty interesting this is so this is av macall i know exactly what this you know what this is so some people have heard of something called sulforaphane”

“So let's see. I'll start with... You have a little engine that's... I'll start with this. So this is called Bite. Okay. And the subtitle is pretty simple. Now, it's 124 bits, but it's bits as in little pieces of what look like candy.”

“beverages i don't know yeah okay so this this stuff so sulforaphane people might have heard about like broccoli sprouts were kind of making the rounds a couple of years ago and i think ronda patrick uh should be giving credit for bringing this to light for a lot of folks and”

“while yeah this was a child yeah i've never basically never yeah yeah yeah i mean there's i think i could get into it there are some iconic uh calvin and hobbes calvin hobbes is amazing actual like calvin hobbes is amazing look i mean sandman there's some real like genre busting yeah graphic novels this one is from”

“Daytripper this is from brazil and is does not have any sci-fi any fantasy it's sort of a reflection on mortality it's about this young man who has a star author as a father whose”

“the dungeon crawler carl for me is up there with red rise very different it's very edgy uh it's really light-hearted and fun like it's there's a lot of inner monologues there's interplay you”

“And there's also a really, this is like the Brit roll call here, but I think Oliver Berkman is also one of your countrymen, wrote a great book called 4,000 Weeks, which is tremendous. And one of the chapters is called Cosmic Inheritance.”

“There's a book called Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world. It is remark from like modern postal systems to infrastructure to really, uh, uh, religious freedom.”

“got. So, this is a lamp around about this big, and there's a little stone on the top of it. And the stone is an FDA quality HRV sensor. You just pick it up, hold it in your hand, and the light goes up and down, and there's sounds. And it's using an algorithm to maximize your heart rate variability.”

“I must become a perfectionist in choosing. Right. And it creates paralysis of analysis. This is David Epstein's new book inside the box fucking money, by the way. Really, really good. Yeah, it's really, um, but yeah, that, that, that, that, um, what's the, what's the basic premise that I have an old one to recommend to constraints,”

“yeah it's uh it's it's it's great if you're into the sci-fi stuff this is lazarus um which is kind of a post-apocalyptic um these cartel-like families run giant swaths of the united states in the world”

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“This is something that I don't know if you guys recognize this name. It's Ed Cook, who was a memory, competitive memory champion. He's from your motherland. He's a Brit. And then he trained, I think it was Jonah Lehrer in a book called Moonwalking with Einstein.”

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“or some sort of... And I'm just able to throw... I don't know what's going on. Maybe it just distracts the front of my brain a little bit. The other one is that Ohm lamp that me and you have got. So, this is a lamp around about this big, and there's a little stone on the top of it. And the stone is an FDA quality HRV sensor. You just pick it up, hold it in your hand,”

“Does it taste good? It's really... Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Just tastes like, kind of like candy. A friend of mine wanted me to get into organ meat, and I'm like, I'm not going to grind organ meat into my smoothie. I'm sorry. He does this. That sounds gross. And then he got me these pills. Oh, man. Dessiccated liver? I need to...”

“a fun one it's i mean so red red rising is the most addictive fiction series that i've found pretty much ever and they're about to release pierce is about to release book eight i think”

“well i mean seven eves by neil stevenson the moon explodes in the first line the first line of the book the moon explodes i love that it was it was something like it was just after midday on a sunday”

“magnets and stretchy things. And I have a silly putty, and I've got mechanical toys. And it's an important thing for me. If I don't have those, I'll bite my nails.”

“This is Something is Killing the Children, Real Uplifting. This is going to be made into a very expensive series by Netflix, but basic premise. The artwork is amazing. Story is really fun.”

“Specs, there's a S-P-A-K-S.com, I think, is just that they have amazing soft silicone-covered magnets and stretchy things.”

“something about it my mind really lights up. It wants to physically move. It's all tied together. So I'll just do a standing desk with one of those rockers or a treadmill, you know, they have these like little rockers, and it's just kind of like, I don't know, it just keeps you moving. But I don't know, I just feel like, yeah, if I'm physically engaged.”

“on his desk, and he thinks better when he's tossing it. But I played ball sports as a kid. It's the same. My best ideas almost always come when I've got a tennis ball in my hands, or some sort of... And I'm just able to throw... I don't know what's going on. Maybe it just distracts the front of my brain a little bit. The other one is that Ohm lamp that me and you have got.”

“i've heard that dune goes real so my problem is i just stuck with the first one yeah i read the first dune it was good nothing after three body problem to me it's just like i read six ian banks books from the culture series and they were really good it's just i it'll never be what makes it so good the the three body problem yeah it the i mean i think i think dune is i think dune is a”

“in the series is three bodies called three body crawl and then there's the dark forest and then death's end and again once the dark forest is one of my favorite books of all time and the death end is also one of my these are like two of my favorite absolute books and again people also it's like oh the first book is slow but that's only a sixth of the whole series so yeah that's what i would say”

“i read the first book in the um expanse series uh which i i liked i didn't love i liked so i didn't keep going um and then i read my my wife like an instagram post of her favorite over the books she with the favorite to the least favorite stacked and i i usually don't cross over that much but i”

“So there's shit like that, that I just, I'm going to put a wrinkle into it because after that you still have quantum fluctuations. Oh yeah. Oh no, the dark area that goes on, that goes on for even longer. So the five, the five stages of the five ages of the universe, sorry, book from 1996 goes through this. They had to come up with their own numbering convention to be able to name it.”

“actual like calvin hobbes is amazing look i mean sandman there's some real like genre busting yeah graphic novels this one is from france Aâma which i'm currently reading really deeply philosophical very psychedelic this one”

“Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, and this is by the way, an example of an author who actually I think didn't do a great job with the title, which was not three-body problem. The title is Remembrance of Earth's Past. That's the title of the full series, and no one knows that because basically readers were like, We're going to pretend you didn't say that.”

“something about it my mind really lights up. It wants to physically move. It's all tied together. So I'll just do a standing desk with one of those rockers or a treadmill, you know, they have these like little rockers, and it's just kind of like, I don't know, it just keeps you moving. But I don't know, I just feel like, yeah, if I'm physically engaged.”