15 Ways To Stimulate the Vagus Nerve At Home. (more)

Interval training is a type of discontinuous physical training that involves a series of low- to high-intensity Exercise workouts interspersed with rest or relief periods.[1] The High Intensity (HIIT) periods are typically at or close to Anaerobic Exercise, while the recovery periods involve activity of lower intensity... Interval training can refer to the organization of any Cardiovascular workout (e.g., cycling, running, rowing). It is prominent in training routines for many sports, but is particularly employed by runners. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_training aka WindSprints, WalkBackSprinting (more)

The vagus nerve, also known as the tenth cranial nerve (CN X), plays a crucial role in the autonomic nervous system, which is responsible for regulating involuntary functions within the human body. This nerve carries both sensory and motor fibers and serves as a major pathway that connects the brain to various organs, including the heart, lungs, and digestive tract. As a key part of the parasympathetic nervous system, the vagus nerve helps regulate essential involuntary functions like heart rate, breathing, and digestion. By controlling these processes, the vagus nerve contributes to the body's "rest and digest" response, helping to calm the body after stress, lower heart rate, improve digestion, and maintain homeostasis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagus_nerve

using sunlight or specialized electric light to assist with SAD and maybe other chronic issues

aka Seasonal Affect Disorder; try Light Therapy (more)

Sunlight Might Hold the Key to Treating Autoimmune Diseases. Every morning Kathy Reagan Young steps out of the shower in her Virginia Beach home, towels off, dons a pair of protective goggles and stands nine inches from a light box the size of a small space heater. Young presses a button, and the box’s bulbs begin to glow a ghostly purple. She briefly bathes her torso in the ultraviolet rays coming from the bulbs, four minutes per side. Then she goes about her day. (more)

The Vagus Nerve’s Mysterious Role in Mental Health Untangled. Wellness influencers claim we can ice, tone or zap the vagus nerve to fix almost anything—long COVID, headaches, poor memory, extra pounds, the blues. Much of that hype is unfounded. Still, some research on the vagus nerve is intriguing enough—and promising enough—to draw serious scientific attention. (more)

Understanding the Most Effective Breathwork Techniques with Dr. Andrew Huberman. Even though cyclic sighing proved to be the most effective breathwork (breathing) technique, all three breathing exercises (others were box breathing and [[]Cyclic hyperventilation]) were more effective at improving mood and reducing respiratory rates than mindful meditation. This is thought to be caused by the enhanced sense of control over one’s breath that’s involved with breathwork. (more)

Matt Zeigler: Grow Your Network: Bill Stephney Is A Culture-Shaping Legend You Need to Know. Do you know Bill Stephney? He's the executive producer who helped launch Def Jam Records, discovered Chuck D in an Adelphi University cafeteria, and played a pivotal role in bringing Public Enemy, LL Cool J, and the Beastie Boys to the world. From college radio DJ to music supervisor for films like Boomerang (which launched Toni Braxton's career), he's been shaping culture for decades. (more)

Dwarkesh Patel Notes: Symbolic Species by Terrence Deacon. ..the two of us got a chance to go have lunch with the author, Terence Deacon, a couple weeks ago (more)

Kevin Lipe: Hidden Agendas, Lost Cities. I first really spent time with Lotus Agenda because of a guest post I wrote for 512 Pixels, which meant I approached it with the half-serious curiosity of someone who’d long harbored a suspicion that MS-DOS software might change the way he thought, and was determined to find out, armed with an impossibly small terrible keyboard (more)

What Is Night Eating Syndrome? Medically Reviewed by Smitha Bhandari, MD. With NES, you eat a lot after dinner, have trouble sleeping, and eat when you wake up at night. (more)

Alfred Macdonald: Vibecamp And Its Consequences. (or: Against Pseudonyming as Virtue and Realnaming as Sin). Context: this was a pseudo-open letter criticizing the norms and illusions - primarily relating to privacy and epistemology - of a social scene called tpot and an event called vibecamp, with focus on what happens when those norms are taken seriously by large numbers of people. (more)

Default Friend: I LIKE Labubus and Dubai Chocolate and Matcha and Lana and Brandy Melville and TikTok Aesthetics and and and. Today, in his newsletter, W. David Marx (who, as an aside, is a must-read) wrote about an Amanda Mull piece on the disorienting nature of contemporary trends: Labubus and Dubai chocolates and matcha and chamoy and Swedish candy, all things that seem to emerge from nowhere, mean nothing, and disappear just as quickly. (2025-08-14-MarxOnlyFadsACultureandEconomyOfLabubu) (more)

AI ‘chain of thought’ is still just a ‘brittle mirage’. *AI vendors now insist their chatbots do reasoning. They even list their reasoning steps! (more)

Dan Hon: s20e04: A Software Strategy. This one is about the cycle of starting by building something you need, and then having it be replaced by a commodity. (more)

Scott Alexander on Light Therapy. The short version: Light therapy can treat seasonal affective disorder (SAD) (eg winter depression) and sometimes regular depression. Buy this light box, and at some time between 6 AM and 9 AM, sit exactly 12 inches away from it and do some activity that doesn’t involve staring directly at the light box. Continue every morning for the period of time you’re at risk of depression. If bipolar, don’t try this without medical supervision. Carex Day-Light Classic Plus Sunlight Therapy Lamp - 10000 LUX Therapy Lamp at 12 Inches, LED Bright White Light with Adjustable Height and Brightness Levels for Mood, White (more)

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In computability theory, a system of data-manipulation rules (such as a computer's instruction set, a programming language, or a cellular automaton) is said to be Turing complete or computationally universal if it can be used to simulate any single-taped Turing machine. The concept is named after Alan Turing. A classic example is lambda calculus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness (more)

Raymond Thomas Dalio (born August 8, 1949) is a billionaire American hedge fund manager and philanthropist who has served as co-chief investment officer of the world's largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, since 1985. He founded Bridgewater in 1975 in New York. Within ten years, it was infused with a US$5 million investment from the World Bank's retirement fund... Dalio is the author of the 2017 book Principles: Life & Work, about corporate management and investment philosophy. It was featured on The New York Times best seller list, where it was called a "gospel of radical transparency." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Dalio (more)