Exactly, and alkaline cells far preceded Li-ion cells. You could easily make a TV remote today that takes a single 18650 Li-ion cell, but not in 1980.

Since AAA cells have been ubiquitous for decades, and that's what consumers have come to expect, it's going to take a long time to transition everything to something else.

I still don't understand what you're trying to say. You're saying you've met him and he said or did something bad to you personally?

I don't have a dog in the fight, I know nothing about the guy, but when you call someone a "terrible human being" I guess I think it's a good idea to be able to clearly articulate why

I'm guessing you're referring to his termination in 2017?

If so, worth mentioning that he accused the institution of making him the fall guy for their own failings, his colleagues unanimously resigned in support of him, and he won a defamation settlement against the institution.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessel_van_der_Kolk

(In the Career section, paragraph starting with "In 2017")

+1, Maté is a legend

The design of this study doesn't demonstrate that at all. Because they didn't control variables like soil composition and nutrients, the light source might have absolutely nothing to do with it. These results could be 100% driven by nutrient availability, or any of the other variables they didn't control.

Definitely larger than the yellow ones

Hmm, that's interesting but I don't know if that explains it exactly. I can recall being aware of the sensation of being "centered" in my head as a young child, long before I would have been aware of the physiology of my brain or nervous system.

And that makes intuitive sense, but why does that feeling persist when I'm lying in bed in a dark, quiet, still room? My senses are basically idling, very little input, but my "center" remains in my head. I think something has to account for that aside from sensory input.

Good point! Kind of analogous to a computer. A computer isn't "in" the CPU; it's an integrated system of CPU, memory, I/O devices (keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers), ports, sensors, etc.

The mind is a function of the entire nervous system, not just the brain.

I listen to a lot of Andrew Huberman, and one interesting thing he covers is how neurons don't just exist in the brain, and they aren't exclusively for processing thoughts. Your gut actually has hundreds of millions of neurons, and they signal all sorts of things subconsciously to your mind!

That's a very interesting point, and raises a tangential question: What exactly causes that sensation?

Why do we feel like our head is the center of our body, rather than something like our center of mass (our torso)?

Is it possible to shift that sensation using mind-altering techniques like meditation, sensory deprivation, drugs, etc.? What's behind that, physiologically?

I don't have the data in front of me but hotter temperatures are correlated with higher violent crime rates, fwiw

Correct. I am also doing this to your partner

Again... your body is doing the optimization here. It's not a conscious process. It won't produce more testosterone than it needs. You give it adequate building blocks, it takes it from there.

Again, the keyword is "optimize." You can't over-optimize.

Yes, why wouldn't it be?