Creatures bred for speed grow really tall and generate high velocities by falling over. An evolved player makes invalid moves far away in the board, causing opponent players to run out of memory an…

Why did a group of anonymous strangers on the internet try to eat almost nothing but potatoes for a month?  On Cooked this week, an unusual experiment and the possibilities and perils of a mono-diet....

We who have nothing to “wind string around” are lost in the wilderness. But those who deny this need are “burning our playhouse down.” If you put quotes around certain words it sounds more like a m…

80/20 Strength Training by friend-of-the-blog Uri Bram — Whether or not you care about strength training, more things should be written like this.  skeptical thread about honey and bloodlettin…

Krinn is a reader who participated in our Low-Dose Potassium Community Trial. She lost 6 lbs taking low doses of potassium, and liked it enough that she decided to keep going, along with a new exer…

Previous Philosophical Transactions: JP Callaghan on Lithium Pharmacokinetics Lithium in Scottish Drinking Water with Al Hatfield M’s Experience with Potatoes-by-Default Jon on One Year Post-Potato-Di...

Our friend and colleague Experimental Fat Loss over at Experimental Fat Loss just put out a post titled Seed Oils explain the 8 Mysteries of Obesity. In this post, he takes a look at the 8 mysteries a...

[This is one of the finalists in the SMTM Mysteries Contest, by a reader writing under the pseudonym Cennfaeladh. We’ll be posting about one of these a week until we have gotten through all the fin...

[This is one of the finalists in the SMTM Mysteries Contest, by a reader writing under the pseudonym TripleTaco. We'll be posting about one of these a week until we have gotten through all the finalis...

Krinn is a reader who participated in our Low-Dose Potassium Community Trial. She lost 6 lbs taking low doses of potassium, and liked it enough that she decided to keep going, along with a new exercis...