Tag: Tobacco

Can weed make you healthier and fitter?

by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI

BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com Munchies aside, new science indicates that getting high might have shockingly beneficial effects to your health and weight. The stereo­type of pot smok­ers as peo­ple who wolf down Chee­tos, brown­ies, and what­ev­er else hap­pens to be in the r… Not Smoking Weed Is Why You’re Fat http://flip.it/tWgqn http://flip.it/P9HMl Not Smoking Weed … Continue reading Can weed make you healthier and fitter?

Holly Lynton: ethnographic images of people at work

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science UX Research, Digital Health, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata

I love this photographer. Sheep, tobacco barns, barehanded beekeepers, and a bird in the bus.. Lynton is now photographing sheep farmers and tobacco harvesters in Western Massachusetts. Using sugar water as bait, Lynton collected slugs and set them loose until they wriggled into the composition she wanted.  Her quest led to a beekeeper in New Mexico … Continue reading Holly Lynton: ethnographic images of people at work