Link Party, Week of March 6, 2022
“Even a drink a day can be bad for your brain, says a study we desperately want to ignore.” A new study out of U Penn shows that “alcohol consumption even at levels most would consider modest” may reduce brain volume. Also! Remember this whole fun thing at the height of pandemic drinking that said abstinence caused Alzheimer’s and we should knock back 13 a week?
In more “bummer drug news” a new study links vaping to prediabetes (Study is here)
A very obvious suggestion about how to manage an aggressive 24-hour news cycle that feels like really basic advice but somehow isn’t because none of us are really managing it all that well? Personal take: I practice this thing he discusses. I obviously read a lot of shit online, but I also do it for about 30 minutes to an hour each day. Then I don’t look again until the next day. Even though our own personal actions can be somewhat meaningless in a world that is always screaming at us to care about a thousand diffe…