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Saloni's TED talk was published today.
Medical innovation needs you
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With the possible exception of broiler chickens, no creature has been so genetically optimized as the thoroughbred horse.
🐎 Secretariat, the greatest racehorse of all time, had a heart that weighed 10kg, twice the size of a regular horse's.
🐎 We have been consistently recording the ances
try of thoroughbreds in the General Stud Book since 1791.
🐎 Breeders discovered that horses from Arabia, Central Asia and North Africa were often faster. So the Genghis Khan of thoroughbred horses is an Arabian stallion called the Darley Arabian, brought to England in 1704. He’s an ancestor of 95% of all modern thoroughbreds.
🐎 The first records of horse domestication show us selecting for stronger backs, lower anxiety and shorter generations.
🐎 In the Bronze Age, people bred horses for leopard spotting, which incidentally, caused night blindness.
🐎 Medieval warhorses were much smaller than today’s massive beasts. They stood at about 14 hands high, roughly the size of a pony.
How we engineered the ultimate race horse, now on WIP: https://lnkd.in/eaT_RMPW
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With the possible exception of broiler chickens, no creature has been so genetically optimized as the thoroughbred horse.
🐎 Secretariat, the greatest racehorse of all time, had a heart that weighed 10kg, twice the size of a regular horse's.
🐎 We have been consistently recording the ances
try of thoroughbreds in the General Stud Book since 1791.
🐎 Breeders discovered that horses from Arabia, Central Asia and North Africa were often faster. So the Genghis Khan of thoroughbred horses is an Arabian stallion called the Darley Arabian, brought to England in 1704. He’s an ancestor of 95% of all modern thoroughbreds.
🐎 The first records of horse domestication show us selecting for stronger backs, lower anxiety and shorter generations.
🐎 In the Bronze Age, people bred horses for leopard spotting, which incidentally, caused night blindness.
🐎 Medieval warhorses were much smaller than today’s massive beasts. They stood at about 14 hands high, roughly the size of a pony.
How we engineered the ultimate race horse, now on WIP: https://lnkd.in/eaT_RMPW
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What smog, deforestation, and child labor tell us about the future of animal suffering
Why rich countries treat animals better
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What smog, deforestation, and child labor tell us about the future of animal suffering
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Few people know how much medicine has progressed in their lifetimes. Fewer know how much faster it could be progressing.
Cure all diseases
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The limits of breeding for speed
The upper limits of biology
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And how beauty could help get more homes built
How ugliness helps NIMBYs
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Watch now | GLP-1 drugs have transformed the treatment of obesity and diabetes, and also help with heart disease, kidney disease and sleep apnea. But they are far from the only medicine with more than one use.
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Are miracle drugs hiding in plain sight?
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Watch now | GLP-1 drugs have transformed the treatment of obesity and diabetes, and also help with heart disease, kidney disease and sleep apnea. But they are far from the only medicine with more than one use.
Are miracle drugs hiding in plain sight?
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Is it really plausible that children survived the hardship of medieval life without devoted parents?
Did medieval people love their children?
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Modernity has meant fewer children in virtually every culture around the world. Holdouts like Orthodox Jews might have lessons for the rest of us.
How Hasidic Jews have so many children
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Modernity has meant fewer children in virtually every culture around the world. Holdouts like Orthodox Jews might have lessons for the rest of us.
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Large swaths of America’s cities were originally underwater. We stopped half a century ago, but there is plenty more land left to take.
Why San Francisco isn’t bigger
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Large swaths of America’s cities were originally underwater. We stopped half a century ago, but there is plenty more land left to take.
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