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at all the cherries. So that's what I do. This would be a good time to remind you not to take any medical advice from me. Not once. By the way, if you notice behind me, where you can almost read it, there are the one, two, three, four, five best things you could buy as a gift. I actually promise you that if you know somebody who likes reading books, at least one of these books is going to work fo…
← Previous segment →d if they are Dilbert fans but they don't care about the politics or the persuasion, then get the 2025 Dilbert calendar.
Now the important thing is that the calendar is only available at a link you can find at Dilbert.com. The books are on Amazon, so if you want the book just search Amazon, they'll all pop up. But the calendar, I would get that right away because I can't guarantee that if you get it a week before Christmas it's going to show up right. So I wouldn't wait on the calendar. We're making those as we get orders, so sooner is better anyway.
Scientists, according to new research, have made magic polymers that can pull water from the thin air with less energy. So there's all kinds of scientific breakthroughs in creating water out of the air, but it all takes energy and this one takes way less energy. So it's not going to power your city, but it might help you in an emergency.
Well, there's the first asthma treatment breakthrough in half a century, according to Kent Live News. It's a game changer, they say. Some kind of vaccination, they say, will substantially decrease your asthma attacks. Well, I don't know. Might take a couple years before that works its way through the system. We'll see. I'm skeptical of everything.
There is a prebiotic supplement of something called inulin and of course fructooligosaccharide — pretty sure I pronounced that exactly right — and it boosts brain function in old people. But here's the interesting part. What it does is it changes your gut chemistry. And here's an actual sentence from the article. See if this sounds familiar to you. Quote: "Evidence for the close relationship between the gut and the brain is growing year after year." Now watch this part. See if this sounds like me. "Some experts are now so convinced by the results they refer to the gut as the body's second brain."
What do I tell you almost every day? Almost every day I tell you that your body is your brain. There's no such thing as the brain in its own little closed-off area and then your body is your body. No, your body is your brain. If you don't have
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all that chemistry right in your body, your brain isn't working, period. So your brain and your body are one tool. All right. Reportedly Elon Musk is going to use his AI called xAI and do a little standalone app. So right now it only exists in X as Grok, but they're going to make their own standalone. As far as I can tell it seems way behind ChatGPT because Grok so far doesn't have images and it…
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