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I thought this article was quite interesting. There's an analysis of what percentage of income Americans spend on different things (housing, transportation, food, apparel.) Apparently it's a bit of a mystery why people are saving so little.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/05/22/why-has-the-personal-savings-rate-declined-so-dramatically/

I was wondering if anyone had any unusual systems for organizing their research. I find that research is kind of a crazy branching process of trying various things, giving up, finding connections elsewhere, etc. that makes a linear organization of ideas fairly problematic.

I'd be interested in either physical solutions. (Something clever with notebooks? Index cards? a combination?) Or software. (Evernote? A personal wiki?) Or specialized hardware (an e-ink tablet? a whiteboard that can record images of itself?)

One of the best things I've seen is software like "notational velocity" where you can maintain a big set of small documents and quickly search and link between them. The problem is

Hello all, I was wondering if people here had any wisdom to share about the relative merits of the different wool T shirts available. I'll link to some of the common options available here:

Minus 33 Lightweight Algonquin $56

Minus 33 Midweight Sentinal $56

Outlier Ultrafine Merino $110

Icebreaker Anatomica $70

[Icebreaker Tech Lite](https://www.icebreaker.com/en/mens-layering-firstlaye

• DOI 10.1112/plms/s3-24.2.348

• [URL] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1112/plms/s3-24.2.348/abstract

Any help much appreciated!

I apologize if this does not obey the rules of this subreddit, but I don't know where else to turn! Like many of you, I try to only consume plant-based products wherever possible. This can get really tricky with edge cases like determining if the glue in shoes is of animal origin. (These days, almost always not.) Anyway, I completely draw the line at buying any products that contain any leather whatsoever. The thing that's very difficult about this is that often products will have a "leather-like" object on them that is actually made of vinyl/rubber. When this is done for cost reasons, I think the companies will be very silent about it (under the theory that people who like leather products

It's fairly well understood at this point that tobacco smoke contains MAOIs, which seem to have a large contribution to the addictiveness of cigarettes. My understanding was that these MAOIs were naturally occurring in tobacco, and so we should expect chewing tobacco or snus to be similiarly addictive.

However, I decided to look at the literature today, and I can't seem to back this up. Here are the studies I could find:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11343627

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC19495/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8602220

They basically find that MAO are inhibited in tobacco smokers-- the actual chemical responsible seems to be unknown. The third ar

I was wondering what everyone's opinion is of how to behave while traveling. I'm vegetarian for ethical reasons, and I've been strict about it for many years now. The only time I struggle with this is when traveling where there is a major language barrier. I always try to order vegetarian, and I couldn't eat a steak or whatever if I wanted to. However, it seems inevitable that I'll order something and when it comes, I'm suspicious if it contains fish sauce or similar. What to do in such a situation?

A recent post (https://www.reddit.com/r/vegetarian/comments/3l6tsj/best_meatless_high_protein_foods/) had a visualization of protein in different vegetarian foods. I complained that this was meaningless as it measured protein against weight, and so was mostly just measuring how much water food contains. I actually remembered making a chart with some calculations, so I though I'd post it here:

http://imgur.com/3aYUPO5

Wheat gluten (seitan) continues to do very well, but otherwise the order really changes. You can see how hard it is to find truly high-protein vegetarian/vegan food. (This is why I supplement with a mix of protein and rice protein.)

I'd like some feedback on the following simplified program. I've designed it to be done as quickly as possible, which is absolutely vital for me. (I just want some reasonable mix of health/strength/aesthetics, and I'm absolutely willing to accept slower progress or decreased results for this.)

The first three exercises are done in a circuit (three repetitions of the circuit)

• (1) Ring pull-ups

• (2) Pistol Squats

• (3) Decline diamond pushups

The reason for doing this is that I don't need to adjust the rings between the exercises. I'm currently at 7-8 pull ups, 2-3 pistol squats and 8 decline diamond pushups. I could easily do more push-ups, but I don't bother and concentrate on

I have a friend who claims he can get exercise simply by flexing his muscles. I.e. to exercise his biceps, he literally sits there and flexes then as hard as he can until failure. To work abs, just flex the abs.

Is he out if his mind? I've tried it briefly and it does 'feel' like exercise, but i don't know.

I'm not really interested in switching to a 'flex based' workout, but i am intetested in the concept intellectually!