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>> No. 3902 Anonymous
9th June 2015
Tuesday 8:13 pm
3902 Looking out for Caffeine and other migraine triggers
Evening lab-lads and lab-lasses,

This is a bit of a strange question. I would like to know if there's some way that I can look at a food/drinks label and determine whether it contains caffeine or not? I suffer a lot of migraines and I've managed to dramatically reduce the number of migraines I get every month by cutting out certain foods and drinks that trigger an attack (e.g. parmesan cheese, Sodium Nitrite-containing meats, caffeinated coffees and teas).

I currently get one or two every couple of months or so, but I'm still convinced that I can become completely migraine-free if I knew what to look for on food/drinks labels. Can anyone offer any tips or know-how?
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>> No. 3903 Anonymous
9th June 2015
Tuesday 8:25 pm
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>>3902

There's not really any way of knowing, besides learning which foods naturally contain caffeine. Chocolate for example.

You might want to try taking magnesium supplements. Deficiency can lead to migraines, and the vast majority of people are deficient in it to some extent anyway.
>> No. 3905 Anonymous
9th June 2015
Tuesday 10:43 pm
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Add glare (sun shining on monitor, looking towards sun without sunnies etc), being hungry/dehydrated and head trauma. Those are my triggers.

Migraines are shite.
>> No. 3906 Anonymous
10th June 2015
Wednesday 2:58 am
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I used to get really bad migraines every now and again. Then I lost five stones and I don't get them any more.

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>> No. 3894 Anonymous
26th May 2015
Tuesday 11:56 am
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Hello /lab/lads,

I understand we have a number of scientists ranging from undergraduates to industry researchers and even an actual professor in our midst.

We're at a large spread of different institutions up and down the country, and some of our libraries will no doubt have subscriptions to journals that others don't. There's nothing more frustrating than not having access to a paper that you really need, so I was wondering if you lot would like to devise a system where we help each other out? Posting links to the paper we're after so that a ladm8 can have a look-see if they have access to it and then get it to each other somehow.

Anyone up for it?
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>> No. 3897 Anonymous
26th May 2015
Tuesday 2:34 pm
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>>3894
Yep, granted it doesn't exist already.

Uni. of Nottingham has a shit reputation for paper access.
>> No. 3898 Anonymous
26th May 2015
Tuesday 3:02 pm
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>>3895
Always a worthwhile thread to bump, definitely, but I was thinking more of a supply-and-demand type system with direct links to specific articles that a person can't access and a plea for help from someone that might have access.

>>3897
As >>3896 has pointed out, the service is available from Reddit. I wasn't aware of that, but I can't see why that means it isn't something we could do here as well to scratch each other's backs wherever possible.

Now that I think of it, /lit/ might be a more suitable place for it, since it lists PDF as a compatible filetype.
>> No. 3899 Anonymous
26th May 2015
Tuesday 3:13 pm
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>>3898
>I can't see why that means it isn't something we could do here as well to scratch each other's backs wherever possible.

There is little to be gained from establishing an inferior system; .gs network of light fingered types with access to electronic journals is microscopic compared to /r/scholar.

Assuming you're still studying it should be easy to get a staff member to get you a printout anyway.
>> No. 3900 Anonymous
26th May 2015
Tuesday 9:34 pm
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>>3899
I suppose you're right, I just thought it might be nice and promote a bit of science talk along the way.
>> No. 3901 Anonymous
26th May 2015
Tuesday 10:04 pm
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>>3900
Perhaps rather than requests we could just share vaguely interesting academic material.

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>> No. 3882 Anonymous
23rd May 2015
Saturday 11:36 pm
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Why am I attracted to women? It bothers me that there is a part of me I can't control, and don't fully understand.
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>> No. 3888 Anonymous
24th May 2015
Sunday 12:31 am
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>>3887
Agreed.
>> No. 3889 Anonymous
24th May 2015
Sunday 12:32 am
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>>3887
1, 2, 3.
>> No. 3890 Anonymous
24th May 2015
Sunday 12:50 am
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>>3889
racist.
>> No. 3891 Anonymous
24th May 2015
Sunday 12:58 am
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>>3890
But I'm black. I can't be racist because I lack power.
>> No. 3892 Anonymous
24th May 2015
Sunday 1:27 am
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>>3891
Should have paid the leccy bill, m8.

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>> No. 3875 Anonymous
18th May 2015
Monday 11:10 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbf7735o3hQ

To the moon!!!!!!!
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>> No. 3877 Anonymous
18th May 2015
Monday 11:21 pm
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>>3876

On the moon!
>> No. 3878 Anonymous
19th May 2015
Tuesday 12:20 am
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>>3875
That's very impressive.
>> No. 3879 Anonymous
19th May 2015
Tuesday 12:30 am
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>>3875
I don't understand. Can someone explain?
>> No. 3880 Anonymous
19th May 2015
Tuesday 12:59 am
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>>3879

He's either violating the law of conservation of energy or just getting a measurement error.


https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/34i0c1/new_test_suggests_nasas_impossible_em_drive_will/
>> No. 3881 Anonymous
19th May 2015
Tuesday 1:00 am
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>>3880

*the law of conservation of momentum

but the same difference really.

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>> No. 3858 Anonymous
29th April 2015
Wednesday 3:35 pm
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Is this 23&Me product a cunning way to get people to genetically profile themselves or what?

https://www.23andme.com/en-gb/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=GB_Search-Branded&utm_content=23c_Search_Paid_Brand&gclid=Cj0KEQjwgoKqBRDt_IfLr8y1iMUBEiQA8Ua7XXTHVTRCx20mMgZp4rB-bewpmDU96gbQoWM2nU6w3ssaAuw68P8HAQ

The Human Genome Project is a noble pursuit, but this seems frivolous and of no real diagnostic value and I would be reluctant to use it.

Any of you lads know anything about the company?
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>> No. 3870 Anonymous
29th April 2015
Wednesday 9:32 pm
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>>3869
Not him, but nobody needs to try hard to smear google. They are the second biggest datamining cunts after the NSA. Yes yes, it's their business model...

For me it was an informative post. As soon as I hear google is behind something, I stop using it. Same with Microsoft (I haven't used Skype since the second I heard they bought them out). Then again, I'm a Linux user who also blocks 99% of Javascript on the web, so I'm an edge case.
>> No. 3871 Anonymous
29th April 2015
Wednesday 9:44 pm
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>>3870
>For me it was an informative post. As soon as I hear google is behind something, I stop using it.
Make up your mind. The company's ownership was mentioned in two of the three earlier posts.
>> No. 3872 Anonymous
29th April 2015
Wednesday 10:37 pm
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>>3871
Like the uneducated cretin that I am, I hadn't seen the entire thread. Just the abridged version scrolling past on /*/.
>> No. 3873 Anonymous
30th April 2015
Thursday 12:16 pm
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I got accepted for a sperm bank and they wanted me to undertake a screening process, where I think they'd check for inheritable conditions and that kinda stuff. Do you think they'd have given me one of these tests for free?
>> No. 3874 Anonymous
30th April 2015
Thursday 1:16 pm
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>>3873
Yes, but I don't think they'd give it to you in the form of a few glossy A4 infographics.

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>> No. 3845 Anonymous
26th April 2015
Sunday 11:51 pm
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What's the best way to make your farts smell vile?

I want to let out a super stinky fart when I'm getting my hair cut and make the hairdresser suffer.
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>> No. 3853 Anonymous
27th April 2015
Monday 9:52 pm
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>>3845
Freshly squeezed juice - simply take a mixed fruit one and then drink a mixed vegetable one. Et voila.
>> No. 3854 Anonymous
27th April 2015
Monday 11:31 pm
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Everyone knows that the best fart solution is curried brussel sprouts with lashings of onions and baked beans on the side. Just try not to follow through.
>> No. 3855 Anonymous
28th April 2015
Tuesday 12:24 am
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Nothing but protein.
>> No. 3856 Anonymous
28th April 2015
Tuesday 12:24 am
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>>3845

You need to increase the output of hydrogen sulfide thats what the smell is, this is caused by your intestinal flora breaking down sulphurs compounds so eat high sulphur foods.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 3857 Anonymous
28th April 2015
Tuesday 12:36 am
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>>3856
I've never seen a more textbook example of waffle trying to sound like it knows what it's talking about, that ultimately offers no actual help to the original question. Stellar.

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>> No. 3831 Anonymous
31st March 2015
Tuesday 7:00 pm
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How to numb skin?

I want to do a little DIY surgery on my lip and I need a way to numb it for about 20 min or so. Would pic related work?
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>> No. 3840 Anonymous
31st March 2015
Tuesday 10:12 pm
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>>3838

Whether or not ketamine is a local anaesthetic you certainly shouldn't be performing surgery on yourself while on it. OP's best bet is probably benzocaine, which is what's in most anal lubes local anaesthetic gels anyway.
>> No. 3841 Anonymous
31st March 2015
Tuesday 10:31 pm
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>>3837

...would you prefer bad cocaine?
>> No. 3842 Anonymous
31st March 2015
Tuesday 10:52 pm
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>>3841
Maybe he means cocaine better than the stuff you find on the street that's cut to 10% purity.
>> No. 3843 Anonymous
1st April 2015
Wednesday 7:26 pm
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>>3842
Thinking about it, cocaine is often cut with lidocaine or benzoncaine to give it that good cocaine feel, so even bad cocaine would be fine.
>> No. 3844 Anonymous
1st April 2015
Wednesday 9:16 pm
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>>3831
Oisin?

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>> No. 3827 Anonymous
19th March 2015
Thursday 1:06 pm
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Will I really go blind if I try to look at it? Or would It damage my camera if I tried to take a recording of it?
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>> No. 3829 Anonymous
19th March 2015
Thursday 1:12 pm
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This thread is similar.

>>/b/388799

I also wondered, if you bought some special glasses online or in a corner shop, how would you know they were legit?
>> No. 3830 Anonymous
19th March 2015
Thursday 1:20 pm
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I remember for the solar eclipse in 1999 I was sent some little cardboard solar specs in the post to watch with.I can't remember where they came from, they were just posted through the door.

You will hurt your eyes if you try to look at it, it will damage your camera if you point it at it. Get yersen some hefty ND filters and a pair of Ray-Bans.

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>> No. 3822 Anonymous
18th February 2015
Wednesday 5:04 pm
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Was Obokata guilty of fraud?

Also, what are your thoughts of academic misconduct and its prevalence?
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>> No. 3823 Anonymous
18th February 2015
Wednesday 5:04 pm
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http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/feb/18/haruko-obokata-stap-cells-controversy-scientists-lie
>> No. 3824 Anonymous
18th February 2015
Wednesday 5:09 pm
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>>3822

I'm assuming you posted that article, and It says right there in the article that yes, she was guilty.
>> No. 3825 Anonymous
18th February 2015
Wednesday 5:25 pm
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>Also, what are your thoughts of academic misconduct and its prevalence?

It's rife, and it probably isn't going away any time soon. We have too many academics publishing too many papers in too many journals. There's too much pressure on researchers to come up with positive results, and not enough money for long-term, speculative research. Peer review is at breaking point, both due to a lack of money and due to corruption of varying degrees.

Contrary to popular opinion, I think we have far too many science graduates. There aren't enough jobs in either industry or academia to provide good opportunities for enough students. We either need to hugely increase investment, or start redirecting prospective science students into engineering.
>> No. 3826 Anonymous
18th February 2015
Wednesday 6:31 pm
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>>3825

You sound like a fellow science wonk.

What does the future hold for these unfortunate sorts? It seems that as a scientist you have to choose between whether you want to conduct your research with honesty or integrity or whether you want to be successful in a career sense.

How does one avoid the post-doctoral trap?

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>> No. 3813 Anonymous
11th February 2015
Wednesday 11:06 pm
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As some of you may know, this year marks 50 years since the first edition of Tomorrow's World. Celebrating 25 years in 1990, they had a stab at predicting the world of 2015.

https://www.youtube.com/v/kYCaGaXKgsU

So, how you do think they did?
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>> No. 3817 Anonymous
12th February 2015
Thursday 3:51 pm
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>>3816
It seemed magical two years ago when Microsoft's translator did it.
>> No. 3818 Anonymous
12th February 2015
Thursday 5:27 pm
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Anyone else catch the news at the end? It was just as reflective of the times as the show.
>> No. 3819 Anonymous
12th February 2015
Thursday 6:03 pm
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>>3815

GM has been extremely important in agriculture, but the immense cost of meeting regulatory requirements means that we only use a few GM varieties of important staple crops. About 90% of corn, rapeseed, soya and sugar beet grown in the US is genetically modified; In Europe, the proportion varies depending on legislation and local acceptance of GM farming.

I'm particularly excited by golden rice, which is due to be introduced to world markets this year. Vitamin A deficiency is a big problem in many parts of India and Africa, killing about a million and causing half a million cases of blindness; Golden rice has been modified to produce large amounts of beta-carotene, providing plenty of vitamin A. Efforts to introduce golden rice have been frustrated by the usual tree-hugging cretins, but Bill Gates has really moved the cause forwards.

>>3816

Optical character recognition and speech recognition work very well these days, but machine translation is still very poor indeed. Natural language is far more ambiguous and context-dependent than we previously thought, which makes machine translation a formidable task. I deal with a fair amount of internationalisation in software and web development, and machine translation is still of very limited use.
>> No. 3820 Anonymous
12th February 2015
Thursday 6:43 pm
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>>3819

GM does have a lot of potential for solving food and nutrition crisis issues, which I'm all for, but on occasions where the food introduces alien proteins to our systems I think caution is needed.

Testing is difficult though and whether or not there is significant risk to humans is hard to ascertain over, say, a 10 year study because people live such toxic lives anyway and you can't lock someone up for ten years to control their environment. I suppose we could test stuff on Cat A prisoners, but I don't know how I feel about that because I've become a bleeding heart liberal in my advancing years.
>> No. 3821 Anonymous
12th February 2015
Thursday 6:58 pm
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>>3820

>Testing is difficult though and whether or not there is significant risk to humans is hard to ascertain over, say, a 10 year study because people live such toxic lives anyway and you can't lock someone up for ten years to control their environment.

Religious weirdos to the rescue. Ironically, people who belong to odd religious sects are a gift to science, because you can nearly always find a group with a strict prohibition on whatever you're testing to use as a control. There are inevitably a lot of confounding variables, but you can get a lot of valuable data that would otherwise be incredibly difficult to gather.

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>> No. 3807 Anonymous
21st January 2015
Wednesday 7:33 pm
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>> No. 3739 Anonymous
4th October 2014
Saturday 8:06 pm
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Who needs science when we have the overwhelming weight of public opinion to guide us?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/is-pluto-about-to-be-reinstated-as-a-planet-9769753.html
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>> No. 3758 Anonymous
7th October 2014
Tuesday 4:01 pm
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Holst didn't write a Pluto movement, so it can't be a planet!
>> No. 3759 Anonymous
7th October 2014
Tuesday 4:04 pm
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>>3758
He didn't write an earth movement either though m8
>> No. 3760 Anonymous
7th October 2014
Tuesday 4:27 pm
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>>3759
I move the earth for your mum every time I see her m8
>> No. 3805 Anonymous
8th January 2015
Thursday 10:50 pm
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>>3758
This lad fucking gets it
>> No. 3806 Anonymous
9th January 2015
Friday 12:18 am
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>>3805
That reply was well worth waiting for, lad. Top job.

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>> No. 3797 Anonymous
14th December 2014
Sunday 11:16 pm
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I've some questions for you, /lab/, but it's a bit of a mixed bag so I apologise if I'm being unclear.

First, I'm looking for formal research on the perception of stress and fatigue as it relates to work and shift patterns. Especially going for medical studies, but open to anything relevant.

Second, I'm interested in how this aspect of human psychology/physiology can or has been used by government or business management in order to keep employees pliant. I imagine this would be more political than scientific.

Third, I wonder if there's any research out there on how spending habits relate to fatigue, i.e. whether those who experience greater stress and fatigue at work are more inclined to indulge or overspend.

My line of reasoning is probably apparent by now, but I have a feeling .gs would have some insights into one of these topics.
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>> No. 3800 Anonymous
15th December 2014
Monday 6:50 am
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>>3797

There's a thing called "Shift Work Syndrome". I don't know much about it but it would probably be a decent search term.
>> No. 3801 Anonymous
15th December 2014
Monday 12:17 pm
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>>3798

Alright. I'll share two things, including why I'm hoping someone has some insight. What prompted me was mainly my own anecdotal observations of work. Earlier this year I was at a warehouse, long shifts, and the contrast from student life was that much sharper than any other job I'd had. I take very good care of myself, physically, eating well, regular exercise, good hygiene, no drink/drugs, etc., but then I noticed that the toll of the work was mainly psychological. I would struggle to concentrate on complex ideas, even though I kept my old study habits as best as I could. Media I'd have never watched before suddenly gained appeal because of its simplicity (mainly Hollywood films, sitcoms, work-based reality shows). Even though I was conscious of it, I would get sloppier in my mental habits, how I articulated thoughts. How I thought, altogether, really.

I conferred with a friend who is very much like me in temperament and willpower, and he confirmed he'd felt the same, despite working a more fulfilling and less taxing job. He also said he'd got into the habit of splurging, buying things to help himself feel better. Both our jobs were based in heavily consumerist areas (fast food and online retail). It brought me around to debating with myself whether the creation of boring/mentally fatiguing jobs and how they seemed to fit hand-in-hand with increased individual spending was a happy coincidence of market philosophy or whether it was a known and deliberate policy.

The other thing that got me thinking about this has already been mentioned in this thread. Research about shift work especially has shown to deteriorate cognitive function more rapidly than other kinds of work in the long term:

http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1113272933/shift-work-ages-the-brain-over-time-110514/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-29879521

I will admit it's not something I've researched heavily yet, but that's another thing I'm looking for from this thread, I suppose. Not just for evidence to back up my suspicion, but also to see whether anyone agrees with the connections I'm making, or if research actually points in other directions.
>> No. 3802 Anonymous
15th December 2014
Monday 12:31 pm
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>>3801

I forgot to mention other effects as well. Advertising had a much more profound impact on me while working that job. I was craving both comfort and glamour, for reasons that are probably obvious. I also felt like I had less energy to question or seriously analyse anything around me.

It might be a difficult thing to empirically prove, but in my mind this effect of work is planned and accounted for by the same places that market popular products. If not, then I at least think it's a happy accident that's being exploited with decreasing job security and uncontacted work patterns.
>> No. 3803 Anonymous
15th December 2014
Monday 1:05 pm
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Kind of agreeing with previouslad, it's takes quite an effort to draw and read when I'm not at work because I'm tired and I'm surrounded by so many people on my way to and from, and at work. I have found that it makes finding another job difficult because I'm tired, but some of that is down to me and bad time management.

I don't earn a lot so I don't have too much spending power, but I do tend to buy take-out coffee quite a lot, sometimes just for something to do. I think something interesting to look at is people that blow most of their money on one or two nights out a month. Anyway I want holidays a lot more, and I have to work harder to stay happy.

For me the problem is the lack of challenge. My company has a silly structure that I can't change, so I basically clear up mess and apologize to people. I have next to no power over how things actually work; I quickly learnt how to deal with recurring problems and that was that.

I'm saging because I'm really anecdotal, might have veered way off-topic.
>> No. 3804 Anonymous
16th December 2014
Tuesday 4:44 pm
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To challenge OP's picture.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22039471

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>> No. 3788 Anonymous
12th December 2014
Friday 5:40 pm
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What's the cheapest microscope that I can use to monitor my sperm count? I essentially just need to check that my vasectomy hasn't reversed itself and that I am still swimmerless.

I've had a quick look on ebay and you can get a USB microscope for under £20. Would something like that do the trick or do I need to get a proper one?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/50-500X-8LED-Digital-USB-Microscope-Endoscope-Magnifier-Camera-Black-UK-Stock-/181403261945?pt=UK_BOI_Medical_Lab_Equipment_Lab_Equipment_ET&hash=item2a3c7a1bf9
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>> No. 3792 Anonymous
13th December 2014
Saturday 7:11 pm
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>>3788
I once looked at my own jizz in a microscope, too - I used a cheap plastic one to be honest, it was a lot less than 20 quid. You don't need much.
>> No. 3793 Anonymous
13th December 2014
Saturday 7:26 pm
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>>3791

You made me choke on my tea, you sly, cheeky bastard.
>> No. 3794 Anonymous
13th December 2014
Saturday 7:31 pm
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Why are you doing this OP? Are you trying to forecast the next assassination attempt?
>> No. 3795 Anonymous
13th December 2014
Saturday 7:48 pm
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Christ, lad. You can get a kit from Boots for£30 rather than putting your spunk under a microscope.

http://www.chemistdirect.co.uk/babystart-fertilcount-male-infertility-test/prd-rg3

http://www.boots.com/en/Spermcheck-Male-Fertility-Test_1369922/
>> No. 3796 Anonymous
13th December 2014
Saturday 7:50 pm
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>>3795
That's no fun.

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