You well curate the news from my perspective, and I am grateful for that.

The fascinating article regarding using HIV as a vector for improving the immune systems of people is an amazing demonstration of the principle that technological advance inevitably increases the power of individuals versus institutions, and on a completely novel interpretation of that law: individual organisms versus parasitic species, like disease organisms, rather than cultural institutions and civilians.

The BTC article reinforces certain predictions I make regarding how AI will be useful to individuals to employ decentralized technology, such as DLTs, instead of being a mechanism enabling globalists and banksters to prey on us. While BTC is a dinosaur technologically, it remains culturally relevant due to the reality of a learning curve regarding new tech, and the benefits of BTC assumed in the article more properly should be ascribed to the DLT technology - blockchain - itself, of which Steem is one of the best examples of modern technological advancement.

I am further glad to see retractions of papers beginning, as too much fake news infests science today. CO2 being trumpeted as a dangerous pollutant is perhaps the best example of this presently, since it is actually a vital nutrient to the global ecosystem on which we all depend for our lives, and that very nearly was so depleted during the LGM as to cause catastrophic and irreversible whole ecosystem extinction.

Lastly, regarding diets in general, it is informative to consider how people ate throughout prehistory, as it is almost undeniable that meals were not available thrice a day, or even daily, as a rule, prior to the advent of refrigeration and food preservation technology. Our bodies are designed to cope with intermittent availability of foods, and intermittent fasting is the protocol that best mimics nature.

Eating once a day, as a rule, and skipping days from time to time, or even weeks as necessary to control morphology, has proved to be easy and extremely beneficial not just in my personal experience, but in longevity studies. It is far less distressing to not eat at all until it's time to eat to satsifaction than it is to eat meals too small to satisfy. By fasting, I once reduced my weight from ~22 stone to ~ 19, in about a month, with no ill effects on my health or aesthetically, such as stretch marks.

After the first few days, the experience of hunger is less distressing during a fast, and the emotional enjoyment of a full meal is almost indescribably beneficial. I have no doubt that focusing diet on high value nutrition, as the KETO diet does, is beneficial, but simply avoiding highly processed foods composed mostly of carbs is a lot simpler and nominally successful at providing nutrients. Combined with intermittent fasting, I reckon it's the most natural and easy way to provide good nutrition and control morphology.

Thanks very much!