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Conan likes to mock his writers: “Conan's Writers - Conan O'Brien, The Boss (Paley Center, 2008)” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-G7figtITM#t=1m32s), attack his employees: “CONAN O'BRIEN & ANDY RICHTER vs Team Nerdist - All Star Celebrity Bowling” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz479KngUys#t=2m7s), and derides his assistant: “Conan and his assistant, Sona” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeGF-A8fB8k&NR).

Conan really takes it to you: “Conan & Jordan - Freak Show ” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6S8QL-JkE0

Everyone else is able to laugh it off, but it seems like you could be prone to holding pent-up anger.

There was a skit where Conan asks the crowd whether they want to give you health insurance, or have an expensive orchestra play for 10 seconds. The crowd repeatedly booed you, kept cutting your plan, and wanted to play the orchestra for another 10 seconds, and the camera kept getting a close-up of your annoyed, yet stern face.

It's just a skit, but a bit of real emotion must be seeping through.

Q: Will you 1 day explode in a fiery fit of rage.

Are there any healthy and enjoyable dishes that you recommend people try?

Intermittent fasting provokes substantial remodeling of the gut microbiome.

The intermittent fasting–provoked upregulation of butyric acid–producing Lachnospiraceae provides an obvious possible mechanistic explanation for health effects associated with intermittent fasting.

Remodeling of the gut microbiome during Ramadan-associated intermittent fasting

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Volume 113, Issue 5, May 2021, Pages 1332–1342,

doi/org/10.1093/ajcn/nqaa388

https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/113/5/1332/6195748

Intermittent fasting, leads to an increase in A. muciniphila and B. fragilis group, which were considered as healthy gut microbiota members.

Serum fasting glucose and total cholesterol levels were also significantly reduced in all of the subjects

(2019). Islamic fasting leads to an increased abundance of Akkermansia muciniphila and Bacteroides fragilis group:

A preliminary study on intermittent fasting. The Turkish journal of gastroenterology: the official journal of Turkish Society of Gastroenterology, 30(12), 1030–1035.

https://doi.org/10.5152/tjg.2019.19185

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6924600/

There is also restricting greatly over a few days at the start of a diet to give you a boost:

Fasting alters the gut microbiome reducing blood pressure and body weight in metabolic syndrome patients, in Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22097-0

rather than just viral videos

The videos are also a form of self-expression.

Points for contributing to neuromuscular disease (ALS, muscular dystrophy, Parkinson's disease, cerebral palsy, etc.) computing projects

World Community Grid uses BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing).

BOINC is a software platform for distributed computing using volunteer computing resources.

One of the World Community Grid projects that you can choose involves investigating protein-protein interactions for 40,000 proteins whose structures are known, with particular focus on those proteins that play a role in neuromuscular diseases.

You could probably get more people to donate to nonprofits if more of them would be involved with things like the smart phone charity apps that are available, such as the BOINC app, and Google One Today (for Android and iOS).

All points or contributions are recorded on an online profile, and they should eventually connect to something like the leaderboard, and achievements system of Xbox, PS, or Google Play Games.

People by nature can be mostly status-conscious, self-interested, and competitive.

Reputation and points systems can affect motivation, and may be the only source of motivation for some people to do something charitable.

Reddit karma, Stackoverflow points, and blood donations

Reddit karma is a factor as to why Reddit comments are not like YouTube comments.

Whether you think Reddit karma is ridiculous or not, a lot of people value Internet points.

They allow people to show off.

When people answer my questions on Stackoverflow, some of them might really want to help, but some of them might just care about gaining more points.

To me, it doesn’t matter, as long as I get my questions answered.

Some people donate blood for the money, and some people donate blood because of a different cause.

If I need the blood, I don’t care what a donor's motivation was.

If it’s not charity points, people will continue to show off by spending on clothes, cars, jewelry, wearable electronics, wearable gadgets etc..

If you can shift it to a better cause, why not?

Sometimes, recognition, a record, and competition are necessary.

I guess any attention is good for awareness.

Any attention, good or bad, is good, and any kind of donation, no matter the motivation (e.g. showing off your ice bucket video, or showing off your charity profile and points), is good.

A small public service announcement

It's not Carpal Tunnel Syndrome or RSI; it's Tendinitis or Tendinosis

RSI is an umbrella term for any strain due to repetition. Perhaps it's tendinosis.

Tendinitis is the initial inflammation of the tendons, and tendinosis is the failed healing, and structural change of the tendons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendinosis

South Park got it wrong

South Park got it wrong in that WoW episode. Carpal tunnel = numbness and tingling due to a pinched nerve. Cartman receiving Bengay is indicative of inflammation of the tendons, and not carpal tunnel tingling.

Pain vs. Numbness

"A predominance of pain rather than numbness is unlikely to be caused by carpal tunnel syndrome no matter what the result of electrophysiological testing."

CARPEL TUNNEL SYNDROME : A REVIEW Gadhave S. V.1*, Moon R.S., Kshirsagar R.V. 1Department of pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, SRTM University Nanded-431606, Maharashtra.

http://www.ijprd.com/CARPEL%20TUNNEL%20SYNDROME%20_%20A%20REVIEW.pdf

“When pain is the primary symptom, carpal tunnel syndrome is unlikely to be the source of the symptoms.”

The Value Added by Electrodiagnostic Testing in the Diagnosis of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19047703

Race horses

Race horses are susceptible to tendinitis and tendinosis in an injury called a bowed tendon, as they’re massive creatures on twig-like legs, being pushed hard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowed_tendon

Basketball players and runners

Basketball players get jumper's knee, known as patellar tendinitis, from excessive, repetitive jumping. Runners get achilles tendinitis from repetition + bad ergonomics (got mine from flat feet and overpronation).

Pau Gasol of the Los Angeles Lakers has tendinosis in knees - receives stem cell injections

Gasol also will receive stem cell injections next week

"After talking to several specialists, I'm going to proceed to regenerate both of my patellar tendons and working hard to get back to my 100%," Gasol wrote on Twitter.

"It's more than tendinitis, it's tendinosis," Gasol said. "There's a degeneration of the tissue, and it's something that I've dealt with all year. So I'll have to do something to regenerate the tissue so I don't have to play with this pain."

http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/story/_/id/9256397/pau-gasol-los-angeles-lakers-procedure-knees

tl;dr It's all about the overuse of tendons, as carpal tunnel compression of nerves is not often caused by repetition. Chronic tendinitis = tendinosis. 

Eye-tracking

Here's a new, additional input option to help give your hands a break: eye-tracking. There's the Eye Tribe eye control technology for Android smartphones and tablets, and the NUIA eyeCharm: Kinect eye tracking.

If you stare down at your device for too long, you could get a neck strain. If you put your device upright with a tablet holder, excessively reaching out to press can cause pain. Gorilla arm syndrome: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchscreen#.22Gorilla_arm.22

failure to understand the ergonomics of vertically mounted touchscreens for prolonged use. By this proposition the human arm held in an unsupported horizontal position rapidly becomes fatigued and painful

Eye control can be lower in physical exertion.

Speech recognition

Lastly, there's now a free, open source GNU/Linux speech recognition program that uses Google's voice APIs on the back-end called Palaver.

Google+ community for Palaver:: https://plus.google.com/communities/117295420902112738135