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Slime Mold Time Mold

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Slime Mold Time Mold

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Slime Mold Time Mold is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between December 11, 2021 and February 09, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “Slime Mold Time Mold for help with structure, scope, and editing”; “We’re the mad scientists behind SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD”; “pushing back against Slime Mold Time Mold’s case for the chemical contaminant theory of obesity”. It most often appears alongside Africa, Bitcoin, Denmark.

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  • Category: Organizations
  • Mention count: 3
  • Issue count: 3
  • First seen: December 11, 2021
  • Last seen: February 09, 2023

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

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December 11, 2021 · Original source
Slime Mold Time Mold for help with structure, scope, and editing
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February 03, 2022 · Original source
#52: Help Slime Mold Time Mold Investigate Chemical Causes Of Obesity We’re the mad scientists behind SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD. We think there’s a good chance the obesity epidemic is caused by environmental contaminants. We wrote around 60,000 words about this on our blog — read it at achemicalhunger.com. Right now our number one suspect is lithium. Even if we’re really wrong about the obesity thing, someone should be looking into the fact that there’s way more of this mind-altering metal (lithium) in our water than there was 50 years ago, and right now that’s us. The budget for our immediate projects is $650,000, of which we’ve raised $125,000 as of this writing. But in the long term it will probably take several million to cure obesity, and if we get that sooner, we can spend less time waiting around and writing grant proposals. We promise to turn any donations into research. We will share all our research publicly, as fast as we can put it out. If it turns out not to be lithium we will look into other contaminants; if we find evidence against contamination we will try to figure out a new theory that works. If we solve obesity and we still have money left over we will turn that money into some other kind of mad science. Donations can be made to Whylome, Inc., a 501(c)3 pending nonprofit focused on funding this research. If you want to help, please email slimemoldtimemold@gmail.com.
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February 09, 2023 · Original source
38: Natalia Mendonca continues her series pushing back against Slime Mold Time Mold’s case for the chemical contaminant theory of obesity. Even though I was already doubtful of SMTM’s case, I found this really helpful because of the argument that obesity hadn’t suddenly increased at a specific point (usually claimed to be the 1960s) but had been increasing gradually since at least 1900 - I think this matches what you would expect from increasing affluence and food-making technology, and not what you would expect from some specific dietary nutrient/toxin being the villain. Also, Natalia finds no real evidence for the oft-quoted idea that wild animals are gaining weight, which again rules out some of the more exotic theories and removes a challenge to the boring old caloric intake explanation.
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