Slime Mold Time Mold

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Slime Mold Time Mold is a recurring publication in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between March 03, 2021 and October 30, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Also from the Slime Mold Time Mold blog: a critique of the research on hypobaric hypoxia causing weight loss”; “Slime Mold Time Mold graciously hosted it on their blog”; “the Slime Mold Time Mold blog has been arguing”. It most often appears alongside FDA, Matt Levine, Substack.

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  • Category: Publications
  • Mention count: 3
  • Issue count: 3
  • First seen: March 03, 2021
  • Last seen: October 30, 2025

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March 03, 2021 · Original source
32: Also from the Slime Mold Time Mold blog: a critique of the research on hypobaric hypoxia causing weight loss. I’d previously cited the research favorably in my post on why obesity negatively correlates with altitude; the SMTM authors have a different theory where it has to do with how many pollutants are in your water (the lower you are, the more runoff has made it into your water supply).
September 22, 2022 · Original source
I translated it a few months ago and Slime Mold Time Mold graciously hosted it on their blog, where I posted the english version and a short preface: https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2022/05/17/norway-the-once-and-future-georgist-kingdom/
October 30, 2025 · Original source
33: For the past several years, the Slime Mold Time Mold blog has been arguing that rising obesity rates cannot be a simple matter of changing diets, and must be due to some chemical contaminant, plausible lithium. In 2022, Natalia Mendonca wrote a long and exhaustively-researched takedown of the hypothesis. Since then, I have been hoping the Slime Mold Time Mold team would respond to Natalia; after pestering them on Twitter, they have kindly written a response to at least my summary of Natalia’s argument. And Natalia responds to their response here, including an extra point challenging whether lithium levels have really risen over the timeframe being discussed.