Rather than mindless mechanisms for routines, habits are a species of belief that display a great deal of intelligence

Welcome! This is going to be the first of a new sort of post we’ll do from time to time where I answer a number of shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are at the Patres …

Human evolution favors energy conservation, but has our evolution worked against us since inactivity — sitting — is linked to health risks? A new study of a modern hunter-gatherer society finds that they lack health risks for heart disease and metabolic disease…