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271: No Such Thing As A Safe Robot

No Such Thing As A Fish

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The Treadmill in the Office

A study in 2015 looked at people having treadmills in the office. The idea is that being sitting down all day is not good for you, so what if you had a treadmill? And it found that people who used a treadmill desk for two hours every day had significantly better blood pressure and slept better at night. But they performed worse on almost all aspects of their job,. including the ability to concentrate and the ability to type. They were substantially slower in all tasks and more error prone. Wow. That's amazing. It's on the train. Oh, my gosh. That makes perfect sense. I did this exact same thing with boats, didn't they? With ferries in

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