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Interesting. I’ll read the paper and get back to you either in a PM or in a different thread. My first thoughts are that we saw this kind of weight loss before in mice with fatty acid synthase inhibitors, which, if I remember correctly (it was more than 20 years ago) eventually were shown to be...

One of my favorites, out of many. My all time favorite has got to be Laphroaig 16.

My under grad and grad degrees are in biochemistry and my career was as a scientist conducting research in metabolic diseases utilizing cell biology, molecular biology and biochemistry. And, of course, I’m a bass player.

While the Blackstar Flybass 3 has its place - I use mine at really low volume when I’m figuring out and transcribing parts, and for campfire U-Bass type stuff - I agree that is not really musically satisfying. I find the compressor to be mostly useless. Good luck to your friend. He is lucky to...

I also second the Shure SE215s. They cost about $110.00, and are widely available. Even though they are single drivers, I prefer them for stage monitoring over my Westone UM30 Pro iems, which cost almost four times as much. I use Comply foam plugs. For me, the SE215s have better isolation, and I...

+1000 on getting a 13 inch tablet. I use an iPadPro 12.9” 256 GB, generation 2, that I bought from Apple website as a refurbished item. That saved about $200 off the cost of new, about 7 or 8 years ago. I use it for all my 400 or so charts in standard notation for my pop/rock bands, Real Books...

Agreed with the above: iRealPro is handy especially for on the fly key changes, many, maybe most, of the charts are at least as accurate as those in the Real Books, there are also charts for pretty much all the Beatles tunes, and lots of other pop/rock/blues/folk tunes, I find using an iPad Pro...

I have three Hamilton metal hanging stands that I have used for the past forty years or so on stage without a problem. Maybe I’ve just been lucky.

Siegel-Schwall Band?

The world and life is not a zero sum game. The data is so blazingly clear. Yet, we are often raised to believe that it is. Sports are a zero sum game. There are defined rules and boundaries, thus winners and losers. Life is not so black and white. When we were young, we played Battle of the...

Lots of good advice has already been given. I will only add (or reinforce) that EVERYONE makes mistakes. It is just that those with more experience recover from mistakes more quickly, and in the end make fewer of them. I once heard YoYo Ma make a mistake in concert playing one of the Bach pieces...

Last weekend before I attended a funeral memorial service. I don’t have to wear dress shoes very often these days, but when I do, I always shine them before hand. I have some gigs where I have to wear dress clothes (tux, suit, dress blacks, etc.), so I shine my dress black shoes. I have maybe...

Ron Carter’s All Blues was the first album I heard where I thought that the bass was recorded comparably to a pop or rock album. Not that it sounded the same, but I put the bass recording up there with McCartney on Abbey Road. It was a real ear opener for me, and a seminal recording in my jazz...

In 60 or so years of playing, I’ve only ever had a string break twice. Once was a g string, most likely a RotoSound Swing Bass round wound, probably back in the late ‘70s or early ‘80s. The other was a Thomastik Jazz Round E string that came unwound, maybe 15-20 years ago. I played RotoSounds...