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VR nonetheless stinks, and its stench has many notes. It reeks of rich white guys, who wildly overfund and constantly overhype the always-on-the-verge-of-a-breakthrough expertise. It has a festering funk of entrenched privilege,…

Since leptin is released by fat cells, scientists believe its presence in the blood is likely to signal to the brain that the animal is in an environment where food is ample and there’s no need to conserve energy. The new work suggests…