AskScience AMA Series: I'm Herman Pontzer, an anthropologist and professor at Duke University. My new book, BURN, shares new research on how the human metabolism really works so that we can finally improve health and manage weight. AMA!

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For five minutes you get transported 30 years into the future, you sit in front of a computer, what information to you look up?

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LPT don't get discouraged about dating or relationships because of what you see online. People who are in healthy/happy relationships aren't posting about it on the internet.

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Having a dog is extremely selfish

(Serious) Redditors who believe they have ‘thrown their lives away’ where did it all go wrong for you?

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What are some of the worst business practices you’ve seen?

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Minimalism in "poor" countries?

Does anyone else feel like they aren't doing enough towards their PhD?

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I made a video arguing, that Marx and Smith really aren't opposite- thought this would be appropriate to link here

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When did you realize you're not as intelligent as you thought you were?

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TIFU by lovingly laying out some clothes for my GF to wear the next morning

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What games have you spent literal months of your life on?

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Everyone's favorite bird this time of year. Happy Thanksgiving!

AskScience AMA Series: We are U.S. and European partners on the world's latest Earth-observing satellite, Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, which will observe changes in sea levels for at least the next decade. The spacecraft is "go" for launch on November 21. Ask us anything!

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Living where you are

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My 1950’s Hoover vacuum that was passed down to my parents from my grandparents and then from my parents to me. Still does a great job!

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What's one thing you said you won't do when you were a kid but now you do it all the time?

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