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Can I Drink My Own Pee?

The army puts pee on the "do not drink" list because of its salinity, where drinking urine will make you more dehydrated than if you drink nothing at all. However, the urine is sterile, does not have any bacterial (unless you have an infection), it contains electrolytes, some little bit of hormones, and mostly water!

The more hydrated you are, the more water (vs salt) there is in your pee. So, in extreme situation, if you know you are about to run out of water, you could save your pee and drink it early on, while the contents of your pee are still predominantly water.


What Got Will Hatton Curious About Backpacking?

Will was due to join the Army, but before doing it he decided to do a 10-week physical challenging program in Costa Rica. While out there on a three week hike, he ended up in a hospital. Months of recovery and physical therapy later, he was no longer eligible to join the Army. Unsure what to do, Will took all his savings and moved to India, where the real adventure began.


What Happens When Parents Are Hard On Themselves?

When parents feel guilty or discouraged about not doing the jobs they think they should, it can motivate parents to become better parents for their kids.


How Did Giselle Lose Her Hair?

According to Alice, this is not a thing, but Giselle’s hair fell out due to having a really good shag with one of the clients. Giselle claims it was due to a “genital” defect she inherited from her mother. Rocky probably means congenital— two completely different things.


How Will We View Industrial Agriculture In 100 Years?

Selden thinks that we’ll look back at industrial animal agriculture and think about how we’re barbarians. We’ll be shocked and appalled that we did it because it’s bad and inefficient for the environment.


Why Did Joel Make Buffer As A Distributed Team?

Originally started in the U.K. and his co-founder, who was also in the U.K., Leo joined him. They started working together while living 30 minutes away from one another by train. Because of this, they worked together on Buffer for about one day at week and collaborated with one another using Skype.

His distributed team was formed naturally and consisted of people located in different areas of the world. Joel was given advice to either go remote or have everyone in the same place because it’s difficult to maintain between the two scenarios. So, he decided to make Buffer a fully remote team.


How Did Matt Mullenweg Get His Initial Word Press Users?

Matt used to read a lot of blogs, and seeing a lot of spam on those blogs, he would reach out to the owners and proposed to help them switch over to WordPress instead.


Is This Virus Going To Change Our Outlook On Life?

Chamath think this is a great time to reset your view of the world.

Chamath: "I think conspicuous consumption is unimportant, helping each other is important taking unnecessary vacations because it drives your instagram follower feed is fucking stupid, making sure that we can contribute the incremental dollar we have so that other people could get tested and get back to work, that's a good use of money."


What Is Wrong With Social Media Trying To Solve Covid19 Problems?

Om thinks that too many people are pretending to be experts on everything. Instead, he says it's okay to come to terms with not knowing, and to let actual experts to solve certain problems.

Bijan speculates that people are trying to have a conversation about the problems at hand, speculating on a solution, and it just does not come across in the right away.


How Much Does It Cost To Make A Music Record?

Caspar Babypants records music in his home, and burns his songs on the old-school CDs, costing a grand total of $4 to product an entire album.

He is making more money as a one-man show, playing for parents and their kids, than he did while being the lead singer of The Presidents of the United States of America.


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