Followup on the FDA
November 25, 2013 Comments Off on Followup on the FDA

Food Navigator

This is a follow up on the already cynical post of Nov 17 — but read Food Nav’s full post — because it gets so much worse…

98-year-old Dr Fred Kummerow is an emeritus professor of comparative biosciences at the University of Illinois who has studied heart disease for more than 60 years.

He is seeking a judgment declaring that the FDA’s failure to ban the use of partially hydrogenated oils (the source of ‘artificial’ trans fats), and its delay in issuing a final response to his 2009 petition, violate the Administrative Procedure Act and the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
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How wise people think.
November 24, 2013 Comments Off on How wise people think.

Dailygood

Wisdom is the ability to make sound judgments and choices based on experience. It’s a virtue according to every great philosophical and religious tradition, from Aristotle to Confucius and Christianity to Judaism, Islam to Buddhism, and Taoism to Hinduism. According to the book From Smart to Wise, wisdom distinguishes great leaders from the rest of the pack. So what does it take to cultivate wisdom?
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And now, from the who’da thunk it department…
November 17, 2013 Comments Off on And now, from the who’da thunk it department…

Harvard

Trans fats, once seen as harmless additives that ended up in everything from Twinkies to French fries, are finally getting the reputation they deserve – bad for health.

For years, the FDA has labelled trans fats as “generally recognized as safe.? That term applies to substances added to foods that experts consider safe, and so can be used without testing or approval.
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The need for two kinds of truth.
November 13, 2013 Comments Off on The need for two kinds of truth.

Big Think

I think it would diminish the hostilities, which are bad for our culture if more scientists were, in fact, willing to stand up and say that faith and science need not be in conflict because right now that’s a minority view that doesn’t get heard very much and it’s apparent to some people that we are having more of a cultural war – a war that seems to imply that some worldview needs to win and some world view needs to lose.
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How to send people to their deaths to fight for a cause.
November 8, 2013 Comments Off on How to send people to their deaths to fight for a cause.

Berkeley

These are two different ways of being cooperative-cooperation on different terms. A lot of our political disputes are about individualism versus collectivism: To what extent are we each responsible for ourselves, and to what extent are we all in this together? We see this, for example, in issues such as the health care debate and climate change.
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Brain aging and disease.
November 4, 2013 Comments Off on Brain aging and disease.

Mind Body Green

It’s then that I explain that in fact there’s a lot that they can do to meaningfully impact their risk for Alzheimer’s disease and it’s not in the form of anything purveyed on a prescription pad.

I discuss the work of Dr. Deborah Barnes, a dedicated Alzheimer’s researcher at the University of California San Francisco whose report in the prestigious journal Lancet Neurology demonstrated that specific modifiable lifestyle factors like physical inactivity, diabetes, and smoking are associated with an astounding 54% of Alzheimer’s cases in the United States (2.9 million patients).
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It’s not just a kiss.
November 4, 2013 Comments Off on It’s not just a kiss.

New York Times:

The participants generally rated kissing in casual relationships as most important before sex, less important during sex, even less important after sex and least important “at other times.? (To clarify: researchers defined kissing as “on the lips or open-mouth (French).?)

Past research has shown that three types of people tend to be choosier in selecting mates who are genetically fit and compatible:
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The family that prays together…?
November 2, 2013 Comments Off on The family that prays together…?

Salon

I was questioned earlier this week over a comment I made to a client that going to church alone would do little to protect marriage and that divorce rates were higher in the pews. That statement was both desperately right – and yet, the more I look at it, somewhat wrong.

Now that I’ve done the research, I may as well post it…
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Learning to see when you are being manipulated
October 31, 2013 Comments Off on Learning to see when you are being manipulated

Life Hacker

Underselling is probably one of the easiest and most effective ways to plant an idea in someone’s mind. This is another version of reverse psychology but at a less aggressive level. Let’s say you’re trying to sell someone a hard drive. They could buy a 250GB, 500GB, or 1TB hard drive.
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All work and no play…
October 21, 2013 Comments Off on All work and no play…

The Guardian

Marriage has become a minefield of unattractive choices. Japanese men have become less career-driven, and less solvent, as lifetime job security has waned. Japanese women have become more independent and ambitious. Yet conservative attitudes in the home and workplace persist.
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Session Notes

Followup on the FDA

How wise people think.

And now, from the who’da thunk it department…

The need for two kinds of truth.

How to send people to their deaths to fight for a cause.

Brain aging and disease.

It’s not just a kiss.

The family that prays together…?

Learning to see when you are being manipulated

All work and no play…

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