http://www.ars.usda.gov/News/docs.htm?docid=15572#losses
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Sunday, April 03, 2016
Saturday, April 02, 2016
Shared from Twitter: Ask Well: Can Vinegar Aid Weight Loss? - The New York Times
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Nathanael Johnson lets the anti-GMO movement off the hook
http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1530
What is most disturbing about the GMO debate – and why it matters – is that the anti-GMO movement at almost every turn rejects empiricism as a means of understanding the world and making decisions about it. The reason GMO opponents have largely rejected Johnson and his series is not solely because they disagree with his conclusion that GMOs are not an existential threat to our existence – but because they reject his methods. They do not appear to believe that the kind of questions that Johnson asks – "Does insect resistant corn reduce the amount of insecticide used on farms?" – can even be asked. They already know the answer, and are completely unmoved by evidence. - See more at: http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1530#.dpuf
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What is most disturbing about the GMO debate – and why it matters – is that the anti-GMO movement at almost every turn rejects empiricism as a means of understanding the world and making decisions about it. The reason GMO opponents have largely rejected Johnson and his series is not solely because they disagree with his conclusion that GMOs are not an existential threat to our existence – but because they reject his methods. They do not appear to believe that the kind of questions that Johnson asks – "Does insect resistant corn reduce the amount of insecticide used on farms?" – can even be asked. They already know the answer, and are completely unmoved by evidence. - See more at: http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1530#.dpuf
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Friday, April 01, 2016
Thursday, March 31, 2016
Shared from Twitter: Top 10 Design Flaws in the Human Body: Our Bodies Are Full of Hack Solutions
Top 10 Design Flaws in the Human Body: Our Bodies Are Full of Hack Solutions from C. Michael Gibson MD's Tweet
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Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Shared from Twitter: The Craze for Coconut Oil and Its Many Magical, Miracle Uses
The Craze for Coconut Oil and Its Many Magical, Miracle Uses from Cornell DNS's Tweet
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Tuesday, March 29, 2016
100 Great Literary Quotes of Fernando Pessoa | Nishant Mishra
18. "I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided."
Turmeric
Not quite the panacea the natural advocates would hope.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3535097/
https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/turmeric-tasty-in-curry-questionable-as-medicine/
It's bioavailability is very poor also: "In humans receiving a dose of 2 g of curcumin alone, serum levels of curcumin were either undetectable or very low." So in most medical trials some aid to absorption or decrease in metabolic destruction is also used: Neither curcumin nor turmeric taken orally is well absorbed unless taken with black pepper or piperine, a constituent of black pepper responsible for its pungency.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3535097/
https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/turmeric-tasty-in-curry-questionable-as-medicine/
It's bioavailability is very poor also: "In humans receiving a dose of 2 g of curcumin alone, serum levels of curcumin were either undetectable or very low." So in most medical trials some aid to absorption or decrease in metabolic destruction is also used: Neither curcumin nor turmeric taken orally is well absorbed unless taken with black pepper or piperine, a constituent of black pepper responsible for its pungency.
---Steve
Monday, March 28, 2016
Sunday, March 27, 2016
Tweet by We Are Indie Jazz on Twitter
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"Jazz washes away the dust of every day life." - Art Blakey, American #jazz drummer and bandleader | |
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Saturday, March 26, 2016
Runs in the Family - The New Yorker
The Stevens and Barres study, published in the journal Cell in 2007, documented one of the most arresting instances of repurposing in biology: a protein designed to ticket germs and junk for destruction had been co-opted by the nervous system to ticket synapses for destruction. "It reinforces an old intuition," my psychiatrist friend Hans, in Boston, told me. "The secret of learning is the systematic elimination of excess. We grow, mostly, by dying."
Friday, March 25, 2016
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Wednesday, March 23, 2016
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Monday, March 21, 2016
Shared from Twitter: A New View of Appendicitis - NYTimes.com
A New View of Appendicitis - NYTimes.com from The New York Times's Tweet
the appendix serves as a repository of healthy bacteria that can replenish the gut after an extreme attack of diarrhea
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Shared from Twitter: Dietary advice on added sugar is damaging our health, warns heart expert | The BMJ
Dietary advice on added sugar is damaging our health, warns heart expert | The BMJ from Dr Aseem Malhotra's Tweet
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Friday, March 18, 2016
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
The comparative safety of legal induced abortion and childbirth in the United States. - PubMed - NCBI
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/22270271/
CONCLUSION: Legal induced abortion is markedly safer than childbirth. The risk of death associated with childbirth is approximately 14 times higher than that with abortion. Similarly, the overall morbidity associated with childbirth exceeds that with abortion.
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CONCLUSION: Legal induced abortion is markedly safer than childbirth. The risk of death associated with childbirth is approximately 14 times higher than that with abortion. Similarly, the overall morbidity associated with childbirth exceeds that with abortion.
---Steve
Clinton and Sanders and Trump and Kasich and Also a Bit About Cruz and Rubio – Whatever
And what about Marco Rubio, who exited the race last night? Honestly, I can't be bothered to think of him any further. He was always underready, and the fact that the GOP ever seriously considered him as their answer to Obama is a reminder that the GOP neither understands Obama nor understands anyone who isn't white as paste. Look! A young ethnic person! The kids love that! Surely we shall win the White House now! Meanwhile, Rubio's politics were those of a conservative 73-year-old white dude shaking his cane in the yard at the kids riding their bikes in the road (Cruz's politics are the same, except the 73-year-old is also praying for God to send a bear to rip the children to shreds). Dear GOP: Voters do pay attention to policies and positions, not just packaging. Which is why (among other things) an old white man is more popular with under-30 Democratic voters than his opponent.
But now Rubio is gone, and good riddance. He'll soon be gone from the Senate as well, and where he goes from here I have a complete lack of interest, so long as it is in the private sector and I never have to deal with him again. I'm sad for the GOP that he was their Great Establishment Hope for '16, and that what we have left is Kasich, who has no chance, Cruz, who should have "well, actually" in blinking neon over his head, and of course Trump, the walking embodiment of political nihilism and sub-standard cuts of beef. The GOP deserves no better than this, but our nation certainly does.
---SteveTuesday, March 15, 2016
Shared from Twitter: A Song-by-Song Look at What Made George Martin the Fifth Beatle - The New York Times
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Monday, March 14, 2016
Social Media News: Mathematicians Discover A Conspiracy In Prime Numbers
Mathematicians Discover A Conspiracy In Prime Numbers
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Two mathematicians have uncovered a simple, previously unnoticed property of prime numbers — those numbers that are divisible only by 1 and themselves. Prime numbers, it seems, have decided preferences about the final digits of the primes that immediately follow them. Among the first billion prime numbers, for instance, a prime ending in 9 is almost 65 percent more likely to be followed by a prime ending in 1 than another prime ending in 9. In a paper posted online today, Kannan Soundararajan Read the full story
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Sunday, March 13, 2016
Shared from Twitter: Food poisoning expert reveals 6 foods he refuses to eat | Features | Lifestyle | The Independent
Food poisoning expert reveals 6 foods he refuses to eat | Features | Lifestyle | The Independent from The Independent's Tweet
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There's no benefit big enough to take away the risk of drinking products that can be made safe by pasteurization," he says.
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Saturday, March 12, 2016
State laws on how electors are selected and bound in voting might be critical to the outcome of the upcoming Presidential election.
Those of us who view Trump as an outrage to American decency are now starting to see the dangers hidden in a true democracy. Is Trump the prototype of why the Electoral College was conceived, or even if not, can it still be the last desperate tactical bunker to hold the nation away from a disastrous presidency?
---Steve
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NPR: Going, Going, Gone: Master Go Player Loses Best-Of-5 Match With A.I.
Going, Going, Gone: Master Go Player Loses Best-Of-5 Match With A.I.
NPR
Lee Sedol has lost three games in a row to Google's AlphaGo program, which means the program has officially defeated the human. Sedol said the pressure was intense, and he felt "powerless." Read the full story
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Business Insider: Amazon's cloud boss told us something that should terrify a $140 billion industry
Amazon's cloud boss told us something that should terrify a $140 billion industry
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Rob Price Mar 12, 2016 | 10:00 AM ET If you build enterprise hardware, start freaking out. Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images There's no question Amazon is turning the screws on the $140 billion data center tech industry. Amazon has grown to become the single-largest player in the rapidly growing cloud industry as its cloud platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), celebrates its ten-year anniversary. And in the process, AWS has sent shockwaves through the traditional enterprise sector. In an interview Read the full story
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Friday, March 11, 2016
Wednesday, March 09, 2016
Shared from Twitter: How the internet flips elections and alters our thou...
How the internet flips elections and alters our thou... from Kas Thomas's Tweet
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Rationally Speaking: Peas and quiet
http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.it/2012/05/peas-and-quiet.html
But we have to be careful: science isn't in the business of confirming our intuitions, and so our everyday terms may not be adequate to capture the weird, wild, wondrous things that science finds. It's fascinating that peas can send warning signals to one another, but that doesn't mean that those peas are talking, even if "talk" is the term that most easily describes what the peas are doing (6). Once we lose track of our linguistic limits, we fall prey to the dangers of rhetoric.
---Steve
But we have to be careful: science isn't in the business of confirming our intuitions, and so our everyday terms may not be adequate to capture the weird, wild, wondrous things that science finds. It's fascinating that peas can send warning signals to one another, but that doesn't mean that those peas are talking, even if "talk" is the term that most easily describes what the peas are doing (6). Once we lose track of our linguistic limits, we fall prey to the dangers of rhetoric.
---Steve
WHO | Electromagnetic fields and public health
http://www.who.int/peh-emf/publications/facts/fs304/en/
Considering the very low exposure levels and research results collected to date, there is no convincing scientific evidence that the weak RF signals from base stations and wireless networks cause adverse health effects
---Steve
Considering the very low exposure levels and research results collected to date, there is no convincing scientific evidence that the weak RF signals from base stations and wireless networks cause adverse health effects
---Steve
Tuesday, March 08, 2016
Monday, March 07, 2016
Shared from Twitter: Sterilization’s Cruel Inheritance | New Republic
Sterilization's Cruel Inheritance | New Republic from Matthias Rascher's Tweet
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Sunday, March 06, 2016
Uncensored John Simon
http://uncensoredsimon.blogspot.com/
Before a grand landscape, she declared that "this was the work with which Mr. Church plummeted to fame." A rather unique mistake from charming lips, forgivable with friendly titters.
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Before a grand landscape, she declared that "this was the work with which Mr. Church plummeted to fame." A rather unique mistake from charming lips, forgivable with friendly titters.
---Steve
Saturday, March 05, 2016
Wednesday, March 02, 2016
Tourist trap or living history? A review of Union Oyster House at 190. - The Boston Globe
http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/food-dining/2016/02/29/tourist-trap-living-history-review-union-oyster-house/Xru3c9Q7LmKAZKsCD9NLXJ/story.html?event=event25
And that nobody can be bothered to rinse down the outside of the oysters' shells suggests a kitchen that has had 190 years to find its laurels and rest on them.
---Steve
And that nobody can be bothered to rinse down the outside of the oysters' shells suggests a kitchen that has had 190 years to find its laurels and rest on them.
---Steve
Former Scalia Clerk Has a Powerful Message
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2016/02/29/former-scalia-clerk-has-a-powerful-message/
Scalia passed away in his sleep at a luxurious hunting lodge. He died as he lived, gun at hand, dreaming of killing helpless prey from a position of safety and comfort. May his successor on the Court have a loftier vision of law, and of life.
---Steve
Scalia passed away in his sleep at a luxurious hunting lodge. He died as he lived, gun at hand, dreaming of killing helpless prey from a position of safety and comfort. May his successor on the Court have a loftier vision of law, and of life.
---Steve
Tuesday, March 01, 2016
Justices OK child porn sentence in war of words
What? Only Kagan on the Supreme Court can read basic English?
Justices OK child porn sentence in war of words
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/03/01/supreme-court-child-pornography-scalia-sotomayor-kagan/81148620/
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Justices OK child porn sentence in war of words
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/03/01/supreme-court-child-pornography-scalia-sotomayor-kagan/81148620/
---Steve
Monday, February 29, 2016
Shared from Twitter: The technology at the heart of the Apple-FBI debate, explained - The Washington Post
The technology at the heart of the Apple-FBI debate, explained - The Washington Post from Christopher Soghoian's Tweet
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Sunday, February 28, 2016
Montini: "Hey, moron, name one 'common sense' gun law"
Check out this article from azcentral:
Montini: "Hey, moron, name one 'common sense' gun law"
http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2016/02/27/montini-gun-control-gabrielle-giffords-waiting-period-background-check/80944154/
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Montini: "Hey, moron, name one 'common sense' gun law"
http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2016/02/27/montini-gun-control-gabrielle-giffords-waiting-period-background-check/80944154/
---Steve
Saturday, February 27, 2016
Acetaldehyde
Acetaldehyde is a product of most hydrocarbon oxidation reac- tions and is a normal intermediate in the respiration of most higher plants. It is found in trace amounts in many plant products, includ- ing apples, broccoli, co ee, grapefruit, grapes, lemons, mushrooms, onions, oranges, peaches, nectarines, pears, pineapples, raspberries, strawberries, cranberries, sour cherries, and mango. It has been de- tected in the essential oils of alfalfa, rosemary, balm, clary sage, daf- fodil, bitter orange, camphor, angelica, fennel, mustard, peppermint, and lychee, and in oak and tobacco leaves and cotton leaves and blos- soms
---Steve
Friday, February 26, 2016
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