New York chain restaurants are now obliged to display calories of their offerings. The result? Fettuccine Alfredo weighs in at over 3000 calories. One of the appetizer option (ribs) is about 2300!
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Astroturf activism: The creation of a campaign that looks like grassroots activism, but isn’t
eSkeptic newsletter has a fascinating story about how a Canadian law designed to force health supplement companies to correctly label their goods or face serious fines has come under fierce attack from a faux consumer watchdog campaign mostly orchestrated via Facebook and [...]
Superb post from Positivity Blog on the Wisdom Of Bruce Lee. Sake sure you see the full post for links to resources and discussion. Here is a summary:
1. What are you really thinking about today? - “As you think, so shall you become.”
2. Simplify. - “It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away [...]
The elliptiGO glide bike combines the best aspects of running and cycling to create a fun and effective means of exercising outdoors.
[From E L L I P T I G O - Glide Bike]
[Update: Not so fast folks! In an article sent to me by Steve over at BB Films, I see that professional divers are being advised to do CPR as usual (with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation). I think the consensus now is that if you cannot bring yourself to do mouth-to-mouth, then at least just do the compressions [...]
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Please watch this powerful and beautiful short speech by Jill Bolte Taylor about how she came to observer her own stoke as it happened, and how it transformed her life.
TED | Talks | Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight (video)
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
From the New York Times:
Researchers in New York believe they have solved one of the great mysteries of the flu: Why does the infection spread primarily in the winter months?
The answer, they say, has to do with the virus itself. It is more stable and stays in the air longer when air is cold and [...]
Friday, November 16, 2007
From Channel 4 website:
A video obtained by a charity shows the life for many inside Serb mental hospitals amounts to a version of hell. Unending cruelty if not by design, then by neglect. And yet tonight Serbia’s Prime Minister said it’s all “fabricated” and “malicious”. Source: Channel 4 - News - Serbia’s secret shame
This [...]
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
The New Yorker serves up a brilliant article this week on how fMRI scans of people in a “vegetative state” have revealed astonishing evidence that many have an active mental life, and some might argue may actually be conscious.
The findings are having powerful effect on not just the diagnosis of individuals with brain injuries, but the very concept [...]
Monday, September 24, 2007
Ever wonder why those beaten and abused spouses stay with their abusers? Do you know why it is so hard to stop a gambling habit? It has to do with a bizarre trick of nature called variable reinforcement, and it can keep us trapped in behaviours for life.
From “Don’t Shoot the Dog!” by Karen [...]