I’m not actually here.
I’ve put all my blogging energies this week into a guest post for Allie’s Answers. I’m on the food bandwagon again (the chuckwagon?) and after doing some research have discovered that I’m killing polar bears with my diet. Or at least wasting a lot of energy. Go and get your recommended daily [...]
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Now you’re coming back, stronger than you ever were before
Shock shock horror horror shock shock horror
While not particularly thrilled to find this lady in my letter box this afternoon, I was delighted with the photo opportunity and to have Space’s 1996 Latin tinged classic bopping about in my head for the rest of the day…
A thousand thundering thrills await me
Facing insurmountable odds gratefully
The female of the species is more deadly [...]
You may as well feed your kids pork rinds.
As an update to Wednesday’s post:
Nobby’s Pork Crackle – Saturated Fat: 5.7g/100g
Heinz Little Kids Yogurt Meusli Fingers (Sultana Apple) – Saturated Fat 8.1g/100g
In other words, in many ways* you are better off feeding your kid fried pork skin than these Heinz snacks that are designed for toddlers.
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*To be fair, the Pork Crackles have loads of [...]
Come on, save my soul. I need some sugar in my bowl.
Like any good parent, I’m concerned about what I feed my kid. I’m not a zealot, I give the boy an occasional piece of chocolate or one of Dr. O’C’s oatmeal raisin cookies when she deigns to make them. But if there is one thing that I hate it is being screwed over by big [...]
Watch your soul, cause science is golden
As many of you probably know, Merck’s pain killer Vioxx turned out to be a bitter pill. Merck pulled the drug in 2004 because a number of reports regarding an increased risk of stroke and heart attack associated with use of the drug. The company has since accepted a $4.85 billion settlement in the U.S., [...]
Sooner or later, darling, you’re gonna get eaten
My pet theory regarding the demise of the Neanderthals is that they were the victim of our Paleolithic ancestors’ more murderous impulses. I know that this sort of flies in the face of the shiny happy sentiment of my post last week regarding the inherent ‘goodness’ of human nature, but I’m nothing if not idiosyncratic.
This [...]
Don’t look for me, I’ll get a hand
For those of you keeping track at home, I’ve been about six weeks without a cigarette during this latest quit attempt. Instead of smoking, I’ve developed the cross-addiction of obsessively reading the latest medical research about all the different ways in which smoking will kill you. This gives me a sense of relief that can, [...]
How in the world can a poor man eat?
“Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.” -Aaron Levenstein
I am a dedicated carnivore. Vegetables are cute and all and make the plate look real pretty, but I see no need for them beyond decoration. Potatoes are a bit like Styrofoam packing peanuts – they serve as good [...]
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Were he biblical in his longevity, Charles Darwin would be 200 years old today. This year is also the 150th anniversary of his groundbreaking “Origin of Species”. I was listening to a Podcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered” the other day about the controversy still surrounding Darwin in the U.S. – a program which prompted [...]
Are you human or a dud?
Based on my students’ evaluations, I spent most of last semester boring them for a few hours every Monday morning. I was running short of material toward the end of the semester, so I started throwing in lectures about topics that interested me regardless of whether they were particularly relevant. One of these is human [...]
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