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Twinkie diet helps nutrition professor lose 27 pounds - CNN.com "Twinkies. Nutty bars. Powdered donuts. For 10 weeks, Mark Haub, a professor of human nutrition at Kansas State University, ate one of these sugary cakelets every three hours, instead of meals. To add variety in his steady stream of…
What is the sun doing in the sky? Let's celebrate with some links. Science: Charity: Save Four Million Lives With Vaccines Grape-Sized Amoeba Raises Questions About Origins of Animal Life Risk, probability, and how our brains are easily misled An early cure for parents' vaccine panic Other: The…
This piece was co-authored with Sir Harold Kroto. New legislation suggests a more appropriate name for the U.S.A.: The Unenlightened States of America. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder recently announced the "Defending Childhood" campaign, focused on violence prevention, offering an opportunity…
Links for you. Science: Five statistical things I wished I had been taught 20 years ago Safe havens for disease: Low vaccination rates in some Illinois schools raise risk of outbreaks, experts say (and this picture is worth a thousand words) Bachmann: Schools should teach intelligent design (will…