I’m excited to announce that with this post I am launching Mastering Nutrition PODCAST! Here are episodes 1, 2, and 3: I would love it if you could give me feedback by heading to ITunes, subscribing, and leaving me a rating and review. If I get a positive response, I’ll begin releasing more content …
New over at Mother Nature Obeyed: Did Family Planning Contribute to the Modern Decline in Infectious Disease Mortality? Enjoy!
In 46 BC, Julius Caeser reformed the Roman Calendar, making December 25 the date of the winter solstice. In the northern hemisphere, this day marks the progressive increase in the length of days, and thus marks an annual celebration of light coming into the world.The astronomical solstice progressively drifted away from this date through the …
O Solid Fat, turn not thy face from thy Lord, for my budget is in trouble. In “Fructose, Public Policy, and the Low-Fat Reeducation Camp,” I made the following prediction: If they come for our fructose, they will come for our fat next. It seems that Denmark has provided some evidence for this postulate by …
The next post in my Masai series is up over at Mother Nature Obeyed:
This is the third and final installment of The Masai Part I: A Glimpse of Gender, Sexuality, and Spirituality in the Loita Masai over at Mother Nature Obeyed: The Masai Part I: A Glimpse of Gender, Sexuality, and Spirituality in the Loita Masai (installment 3) In this installment, we see a historical example where a …
The rapid advance of the sequencing of the genome of humans and other species has revealed how little we actually understand about how our cells operate. Consider this passage from the fifth edition of Molecular Biology of the Cell (2008, p. 207): Accurate gene identification requires approaches that extract information from the inherently low signal-to-noise …