Beer makes me fat

No, not part of my diet, but a line from a Pat Green song we heard on the way to school today. You know my kids love their drinking songs, and this one is fun to sing along with… Every day in lunch in High School and all of my senior year I’d drink my […]

SF Books that, well, I need to read

Found this at Candleblog. 100 Science Fiction Books You Just Have to Read I have read distressingly few of these. And I thought I read a lot of SF. I guess it just shows how much there is out there to read. Of course, before I embark on a reading spree I really need to […]

Obesity, etc.

Boing Boing! linked a Harvard Article about carbohydrates and obesity. Stealing the quote they quote from the (long) article: “We are not adapted to handle fast-acting carbohydrates,” Ludwig continues. “Glucose is the gold standard of energy metabolism. The brain is exquisitely dependent on having a continuous supply of glucose: too low a glucose level poses […]