Assorted Links
- Japan Korea kimchi dispute
- Dirt restaurant in Tokyo. The dirt is treated to kill bacteria, which I think is a mistake.
- Around 2005, a teenager combined DNA analysis with public data to find his biological father (a good example of personal science — using science to help yourself). Recently some professional scientists showed this wasn’t a fluke. The teenager was far ahead of the professionals, in other words. Just as I discovered that my acne was antibiotic-resistant long before professional dermatologists discovered (or at least published) the idea that some acne was antibiotic-resistant.
- Edward Jay Epstein and Vladimir Nabokov. I told this story here.
- If high-school students designed their own school
Thanks to Alex Chernavsky.
March 3rd, 2013 at 8:15 am
Ahoy, Seth: this is interesting.
http://extragoodshit.phlap.net/index.php/heart-surgeon-speaks-out-on-what-really-causes-heart-disease/#more-208026
But is it genuine?
March 3rd, 2013 at 8:50 am
Dearieme, I looked into Dr. Lundell. See http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/lundell.html
March 3rd, 2013 at 2:17 pm
I did smell a rat. It comes from having read so much Global Warming rubbish, I suppose.
March 3rd, 2013 at 5:23 pm
I often look for Korean-made kimchi in the supermarkets here in Japan. You read the labels of the regular stuff and its filled with sorbitol, MSG, etc — typical long list of chemical labels. Japan’s processed food industry is second to none!
Seth: Since the Japanese live longer than anyone else, even South Koreans, apparently food processing isn’t so bad. Yakult is the one processed food I eat regularly, not counting flaxseed oil.
March 4th, 2013 at 5:15 am
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/its-the-sugar-folks/
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0057873
“In other words, according to this study, it’s not just obesity that can cause diabetes: sugar can cause it, too, irrespective of obesity. And obesity does not always lead to diabetes.
The study demonstrates this with the same level of confidence that linked cigarettes and lung cancer in the 1960s”