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Truth about calories

Saturday, September 8, 2012

There is an excellent post at Scientific American about calories in context. One of the most prevalent and perhaps erroneous assumptions about nutrition is that all of the energy in the foods you eat is bioavailable. This truth is more complex.

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Facebook

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Facebook IPOD basically flat. I would say it was priced correctly (no money left on table) except there are at least 1-2 weeks of Morgan Stanley supporting the price at $38.

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Why you are fat

Sunday, May 20, 2012

A mathematician tells it straight: you are fat because there is too much food about. And thus, you eat too much.

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The benefits of graduate school

Sunday, January 10, 2010

You might want to think twice about getting a law degree. The extent of the bimodality of legal salaries is quite stark.

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Fuck Black Friday

Friday, November 27, 2009

It started innocently enough – many years ago with the media reporting that the day after Thanksgiving was the busiest shopping day of the year. No news at all really, just a conspiracy of a day off, forced time with family, and boredom; this ‘busiest shopping day’ is now dubbed ‘Black Friday.’ The only thing […]

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In place upgrade from Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Professional

Thursday, October 29, 2009

I have no idea why Microsoft insists on a clean install when upgrading from Microsoft Vista Home Premium to Microsoft Windows 7 Professional. In fact, I don’t really care. I want to do an in-place upgrade. I’m a busy person and don’t have time to dick around for 8-12 hours installing, moving files, moving settings, […]

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They were curious Orange

Sunday, October 25, 2009

They were invulnerable to cool. Their horses loved them too.

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iTunes gets a watched folder

Friday, September 11, 2009

At last with the new version of iTunes 9.0 contains a special watched folder. On the PC, navigate to your iTunes Music folder and look for the folder titled “Automatically add to iTunes.” Music you place in this folder will be added to your library instantly. Bravo!

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12 More Bubbles

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Think gold might be a bubble? You are not alone in that.

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Bernard Sumner Acoustic

Monday, July 13, 2009

Bernard Sumner does four songs on acoustic guitar, includes links to mp3s.

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