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Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike spam.

I think the idea of e-mailing a brief post to a blog is more natural than composing blog entries at the blog software’s website. So I’m going to give this “blog instead of e-mailing Jaime” thing another try.

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August 13, 2008

Massage after Exercise may have Scientific Basis

http://www.physorg.com/news137780454.html

This is science. The real deal. Rather than believing hype from people with a fiscal incentive to convince us to buy massage, we should fund and learn from research that really does seem to show evidence.

I've never had a massage in my life. This makes me wonder if I should try it sometime after a hard workout.

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August 12, 2008

Follow-up on Toddler Nutrition

Another study, from the same cohort of children, shows diet at THREE years of age affects scholastic development between the ages of 7 and 10.

http://www.physorg.com/news137770057.html

Yes... you feed your kid junk food when he's three, and he can't keep up with his peers 4 to 7 years later.

This is another example where you kind of go... well DUH... but then go... wait... we have EVIDENCE now.

All the more reason to stick to our guns and essentially eliminate junk food of all kinds from Niall's diet. (Unless he's sharing MY junk food. That's OK because it's so cute. *grin*)

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August 12, 2008

Great Plastic Container Summary

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=plastic-storage-containers-bisphenol-a&sc=rss

This lists pretty much each kind of plastic and information on risk factors for chemicals leaching into food for each.

I only take two things away from this for us to remember.

1) Take-out Styrofoam food containers need to be emptied into our own containers when we get home before they go in the fridge.
2) Meat and Cheese containers from the store should also be emptied into our own containers or plastic bags when we get home.

The meat and cheese thing I found surprising. I knew about the rest of them already.

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August 12, 2008

THIS Is Interesting Stuff

http://www.newsweek.com/id/151758

I assume we'll see this article in the print version at some point but it was /.'ed yesterday.

Key idea: Genetic variations affect whether children react properly to certain parenting styles.

Cool conclusion: Different "child gurus" who offer conflicting advice on how to raise children may have each had a different child (genetically) and thus both approaches worked for those parents for THOSE children.

In other words: YMMV

Question: Do we want to go get Niall (or our future children) tested to see what we can see now? I am not sure.

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August 11, 2008

This is Science?

It seems weird that such common-sense things need scientific proof.

http://www.physorg.com/news137690624.html

But on the other hand, I guess it's good that we have some proof to point to when we tell idiot parents they are ruining their children.

Key scientific conclusion: You control what your children eat.

Astounding, eh?

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August 11, 2008

Oh great...

... I finally get on the Google bandwagon and find out the iGoogle web page is a nest of vipers.

http://www.physorg.com/news137470554.html

Yeah, you read that right. Put a cute gadget on your iGoogle home page and a hacker takes over your computer. *sigh*

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August 11, 2008

If this guy gets elected...

... we are going to be in for at least four more years of crap.

http://scienceblogs.com/framing-science/2008/08/agents_of_intolerance_more_on.php

It's one thing to brush off the idiotic e-mails making the rounds about Obama being a closet Muslim or "smuggling Al Qaeda into the US". It's quite another when McCain's campaign is actively pursuing this kind of misinformation strategy with religious propaganda.

If McCain is elected because his operatives managed to play on the ridiculous superstitions of such a large part of the electorate, we are going to have to deal with him catering to this group of idiots for four years.

It's enough to make one feel the US is hopelessly doomed.

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August 8, 2008