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Splenda Reduces Gut Bacteria in Rats by Seth Roberts .. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine This 2008 study done at Duke University found that small amounts of Splenda — similar to what a person might consume — reduced “beneficial bacteria” in ... Read on »

Interview with Tyler Cowen by Seth Roberts .. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Tyler Cowen’s new book Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World has a lot to say about two topics in which I am especially interested: autis ... Read on »

Acid Reflux is Immune Problem, Says Rat Study by Seth Roberts .. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine A study using a rat model of acid reflux found that the problem is inflammation caused by the immune system, not stomach acid damaging tissue, as had previously been thought.[ ... Read on »

BoingBoing on Natto by Seth Roberts .. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine This post by Lisa Katayama told me a few things I didn’t know — especially that there is “good soy” and “bad soy”. Good soy is mainly ferme ... Read on »

In Your Wheelhouse by Seth Roberts .. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I’d never heard the phrase in your wheelhouse (= in your area of expertise) until a few days ago. Now I’ve heard it twice: once on Ugly Betty, once on Glee. Maybe ... Read on »

Depression and Insomnia Linked at CureTogether by Seth Roberts .. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Fourteen years ago I woke up one morning and felt really really good: cheerful, eager, and yet somehow serene. I was stunned: There was no obvious cause. I hadn’t slept ... Read on »

Obesity and Your Commute by Seth Roberts .. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine In the 1950s — before the invention of BMI (Body Mass Index) — Jean Mayer and others did a study of obesity at a factory in India. They divided workers by how much ... Read on »

Best TV Season Ever by Seth Roberts .. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Here are my favorites (better to worse):Mad Men.Glee.Lie to Me.The Good Wife.Survivor.Amazing Race.Ugly Betty.Most seasons I might like three shows as much or more than I like ... Read on »

Pork Scrap by Seth Roberts .. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine In a New Yorker podcast, Calvin Trillin says:I live in Nova Scotia in the summer. And I hear a lot of talk about how Newfoundlanders eat mainly pork scrap.Hey, that’s wh ... Read on »

The Return of Charles “Disgraced” Nemeroff by Seth Roberts .. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine So soon! Nemeroff, you may remember, took large sums of money from drug companies and failed to disclose them. What is that line about teaching an old dog new tricks? Here is ... Read on »

Chatting With a Hacker by Seth Roberts .. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Someone broke into my gmail account. (I have regained control.) The hacker sent an email to about twenty people asking for money. To be sent to London. Here is a gchat convers ... Read on »

Pfizer, After Having Its Way with the Good Citizens of New London … by Seth Roberts .. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Apparently Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, the biggest drug company in the world, needs all the bad publicity it can get. One of the last things Jane Jacobs wrote was a friend-of-the- ... Read on »

Gatekeeper Syndrome by Seth Roberts .. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine If the original Milgram obedience experiment weren’t scary enough, in the 1960s a researcher named Hofling did a variant in which nurses were ordered to give twice the m ... Read on »

Dance Dance Revolution by Seth Roberts .. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Just as addictive as everyone said. It reminds me of racquetball, which I could play for hours. But racquetball required going to the gym, getting dressed, finding someone to ... Read on »

Leonard Mlodinow on Wine Experts by Seth Roberts .. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine They’re just like us!In France, a decade ago a wine researcher named Fréderic Brochet served 57 French wine experts two identical midrange Bordeaux wines, one in ... Read on »

A Chinese Joke by Seth Roberts .. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine In a Shanghai apartment, the phone rings. A friend of the occupant answers the phone. “It’s someone from a rural area,” he shouts to the occupant. (Shanghai ... Read on »

More Black-and-White Thinking by Seth Roberts .. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Here’s part of a speech that Geert Wilders, the Dutch politician, gave in New York in February:There might be moderate Muslims, but there is no moderate Islam. Islam wil ... Read on »

The Parable of the Wii by Seth Roberts .. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine For exercise (Dance Dance Revolution) and self-tracking, I decided to buy a Wii. My first attempt, I was scammed. It arrived in August. With difficulty, I took it and accessor ... Read on »

Mistaken Consensus in Physics? by Seth Roberts .. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Steven Sheets writes:I can’t really think of an area in physics where a consensus has been achieved only to be shown to be completely wrong.Good point. I know little abo ... Read on »

Three Things Elizabeth Kolbert Doesn’t Know by Seth Roberts .. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine A staff position at The New Yorker is the best journalistic job in the world. Elizabeth Kolbert, a very good writer and reporter, has one of them. In the current issue, critic ... Read on »

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