My favourite physicist
Monday, October 31st, 2011Just one link for two books: Fine Feynman Fare: Freeman Dyson reviews two new books about Richard Feynman.
Archive for October, 2011
HFCS is not equal to other sugar
Sunday, October 30th, 2011Why High Fructose Corn Syrup is bad for you: Sugar: The Bitter Truth (link via MetaFilter).
“Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin.”
In an octopus’s garden…
Friday, October 28th, 2011MetaFilter: “You’d chase them under the tank, back and forth, like you were chasing a cat” links to Deep Intellect –
Inside the mind of the octopus by Sy Montgomery.
There are some other interesting links in the comments, a mimic octopus alternately morphing into a flatfish, several sea snakes, and a lionfish and the oldie-but-goldie Where’s the octopus? (longer version than the one you may have seen years and years ago).
There’s more octopus goodness in this older thread, for example this anecdote about a pet octopus.