Food Reward: a Dominant Factor in Obesity, Part IV

What is Food Reward? After reading comments on my recent posts, I realized I need to do a better job of defining the term "food reward...

TEPCO Like a Pregnant Schoolgirl: Fukushima Round Up 26/05/11

I cannot think of a more fitting analogy than the pregnant schoolgirl, nuclear accidents on this scale have the same inevitability about the...

Avoid carbon monoxide poisoning when opening camps this weekend

As summer approaches and Mainers start opening up their camps for the season, the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention warns of ...

Healthy Skeptic Podcast

Chris Kresser has just posted our recent interview/discussion on his blog The Healthy Skeptic .  You can listen to it on Chris's blog he...

Don't Flush The Loo In Oceania

Police State Supreme Court Ruling Further Erodes Fourth Amendment Privacy Rights Jacqueline Marcus 22/05/2011 No film can truly reconstruct ...

Not The Post-Rapture Round Up

These comments are one of the reasons why I would never consider atheism: atheists are the nastiest, rudest, foulest, most arrogant, most ...

Oath Keepers and the Age of Treason

I used to think all these right wing gun nut groups, and there is no one further to the right than this lot, were batshit crazy, now I'm...

Ron Paul to Obama: Stop Dictating to Israel

When I first read the headline of this story I thought, this doesn't sound like Ron Paul, it's more like a sound-bite from the Mitt ...

Admiral Mike Mullen Talks Shite

I wonder if they have seasons on his planet? Poor hard done to, much misunderstood hired assassins, what a load of delusional jingo-tripe if...