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  • NYT: Did you ever solve the question posed to you when you were first hired — what caused the obesity epidemic?
  • Carson Chow: We think so. And it’s something very simple, very obvious, something that few want to hear: The epidemic was caused by the overproduction of food in the United States. Beginning in the 1970s, there was a change in national agricultural policy. Instead of the government paying farmers not to engage in full production, as was the practice, they were encouraged to grow as much food as they could. At the same time, technological changes and the “green revolution” made our farms much more productive. The price of food plummeted, while the number of calories available to the average American grew by about 1,000 a day. Well, what do people do when there is extra food around? They eat it! This, of course, is a tremendously controversial idea. However, the model shows that increase in food more than explains the increase in weight.
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M16, a.k.a. the Eagle Nebula — you see that Tetris’ creators’ hypotheses concerning the universe’s true shape are partially vindicated Hubble Space Telescope, 1995 View high resolution

M16, a.k.a. the Eagle Nebula — you see that Tetris’ creators’ hypotheses concerning the universe’s true shape are partially vindicated

Hubble Space Telescope, 1995

Posted in Alexey Pajitnov Eagle Nebula Hubble Space Telescope NASA OPP Tetris Vadim Gerasimov science M16
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“The objects most likely to do major damage are asteroids of one hundred meters or greater in diameter.  The odds of an object this size hitting the earth over the next one hundred years are about 5 to 1.  An asteroid in the one-hundred-meter to one-kilometer range would devastate whatever area it struck, killing every person for hundreds of miles — but probably would not imperil civilization as a whole.” — Gregory Baer, Life: the Odds (and How to Improve Them) (picture by David Mazzucchelli excerpted from Asterios Polyp) View high resolution

“The objects most likely to do major damage are asteroids of one hundred meters or greater in diameter.  The odds of an object this size hitting the earth over the next one hundred years are about 5 to 1.  An asteroid in the one-hundred-meter to one-kilometer range would devastate whatever area it struck, killing every person for hundreds of miles — but probably would not imperil civilization as a whole.”

— Gregory Baer, Life: the Odds (and How to Improve Them)

(picture by David Mazzucchelli excerpted from Asterios Polyp)

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There was a time when the newspapers said that only twelve men understood the theory of relativity. I do not believe there ever was such a time. There might have been a time when only one man did, because he was the only guy who caught on, before he wrote his paper. But after people read the paper a lot of people understood the theory of relativity in some way or other, certainly more than twelve. On the other hand, I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.
— Richard Feynman, The Character of Physical Law
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this is a real thing, not a Pokemon Behold, the water bear, the only beast known to be able to survive the vacuum of space If it learns how to get bigger than 1.5 mm, beware !!

this is a real thing, not a Pokemon

Behold, the water bear, the only beast known to be able to survive the vacuum of space

If it learns how to get bigger than 1.5 mm, beware !!

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pregnant seahorse (male) They eventually engage in their “true courtship dance” lasting about 8 hours, during which the male pumps water through the egg pouch on his trunk which expands and cleaves open to display an appealing emptiness. (via Wikipedia) View high resolution

pregnant seahorse (male)

They eventually engage in their “true courtship dance” lasting about 8 hours, during which the male pumps water through the egg pouch on his trunk which expands and cleaves open to display an appealing emptiness.

(via Wikipedia)

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american walmart of mental illness putting international mom and pop lunacy out of business

Even as we have congratulated ourselves for becoming more “benevolent and supportive” of the mentally ill, we have steadily backed away from the sufferers themselves. It appears, in short, that the impact of our worldwide antistigma campaign may have been the exact opposite of what we intended.

Ethan Watters, “The Americanization of Mental Illness”, New York Times, 8 Jan 2010
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hideous depigmentation of europeans explained by david lynch incognito

“It Is Connected With Eating Cereal”

— something Lynchian about that guy’s writing voice.  His speaking voice isn’t far off, either:

http://sim.thestudyofracialism.org/topics.php?top=E1

vogdoid:

we got all freakish & pasty from eating too much bread in the dark
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astonishing surgery

“When soft hands cut, stitched and moved organs around, the monitor readings held steady, but they spiked up and down when rough hands took over.”

vogdoid:

this article made me feel many feelings, but mostly awe.  you should read it
Posted in medicine science reblog New York Times Tomoaki Kato
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(via fullswoop) so THAT’S where my penis is …! I’m reblogging this w/ my whole meaty part of my palm close to my thumb

(via fullswoop)

so THAT’S where my penis is …!

I’m reblogging this w/ my whole meaty part of my palm close to my thumb

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