I didn't see this article on nutritionism from Michael Pollan last year. I wish I had. Speaking in a no-nonsense style, he tells us just how little scientific knowledge of food that we have.

Quoted: The story of how basic questions about what to eat got so complicated reveals a great deal about the institutional imperatives of the food industry, nutritional science and journalism.

Scientists are starting to use World of Warcraft to model real world responses to pandemics. Cool!

Quoted: WarCry

Time has a nice little piece which shows a bit of the way that Dean Kamen views his own inventions and their slow adoption curves.

Quoted: Inventor Dean Kamen sounds off on Segway's disappointing start and his other new projects

Getting fat? Take a nap!

Software that helps you get more bootie via a scientific approach. Brilliant!

You see now? That's just disgusting.

Quoted: Computer mouses found in cyber cafes have been ranked as the second most bacteria-infested items in a list of commonly touched objects. -

This is quite amazing. The same women have their photographs taken every week for six weeks. The composite when you correlate the ones at the peaks of their hormone cycles look entirely different than the composite from the other end of the cycle. Wild. Apparently we guys just always look bad...

Just in case you needed any further justification to quite smoking.