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News Briefs 01-03-2010

Dinner-friendly edition. (I’ll let Greg explain – if he wants to.)

Thanks Greg!

Quote of the Day:

If you’re at the cutting edge, then you’re going to bleed.

Neuroscientist Nancy Andreasen, in Depression’s Upside.

  1. egyptian diet
    they say
    [quote]
    The state of the priests’ arteries and hearts may explain why even the ancient Egyptian elite had low life expectancies of 40 to 50 year
    [/quote]
    It seems to me that the life expectancy of the elite was probably limited by infectious disease, accidents, physical abuse and such things.

    They conveniently don’t compare the life expectancy of the elite to that of the non-elite, who enjoyed a diet low in protein.

    I don’t think it makes any sense to compare ancient diets with today’s recommendations. Not that today’s recommendations are particularly healthy.

  2. predictable phone customers?
    Sure the researcher believes that the phone customers are always in the places where calls take place.

    In fact this is a highly organized deception. People give their phones to others, and make them place calls, so that the phone company thinks they are in a certain place.

    People in Britain know that their employers and their spouses will get their hands on this information. So they construct this harmless-looking facade of the hard working, obedient subject of her Majesty. When in fact they are at the pub laughing at the phone company.

      1. indeed
        Indeed that’s what is being measured. They present no data on people who don’t use cell phones a lot. And I think this could be a significant number – many people have phones and don’t talk much.

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