war and pizza
I am still recovering from a weekend jaunt in the countryside, which felt like some of the toughest training I’ve done for a while. The reason: I had to go to the woods with my just-turned teenager...
View Articlereasons to cheer the underdog
The Economist this week has two stories back-to-back in its Science and Technology section on cognitive enhancement. Not surprisingly the first one, which is about the widespread use of...
View ArticleNassim Taleb, Evolutionary Fitness and The Sunday Times
So, I was fretting about underdogs in the last post. This past weekend, the Sunday Times Magazine ran a long interview with Nassim Taleb in which he was described as “now the hottest thinker in the...
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epilepsy and earthquakes
I had a migraine a few weeks ago. As migraines go it was a breeze, really. There was no piercing headache, just a vice-like tension that I would normally associate with the before- and, to some...
View ArticleGary Taubes, obesity, science and journalism
Given that there is an obesity epidemic, you might expect that when one of the world’s leading science writers, Gary Taubes, addresses the subject — challenging thirty years of official dietary advice...
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ancestral fitness
I thought I should point you in the direction of a new anthology of blog posts, written by some of the leading online proponents of ancestral fitness. It’ll soon be available at...
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The Sunday Times, Art De Vany and Evolutionary Fitness
Eagle-eyed readers will have noticed that today Bryan Appleyard published his long-awaited interview with Art De Vany in The Sunday Times Magazine. For new subscribers to this blog, Professor De Vany...
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Zane Andrews, carbs, appetite and obesity
This preoccupation with refined carbohydrates and their exclusion from diet may look odd, but the evidence confirming the significance of removing or moderating their intake continues to mount....
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friday fractal iv
Correlation does not equal causation. But since abandoning refined carbohydrates I’ve developed a passion for brassicas, the more lightly cooked the better. Happy New Year. Donate and help me buy...
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Taubes, Yudkin, Keys and chocolate tax
A Scottish doctor today is arguing for a tax on chocolate to tackle obesity and the concomitant rise in type II diabetes. Of course some, including myself, have been labouring under the impression...
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