-
Reflections after my first year on a medically-supervised obesity treatment program
I recently composed a piece on my first year in the Partners for Healthier Weight program. The full post is here:
http://lindensmith.com/2013/first-year-reflections -
huh?
Is there a reason why I can't go more than 20 entries into the past on my friends page on LJ anymore? There's no more "older" entries link, and if I manually change the URL to skip=40 or whatever, nothing is displayed.
WTF! -
Overview of Charles Duhigg's The Power of Habit
I just wrote up a detailed overview of a book I recently read which rang some loud bells for me throughout. I tried to provide enough info in the overview that you don't actually have to read the book! But it's still totally worth reading if you're interested in the topic, because it's really well-written and contains a lot of fascinating stories ( Read more... ) -
Words of Warning from Joan Baez + Starfucker covers Cyndi Lauper
I just read this lyric in a recent issue of Lapham's Quarterly and thought it was great. From "Silver Dagger," a traditional American ballad from the 1930s that Joan Baez covered in the 60s, apparently.Don't sing love sounds, you'll wake my mother ( Read more... ) -
Dr. Arya Sharma on how The Biggest Loser promotes weight bias
Dr. Sharma, an Edmonton, Alberta-based obesity researcher (and I think bariatric surgeon?) posted a short but excellent entry about the pernicious effects that weight-loss reality shows like The Biggest Loser promote negative and incorrect attitudes about the obese ( Read more... ) -
wtf is up with these customized Google SERPs?
So I posted an article yesterday about a book review I'd read about a brain researcher named Michael Gazzaniga, and then this morning I got a Google Alert for my name which referred to the article. But it tagged my LJ version of the article instead of my own personal writing site, which I don't totally understand but whatev ( Read more... ) -
On Michael Gazzaniga’s book, “Who’s in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain”
University of Victoria philosophy professor Jeffrey Foss, himself author of a book called Science and the Riddle of Consciousness: A Solution, reviewed this recent book by scientific researcher Michael Gazzaniga in Saturday's Canadian newspaper, The Globe and Mail. Gazzaniga's book looks at the ancient question of whether or not humans have free ( Read more... ) -
interactive model on the size of the observable universe
This zoomable model of the universe is really fascinating.
http://htwins.net/scale2/
It goes all the way to the smallest theoretical particles and out to the boundaries of the observable universe. Totally stunning. -
From the David Feldman comedy podcast
From a recent episode of one of my favourite satirical podcasts by the darkly hilarious stand-up comedian and comedy writer David Feldman ( Read more... )