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Is the #glycemicindex a useful measure of #carbohydrate
metabolism?http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/asbmbtoday_article.aspx?id=49410 An issue: Individual variation in sugar response

#Saturn [has] hexagon[al] hurricane, 4X size of Earth nyti.ms/1oMfqEV Unusual shape replicate-able in labs! pic.twitter.com/DdNHgZSero

http://www.nytimes.com/video/science/space/100000003031795/storm-chasing-on-saturn.html?smid=tw-nytimes

How the Paleolithic #Diet Got Trendy
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/07/28/stone-soup #Paleo may look faddish, yet you could argue the reverse: agriculture is a fad

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Paleo may look like a food fad, and yet you could argue that it’s really just the reverse. Anatomically modern humans have, after all, been around for about two hundred thousand years. The genus Homo goes back another two million years or so. On the timescale of evolutionary history, it’s agriculture that’s the fad.
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Annals of Alimentation JULY 28, 2014 ISSUE
Stone Soup

[#Truvia] Sweetener Is Toxic To Fruit Flies
http://cen.acs.org/articles/92/web/2014/06/Sweetener-Toxic-Fruit-Flies.html … #Xylitol kills dogs; #diet & #health

Doctor’s Quest to Save People by Injecting Them With Scorpion Venom http://www.wired.com/2014/06/scorpion-venom Ethical issues in #funding “tumor paint” research

Cover story @Time: Ending the War on Fat… & Starting one on carbs http://time.com/2863227/ending-the-war-on-fat Commentary @Slate:
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2010/03/end_the_war_on_fat.html #Diet

Slate title: The misguided war on fat may be making us sicker.

The Deadly Dynamics of #Landslides
https://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2014/4/the-deadly-dynamics-of-landslides/1 Many forms: Slow moving liquified #rock to boulders zooming along on air cushions

Belles lettres Meets #BigData
https://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2014/4/belles-lettres-meets-big-data/1 #Statistical analysis of literature pre-dating recent advent of digital #humanities

The Quest for a Natural #Sugar Substitute. Can #Stevia’s Reb-A be sweet enough for Diet Coke while remaining natural?
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/magazine/the-quest-for-a-natural-sugar-substitute.html

The New Century of the Brain: Nice overview of some new #brain mapping technologies & the government’s big initiative
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/technologies-for-hacking-brain

http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v310/n3/full/scientificamerican0314-38.html