I was invited to write another article for EP Lab Digest, and while I got my copies of the print version a few weeks ago, the online version just came out. I apologize in advance for the trite bit at the end, but I was under time pressure and had a hard time figuring [...]

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The Guardian has an article up about studies involving omega-3 fatty acids and populations of alocholics and violent prisoners. Some of the scientists quoted in the article suspect that an increase in omega-6 fatty acids and decrease in omega-3 fatty acids in the diet has affected people’s brains over the last century.
The results are not [...]

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As I’ve noted in previous posts, as I read a paper, I underline relevant passages. I also circle references I’m interested in. The paper then goes into my “to-map” file.
I like to “map” papers when I’m feeling braindead — when I’m too tired or too mentally exhausted to do things requiring extensive thought. This consists [...]

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An article from the BBC covers one man’s theory about a bifurcation in the human race. He presumes that over long periods of time, sexual selection combined with dependence on technology will lead to beautiful, athletic men and women on one end of the spectrum, and hunched ugly little trolls of men (and women) on [...]

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Apple’s iCal has the ability to use timezone-aware scheduling. This comes in handy because I sync it with my Treo, which changes time zones automatically. Unfortunately, sometimes it’s easy to forget which time zone you’re looking at, and become confused.
Yesterday I accidentally discovered that if you change your date/time format preferences to include time zone [...]

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