Unhappy Meals by MICHAEL POLLAN
It starts with the simple advice and conclusion of the piece:

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy. I hate to give away the […]

I recently attended a workshop on invasive species distribution and spread modelling. One interesting thing to note, is that APHIS has lost a lot of biological inspectors (people trying to intercept biological contaminants that may result in foreign species establishing in the USA) to Homeland Security. A similar thing has happened in Canada with CFIS […]

So yesterday, at the end of my journey from Vancouver, my luggage got left in Sydney, Australia. Whereas I went all the way through to Christchurch. “That’s fine” I thought, since Christchurch airport promised to deliver the luggage to my house the next day.
It just arrived. But one of the zippers is broken off, and […]

What I’d really like to see is a standard database design for media libraries.
I use different media players for different purposes, and also different media players across platforms. It’s annoying as hell to have to refresh the database for each whenever there is a change, especially when your music collection is pushing 280 gigs. Lets […]

I’m watching Earth to Mars: The Great Debate in my hotel room in Vancouver, because it’s horrible and rainy outside.
Anyhow one of the factoids they showed was that Nasa’s policy on sexual relations in space is that it’s fine as long as it doesn’t interfere with mission objectives. Good to know they’ve thought of these […]