Random links
- A beef with Taco Bell: When is meat not really meat?
- Apparently Taco Bell's "seasoned ground beef" only contains 36% beef - someone's starting a class-action lawsuit in protest. Here I'm guessing that the lawyers will be the primary winners - although a name change for Taco Bell's "beef" might be in order.
- Thought for Food: Imagining Food Consumption Reduces Actual Consumption
- "A new study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, published in Science, shows that when you imagine eating a certain food, it reduces your actual consumption of that food. This landmark discovery changes the decades-old assumption that thinking about something desirable increases cravings for it and its consumption."
- Why You Need to Be Critical in Order to Be Teachable
- A quote from "How to read a book"; learning is an active process.
- Why 3D doesn't work and never will. Case closed.
- I saw a bunch of 3D imax stuff growing up, but haven't been to see any of the more Hollywood-style films in 3D. Suspect that I probably won't either - I seem to recall the 3D stuff being kinda headache-inducing as this piece notes.