Random links
- US integrity effort hits troubled water
- ”Allegations by integrity officer who lost his job are a setback for plan to quash political interference in science.”
- Is Creativity more like IQ or Expertise?
- Though IQ is fairly stable in different types of tests, creativity doesn’t seem to be.
- Canadian nutrition label claims often wildly misleading, tests show
- Looks like the claimed levels of nutrients, etc. in a lot of packaged food don't line up - with more than half failing in tests done by food inspectors. (I wonder how much variation there is between samples in some of these - or how much nutrients might degrade as the product goes stale post-manufacturing).
- Prescription Foods : What to eat to cure your ills
- Cherries as an anti-inflammatory with similar chemical compounds as ibuprofen is an interesting starter...
- Tenfold rise in stay-at-home fathers in 10 years
- "Main reason given by families for men looking after children was that the woman was the higher earner, according to study"
- The Island At The Center Of The World: The Epic Story Of Dutch Manhattan And The Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
- Currently about halfway through this book. One interesting reference on p. 176 for anyone with a Dutch background - "by Dutch custom women often kept their maiden names" - not sure when after the 17th century this changed.