Do you have freedom to eat whatever you want? Maybe. Just like you have freedom to smoke, with a whole lot of exceptions. Confectionery markers say they are worried that the march of a ‘super-nanny state’ will trample all over them in the quest to blame everything for obesity except the people who eat too much. They are concerned people who eat candy will be vilified, like smokers. Smokers,...
read moreAnti-science people with a 'natural' fetish don't understand that the random and unpredictable nature of...nature...is a bad thing. All of the funding campaigns and Internet rants of environmentalists are only possible because scientists and engineers harnessed the power of dangerous, unpredictable nature at one point in time - we don't try to power our homes and business with all-natural...
read moreHas global warming made it too darn hot to think about autumn events like Oktoberfest? Can't choose between a milkshake and a beer? You are in luck, the Red Robin restaurant chain is simply mixing the two. A cold beer milkshake can appeal to beer enthusiasts and dessert-lovers, they believe, so now through November 11th, they are selling a Samuel Adams® Octoberfest Milkshake. You can...
read moreThink sodas and other drinks are too sweet? You are not alone.Barry Nalebuff, professor of economics and strategy at Yale School of Management, thought that too and so 14 years ago he started Honest Tea Inc. with one of his students. They make tea that tastes like tea and it has fewer than 100 calories each. They will have sold 100 million bottles this year.But not in New York City....
read moreThe date for solving 'cold cases', those unsolved murders from the past, has just been pushed back a little farther. 72-year-old Jack McCullough has been found guilty <edit after a DNA breakthrough placed him at the scene of the abduction of seven-year-old Maria Ridulph in 1957.McCullough, 18 at the time, was initially considered a suspect but was out thanks to an alibi, which turns out...
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