Don't have room in your stomach for 36 eggs but you really want those equivalent calories in one delicious treat? Head to The Cheesecake Factory with me and get their French Toast Napoleon, which is basically bread dunked in cream and powdered sugar. It clocks in at a delightful 2,530 calories(!) read...
read moreNobel prize-winner Daniel Kahneman - a laureate in economics but a psychologist at Princeton University in New Jersey, has thrown the gauntlet down to one group of psychologists to restore the credibility of their field - by creating a replication ring to check each others’ results. Kahneman is a pioneer in behavioral economics, the irrational ways we make decisions about risk. If you like...
read moreRussian feminist punk-rock (and, if we are being honest with each other, not very good) band Pussy Riot's 15 minutes of anti-religion fame may be about up. Russia has turned its social authoritarianism on something new; PepsiCo.
read moreA 45-year meta-analysis of 240 science studies found that 'organic' processed food is the same in pesticides, the same in nutrition and a whole lot more expensive."...there isn’t much difference between organic and conventional foods, if you’re an adult and making a decision based solely on your health,” said Dena Bravata, senior author of the paper and a physician at Stanford’s...
read morePeople who are either clueless or shills for anti-science hysteria insist 'something is better than nothing' when it comes to laws about food, and that we can just 'fix' it despite its flaws but we should go ahead and pass it if we care about what we eat.It's smart to reject such simplistic black or white thinking. Especially in California. This state has too many problems to count and 'fix...
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