US States that voted Republican in 2008 "are now the biggest losers in the fight against childhood obesity," and yet they are also the states that most reject efforts to reduce obesity.

To me, the interesting thing about this table is what we public health people call “tracking.”  Obesity tracks...

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The Italian attitude to rules and regulations -- that they exist only for other people -- is one of the most maddening things about living here; except, of course, when it works for you.

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Philippe Starck knocks 'em dead at TedTalk 2007. And all the time I'm watching, I'm thinking, "is this possibly how Eddie Izzard comes over in France?". Laughs, yes, and pathos too, but somewhere, deep beneath the surface, some rather stimulating ideas.

Here's the introduction to a rather nice reader's story that Andrew Tobias put on his blog:

This past Christmas Day I was home cooking for my husband when I saw a news report about a grass roots organization operating here in Atlanta, the Global Soap Project. It was founded by a man named D...

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I just opened my second 10kg bag of Bongiovanni¹ type 0 high protein organic bread flour. Total cost of flour plus some other goodies, almost €34.75. I decided that the bread stash could reimburse me for its raw materials, which it now has without too much pain. Not enough dough to give up the da...

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