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Dried mussels: A little plate with 160 g of protein (plus some comments on high-protein low-carbohydrate dieting)

Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the …

Nov 25, 2013

Latitude and cancer rates in US states: Aaron Blaisdell’s intuition confirmed

In the comments section of my previous post on cancer rates in the US states ( ) my friend Aaron Blaisdell noted that: …co…

Nov 11, 2013

Aging and cancer: The importance of taking a hard look at the numbers

The table below is from a study by Hayat and colleagues ( ). It illustrates one common trend regarding cancer – it increase…

Oct 28, 2013

How to handle a dog attack

For most people, dog attacks are not very common. But they happen occasionally, and the experience can be traumatic. Incid…

Sep 30, 2013

Waist-to-weight ratios in pictures: The John Stone transformation

John Stone is a bodybuilder and founder of a bodybuilding and fitness web site ( ). There he has provided pictures and sta…

Sep 9, 2013

Could we have evolved traits that are detrimental to our survival?

Let us assume that we collected data on the presence or absence of a trait (e.g., propensity toward risky behavior) in a po…

Aug 26, 2013

We share an ancestor who probably lived no more than 640 years ago

This post is a revised version of a previous post . The original post has been or will be deleted, with the comments preserv…

Aug 12, 2013

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