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and now a study on hfcs
More on Food.
Princeton researchers find that high-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain
From the summary:
This creates a fascinating puzzle. The rats in the Princeton study became obese by drinking high-fructose corn syrup, but not by drinking sucrose. The critical differences in appetite, metabolism and gene expression that underlie this phenomenon are yet to be discovered, but may relate to the fact that excess fructose is being metabolized to produce fat, while glucose is largely being processed for energy or stored as a carbohydrate, called glycogen, in the liver and muscles.
This seems consistent. For the long story on how the body metabolizes fructose and glucose, see my previous post on Sugar. Once again, a long video, but worth the journey.
What’s interesting here is that people have long considered HFCS and sucrose (sugar) to be more or less equivalent in terms of metabolic processes. This study suggests this might not be the case.
pretty sure this guy is my new hero
Slocum says into the mic, “We’re done,” stops reading notes, and braces for impact. The river below has boulders the size of Volkswagens. – How A $500 Craigslist Car Beat $400K Rally Racers
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first aid kit at sxsw!
I’ve written about them before but it turns out that First Aid Kit was at SXSW and there’s a video of it. Their recent album, Drunken Trees (CD or MP3) is quite good – I bought it a month or so ago. Enjoy!
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teddy thompson – tonight will be fine – live
Pretty sure this is a cover of a Leonard Cohen song. Love Teddy Thompson’s version more than the original.
Posted in Music, Video
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getting faster at getting faster
Two things of note:
1. The update offer of Firefox 3.6 to users of Firefox 3 and Firefox 3.5 is the first time we’ve ever done an offer to a .0 release to our user base. We’ve always waited until the .1 release or later. We did this because we were able to measure improvements over 3.5 in terms of performance, reliability and add-ons compatiblity.
2. This is the fastest uptake we’ve ever seen. From the metrics blog. Check out the fancy hockey stick:
Basically we’re learning how to get people to adopt and how to drive the release process even faster. We’re also doing this in our beta and alpha channels. We’re doing preview releases of Firefox.next every couple of weeks now, testing out new features and themes and driving the feedback process faster and faster.
It’s a crazy ride.
some joy for your week: Bon Iver
[Note: original post containing these videos.]
If you haven’t heard of Bon Iver before then you’re in for a bit of a treat. (I’m sure that many of you have, and just don’t know it.) These three videos were shot by Vincent Moon and Chryde and really showcase how these guys sound.
If you love these videos, I strongly suggest you support the artist by buying their CD, For Emma, Forever Ago
Anyway, enjoy!
mark bittman on food
Yet another post on my series on Food. This time it’s a video by Mark Bittman who talks about our food system, what we’ve lost and what we should be doing. (I love his focus on real food – not most of the imitation food we have today.)
Original Post. Licensed as CC-BY-NC-ND.
(Thanks to Deb for finding this!)
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reminder: lessig chat tomorrow (thursday, feb 25th) at 6pm eastern / 3pm pacific
Lawrence Lessig by Joi Ito, CC-BY
The Open Video Alliance will be hosting an online chat with Lawrence Lessig tomorrow at 6pm eastern time / 3pm pacific time (see more time zones here.)
There are a lot of events in person as well. I will be at the event near San Francisco.
The event will also be broadcast live with open video, thanks to Fluendo. The best client for you to watch it in will be either Firefox or VLC. More instructions on clients can be on the openvideo wiki.