Amy Taggart of healthy school lunches group Mission: Readiness, on legislation that would allow the USDA to classify the two tablespoons of tomato paste on a pizza as a vegetable:
“We are outraged that Congress is seriously considering language that would …more »
The Guardian reports on work carried out at Rutgers University in New Jersey, that saw a team of scientists successfully map brain activity during orgasm by having a woman masturbate in an MRI machine. I bet not many …more »
Anyone who had to live through the experience of their parents giving them the “birds and the bees” talk will probably find this pretty obvious, but today The Independent reports that according to a major new survey, teenagers …more »
Study Hacks has a fascinating article about the learning habits of elite achievers. In a nutshell? Working hard doesn’t mean working a lot…
The three researchers subjected their subjects to a series of in-depth interviews. They then gave them …more »
Yes, yes, I’m sure that there are many people out there who have very good reasons for thinking that this “too posh to push” movement shouldn’t be encouraged, but even though I’m a man, I have every sympathy with any …more »
Doctors paid millions of dollars by Medtronic failed to identify a significant cancer risk with the company’s spine surgery product in a 2009 paper about results of a large clinical trial.
The surgeons left out important data and claimed there was …more »
Dr Paul Jepson suggests the tabloid press publish a list of the names of the more than 250 people killed by smoking related disease each day, as part of a “fundamental re-think” on smoking. “Any other drug causing a fraction …more »
