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AAAS under way
The annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science
is now underway. Among the first presentations,
further study on the notion that
less food makes you live longer and have more mental energy
(some Asian cultures also say this) and
Disney's latest computerized animation.
.... Bleepers will be used to warn the emergency services and local residents when a big quake is about to strike California. The bleepers will give 30 seconds of warning .......
.... then you can start to panic.
30 seconds gives you enough time to make it to the toilet so you dont sh*t your pants
so these slashdot crew idiots use
windows to look at stuff?
because there is no realplayer
g2 for linux, it seems.
The school I attend, the Illinois Math and Science Academy, sent around eight people to present their mentorship projects. I wonder if they'll get mentioned at all?
Eating less makes me groggy and pissy -- not "more awake" or anything of the sort. Food does different things for different people. One freak living in a glass house does not make good science.
This isn't recent news. It has been researched for quite some time now and there have been papers published in the New England Journal of Science on this subject. Pick up any of the zone diet books, or go to www.zonehome.com for further info. You can't just eat less food, there is a certain ratio of protein:carbs:fat that you should maintain.
Information here:
t ml 9 7/may/research_970526.html
http://whyfiles.news.wisc.edu/057aging/lo_cal.h
http://www.the-scientist.library.upenn.edu/yr19
That's why I *love* being a geek... Geeks don't eat.
If anyone is still reading this thread, I wanted to make some quick comments. In a sense, by eating more calories than you burn daily, you are distroying cells. When you eat too much, your body generates too many excess ions, aka free radicals, which chemically react with things they shouldn't causing cell damage. The purpose of anti-oxidants is to oxidize these free ions before they do damage.
You restrict the amount of calories you intake, not the amount of food. i.e. if you get rid of grains in your diet, you can eat lots of veggies and fruit before you equal the calories of those grains. There has been lots of research lately that has really questioned the low-fat, high carb diets, and the best indicators of heart disease, most of which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. If you are truely interested in this topic, try to find "The Anti-Aging Zone" by Barry Sears. It was published very recently and discusses a lot of the recent findings.
BTW, I have been following the zone diet for about a year. I'm pleased to say that my cholesterol and other blood indicators are excellent. Plus, I feel considerably better than I used to. No more afternoon sleepy spells after a big lunch.
It just makes it SEEM longer.
-- Erich
Slashdot reader since 1997
RE: that Disney thing.
I remember way back on the old Macs there was a program called the Talking Moose that used MacInTalk to simulate the voice and had primitive lip syncronization. From the article, it sounds like this brand new-cutting edge-gee whiz-It'll only-take-2-years-to-render movie trick is just an extension of the moose.
"Of course I could be wrong, that's just my opinion" (tm)
I read the internet for the articles.
Some family members of mine are anorexic, or they were until they died at 72. Doesn't look like it helps much if you go overboard. Now there are people who eat too much, I'll grant that.
I eat three times more then my brother, and have more engery then him. He weighs 100 lbs more then me. Our bodies are build different, and until all those differences are clasified in I won't belive it.
Let me also remind everyone that while smoking is a major factor in many cancer cases, there are smokers who live to 95, and attribute the old age to smoking two packs a day all their life. It doesn't take a genius to point our the flaws in that arguement, and I look on these arguements the same way. People living longer in spite of bad habbits are not reason I would take them up.
I thought the AAAS only came up in your life when you were going to grad school. Aren't the rejected grant proposals more interesting than the stuff that actually gets done? The fact that everyone and their kid brother wants to star in Patch Adams, Virus, LA doctors, ER, and Hot Zone while Adventures in Perl isn't exactly a blockbuster smash is one reason I'm counting technical specialization on not life science specialization for income. By the way, it's reduced calorie intake that extends life, not reduced food intake.
It makes sense (intuitively, anyways) to me that eating less food is healthy, but not to the extreem some would take it that "he who eats least is healthiest".
Ever go out for sushi? If I don't gorge myself, I find that I feel slightly energized, as opposed to Western fare which leaves me pleasantly drowsy.
I forget to eat sometimes (especially when I'm fiddling with Linux) and generally don't miss it. I nibble constantly but rarely sit down to 1 big meal (except when I'm visiting the folks!)
**>>BELCH
Well, I wanted to read the other articles, particularly the "foreskin foresight" one (I figure it has to do with cloned skin, which I'm interested in, and not just circumcision, which I'm not :) but they seem to have rather... inconsistent CGI handling. At least from the links followed from the articles mentioned specifically here, I got funky CGI errors about "could not execute such-and-such a script with some odd extension which isn't .pl, .cgi, or even .exe/.dll, meaning that we're probably not using any webserver software you've ever even had a glimmer of hearing about, or even have ever come into contact with a photon or air molecule which has ever carried any piece of information regarding this software whatsoever. Fuck you."
:)
Or perhaps I'm just unlucky.
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Quine "quine?
Do you have any sources for this?
I am interested in doing a bit of reading about it.
A highly detailed paper on this (by another researcher) can be found in most university libraries (especially the medical ones, as this is a famous medical journal):
R. Weindruch et al (New England Journal of Medicine 1997; 337:986-993)
(I forget the exact title, only have this reference handy)
Like Linux? Like Anime?
I was at the convention, for the American Junior Academy of Science. We visited the Virtual Reality Room at Irvine, and they let us play Quake II on a Onyx 2(rsomehow they ran it). It had 2 processers just for texturing. It was the coolest thing I have ever seen.