Actually, it's all down to heavy consumption of wheat and grains, and starches too, high fructose corn syrup, and the demonization of saturated fat.
I have always thought that perhaps federal corn price supports have lead to overproduction of corn, thus artificially cheap high fructose corn syrup, thus artificially cheap sodas/crap foods, thus obesity.
I work at a governmental air pollution agency; I have long thought that what the decision makers needs at my agency is Sim Air Pollution, along the lines of the industrial simulations that Maxis did 10 years ago. What they really want to do is to game; they want to lower the emissions, throw in a few scenarios like energy shortages, and see how that affects smog.
It tooks me quite a while to get the nerve to actually suggest this approach; eventually I found a few people who really like the approach. Of course, what we do is considerably more complicated; we have models for everything from emissions from cars, to photochemical models, etc.
Games a great model for accessibility to all users. You just can't beat their approach to user interfaces.
When is somebody going to get the brilliant idea to make a digital video recorder that does not require a phone line and does not have a monthly fee? That is a DVR I could like.
Tony Atwood, the Aspergers expert mentioned elsewhere in this thread, says in his personal appearances that when they go to a new college to speak, they go to the library and try and pick out those with Aspergers. Then they go to the Engineering Department and try and pick out those WITHOUT Aspergers...
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Actually, it's all down to heavy consumption of wheat and grains, and starches too, high fructose corn syrup, and the demonization of saturated fat.
I have always thought that perhaps federal corn price supports have lead to overproduction of corn, thus artificially cheap high fructose corn syrup, thus artificially cheap sodas/crap foods, thus obesity.
I work at a governmental air pollution agency; I have long thought that what the decision makers needs at my agency is Sim Air Pollution, along the lines of the industrial simulations that Maxis did 10 years ago. What they really want to do is to game; they want to lower the emissions, throw in a few scenarios like energy shortages, and see how that affects smog.
It tooks me quite a while to get the nerve to actually suggest this approach; eventually I found a few people who really like the approach. Of course, what we do is considerably more complicated; we have models for everything from emissions from cars, to photochemical models, etc.
Games a great model for accessibility to all users. You just can't beat their approach to user interfaces.
When is somebody going to get the brilliant idea to make a digital video recorder that does not require a phone line and does not have a monthly fee? That is a DVR I could like.
Tony Atwood, the Aspergers expert mentioned elsewhere in this thread, says in his personal appearances that when they go to a new college to speak, they go to the library and try and pick out those with Aspergers. Then they go to the Engineering Department and try and pick out those WITHOUT Aspergers...