Other studies: link between sleeping and eating
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Sleep Less, Eat More?
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Other studies provide evidence that there is a link between les sleep and increased calorie intake. I remember reading a summary of a couple of studies to this effect in the NYTimes. It was in the NYTimes Health section on 14 Dec 2004 (available now only through their archive $ervice). Google gave the the following from this site. It appears to be a similar writeup.
Curb Your Craving - Sleep It Off
2004 December 19
CUTTING out sleep appears to make it harder to cut out calories, two studies released recently suggest.
In a study, published in The Annals of Internal Medicine, 12 test subjects were restricted to four hours of sleep two nights in a row.
Their levels of a hormone that increases appetite rose by 28 per cent while a hormone that suppresses it fell by 18 per cent. At the same time, the subjects, 12 young men, reported increases in their desire for food, particularly for high-calorie, high-carbohydrate choices.
No such changes occurred when the men got extra sleep.
The other study, published in The Public Library of Science/ Medicine, the online journal, found that those who slept an average five hours or less a night had 15 per cent less of the appetite- suppressing hormone than people who slept for eight hours, and 15 per cent more of the appetite- stimulating hormone.
The lead author of the first study, Dr Eve Van Cauter of the University of Chicago had this advice for people trying to lose weight, based on the results of her experiment: "If you run a sleep debt, pay it; if you are sleep-deprived, you will crave high-carb foods and will need an iron will to resist. If you can't resist, increase physical activity to burn the calories."
According to your own link, they already did W in 2000. He has now joined a very exclusive list of people to make TMotY twice.
Oh, well I didn't know anyone was actually going to RTFL!;-)
I look at it this way: it's a comment on magazine sales, not historical signficance or suitability as a role model. Everyone in the US knows who W is. As much as we on/. would like it to be so, I suspect that most Americans do not know who Rutan is. Add to that our being in Iraq and W being an extremely devisive figure and it is apparent that Time's editors went with the person who would result in the most magazine sales.
This man is an inspiration to everybody. He is innovative, intelligent, and follows through with his dreams and goals. So tell me why, WHY Dub Bush gets Time's Person of the Year and Rutan does not.
Relax and let history be the judge. Time's Man/Person of the Year has included every US predident going back at least to JFK. They had to do W at some point. How big of an honor can it be, anyway? Hitler was it 1938. See a list here).
I consider that a pretty awesome feat as i assume many others do
An awesome feat to be sure, but it isn't a scientific advance in and of itself. I would categorize it as a technical/engineering achievement (i.e., effective application of scientific knowledge to effect a specific result). To be a scientific, there must be a contribution of new knowledge or observational evidence that contributes to the development of knowledge. (Although I suppose we can argue about how much new knowledge the SS1 developers had to create in order ot be successful...)
From TFA:
Now Weissman says he is thinking about making chimeric mice whose brains are 100 percent human. He proposes keeping tabs on the mice as they develop. If the brains look as if they are taking on a distinctly human architecture -- a development that could hint at a glimmer of humanness -- they could be killed, he said. If they look as if they are organizing themselves in a mouse brain architecture, they could be used for research.
I wonder how humalike a mouse with a 100% human brain would be. I guess I'm asking: to what extent does size matter?
IIRC, we humans use only a small percentage of our brains. Does anyone out there know if mice use a similar percentage of their brains? If they use a different percentage with a mouse brain, it would be interesting to see which percentage they end up using with a human brain.
Yup, Europeans like me. I wrote to three persons in Clark county, Ohio and explained them who this election affects much, much more than themselves and why Bush is a bad republican. There are good republicans and bad ones, you know. I included my adress to them, but no answer. I guess I was ignored. Oh well.
I'm going to guess that despite your intentions, you actually inspired them to vote for Bush.
Think about it: a bunch of people already wary of terrorism get letters from another country urging them to vote a particular way!?! I realize that the UK is not a terroist hotbed, but that's hardly the point. I think many Americans would be suspicious of any foreigners who tried to influence the election in any way.
Perhaps this is somewhat ironic, since we Americans are so good at exerting our influence over world events then recoil at the thought of the world intruding on us. in some sense, we are like rebelious adolescents. You should have tried reverse psychology and written in favor of Bush!
Funny thought: isn't this a great way for IBM to get students to do work for free?
Seriously though, the project list reads very much like a wish list of the things they'd like to have but don't want to spend the money on doing themselves.
This isn't necessarily a bad thing (espectially if it leads to some students landing jobs with them). Just struck me as humorus in that "everything's a conspiracy / everyone has a hidden agenda" sort of way.
I voted on an electronic machine here in Atlanta, GA. Previously, I have voted using mechanical machines in NY and Pennsylvania. One big difference: less privacy with the electronic machines. It's not a particularly big deal to me, but some might feel weird about that. Especially if they intend to vote for a candidate that is very unpopular in their district.
I felt the process and UI was fine (clear, minimal opportunity for human error, etc.).
Main complaint (other than security concerns): the potential of the electronic machines was not realized. For example, there were several initiatives on the ballot here. One was a widely publicized gay bashing, er, I mean, marriage protection ammendment. Another was a lesser publicized amendment relating to judicial jurisdiction. (Both described here) I knew a great deal about the gay bashing measure, but hadn't heard of the proposed amendment about the courts. All they put on the ballot was a yes or no to the following statement:
"Shall the Constitution be amended so as to provide that the Supreme Court shall have jurisdiction and authority to answer questions of law from any state appellate or federal district or appellate court?" Um, how about maybe?
It would be great if a more clear explanation could be added to the ballot. The electronic medium makes this crazy easy. It's no more expensive to do. The website linked above even has a very clear description that could have been used. (Of course, this opens up questions about potential bias that can be worked in to the description. However, I think something is almost certainly better than nothing.)
I think electronic voting will be a good thing if the security concerns are worked out. Will they be? That's hard to say. In the near future will most Americans think they are? Yes, almost certainly.
Perhaps this has to do with the potential psychological effects of shooting women and children?
I'm guessing that it is much more traumatic for an 18-year-old guy to shoot a woman or child than it is to shoot another adult man. And I would think this is true even if the woman/child shoot at him first.
I admit that the policy sounds crappy from the perspective that we won't kill them with bullets but we will with bombs. I'm just guessing the thinkging goes something like: if they have to be killed, let's do it in a way that is the least harmful to our own troops (in this case, in terms of morale rather than physical injury).
Mask sales predict presidential election?
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Halloween Fun
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I recall back in 2000 a news story about how the sales of Halloween masks for the presidential candidates predicted the election outcome (candidate whose mask sold more won the election).
Found this site keeping tabs on sales this year. W is in the lead right now (though I expect their numbers to be somewhat less than scientific).
In a similar vein, Washington Redskins home game wins have correlated with the outcomes of presidential elections. This has held true sine 1936! When they loose their last home game before the election, the challenging party wins the election. This year: Green Bay is favored to win in Washington this Sunday.
Unfortunately, the popular vote has proven to not be an accurate predictor of who wins the election...
Dremels? We don't need no stinking dremels!
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Dremel Pumpkin Carver
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Sure, I guess this is cool for the "Tool Time" crowd.
What I don't get: what's the point of carving a pumpkin if you're just going to use a template? Isn't this like buying a standard costume instead of making your own? I mean, sure, I enjoy the glut of "sexy catwoman" costumes as much as the next guy. But it just seems to me that the fun of Halloween is to be a little creative on your own.
Here's some pumpkins that my GF & I carved a couple years back. Just us and a couple of knives, baby!
Now, I do think it would be cool if you designed a template in a CAD program and spit that into a robot or high-powered laser rigged to carve the pumpkin for you! A dremel and a template just isn't excessive enough...
Securing our nation's "digital boarders" to prevent American-hating foreigners from terrorizing dead artists by cutting into their profits.
Seriously, the IP address blocks that went on during the Athens Olympics (US IPs were blocked from live streams so that NBC could time-shift to our primetime) are evidence that this will become something of an issue (though not necessarily in the 2008 election). Protectionism extends beyond tarrifs on steel. Protecting rights is good, but protecting business models is bad. Where to draw the line? It seems that global communication and information technologies do not fit the nation-state model of government.
Something somewhere has to give. During the last wave of "globalization" (European colonization), it was native peoples who got trounced. Who gets it this time?
Can't say that I speak for everyone, but I really can't imagine using this service. How often do you find yourself walking down the street thinking "man, I'd pay anything just to listen to some Moby right now"?
And it's not so much the cost. Who wants to stand there, navigate a bunch of menus and wait for a download just for a 3-minute song?
Maybe I'd pay for general internet access, but I can do that at a coffee shop. If I'm tired of what I've got on my iPod, I can always listen to the radio. The concept just doesn't seem to fill a desire.
"Even if they wanted to store this info in a chip, why have a chip that can be read remotely?" asked Barry Steinhardt, who directs the American Civil Liberty Union's Technology and Liberty program. "Why not require the passport be brought in contact with a reader so that the passport holder would know it had been captured? Americans in the know will be wrapping their passports in aluminum foil."
It seems that in many cases these studies are confirming long-held beliefs rather than breaking new ground. E.g.,:
The study showed that some people did not choose a drink based on taste alone, Dr. Montague said. They chose a drink plus what it conjured up to their medial prefrontal cortex, namely the strong brand identity of Coca-Cola, he said.
I was pretty confident in that conclusion without the fMRI.
Interesting to see how nearly everyone seems to be showing their partisan colors. It almost seems that people don't want a fair election so much as they want a *legal* election that their side wins.
Here's to hoping good things can emerge when a bunch of greedy agents interact...
Wired ran an interesting article about this. Not a huge surprise, but "nano" has replaced "micro" as the tech buzz word du jour. I think players in the industry realize this and the consumer base will come around in due time -- just the way we have come to accept micro-this, i-that and e-everything.
For anyone interested in the political/institutional side of science, the Wired article is a good read:
I would guess that this particular instance is just one step on the path to self treatment of faults. Naturally, accurate diagnosis is a first step in effective treatment.
As for the value of this particular system, someone may have decided that the data needed to run the simulation may take up too much bandwidth to transmit it back to Earth. Don't forget about blackout periods for craft orbiting the moon, Mars, etc and the long lags in comms. This increases the value of having it on board.
Screw the driver's licences. Let's just embed a chip in everyone's neck (arm, wherever) at birth. As you grow up and obtain new rights/licences, the government can update your status in the central database. So when you turn 18, your "Voter" flag can be activated. Pass your driving test, your "Driver" flag goes active. Talk too much at the movies, your "BannedFromMcCinema" flag comes on.
Sure, the government and private companies can track your every move. But isn't that a small price to pay so that no one can forge a driver's license?
As far as long range planning -- that's easy. California has earthquakes, all the time. Don't build things that will fall down when the ground moves.
Sure, but not all places in CA are equally as likely to be hit by a quake (or equally likely to be hit with a quake of a particular magnitude, or whatever). Rather than overdesign every building for the worst possible quake in CA, we should design buildings with precautions that reflect the distribution of likely quakes in that particular locale.
Another thought, perhaps CA wishes to use quake prediction to help attract tourists: "Come visit sunny California, where the probability of an earthquake this month is at an all time low!"
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Other studies provide evidence that there is a link between les sleep and increased calorie intake. I remember reading a summary of a couple of studies to this effect in the NYTimes. It was in the NYTimes Health section on 14 Dec 2004 (available now only through their archive $ervice). Google gave the the following from this site. It appears to be a similar writeup.
No author is given for the article.
Snippet from this Usenet post from 1982:
I wish Lucas & Co. would get the thing going a little faster. I can't really imagine waiting until 1997 to see all nine parts of the Star Wars Series.
1997?!?
According to your own link, they already did W in 2000. He has now joined a very exclusive list of people to make TMotY twice.
Oh, well I didn't know anyone was actually going to RTFL! ;-)
I look at it this way: it's a comment on magazine sales, not historical signficance or suitability as a role model. Everyone in the US knows who W is. As much as we on /. would like it to be so, I suspect that most Americans do not know who Rutan is. Add to that our being in Iraq and W being an extremely devisive figure and it is apparent that Time's editors went with the person who would result in the most magazine sales.
Just my $0.02...
This man is an inspiration to everybody. He is innovative, intelligent, and follows through with his dreams and goals. So tell me why, WHY Dub Bush gets Time's Person of the Year and Rutan does not.
Relax and let history be the judge. Time's Man/Person of the Year has included every US predident going back at least to JFK. They had to do W at some point. How big of an honor can it be, anyway? Hitler was it 1938. See a list here).
I consider that a pretty awesome feat as i assume many others do
An awesome feat to be sure, but it isn't a scientific advance in and of itself. I would categorize it as a technical/engineering achievement (i.e., effective application of scientific knowledge to effect a specific result). To be a scientific, there must be a contribution of new knowledge or observational evidence that contributes to the development of knowledge. (Although I suppose we can argue about how much new knowledge the SS1 developers had to create in order ot be successful...)
From TFA:
Now Weissman says he is thinking about making chimeric mice whose brains are 100 percent human. He proposes keeping tabs on the mice as they develop. If the brains look as if they are taking on a distinctly human architecture -- a development that could hint at a glimmer of humanness -- they could be killed, he said. If they look as if they are organizing themselves in a mouse brain architecture, they could be used for research.
I wonder how humalike a mouse with a 100% human brain would be. I guess I'm asking: to what extent does size matter?
IIRC, we humans use only a small percentage of our brains. Does anyone out there know if mice use a similar percentage of their brains? If they use a different percentage with a mouse brain, it would be interesting to see which percentage they end up using with a human brain.
Music fans reporting file sharers.
Next up: smelloblogs. To be soon followed by tasteoblogs.
Bon appetite!
Yup, Europeans like me. I wrote to three persons in Clark county, Ohio and explained them who this election affects much, much more than themselves and why Bush is a bad republican. There are good republicans and bad ones, you know. I included my adress to them, but no answer. I guess I was ignored. Oh well.
I'm going to guess that despite your intentions, you actually inspired them to vote for Bush.
Think about it: a bunch of people already wary of terrorism get letters from another country urging them to vote a particular way!?! I realize that the UK is not a terroist hotbed, but that's hardly the point. I think many Americans would be suspicious of any foreigners who tried to influence the election in any way.
Perhaps this is somewhat ironic, since we Americans are so good at exerting our influence over world events then recoil at the thought of the world intruding on us. in some sense, we are like rebelious adolescents. You should have tried reverse psychology and written in favor of Bush!
Funny thought: isn't this a great way for IBM to get students to do work for free?
Seriously though, the project list reads very much like a wish list of the things they'd like to have but don't want to spend the money on doing themselves.
This isn't necessarily a bad thing (espectially if it leads to some students landing jobs with them). Just struck me as humorus in that "everything's a conspiracy / everyone has a hidden agenda" sort of way.
I voted on an electronic machine here in Atlanta, GA. Previously, I have voted using mechanical machines in NY and Pennsylvania. One big difference: less privacy with the electronic machines. It's not a particularly big deal to me, but some might feel weird about that. Especially if they intend to vote for a candidate that is very unpopular in their district.
I felt the process and UI was fine (clear, minimal opportunity for human error, etc.).
Main complaint (other than security concerns): the potential of the electronic machines was not realized. For example, there were several initiatives on the ballot here. One was a widely publicized gay bashing, er, I mean, marriage protection ammendment. Another was a lesser publicized amendment relating to judicial jurisdiction. (Both described here) I knew a great deal about the gay bashing measure, but hadn't heard of the proposed amendment about the courts. All they put on the ballot was a yes or no to the following statement: "Shall the Constitution be amended so as to provide that the Supreme Court shall have jurisdiction and authority to answer questions of law from any state appellate or federal district or appellate court?" Um, how about maybe?
It would be great if a more clear explanation could be added to the ballot. The electronic medium makes this crazy easy. It's no more expensive to do. The website linked above even has a very clear description that could have been used. (Of course, this opens up questions about potential bias that can be worked in to the description. However, I think something is almost certainly better than nothing.)
I think electronic voting will be a good thing if the security concerns are worked out. Will they be? That's hard to say. In the near future will most Americans think they are? Yes, almost certainly.
Perhaps this has to do with the potential psychological effects of shooting women and children?
I'm guessing that it is much more traumatic for an 18-year-old guy to shoot a woman or child than it is to shoot another adult man. And I would think this is true even if the woman/child shoot at him first.
I admit that the policy sounds crappy from the perspective that we won't kill them with bullets but we will with bombs. I'm just guessing the thinkging goes something like: if they have to be killed, let's do it in a way that is the least harmful to our own troops (in this case, in terms of morale rather than physical injury).
I recall back in 2000 a news story about how the sales of Halloween masks for the presidential candidates predicted the election outcome (candidate whose mask sold more won the election).
Found this site keeping tabs on sales this year. W is in the lead right now (though I expect their numbers to be somewhat less than scientific).
In a similar vein, Washington Redskins home game wins have correlated with the outcomes of presidential elections. This has held true sine 1936! When they loose their last home game before the election, the challenging party wins the election. This year: Green Bay is favored to win in Washington this Sunday.
Unfortunately, the popular vote has proven to not be an accurate predictor of who wins the election...
Sure, I guess this is cool for the "Tool Time" crowd.
What I don't get: what's the point of carving a pumpkin if you're just going to use a template? Isn't this like buying a standard costume instead of making your own? I mean, sure, I enjoy the glut of "sexy catwoman" costumes as much as the next guy. But it just seems to me that the fun of Halloween is to be a little creative on your own.
Here's some pumpkins that my GF & I carved a couple years back. Just us and a couple of knives, baby!
Now, I do think it would be cool if you designed a template in a CAD program and spit that into a robot or high-powered laser rigged to carve the pumpkin for you! A dremel and a template just isn't excessive enough...
Securing our nation's "digital boarders" to prevent American-hating foreigners from terrorizing dead artists by cutting into their profits.
Seriously, the IP address blocks that went on during the Athens Olympics (US IPs were blocked from live streams so that NBC could time-shift to our primetime) are evidence that this will become something of an issue (though not necessarily in the 2008 election). Protectionism extends beyond tarrifs on steel. Protecting rights is good, but protecting business models is bad. Where to draw the line? It seems that global communication and information technologies do not fit the nation-state model of government.
Something somewhere has to give. During the last wave of "globalization" (European colonization), it was native peoples who got trounced. Who gets it this time?
Can't say that I speak for everyone, but I really can't imagine using this service. How often do you find yourself walking down the street thinking "man, I'd pay anything just to listen to some Moby right now"?
And it's not so much the cost. Who wants to stand there, navigate a bunch of menus and wait for a download just for a 3-minute song?
Maybe I'd pay for general internet access, but I can do that at a coffee shop. If I'm tired of what I've got on my iPod, I can always listen to the radio. The concept just doesn't seem to fill a desire.
Best quote from article:
"Even if they wanted to store this info in a chip, why have a chip that can be read remotely?" asked Barry Steinhardt, who directs the American Civil Liberty Union's Technology and Liberty program. "Why not require the passport be brought in contact with a reader so that the passport holder would know it had been captured? Americans in the know will be wrapping their passports in aluminum foil."
Since TV remotes work on IR, this gadget would require a clean line of sight to the TV IR receiver...
It seems that in many cases these studies are confirming long-held beliefs rather than breaking new ground. E.g.,:
The study showed that some people did not choose a drink based on taste alone, Dr. Montague said. They chose a drink plus what it conjured up to their medial prefrontal cortex, namely the strong brand identity of Coca-Cola, he said.
I was pretty confident in that conclusion without the fMRI.
The NYTimes (free reg, blah blah blah) also has an article on the recent problems in FL: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/18/politics/campaig n/18CND-VOTE.html
The Times also ran has an article about how closely scrutinized voting will be by both sides, particularly in the swing states: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/18/politics/campaig n/18monitor.html
Interesting to see how nearly everyone seems to be showing their partisan colors. It almost seems that people don't want a fair election so much as they want a *legal* election that their side wins.
Here's to hoping good things can emerge when a bunch of greedy agents interact...
Wired ran an interesting article about this. Not a huge surprise, but "nano" has replaced "micro" as the tech buzz word du jour. I think players in the industry realize this and the consumer base will come around in due time -- just the way we have come to accept micro-this, i-that and e-everything.
For anyone interested in the political/institutional side of science, the Wired article is a good read:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/drexler .html
iMacs start $400 less that the hip-e. From http://www.apple.com/imac/:
"...Modern living starts at $1299."
-R
I would guess that this particular instance is just one step on the path to self treatment of faults. Naturally, accurate diagnosis is a first step in effective treatment.
As for the value of this particular system, someone may have decided that the data needed to run the simulation may take up too much bandwidth to transmit it back to Earth. Don't forget about blackout periods for craft orbiting the moon, Mars, etc and the long lags in comms. This increases the value of having it on board.
-R
Screw the driver's licences. Let's just embed a chip in everyone's neck (arm, wherever) at birth. As you grow up and obtain new rights/licences, the government can update your status in the central database. So when you turn 18, your "Voter" flag can be activated. Pass your driving test, your "Driver" flag goes active. Talk too much at the movies, your "BannedFromMcCinema" flag comes on.
Sure, the government and private companies can track your every move. But isn't that a small price to pay so that no one can forge a driver's license?
As far as long range planning -- that's easy. California has earthquakes, all the time. Don't build things that will fall down when the ground moves.
Sure, but not all places in CA are equally as likely to be hit by a quake (or equally likely to be hit with a quake of a particular magnitude, or whatever). Rather than overdesign every building for the worst possible quake in CA, we should design buildings with precautions that reflect the distribution of likely quakes in that particular locale.
Another thought, perhaps CA wishes to use quake prediction to help attract tourists: "Come visit sunny California, where the probability of an earthquake this month is at an all time low!"
Okay, maybe that last bit is a bit silly...