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Interesting, how can there be both a high engagement in fishing jobs and low amounts of fish in the diet. Are they very unsuccessful fishers? All the fish is sold to some other, by…

If we have always been lazy, why is there now an obesity epidemic? It seems to me that means the cause of obesity lies elsewhere.

The wikipedia article[1] of the book contains several quotes with references to negative criticism that look fairly credible to me. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Ange…

It seems it is the carbohydrates that cause the seratonin release[1], not the fat. [1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8697046

It seems there is a pathway that converts lipids to glucose: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22314896

If I understand you correctly you will want to disable Preferences > Editor > Smart Keys > Backspace smart indent

For any parents starting to get worried: toe-walking is completely normal for many children below 5 years old and even older[1]. Usually they grow out of it as they get older. So I…

Counter anecdote: I am dutch and never keep my eggs in the fridge.

Actually, the Garbage First (G1) garbage collector was created by Sun not Oracle/JRockit. It did get production ready under Oracle with jdk 1.7.0_04.

This means fire was used before homo sapiens existed, fascinating. We might have evolved to eat cooked/roasted food.

The red meat study from the nytimes article you link received a lot of criticism, for example: http://www.zoeharcombe.com/2012/03/red-meat-mortality-the-us...

Sorry, I can't tell if you are agreeing or disagreeing with me. My position is that the study authors are suggesting a cause and effect relationship which is not supported by the e…

It seems to me that this is another case where association does not equal causation. Just because both the economy is bad and climate change acceptance is low, does not mean that o…

If you can't get IntelliJ IDEA's JavaDoc formatter to do what you want there exists a plugin which lets you use Eclipse for formatting call Eclipse Code Formatter: http://plugins.i…

The mouse's too sensitive. A tiny flick of the finger and it is maximally zoomed in or zoomed out. Zooming a small step is practically impossible, at least for me. Google maps has …

Very nice UI, except that it uses the dreaded scroll wheel zoom. Especially annoying for magic mouse users.