Archive for February, 2002

Argh! Must… Not… Lose.. All… Faith… In… Humanity…

Thursday, February 28th, 2002

Tonya Harding and Amy Fischer are going to fight a boxing match on Fox.

I find this amusing

Wednesday, February 20th, 2002

An interview with Dr. Marion Nestle:

Q. In the mid-1980’s, you worked in Washington for the Public Health Service as editor of the Surgeon General’s Report on Nutrition and Health, published in 1988. Why was this book never updated, as planned?
A. Because it is too controversial. If you tell people what to eat, you have to tell them to eat less of certain things, and then it’s, eat less of what? The sugar industry people were in our office all the time. They most emphatically did not want us to say eat less sugar. The meat industry was really worried, since fat was a big issue, and meat is where the saturated fat is. They didn’t want the surgeon general’s report to say eat less meat. And it didn’t.

Werner Heisenberg claimed after World

Thursday, February 7th, 2002

Werner Heisenberg claimed after World War II that he had sabotaged the Nazi atomic weapons program within. Now, a newly revealed letter from Niels Bohr casts serious doubt on that claim.


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