From the Guardian:
The author Ms. Blythman is not doctor, nor a scientist, although she writes about food.
Ms. Paltrow is not a doctor, nor a scientist and not even an average scientifically literate person.
Why do their very debatable and ill-informed opinions deserve a spot in the media? Why are they given a diffusion that goes way beyond their importance?
However, read by yourself the story of a vegan family (Paltrow's) and spot the many idiocies in it. At the end, you can get some help from the many sensible (and occasionally funny) comments at the bottom of the article. A great example of how NOT to read medical literature. Ben Goldacre would be thrilled to read this!
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The Guardian: Why Gwyneth Paltrow's no-carb diet for children makes perfect sense | Joanna Blythman
Gwyneth Paltrow has been castigated for saying she avoids feeding her children carbohydrates, but she's right: we don't need to eat starchy carbs at all, says Joanna Blythman
Joanna Blythman
Wednesday 13 March 2013
guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2013/mar/13/gwyneth-paltrow-no-carb-diet-perfect-sense
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Gwyneth Paltrow cooking family recipes on Good Morning America. Photograph: Ida Mae Astute/ABC via Getty Images
More about DIY optic...these are anamorphic illusions...pretty easy to be done and absolutely amazing.
It is a good way to discuss how eyes do work...
Cool stuff.
The author writes about the necessity to re-define the concept of privacy using a new, 21st century-adapted framework, in which a networked world has changed much quicker than our own understanding of it. Privacy might indeed be quite an overrated concept!
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I have found this short excerpt from the "Conversation on Consciousness" book by Susan Blackmore, and I believe it is a great place to start some reading about the matter. The book itself is fluent and readable and offers a tremendous insight on some of the latest development of the consciousness as an emergent property field. http://annakaharris.com/consciousness/
@AnnakaHarris Book editor, Co-founder of Project Reason, Author http://annakaharris.com
...before of that you might want to read "Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction" still by Blackmore...or after that you will surely want to read "Consciousness Explained" by Daniel Dennett
An incredible event happening just behind the corner, and not just in London but during a scientific conference organised at the University College London, in the UCL premises!!!!
How long will religion still hold back humanity to someplace around the middle-age?
Women are probably the only chance this planet has to survive us.
Let's get them out from the religious hell all over the world.
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There is also an update about the fact from R. Dawkins:
Islamists really going to town today. They'll gatecrash private dinners in revenge for our "forcing" Muslim women to sit next to us! WHAT?
— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) March 11, 2013
Update from the UCL:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0313/11032013-meeting
References at the end.
Extremely interesting and sadly convincing.
The horror of a free-market world where everything must have a price, starting with yourself. Awful.
League tables that measure teachers individually are gaining popularity in the US, but their impact can be catastrophic. One such project resulted in a practitioner taking his own life after a poor rating.
The the story of a dedicated teacher, working in a very dangerous Los Angeles neighborhood who took his life because of a public teacher league table.
We should all look back 20 centuries to Greece and reflect about what the real place of teachers in a society should be.
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Mr. Gove is a news editor who has shown the maximum possible disregard for evidence-based discussion, a deep ignorance of basic reading of stats and also an exceptional hubris. Why is he taking decisions about what the whole country ought to learn? Why?
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