January 2010
5 posts
Chavez and vitamin D
Given that, for a number of reasons, Venezuelans are now living further from the equator than ever before, I thought this piece of information might be of interest:
According to Andrew Weil (http://goo.gl/EXLR), if you live north of a certain latitude, the sun is at too low an angle for half the year for you to make enough vitamin D. On top of this, dermatologists have made everyone...
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“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in...”
– Marcel Proust
unshod
I’m looking for running shoes. But I’m unsure of what constitutes the best cover for my feet, if any. We (humans) have been unshod for 99% of our existence. There is a really interesting article in this week’s Nature journal analysing running patterns and their relationship to the type of shoes worn (Lieberman et al., “Foot strike patterns and collision forces in habitually...
pensar fuera de la caja
Venezuela esta en problemas, no tanto por estar en un régimen abusador, si no por la falta de propuestas serias de cambio. Cómo podemos estimular propuestas? Un estudio realizado en la Universidad de Indiana mostró que solo el acto de pensar como si estuviesen en otro país (sin ni siquiera viajar!), facilitó que estudiantes resolvieran problemas locales con niveles más altos de crítica,...