{"id":3128,"date":"2014-05-04T20:30:38","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T02:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=3128"},"modified":"2014-05-04T20:30:39","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T02:30:39","slug":"odd-lots-252","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=3128","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uOMuOBwunZg\" target= \"_blank\">This is where we stayed on Grand Cayman last week<\/a>. Unless I misrecall, it was about $150 a night. Don&#8217;t forget that it was <em>not<\/em> air conditioned.<\/li>\n<li><a href= \"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/05\/reading-on-screen-versus-paper\/\" target=\"_blank\">For deep reading, print may be the way to go<\/a>, for reasons we don&#8217;t yet understand. In looking back a year or so, I realize that I generally read fiction on my Transformer Prime, and nonfiction on paper. It wasn&#8217;t a conscious decision&#8211;and may simply be due to a reluctance of nonfiction publishers to issue ebooks&#8211;but it was probably the correct one.<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s <a href= \"http:\/\/scienceblog.com\/72103\/vitamin-d-deficiency-may-be-linked-to-aggressive-prostate-cancer\/\" target=\"_blank\">yet another reason<\/a> why I&#8217;ve decided to let the Sun <em>actually reach my skin<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a href= \"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/04\/22\/science\/an-apple-a-day-and-other-myths.html\" target=\"_blank\">It&#8217;s starting to look like diet has little or no effect on cancer risk<\/a>. This has been my suspicion for a long time. Obesity, yes. Diet itself, no. (Thanks to Bruce Baker for the link.)<\/li>\n<li>Ohh, Ancel Key&#8217;s beautiful wickedness is all starting to unravel. <a href= \"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702303678404579533760760481486\" target=\"_blank\">Saturated fat has nothing to do with heart disease<\/a>. This has also been a suspicion of mine for some time, along with the suspicion that eating fat will make you lose weight more quickly than simply going low-carb. It certainly worked that way for me. I now weigh only eight pounds more than I did when I was 24, and a good deal of that is probably muscle I put on via ten years of weight training. (Thanks to Trevor Tompkins for the link.)<\/li>\n<li><a href= \"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info:doi\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0096424;jsessionid=C0365AE7FB01FADFFFBE61E49BDA8B9F\" target=\"_blank\">Interesting paper on why the Neanderthals died out<\/a>. They didn&#8217;t necessarily die out becausethey were inferior. (Maybe they didn&#8217;t die out at all but are still here, pretending to be ugly Saps.) If I had to guess, I&#8217;d say their skulls got so big as to make childbirth problematic. But what were they doing with all that gray matter? (Thanks to Erik Hanson for the link.)<\/li>\n<li>I stumbled on <a href= \"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5982593\/snow-panic-has-driven-weathercom-completely-insane\" target=\"_blank\">a year-old article that pretty much captures my reaction to weather.com<\/a>. I will add, however, that weather.com beats the living hell out of The Weather Channel.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m still waiting for reports of cataclysmic pwnage on XP machines. The number &#8220;2000&#8221; comes to mind.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of which, I still need XP because my HP S20 slide scanner has no driver that will run on Windows 7. Haven&#8217;t tried the VM trick yet, but ultimately that&#8217;s the way I&#8217;ll have to go.<\/li>\n<li><a href= \"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/first-glimpse-at-the-baltimore-sinkhole-eating-a-bunch-1570514915\" target=\"_blank\">I knew there was a reason I only lived in Baltimore for 23 months<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is where we stayed on Grand Cayman last week. Unless I misrecall, it was about $150 a night. Don&#8217;t forget that it was not air conditioned. For deep reading, print may be the way to go, for reasons we don&#8217;t yet understand. 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