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[The Idols Among Us] Scientists Create First Artificial Life | The Idols Among Us: I must admit that I am completely going off of the information in your article here, so I am somewhat uninformed of the issue as a whole, but in my opinion, human technologies have so polluted the world that it is our duty to counteract the effects to the best of our ability, and if new bacteria can help us do that –

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[Organic & Thrifty] Transitioning a Child to a Gluten Free/Sugar Free Diet » Organic ...: . Fats are critical for the absorption of many key nutrients for immunity, such as fat-soluble A and D.  Fats also give us a feeling of satiation and they balance our blood sugar as well.  Virgin, unrefined coconut oil is ideal for its antimicrobial and antiviral properties. It’s also a medium-chain fatty acid, which means that it is absorbed in the small intestine and doesn’t require bile salts to be released to break them down. Thus, MCFAs provide quick energy and facilitate the body’s transition to using fats for energy.  Organic butter, nuts, avocados, raw whole milk, seeds, animal fats, and coconut oil are all good quality fats.

[Fake Food Free] Fake Food Free: Curious About Coconut Oil: When I was a student and we learnt about the SFA's in coconut oil,we had pointed out to our professor that statistics could not pin-point an alarming rate of CVD's in the coastal states(which are the highest consumers of coconut and coconut oil)than the rest of the country,to which her answer was that it could be because the same people also ate fish on a daily basis(the omega fats negating the bad effects of the SFA's). I guess this is a very valid point!

[Gowers's Weblog] Polymath and the origin of life « Gowers's Weblog: Getting all the way up from Miller-Urey amino acids to whatever the first self-replicator was seems hard. However, maybe a way to approach the problem would be to have the building blocks be larger, and a little more functional, like Egan’s beads.

[Squawkfox] Stop faking it! Eat frugalicious food! | Squawkfox: It seems the food scientists and product marketers have hijacked our health and sold us on packaged portions of phony foods. Foods like sugary cereal, simple carbohydrates, instant boxed meals, processed grains, bagged transported veggies, mystery meats, refined proteins, and sodium-rich nutrient-poor concoctions.

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[scienceblogs Channel : Life Science] "We can know nothing about the origin of life" : Greg Laden's Blog: While I agree that it might be extraordinarily difficult to pin down the exact way that it happened this time, finding plausible ways that it could have happened (the Urey-Miller experiments showed a way that life could have emerged, regardless of the fact that they got the experiment wrong!) then figuring out which model matches the early environment best (via other evidence-based methods of discovering how the environment was composed) is the best way to figure out what happened.

[Free Press] Modern Day Da Vinci Designs Smart Spider: According to Bunting, his team will collaborate with other researchers in a competition to create a four-legged robot that could eventually lead to a two-legged robot able to run faster than any robot today. Proof of his team's prototype rests in his iPhone in the form of a photo showing robotic hind legs of a small cheetah.

[The Aymac Group Blog] Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder, dead at 56 ~ The Aymac Group Blog: Wozniak's homemade computer drew attention from other enthusiasts, but Jobs saw its potential far beyond the geeky hobbyists of the time. The pair started Apple in Jobs' parents' garage in 1976.

[Spoonfed] Want kids to eat better? Stop calling them “picky eaters.” | Spoonfed: While I do agree that labels are wrong and create a problem, I do feel the need to write in to speak up for parents of resistant eaters. A resistant eater is very different than a picky eater.

[Guardian Unlimited: Word of Mouth] The unpalatable truth | Life and style | guardian.co.uk: If you're reading this blog it's almost certainly because you actually like food and eating. But do you, like me, nonetheless, have bits of the global larder you abhor?

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