Random links
- How Coffee Can Galvanize Your Workout
- "Caffeine has been proven to increase the number of fatty acids circulating in the bloodstream, which enables people to run or pedal longer (since their muscles can absorb and burn that fat for fuel and save the body’s limited stores of carbohydrates until later in the workout)." Does this explain why my usual habit of just-coffee for breakfast seems to work out without really leaving me hungry? Of course this article is more focused on the athletic effects of caffeine.
- Scientist creates lifelike cells out of metal
- My favourite episode of the original Star Trek was the one with the silicon-based lifeform (primarily due to the horrible special effects there). Still quite skeptical of this sort of thing unless the materials are able to bind to other molecules in the same way as carbon can.
- Teachers Don’t Like Creative Students
- "One of the most consistent findings in educational studies of creativity has been that teachers dislike personality traits associated with creativity. Research has indicated that teachers prefer traits that seem to run counter to creativity, such as conformity and unquestioning acceptance of authority."
- If "all men are pigs," why is a pig's life worth more than a man's?
- "It's interesting that a woman is facing 50 years in prison for decapitating her boyfriend's piglet but if she killed him, she would probably face a lot less"