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[Slashfood] These fads are subsets of long-lasting, broader trends that really shape the way we eat. For example, the lo-carb craze of a few years ago was part of a general weight-loss trend, which also covered a whole group of various "fad" diets.

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[Patsullivan.com] Pat Sullivan Blog: According to Professor Boyd Haley, Chemistry Department Chair at the University of Kentucky, these studies were poorly designed and tell us just one thing of value: children with amalgams most likely slowly lose their ability to excrete mercury after about two years of amalgam exposure. He further questions the medical ethics of the study and states that it should have been done on primates, not humans.

Aaai.orghttp://www.aaai.org [Aaai.org] AAAI AI ALERT Full-Text 29 April 2005: April 27, 2005: What's next jump in pet craze -- fleabots? Robotic pets, cloning, biological tinkering: We're a long way from Roy Rogers having Trigger stuffed.

[Cascadiascorecard.typepad.com] Cascadia Scorecard Weblog: Gas: Of course, I have read a number of reports that the Toyota Prius doesn't actually get the EPA-rated 55 mpg in combined city/highway driving (though some people -- particularly those who've optimized their hybrid-driving habits -- get pretty close, and these folks actually squeezed out 110 mpg from their Prius, albeit in highly non-standard driving conditions). 

Mail-archive.comhttp://www.mail-archive.com [Mail-archive.com] [nlpatumd] AAAI AI ALERT Full-Text 29 April 2005 (fwd): [John] Markoff's What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Computer Industry -- the title's from Jefferson Airplane's 'White Rabbit,' a paean to pills and other substances -- details the valley's early history, which involves computers, LSD, some marijuana and a lot of time in hot tubs and saunas, not to mention the occasional acts of civil disobedience and arrests for protesting against the Vietnam War. In this book they attend raucous parties, do a fair amount of LSD, smoke a goodly amount of marijuana and generally rabble-rouse, not just with machines but with household names from the era like Ken Kesey and the Grateful Dead.'If you were inside someplace like SAIL (the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab) it's a very social world,' says Markoff of one of the institutions that fostered these men and their work.

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