After something like 7 or 8 years the bicycle shopping basket finally, totally ist kaputt. It held up admirably through all the inevitable tipovers of my Marin Sausalito hybrid which it has faithfully served. But after the last couple tipovers the bond attaching the mesh bottom piece and the sides finally started to give way.…

They are total bullshit. The results of a Swedish study has just been released which has found that moderate alcohol consumption only has a positive benefit against coronary heart disease for 15% of the population. Wait. Why isn’t this story being plastered all over the media as the previous ones were???

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There seems to be this predominant thinking that aging is synonymous with a high probability of becoming obese. I would like to say once and for all that this is complete bullshit. It is not true. It is only “true” because people eat shit. Because they put garbage in their bodies. Because they deviate –…

This may be news to many, it turns out that high arsenic levels have been found in American-grown rice. This stems from the fact that many groundwater reservoirs in the US have unsafe, high levels of arsenic (and probably also the fact that rice is a highly irrigation-intensive crop). Lundberg, one of the largest American…

Results Benzodiazepine ever use was associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease (adjusted odds ratio 1.51, 95% confidence interval 1.36 to 1.69; further adjustment on anxiety, depression, and insomnia did not markedly alter this result: 1.43, 1.28 to 1.60). No association was found for a cumulative dose 180 prescribed daily doses) and with the…

The old models are dead ends. Don’t expect to be redeemed by them. Don’t expect them to empower. People are stuck with the old models. They find comfort in them, even though they are dead ends. They have delusions of success which lead to more and more imbalance and suffering. Its time to stop. Its…

I was researching the topic of verbal abuse as it unfortunately occurs quite a lot in the city where I live. The other day as I was bicycling one motorist randomly started spewing at me about a helmet – something I consciously choose not to wear. Irregardless, a passing motorist has no business whatsoever shouting…

As everyone probably knows, quinoa is one of the trickiest foods to season because of its unique characteristics. It is not like rice at all, so all the things that would normally be done to season rice don’t really apply to it. For example, no one really adds oil to quinoa. Likewise it is not…