A couple of years ago a pediatrician named Robert Lustig suddenly became famous due to the popularity of a 90 minute video of a lecture he gave.
( Fructose Ate My Baby )

( just some assorted genetics factoids )

Courtesy of one of my Museum Angels. Hmm, they need LJ Pseudonyms (TM). I'll call her Natalie.

One Small Step for Man - Bostonia Summer 2010

Early humans won at running; Neandertals won at walking

Two strangers are having a normal conversation in the middle of a large crowd. No one else can see them. No one else can listen in. Thanks to advanced gadgetry, they are talking in coded messages that only they can decipher. These invisible conversationalists sound like they've walked out of a Bond film. But they are entirely real, and their skill ( Read more... )