Two weeks ago, when I was making ice cream with my physics classes, I ended up sitting in the office grading papers late one evening, terribly hungry, all the on-campus eateries closed for the night, with nothing in the office fridge but whole milk and hershey's syrup from my ice cream experiment. So I had three large glasses of chocolate milk for ( Read more... )

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mg19125631.500-the-antioxidant-myth-a-medical-fairy-tale.html

Great photos of 200-calories-worth of various foods. I never knew that honeydew melon was only about as calorie-dense as broccoli. Or that potato chips have twice the calorie density of french fries or fast food burgers?

William Saletan in Slate makes a good case that eating animals is unnecessarily cruel behavior, once justified by a lack of other good protein sources, but now something that we can and should leave behind.