http://scientificpsychic.com/blog Comments about health, fitness, linguistics, psychology, programming, etc. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:48:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Are you feeling fat after eating so much over the Thanksgiving holiday?  If so, you may be tempted to try some of the impressive weight loss diets advertised on the internet. The advertisement above shows some pictures of a woman's remarkable transformation after losing 44 pounds.  In your eagerness to click ... http://scientificpsychic.com/blog/2008/12/02/overeating-during-the-holidays-and-weight-loss-scams/ Antonio Zamora - Age 66 Once a year, it is good to have a physical check up.  The purpose of the check up is to determine if something is not quite right, and if so, to take steps to correct it.  The most common thing that people find out from a ... http://scientificpsychic.com/blog/2008/11/23/thanksgiving-resolution-yearly-health-check-up/ Dr. Leonard Guarente Today, I attended a lecture at the National Institues of Health by Dr. Leonard Guarente of MIT.  Dr. Guarente has dedicated his career to the study of the molecular mechanisms that affect life span and the development of the diseases associated with aging.  One of his particular interests ... http://scientificpsychic.com/blog/2008/11/19/effect-of-sirt1-genes-on-neurodegenerative-diseases-and-cancer/ In optics, Fraunhofer diffraction is a type of wave diffraction which occurs when field waves are passed through an aperture or slit, causing the size of an observed aperture image to change due to the far-field location of observation and the increasingly planar nature of outgoing diffracted waves passing through ... http://scientificpsychic.com/blog/2008/11/18/fraunhofer-diffraction-bending-light-rays-with-your-ears/   Last weekend I visited a friend who had unwittingly bought a carton of what he thought was 2% Reduced Fat Milk.  When I poured some of the product on my cereal, I noticed that the liquid did not have the smooth texture of milk.  It appeared to have small ... http://scientificpsychic.com/blog/2008/11/13/watered-down-milk-in-the-dairy-section/ Richard F. Yates If you live in Bethesda or if you take the Friendship Heights Metro, you are likely to see the lanky Richard F. Yates carrying a plastic bag in his right hand and picking litter with his gloved left hand.  He moves at a furious pace along miles and ... http://scientificpsychic.com/blog/2008/11/11/cleaning-up-the-environment/    The United States is headed in a new direction with the election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States.  During the campaign, Obama was able to unify voters with his aspirations for an America where everybody works to help each other.  Obama's multiracial background, his foreign ... http://scientificpsychic.com/blog/2008/11/05/presidential-fashion-michelle-obamas-black-widow-dress/ We have had a few frosts in the Washington, D.C. area and the leaves of the deciduous trees have started to turn yellow and red. The pines and magnolias retain their verdant hues and will stay green throughout the winter. A favorite pastime of local residents at this time of the ... http://scientificpsychic.com/blog/2008/11/02/bethesda-in-the-fall/   Hairy and handsome at 21 vs. bald and gray at 65 I recently got an enthusiastic letter from a visitor to my web site who had read the pages about Calorie Restriction (CR) to slow down aging.  He had some questions about resveratrol and other nutritional supplements.  He also had ... http://scientificpsychic.com/blog/2008/10/30/is-there-a-cure-for-biological-aging/ Emperor Napoleon using an Imperative Sentence Rwanda, a small landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of east-central Africa, has decided to change instruction in schools from French to English.  The French language was brought to Rwanda by Belgian colonizers.  On July 1, 1962, Rwanda was granted full independence from Belgium. Rwanda ... http://scientificpsychic.com/blog/2008/10/28/rwanda-is-switching-from-french-to-english/