[url]http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/08/what-depression-quest-taught-me-about-dealing-with-mental-illness/[/url]

[url]http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/08/mystery-source-of-ozone-destroying-chemical-keeps-it-around/[/url]

Now that I'm back from an epic vacation in the American Southwest, I can post again.

[URL="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/in-the-brain-memories-are-inextricably-tied-to-place/375969/"]In the Brain, Memories Are Inextricably Tied to Place[/URL]

[URL="http://phys.org/news/2014-08-artificial-retina-physicists-interface-optical.html"]Artificial retina: Physicists develop an interface to the optical nerve[/URL]

[URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/11/technology/-inside-apples-internal-training-program-.html?ref=technology&_r=0"]Simplifying the Bull: How Picasso Helps to Teach Apple’s Style[/URL]

[URL="http://www.npr.org/2014/08/09/339148819/glass-free-menagerie-new-zoo-concept-gets-rid-of-enclosures"]Glass-Free Menagerie: New Zoo Concept Gets Rid Of Enclosures[/URL]

[URL="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/08/14/why-men-say-uh-and-women-say-um/"]Why men say ‘uh’ and women say ‘um’[/URL]

[URL="http://time.com/3105056/math-prize-woman/"]Top Mathematics Prize Awarded to a Woman for First Time[/URL]

[URL="http://exclusive.multibriefs.com/content/just-how-wide-is-the-world-wide-web/science-technology/education"]Just how wide is the World Wide Web?[/URL]

[URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/12/health/scientists-create-3d-model-that-mimics-brain-function.html?_r=1"]Scientists Create a 3-D Model That Mimics Brain Function[/URL]

[URL="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140812121839.htm"]Awake within a dream: Lucid dreamers show greater insight in waking life[/URL]

[URL="http://fortune.com/2014/07/24/can-big-data-cure-cancer/"]Can Big Data cure cancer?[/URL]

[URL="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-28543990"]'Quantum Cheshire Cat' becomes reality[/URL]

[URL="http://time.com/3048559/brain-senses-dread/"]The Part of Your Brain That Senses Dread Has Been Discovered[/URL]

[URL="http://www.wired.com/2014/07/in-20-years-most-new-cars-wont-have-steering-wheels-or-pedals"]In 20 Years, Most New Cars Won’t Have Steering Wheels or Pedals[/URL]

[URL="http://time.com/3065485/color-changing-ice-cream/"]Ice Cream Genius Makes Treat That Changes Color When You Lick It[/URL]

[URL="http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1548"]Researchers discover cool-burning flames in space that could lead to better engines here on earth[/URL]

[URL="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/07/140731102524.htm"]Effect of loud noises on brain revealed in study[/URL]

[url]http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/8759/20140827/mystery-sailing-stones-unveiled-death-valley.htm[/url]

[URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/14/arts/design/drones-are-used-to-patrol-endangered-archaeological-sites.html?smid=pl-share&_r=0"]New to the Archaeologist’s Tool Kit: The Drone[/URL]

[URL="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140822094240.htm"]In our digital world, are young people losing the ability to read emotions?[/URL]

[URL="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/08/140820-antarctic-microbe-lake-astrobiology-science/"]Microbes Discovered in Subglacial Antarctic Lake May Hint at Life in Space[/URL]

[URL="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/21/how-brain-gets-wrinkles_n_5697394.html?ir=Science"]Here's How The Human Brain Gets Its Wrinkles[/URL]

[URL="http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2014/08/21/origin_of_languages_tower_of_babel_proto_languages_and_the_brothers_grimm.html"]Do All Languages Derive from a Single Common Ancestor?[/URL]

[URL="http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/20/6046609/its-hard-out-there-for-an-interplanetary-robot"]Look at what two years on Mars did to the Curiosity Rover[/URL]

[URL="http://www.fastcodesign.com/3034130/asides/how-the-worlds-craziest-video-game-is-changing-moma"]How The World's Craziest Video Game Is Changing Museum of Modern Art[/URL]

[url]http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/08/flir-one-gives-your-iphone-infrared-predator-vision/[/url]

[url=www.nytimes.com/2014/09/02/health/low-carb-vs-low-fat-diet.html]A Call for a Low-Carb Diet That Embraces Fat[/url] | NYT
[quote]People who avoid carbohydrates and eat more fat, even saturated fat, lose more body fat and have fewer cardiovascular risks than people who follow the low-fat diet that health authorities have favored for decades, a major new study shows.

The findings are unlikely to be the final salvo in what has been a long and often contentious debate about what foods are best to eat for weight loss and overall health. The notion that dietary fat is harmful, particularly saturated fat, arose decades ago from comparisons of disease rates among large national populations. [i][EWM: It was later shown that the studies in question cherry-picked data and the "benefits" disappeared when the original data sets were used, but hey, never let facts get in the way of a good marketing campaign. Right, Dr. Atkins?][/i]

But more recent clinical studies in which individuals and their diets were assessed over time have produced a more complex picture. Some have provided strong evidence that people can sharply reduce their heart disease risk by eating fewer carbohydrates and more dietary fat, with the exception of trans fats. The new findings suggest that this strategy more effectively reduces body fat and also lowers overall weight.

The new study was financed by the National Institutes of Health and published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. It included a racially diverse group of 150 men and women — a rarity in clinical nutrition studies — who were assigned to follow diets for one year that limited either the amount of carbs or fat that they could eat, but not overall calories.

“To my knowledge, this is one of the first long-term trials [i][EWM: besides the long-term trial known as "human evolutionary history", that is][/i] that’s given these diets without calorie restrictions,” said Dariush Mozaffarian, the dean of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, who was not involved in the new study.[/quote]
Of course rampant sedentism also factors into the picture, but the fact that the effects manifest so strongly even in "soft" modern cohorts is striking.

The worst news for the low-fat acolytes:
[quote]While the low-fat group did lose weight, they appeared to lose more muscle than fat.

“They actually lost lean muscle mass, which is a bad thing,” Dr. Mozaffarian said. “Your balance of lean mass versus fat mass is much more important than weight. And that’s a very important finding that shows why the low-carb, high-fat group did so metabolically well.”[/quote]

AMD CEO Says More Time Needed Before New Chips Bolster Sales
 

[url]http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-04/amd-ceo-says-company-faces-bumps-in-road-before-new-chips-help.html[/url]

[url]http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/lost-franklin-expedition-ship-found-in-the-arctic-1.2760311[/url]

[URL="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/08/27/342448774/science-crowns-mozzarella-the-king-of-pizza-cheese"]Science Crowns Mozzarella The King Of Pizza Cheese[/URL]

[URL="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/82f41202-27f3-11e4-ae44-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3BmqQHgna"]The secret language of food[/URL]

A rather nice selfie
 

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29044139[/url]

[URL="http://www.salon.com/2014/09/10/newly_discovered_species_defies_all_existing_classifications_of_life/"]Newly discovered species defies “all existing classifications of life”[/URL]

[QUOTE]The discovery of two new species of organisms off the coast of Southeast Australia has completely perplexed researchers, because, according to the New York Times, they “defy all existing classifications of life.” Although the organisms were technically pulled from the deep sea in 1986 by biologist Jean Just, they have not been scientifically described until Just published an article in the journal PLOS ONE this month:[/QUOTE]