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Book Review: Fat Chance or Fat Choice? 27 Aug 2013 | 06:02 pm
Claire Meek from the University of Cambridge, UK, reviews “Fat Chance: The Bitter Truth about Sugar” by Robert Lustig. As an obesity researcher and metabolic physician, I seem to spend a lot of time ...
Oxford Biocultural Anthropology Bibliography 27 Aug 2013 | 05:15 pm
Oxford Bibliographies has just published my entry Biocultural Anthropology into their excellent series on Anthropology. The bibliographies are expert guides to the literature, with introductions to e...
Public health in action: Did the cronut burger do it? 26 Aug 2013 | 10:53 pm
Picture it: the Canadian National Expo. Nearly three weeks of carnival rides, horse shows, trapeze performances, and other flavors of Canadian frivolity. Where there’s a carnival, there must be carniv...
Twitter for Sci-Ed Part 3: To boldly go where no lecturer has gone before 26 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
So far, I’ve talked about how Twitter can be used by scientists to help disseminate information, and acquire new information. I’m going to change gears in my final post and talk about how Twitter can ...
Predicting Movie Box Office Success Using Wikipedia 24 Aug 2013 | 04:35 am
It’s Friday evening and perhaps you’re planing to watch a movie, but will the new release you choose be a blockbuster or a lackluster flop? Well Wikipedia may help predict your choice’s success or fai...
Going to Pot 23 Aug 2013 | 08:42 pm
I would have expected CNN doc Sanjay Gupta’s very public recantation of his former (but equally public) pontifications on the evils of marijuana to have prompted a flood of pieces on pot. Surely this ...
The immune system and the human body: we’re not alone 23 Aug 2013 | 06:48 pm
It’s something you need, and it is given to you at birth. It’s something you eat, but you don’t think about eating. It can be both good and bad, but it’s essential. What is this mystery element? It i...
This Week in PLOS NTDs and PLOS Pathogens: What Defines Degue, Plasmodium’s Protein Origami, Lessons from the Mycetoma Research Centre, and More 23 Aug 2013 | 04:58 am
The following new articles are publishing in PLOS NTDs this week: As seen in Sudan and other regions where mycetoma is endemic, many affected patients tend to present advanced symptoms late, choosing...
Eat your own dogfood: lessons learned from building an API 22 Aug 2013 | 11:38 pm
The PLOS Article-Level Metrics application is open source software that collects a variety of metrics about scholarly articles. The application talks to a number of APIs, and in return provides these ...
Yet another thing for which to blame/thank your mother – your microbes 22 Aug 2013 | 10:27 pm
Wash your hands all the time. Sterilize your kitchen counters. Take antibiotics whenever you have a cough or an itchy throat. Avoid dirt and pets and farms. Do everything you can to keep away those ge...
