His bill would require restaurants not to serve certain things to people who are obese. You know, those teenagers behind the counter at McDonalds would determine whether you are obese or not. More here at Junk Food Science with hat tips to The Agitator and Dispatches.
. . . or so it appears to me, to design a more efficient plant–for their purposes. Check out this MSNBC article to see how it was done.
James McGrath (whose comments are well worth reading) pointed me to this post, and I responded here.
… the legislators, that is. He makes it here. I’m also wondering how many voters who won’t finance education feel they have a right to it anyhow. There’s probably a subset of the voters who voted “no” on funding, would be horrified at Chris’s suggestion, and think education will happen magically anyhow.
Intelligent Design, that is, in the Florida Legislature. Early details on the Florida Citizens for Science Blog.
Via FiveThirtyEight.com’s Significant Digits, which I read religiously and daily, I discovered the Timeline of the Far Future on Wikipedia. I am particularly concerned that in 600 million years C3 photosynthesis will become impossible.
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Not surprising. I think the success of getting laws banning smoking in public places has emboldened people to believe that they can get just about any health related behavior regulated by the government.
I personally liked the results of the smoking ban, but hated the idea of the government forcing it in place, for the primary reason that it justifies just what you see in the Mississippi legislature on food now.
On this I agree 100%. I’m glad to have areas without smokers, but I do think it opened things up for very undesirable long-term results.