Food Reward: a Dominant Factor in Obesity, Part I

A Curious FindingIt all started with one little sentence buried in a paper about obese rats. I was reading about how rats become obese when they're given chocolate Ensure, the "meal replacement drink", when I came across this:...neither [obesity-prone] nor [obesity-resistant] rats will overeat on either vanilla- or strawberry-flavored Ensure.The only meaningful difference between chocolate, vanilla and strawberry Ensure is the flavor, yet rats eating...

Business travel for newbies

A new graduate student recently attended their first conference, and was a bit confused as to what "counted" when filling out their expense report. So I thought I'd make a post about this topic in case anyone else was new to this. Every institution is different, but I'm generally of the opinion that from the minute your leave your house to the minute you get back you are on the clock, and everything "counts". (Assuming you're not also...

a date.

i've got a date w/ this guy and a can of spray paint this weekend.  i found him at goodwill almost two and a half yrs ago for $3.99.  he's been living in the storage unit (i bet he's glad to be out).....he finally has a home- the corner of our front porch/ breeze way.  i hope he will be happy...i can't wait to finally swing in him!!*images courtesy of lonny, house beautiful/ jonathan...

Nabi ADAM

Setelah Allah s.w.t.menciptakan bumi dengan gunung-gunungnya, laut-lautannya dan tumbuh - tumbuhannya, menciptakan langit dengan mataharinya, bulan dan bintang-bintangnya yang bergemerlapan menciptakan malaikat-malaikatnya ialah sejenis makhluk halus yangdiciptakan untuk beribadah menjadi perantara antara Zat Yang Maha Kuasa dengan hamba-hamba terutama para rasul dan nabinya maka tibalah kehendak Allah s.w.t. untuk menciptakan sejenis makhluk...

Peristiwa dan Kejadian Tanggal 28 April

Acara Tanggal 28 April * 1296 - Pertempuran Dunbar: The Skotlandia dikalahkan oleh Edward I dari Inggris. * 1509 - Paus Julius II menempatkan negara Italia Venesia di bawah larangan. * 1521 - Pertempuran Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan dibunuh oleh penduduk asli di Filipina yang dipimpin oleh ketua Lapu-Lapu. * 1539 - Re-pendiri kota Bogota, Granada Baru (kini Kolombia), oleh Nikolaus Federmann dan Sebastián de Belalcazar. * 1565...