J.R.McHale

From ScienceDaily: “Mathematicians at Case Western Reserve University … [have] found that just as thinking burns energy, stopping a thought burns energy — like stopping a truck on a downhill slope.”

Via Futurepundit.com: “A study headed by Anna Dahl, MS, of Sweden’s Jönköping University, found that individuals with higher midlife body mass index (BMI) scores had significantly lower general cognitive ability and significantly steeper decline than their thinner counterparts over time. These statistics were compiled from a study of Swedish twins that took place over the course of nearly 40 years, from 1963 to 2002; the results were the same for both men and women. The press release also describes how people with a history of cyclical weight loss and gain have more problems in their old age.”

Freeman Dyson, professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced study, in Princeton, on the need for young heretics in general, and then, specifically, Professor Dyson’s views on climate change science.