Weekend Link Love – Edition 372

Weekend Link Love

Research of the Week

Replacing fructose with starch helps obese kids improve metabolic health.

Traditional societies have more positive views on aging than modern societies.

Melatonin before bed improves circadian rhythm and sleep efficiency in strength athletes.

Good dates.

Your genes got rhythm.

By second grade, kids who had taken academic pre-K classes were performing worse in school than kids who hadn’t.

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Interesting Blog Posts

23andMe lays out their new services.

One blogger’s take on the fructose children’s study mentioned above.

Media, Schmedia

Is Silicon Valley bad for your health?

South Korean women are embracing fitness.

2% of hot dogs in a recent study contained human DNA. Why this might not matter.

Everything Else

These 10,000 year-old frozen cave lion cubs, amazingly, still look pretty cuddly.

Chimpanzee drumming. Check out that roar at about 1:20 in.

Though I’m not sure it qualifies as a bonafide “food craze,” putting butter on sushi sounds delicious.

This new desk lets you lie down on the job.

How the wild Atlantic salmon was decimated and Alaska has remained a viable wild salmon fishery for so long.

On Black Friday (November 27), REI is closing its stores and paying its employees to get outside.

This is one of the better applications of genetic engineering I’ve seen.

The American Academy of Pediatrics now says iPads and smartphones are appropriate for developing toddlers.

Recipe Corner

Time Capsule

One year ago (Nov 3 – Nov 9)

Comment of the Week

A whole head of garlic? I bet viruses aren’t the only thing you’re warding off after that concoction, Mark. 😉

– Ha! You’re probably right.

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