It'll be interesting to see if this develops into anything useful...

"Fat people have less than thin people. Older people have less than younger people. Men have less than younger women.

"It is brown fat, actually brown in color, and its great appeal is that it burns calories like a furnace. A new study finds that one form of it, which is turned on when people get cold, sucks fat out of the rest of the body to fuel itself. Another new study finds that a second form of brown fat can be created from ordinary white fat by exercise."

Interesting articles on the difficulties of weight loss, an effect of exercise, and how diet is necessary to lose weight, with consistent exercise required to keep it off.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/tara-parker-pope-fat-trap.htm...

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/11/exercise-hormone-helps-keep-us-...

"The ceaseless churning of factories and automobile engines in and around Beijing has led to this: hundreds of flights canceled since Sunday because of smog, stores sold out of face masks, and many Chinese complaining on the Internet that officials are failing to level with them about air quality or make any improvements to the environment."

"First, the young men watched a rapid-fire lineup of photos with the faces and names of strangers. After a break, they tried to recall the names they had just seen as the photos again zipped across a computer screen.

"Afterward, half of the students rode a stationary bicycle, at an increasingly strenuous pace, until they were exhausted. The others sat quietly for 30 minutes. Then both groups took the brain-teaser test again.

Looking forward to trying these - I wonder if the beer store around the corner has them in stock...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/dining/sour-beers-review.html?ref=dining

I see these everywhere - what an annoying "fashion statement"

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/business/beats-headphones-expand-dr-dr...

Interesting (and long) article about the use of mice in science...

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/the_mouse_trap/2011/11/...

Great job, Baltimore!

"The plan is to install 250 bikes in 30 stations around the city next summer or fall. The system will work like most major bike shares- the first half hour is free, after that the user pays an increased fare for every hour or half hour. B-Cycle will raise the estimated $1.2m to build the infrastructure, so the City will pay next to nothing."

http://www.treehugger.com/bikes/baltimore-announces-its-bike-share.html

After advising Angel to choose to be hand-patted rather than go through the X-Ray scanners last weekend, I was interested to see these in the news...

Time: Europe Bans Airport X-Ray Scanners that U.S. Still Uses:

http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/11/17/europe-bans-airport-x-ray-scanners-t...

PBS: U.S. Government Glossed Over Cancer Concerns As It Rolled Out Airport X-Ray Scanners

http://www.propublica.org/article/tsa-puts-off-safety-study-of-x-ray-bod...

Propublica: TSA Puts Off Safety Study of X-ray Body Scanners