What's your point here? I am aware of the studies on organic vs. non-organic foods with regard to nutrition. The question of this post is "Why are we fat?" To say that girls reach puberty earlier than in past decades not because of hormones in the food supply but because we are getting fatter is circular reasoning. It…

What might be in the food we, and lab animals, consume? What are we spraying grain with? What are we feeding livestock? I'm not trying to be a conspiracy theorist here, but there are many things we don't know about pesticides and additives.

Absolutely fascinating. I'm a psychologist, and this is very, very relevant to my practice of psychotherapy. I am very hopeful new research is on the horizon!

Yes, we do. It (positive psychology) irks the hell out of me.

Off topic just a tad, but Perception, despite the fact that I keep watching it, really irritates me. It does a thoroughly terrible job of representing a schizophrenic (visual hallucinations, especially visual hallucinations that help solve crimes and/or are love interests . . . riiiiiiiiiight), and it also keeps…

Wrong. Nothing is worse than Heineken.

They aren't wearing safety gear, either. I wear a heat sleeve and sometimes protective glasses (depending on which glory hole I'm using — the big one really hurts my eyes) and I'm about to order a vest. It boggles my mind how they can stand in front of the heat that way and not break a sweat! Did you see that they…

I can't believe the clothes these men are wearing! The studio where I blow glass weekly is regularly about 120 degrees. I wear as little as I possibly can. This is a fascinating doc — my equipment looks exactly the same, except my punty rods aren't so big. And I don't puff my cheeks weirdly like that. And I usually…