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The new science of drowsiness

Fifty years ago, only a tiny minority of the population reported getting six hours of sleep a night or less. But a recent CDC poll reports that 30% of Americans now get six hours or less. This chronic sleep deprivation is harmful, both to the individual (the health effects are many) and to others (sleep deprivation is a significant contributor to fatal auto accidents).

Nova breaks it down in this article and their upcoming special, "Taming the Hidden Drowsiness Epidemic."

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All about: Bacon

The internet has its fads, and bacon is one of the most enduring. You can buy bacon everything; candles, doughnuts, candy canes, gum, even soda. (Bacon mania is so entrenched in our culture that it even has its own separate Wikipedia page.)

It's pretty easy to make something bacon flavored. Just add smoke flavor and a lot of salt. The actual bacon is a little more tricky, though.

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All about: Turkey

It's turkey time! Yesterday I went to the grocery store and one entire fifteen-foot section of the meat department freezer was filled to overflowing with enormous frozen turkeys.

Buying a Turkey
Don't make the mistake of thinking you can buy a turkey the night before. A frozen turkey will take several days to thaw safely. And almost every store everywhere sells only frozen turkeys, no thawed ones.

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Reviving the reputation of MSG

MSG has a bad name, but it's largely undeserved. In the 1970s there was a health panic about MSG causing headaches and other medical issues. While it's true that some people are sensitive to MSG, the number of MSG-sensitive people is quite small, along the lines of the number of people who have any other food allergy. Nevertheless, restaurants and food manufacturers removed MSG from their products, proudly proclaiming that they were "MSG-free."

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Soylent is scaling up for mass production

We have discussed Soylent before here on Klat. One man decided to reverse-engineer the human diet and created his own meal replacement shake, which he called "Soylent." It sounded crazy enough on the face of it, but the creator of Soylent received so much positive reaction from the public that he decided to start production on it on a mass scale.

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Tanaka's Pitching Trendlines - Dr's R/X

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Dr's R/X

Every pitcher is a health risk.  Some of them look golden ... Felix Hernandez, maybe Yu Darvish, there are guys who feel like they're safe going forward.

Tanaka-san looks like an "average" health risk to me, going forward.  I'd feel about as comfortable going with him, as I would going with Max Scherzer.  About the same as I would with David Price... well, Price is a little bit better bet.

How to have fun with your children

I recently saw a post in my blog feed about how to have fun with your kids. All I could think was, “This is a parenting blog! Do parents not already know how to have fun with their kids?” I’d like to think we all try to have a good time with our children every day, but I can see how we get so bogged down under the stress of work, health issues, bills and the daily minutiae that maybe we do sometimes forget to have fun.

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The surprising potential health risks of yarn

Here's something that may convince more people to start spinning their own yarn from scratch: there are a surprising number of ways in which yarn can pose health hazards, both to you personally and to the environment at large. A Ravelry thread brought up this blog post as an example of the various potential hazards posed by different types of yarn.

It looks scary on the face of it. But first, you have to separate the personal threats from the environmental threats.

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