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Posted on 14-04-2012 15:37
Lavere blodtryk, styr på vægten samt mere fritid er nogle af de fordele, som Martin Borch Jensen har oplevet ved kun at spise hver anden dag. Til daglig er han ph.d.-studerende ved Center for Sund Aldring, hvor han forsker i DNA-reparation, men i sin fritid udfører han et eksperiment på sin egen krop. Han sulter sig selv halvdelen af ugens dage, og det har både gjort ham sundere, friskere og friere.

I løbet af de første måneder blev Martin hurtigt klar over fordelene ved hans nye spisevaner. Han tabte sig, og hans blodtryk blev lavere.

- Man begynder at afbrænde mere fedt i forhold til kulhydrater, fordi der ikke er nogen kulhydrater, når man sulter. Forbrændingen bliver ændret, så den bliver mere effektiv og optimerer den energi, den kan producere, forklarer Martin.

Samtidig er der en række andre fordele. På fastedage føler han sig mere frisk, fordi han ikke bruger energi på at forbrænde måltider, og han har fået mere fritid.

- Jeg slipper for at købe ind og jeg slipper for at lave mad. Så det giver mig i virkeligheden en masse ekstra tid på faste dagen, for slet ikke at snakke om den tid jeg ikke bruger på at spise.

De dage hvor Martin spiser, spiser han cirka det dobbelte af, hvad han normalt ville. Det giver ham en vis frihed at vide, at han kan spise stort set alt uden at tage på.

- Når jeg spiser, kan jeg jo grundlæggende spise, lige hvad der passer mig. Det er nærmest umuligt at spise for meget. Man behøver heller ikke at bekymre sig om at tage på, når det er jul, eller man er i USA, fortæller Martin.

Samtidig smager maden, ifølge Martin, også bedre, fordi man er mere sulten, når man indtager den. En gang imellem prøver Martin at gå tilbage til at spise almindeligt for at tjekke, at han ikke bare har bildt sig selv ind, hvor fantastiske hans nye spisevaner er.

- Jeg synes det er enormt skuffende, hver gang jeg spiser på den normale måde. Man har jo nærmest lige spist fire timer inden, og man er i virkeligheden ikke rigtig sulten, så hvorfor skulle man spise nu, siger Martin.

Der er bred enighed blandt forskere om, at forsøgsdyr der lever med et generelt begrænset kalorieindtag, har større chance for at leve længere og mindre chance for at blive syg.

- Når kroppen er i kalorieunderskud, går den i et stadie, hvor den kører mere effektivt og selvbeskyttende, lyder Martins fortolkning.

Det er dog kun de seneste ti år, man er begyndt at undersøge effekten ved at spise hver anden dag. Men forskningen på området stiger og får mere opmærksomhed. Martin tror, at det en dag kan blive lige så almindeligt som Atkins-kuren. Der går dog altid et stykke tid, før videnskabelige resultater når ud til den brede befolkning.

- Det er den slags nyheder, som alle forskerne kommer til at vide, men som alle almindelige mennesker ikke rigtig får at vide. Jeg håber, at jeg lever længere og sundere. Jeg håber, at jeg har reduceret risikoen for at få kræft, hjerteproblemer og diabetes.


Excerpt af interview med Martin Borch Jensen i Berlingske



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Posted on 20-04-2012 12:29
Bertrand Russel on smoking




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Ok, world famous philosophers can say stupid things too. That IS interesting.


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Posted on 20-04-2012 15:07
Grizlas wrote:
Ok, world famous philosophers can say stupid things too. That IS interesting.

He said something stupid? I'm sure he meant the comment about smoking not having a great effect on his lifespan to be anecdotal and tongue-in-cheek. He died eleven years after this interview at 97 years of age, so it really didn't seem to have an effect on him, but again, it's anecdotal.

What I find most interesting with this clip, is that he was told smoking was harmful back when he started smoking, which has been around 1890.


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Posted on 20-04-2012 15:27
That's true, didn't consider that. I thought smoking was considered a healthy habit back then.


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Posted on 30-04-2012 12:10
X-ray film of speech organs in action. Recorded in 1962.




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"Det regner skomagerdrenge"

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Posted on 10-05-2012 14:09
"Det regner skomagerdrenge"

Ifølge "Ordbogen over faste vendinger" går en af forklaringerne på, at det stammer fra et tredobbelt mord i Læderstræde i København i 1758. En skomager straffede en af sine lærlinge ved at smide ham ud af vinduet på 2. sal. De andre lærlinge protesterede over udsmidningen, og så røg også de ud af vinduet. Kun to af de fem lærlinge overlevede turen. Deraf altså udtrykket "det regner skomagerdrenge".



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Posted on 06-06-2012 14:48
Sá eitt link til hesa greinina um Osama Bin Laden:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1212851/Has-Osama-Bin-Laden-dead-seven-years--U-S-Britain-covering-continue-war-terror.html#ixzz1wxg6GqSL

Av einuhvørjari orsøk, so er hatta farið framvið, uttan at eg havi givið mær far um hetta.

Tað kundi kanska veerið ein frágreiðing til, hví ávísir republikanarar ikki hava vilja givið Obama nakra viðurkenning fyri at hava dripið Bin Laden - teir vistu, at hann longu var deyður.


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Posted on 06-06-2012 17:05
Torellion wrote:
This makes my bullshitometer tingle
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Anything from the Daily Mail makes my bullshitometer tingle...


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Posted on 06-06-2012 19:53
Anything from the Daily Mail makes my bullshitometer tingle...


I agree completely... however, I still found the article interesting and think it strange that I didn't hear more about this when the article was published (and the books that it refers to)


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How to spell Shakespeare

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[...] there remains an enormous amount that we don't about William Shakespeare, much of it of a fundamental nature. We don't know, for one thing, exactly how many plays he wrote, or in what order he wrote them. ... Although he left nearly a million words of text, we have just fourteen words in his own hand -- his name signed six times, and the words 'by me' on his will. Not a single note or letter or page of manuscript survives. ...

We are not sure how best to spell his name -- then neither it appears was he, for the name is never spelled the same way twice in the signatures that survive. (They read as 'Willm Shaksp', 'William Shakespe', 'Wm Shakspe', 'William Shakspere', 'Willm Shakspere', and 'William Shakspeare.' Curiously one spelling he didn't use was the one now universally attached to his name.) Nor can we be entirely confident of how he pronounced his name. Helge Kokeritz, author of the definitive Shakespeare's Pronunciation, thought it possible that Shakespeare said it with a short a as in 'shack.'

Bill Bryson: "Shakespeare: The World as Stage"
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A very precise and interesting description of modern banking?:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18642323



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The fate of the crew of STS-51-L

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The crew cabin [of Space Shuttle Challenger], made of reinforced aluminum, was a particularly robust section of the shuttle. During vehicle breakup, it detached in one piece and slowly tumbled into a ballistic arc. NASA estimated the load factor at separation to be between 12 and 20 g; however, within two seconds it had already dropped to below 4 g and within ten seconds the cabin was in free fall. The forces involved at this stage were likely insufficient to cause major injury.


The intact crew cabin was seen exiting the
cloud by a tracking camera after its trajectory
carried it across an adjacent contrail.


At least some of the astronauts were likely alive and briefly conscious after the breakup, as three of the four Personal Egress Air Packs (PEAPs) on the flight deck were found to have been activated. Investigators found their remaining unused air supply roughly consistent with the expected consumption during the 2 minute 45 second post-breakup trajectory.


Enlarged detail of the previous picture, the
arrow indicating the crew cabin. The nose
cone containing the RCS thrusters is missing.


While analyzing the wreckage, investigators discovered that several electrical system switches on Pilot Mike Smith's right-hand panel had been moved from their usual launch positions. Fellow Astronaut Richard Mullane wrote, "These switches were protected with lever locks that required them to be pulled outward against a spring force before they could be moved to a new position." Later tests established that neither force of the explosion nor the impact with the ocean could have moved them, indicating that Smith made the switch changes, presumably in a futile attempt to restore electrical power to the cockpit after the crew cabin detached from the rest of the orbiter.

Whether the astronauts remained conscious long after the breakup is unknown, and largely depends on whether the detached crew cabin maintained pressure integrity. If it did not, the time of useful consciousness at that altitude is just a few seconds; the PEAPs supplied only unpressurized air, and hence would not have helped the crew to retain consciousness. The cabin hit the ocean surface at roughly 207 mph (333 km/h), with an estimated deceleration at impact of well over 200 g, far beyond the structural limits of the crew compartment or crew survivability levels.

On July 28, 1986, Rear Admiral Richard H. Truly, NASA's Associate Administrator for Space Flight and a former astronaut, released a report from Joseph P. Kerwin, biomedical specialist from the Johnson Space Center in Houston, relating to the deaths of the astronauts in the accident. Kerwin, a veteran of the Skylab 2 mission, had been commissioned to undertake the study soon after the accident. According to the Kerwin Report:
The findings are inconclusive. The impact of the crew compartment with the ocean surface was so violent that evidence of damage occurring in the seconds which followed the disintegration was masked. Our final conclusions are:
• the cause of death of the Challenger astronauts cannot be positively determined;
• the forces to which the crew were exposed during Orbiter breakup were probably not sufficient to cause death or serious injury; and
• the crew possibly, but not certainly, lost consciousness in the seconds following Orbiter breakup due to in-flight loss of crew module pressure.

Some experts believed most if not all of the crew were alive and possibly conscious during the entire descent until impact with the ocean:
Scob fought for any and every edge to survive. He flew that ship without wings all the way down....they were alive.
—Robert Overmyer, NASA Lead Investigator

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Overraskende forskning: Målinger af radioaktivt henfald kan måske forudsige soludbrud

Solen regulerer muligvis henfaldshastigheder for radioaktive materialer på Jorden. Det kan danne basis for forudsigelser om soludbrud.

Af Jens Ramskov, fredag 17. aug 2012 kl. 15:01

Amerikanske forskere har fundet overraskende eksperimentelle tegn på, at Solen har indflydelse på radioaktive henfald på Jorden.

Det kan formentlig gøre det muligt at forudsige store soludbrud op til halvandet døgn før, de sker.

Da ingen nuværende fysiske modeller kan forklare, hvordan der skulle være en sammenhæng mellem strålingen fra Solen og radioaktive henfald, er der dog stadig en stor usikkerhed omkring fortolkningen af en lang række målinger af henfald.

Hypotesen om en sammenhæng mellem Solen og radioaktive henfald på Jorden blev allerede fremsat i 2006 og har tidligere været omtalt i en artikel på ing.dk.

Læs også: Mystisk kraft fra Solens indre påvirker radioaktive stoffer på Jorden

Det er forskere fra Purdue University i USA, der har fremsat hypotesen i samarbejde med forskere fra bl.a. Stanford University, Ohio State University og US Air Force.

Målinger før og under soludbrud
De oprindelige målinger, der førte til hypotesen, stammer fra målinger af radioaktivt henfald af mangan-54, hvor det meget overraskende blev observeret, at henfaldshastigheden faldt en lille smule halvandet døgn før og under et stort soludbrud i december 2006.

Siden fandt andre forskere en svag sæsonmæssig variation i henfald af henholdsvis silicium-32 og radium-226, som kunne hænge sammen med den sæsonmæssige variation i Jordens afstand til Solen, som skyldes den svagt elliptiske bane for Jordens kredsløb om Solen.

I en ny artikel, som netop er offentliggjort af Astroparticle Physics, anerkender Jere Jenkins og Ephraim Fischbach fra Purdue University og deres medforfattere, at en lang række andre forskere har haft svært ved at eftergøre disse eksperimenter.

Syv års målinger ved forsøgsreaktor
De har af denne årsag nu analyseret radioaktivt henfald af chlor-36 ved forsøgsreaktoren ved Ohio State University over en periode på syv år fra juli 2005 til juni 2011.

Disse målinger viste en tydelig variation med en periodelængde på et år, således at den radioaktive henfaldshastighed er størst i februar og mindst i august.

Dette stemmer overens med de tidligere målinger af henfald af silicium-32 ved Brookhaven National Laboratory i USA og radium-226 ved Physikalish-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) i Braunschweig, Tyskland.

Der kan i princippet tænkes en lang række årsager i miljøet omkring detektorer, der kunne give en sådan sæsonmæssig variation. Men alle disse mulige årsager har forskerne undersøgt i detaljer og sidenhen forkastet.

Konklusionen i artiklen lyder af samme årsag:

»fter at have elimineret alle de kendte mulige systematiske årsager til fluktuationer står vi tilbage med muligheden for, at de målte ændringer i henfaldet har en ikke-jordisk oprindelse, såsom Solen.«

Observationer skal nemlig sammenholdes med, at Jorden er tættest på Solen i januar og længst væk i juli. Alt andet lige vil Jorden derfor modtage flere neutrinoer fra Solen i januar/februar end i juli/august.

Det er netop neutrinoer, som forskerme forestiller sig kunne have en betydning for radioaktivt henfald på Jorden.

Soludbrud kan også forandre neutrinostrålingen og dermed også ændre henfaldshastigheden, lyder hypotesen.

En god forklaring mangler
Det helt store problem er dog, at den gængse fysik på ingen måde kan forklare, hvordan dette skulle være tilfældet.

Radioaktivt henfald hænger sammen med den svage kernekraft, og Ernest Rutherford viste allerede i 1930’erne (længe før teorien om den svage kernekraft var formuleret), at henfaldshastigheden er konstant og ikke kan påvirkes udefra.

I en pressemeddelelse fra Purdue University anerkender Jere Jenkins denne problemstilling:

»Da neutrinoer stort set ikke har masse og ingen elektrisk ladning, er tanken om, at de kan vekselvirke med andet fremmed i fysikken. Så vi siger, at noget, der ikke vekselvirker med noget, ændrer noget, der ikke kan ændres.«

Han er af samme årsag heller ikke fremmed for, at en helt ny ukendt partikel kan være på spil, men det vil være mindst lige så revolutionerende, hvis det skulle være tilfældet.

I den nye artikel konkluderer forskerne derfor også med forsigtighed, at:

»En samordnet indsats kræves af mange for at adressere de åbne spørgsmål omkring årsagerne til disse fluktuationer, herunder udviklingen af en fysisk model.«

Forskerne har dog allerede indsendt en patentansøgning på konceptet om at anvende målinger af radioaktive henfald til at forudsige soludbrud.

Source: ing.dk





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Posted on 12-09-2012 12:09
Anyone know much about the film that's causing all the riots?

I believe it's called "Mohammad on Trial"

Apparently, it's a collaboration between that wacky preacher in Florida and some Egyptian coptic christians.


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Posted on 12-09-2012 21:38
Ok.
The story seems to be developing, so we now have more details.
But it all seems really weird.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19572912


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