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  I, Caveman
Oct 3, 2011
I don't know how I caught this show. I was tired from a fast drive from Atlantic City to here and, if I recall, I was looking for the Mecum Auto Auction. 

The show puts 10 modern people high on the mountains of Colorado to see if they can live for 10 days as hunter-gatherers. 

Check it here http://curiosity.discovery.com/topic/intelligence/i-caveman-episode.htm.
  Ancestral Health Symposium
Aug 19, 2011
Sorry I could not make it this year; too many other things to do. Have a look at the site and listen to some of the great talks at AHS.
  Glucose Transporter Gene Expression and Glucose Resistance
Aug 10, 2011
Underlying the origin of insulin resistance in muscle is the genetic basis for expressing glucose transporters in muscle and in the brain. In human evolution, a larger brain became possible with mutations in the SLC2A1 gene in the brain and in the muscle. Fewer such genes were expressed in human muscle and more of them in human brain tissue.
  Our brain is a belief engine
Jul 27, 2011
From the WSJ: Beliefs come first; reasons second. That's the insightful message of "The Believing Brain," by Michael Shermer, the founder of Skeptic magazine. 
  Seeing in Sun Light is the way the eye develops
Jun 22, 2011
Outdoors is where humans lived until recently. We ought to heed that lesson.
  Two Quick Thoughts on sports and diets
May 31, 2011
1. Am I the only male in the USA who, right now, has no interest on who or what team wins any event? 

2. Would an Eskimo ever go on a diet? Would he/she say: I am looking a little fat right now, so I think I will cut down a bit on my eating. 
  Taller Men Punch Better
May 20, 2011
Maybe, but a punch is seldom landed in NBA fights (thankfully). This Mail Online article offers yet another explanation of human bipedalism.
  Dawkins at his finest
Mar 22, 2011
You will be charmed and amazed at Richard Dawkins' beautiful lecture: Growing up in the universe.
  Why White Men (and Asians) Can’t Jump
Mar 7, 2011
Love the title of the movie and the message is only partly wrong.
  Protein Evolution
Mar 1, 2011
A point I make in the book and in my ZURICH.MINDS talk is to take evolution farther back in time in order to understand our biocomplexity at a new level. 
 
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