Found this lecture (Gary Taubes: Adiposity 101) while researching overweight women with malnourished children for a paper I'm writing. I found this fascinating. It's long, about an hour and a half, and he takes a while to get to the point but once he does you realize why he gave you so much background. The background is necessary to convince you of the weight of his conclusions.
Let me know if you watch it all. It'd be interesting to discuss.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
All It Took Was A Mail Order Bride
He gets me! He does find me funny after all. He's just, apparently, not a laugh uproariously kind of guy. Except when he finds something so funny that he is both caught off guard and seriously tickled. That happened tonight which is how I know.
There was a dramatic thunderstorm at his house tonight. It had thunder, lightning, heavy rain, and tornado warnings. While we were eating dinner there was a knock on the door. It was his elderly neighbor who was frightened by the storm and wanted to wait it out at his house. I listened to her tell of how her family used to own all the land, how he'd bought the house from her son, and how lonely she was since her husband died three years ago. I was, however, most fascinated by her story of her current daughter-in-law - the son's third wife. This wife was from a country that was once part of the Soviet Union, she was twenty years younger than her husband, and the pair met on the internet in 1997. When the storm subsided and the neighbor left I had to comment on this situation.
I don't know if you recall but the internet was just beginning to really catch on in 1997. Internet dating was no where near the mainstream vehicle it is today back then. And, I might add, most of the countries of the former Soviet Union were still struggling with figuring out how to run a country and bolster an economy. (As in most people were very po'.) The idea of this was just too much for me. He came back from walking the old bitty home and every thought I had about this came tumbling out of my mouth, complete with every joke I could think of on the subject.
His face scrunched up in surprise and he let out a large laugh. Followed by the requisite, "you're terrible" and then several chuckles. A couple minutes later he started chuckling again and said "you're so funny." At last!
There was a dramatic thunderstorm at his house tonight. It had thunder, lightning, heavy rain, and tornado warnings. While we were eating dinner there was a knock on the door. It was his elderly neighbor who was frightened by the storm and wanted to wait it out at his house. I listened to her tell of how her family used to own all the land, how he'd bought the house from her son, and how lonely she was since her husband died three years ago. I was, however, most fascinated by her story of her current daughter-in-law - the son's third wife. This wife was from a country that was once part of the Soviet Union, she was twenty years younger than her husband, and the pair met on the internet in 1997. When the storm subsided and the neighbor left I had to comment on this situation.
I don't know if you recall but the internet was just beginning to really catch on in 1997. Internet dating was no where near the mainstream vehicle it is today back then. And, I might add, most of the countries of the former Soviet Union were still struggling with figuring out how to run a country and bolster an economy. (As in most people were very po'.) The idea of this was just too much for me. He came back from walking the old bitty home and every thought I had about this came tumbling out of my mouth, complete with every joke I could think of on the subject.
His face scrunched up in surprise and he let out a large laugh. Followed by the requisite, "you're terrible" and then several chuckles. A couple minutes later he started chuckling again and said "you're so funny." At last!
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