Wednesday, January 15, 2003

Rebuilding the Food Pyramid   (Walter C. Willett and Meir J. Stampfer) "The dietary guide introduced a decade ago has led people astray. Some fats are healthy for the heart, and many carbohydrates clearly are not." Walter C. Willett and Meir J. Stampfer are professors of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health. Willett chairs the school's department of nutrition, and Stampfer heads the department of epidemiology. This well written article, found in the January 2003 edition of the ScientificAmerican.com website, summarizes some key points of the recently published book Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating. (Walter C. Willett, P. J. Skerrett and Edward L. Giovannucci. Simon & Schuster, 2001). Live long and prosper! 7:48:18 PM    comment [] "Let the youthful soul look back on life with the question: what have you truly loved up to now, what has drawn your soul aloft, what has mastered it and at the same time blessed it? Set up these revered objects before you and perhaps their nature...will give you a law, the fundamental law of your own true self." Friedrich Nietzsche, "Schopenhauer as Educator," in _Untimely Meditations_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. p.129. Happy New Years, belatedly, to one and all. Let your love lights shine! 4:19:10 PM    comment [] Desperado   (Chris "Rage Boy" Locke) "What we are seeing today on the web -- discounting the plethora of corporate spew -- is the emergence of ourselves as human beings discovering what it means to be human. If you're not doing that, do it. Spook yourself. If you're already spooked, don't quit now. We've only begun to scratch the surface. Why is the net getting so much pushback from the top-down hierarchies of power that freak if they can't control everything. Because it's working, that's why. We're giving ourselves permission to be outlaws. Cool, huh? " Oh yes indeed. Chris has new column, AD HOMINEM: the sociology of IQ, on the Corante Tech News Blog. Yeah, Chris! Despite (or perhaps because of) the constraint that Mr. Locke must keep it (relatively) civil, this is one place I intend to keep an eye on. Chris has something to say and he's saying it. Parents, you can let the young 'uns read this blog without fear. A little Chris will go a long way in building strong healthy minds. 3:52:20 PM    comment [] Supreme Court Justices Uphold Copyrights in a Victory for Walt Disney WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld longstanding copyrights designed to protect the profits of songs, books and cartoon characters, a huge victory for Disney and other companies. The 7-2 ruling, while not unexpected, was a blow to Internet publishers and others who wanted to make old books available online and use the likenesses of a Mickey Mouse cartoon and other old creations without paying high royalties. ... The Constitution ``gives Congress wide leeway to prescribe `limited times' for copyright protection and allows Congress to secure the same level and duration of protection for all copyright holders, present and future,'' Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said from the bench. ... Congress passed the copyright law after heavy lobbying from companies with lucrative copyrights. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Scotus-Copyrights.html   The case was Eldred v Ashcroft. The theft is from you. From me. From the public domain -- the place that has been the pool of knowledge from which new art and scholarship have arisen over the centuries. (Dan Gillmor) http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/000730.shtml   (The Corante Tech News Weblog has a list of related links). It's time to get informed and get involved here, because the future of our culture, society and economy is at stake. I will post some relevant activist links in the near future. 3:15:02 PM    comment [] Music and tech industries strike copy-protection deal   (NewScientist.com) Hollywood conspicuously absent from this party. 2:52:51 PM    comment []

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