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Well, this stinks. Excerpt: But bodies don’t gain or lose weight indefinitely. Eventually, a cascade of biological changes kicks in to help the body maintain a new weight. As the JAMA article explains, a person who eats an extra cookie a day will gain some weight, but over time, an increasing proportion of the cookie’s…

Was having lunch with a friend today, who mentioned a couple of “declinist” commentators, who are exceptionally gloomy and doomy. I raised my hand and said that I’m in the strange position of being a declinist, but one who is perhaps unaccountably cheerful despite it all. I can’t explain it. If I really believed the…

The John Templeton Foundation — for which I now work, please note — has announced winners of its 2010 Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellowships in Science & Religion. They are: Qanta Ahmed, Contributor, Huffington Post, and Broadcast Commentator John Farrell, Freelance Journalist Zeeya Merali, Freelance Journalist and Documentary Producer Chris Mooney, Science Journalist and Reporter Lisa Mullins,…

Over the weekend, I was praying the Psalms, and a line in Psalm 136 — the well-known lament of the Jewish exiles held captive “by the waters of Babylon” — made me pause in my prayers: How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land? It made me think of cancer as a…
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