The other day, I was watching a political show on TV, and the roundtable was forecasting the Obama Presidency. I was interested, but never more than when they showed a clip of Obama saying that he was going to lead a science-based administration, and his administration would be based on facts. Woot!
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According to 2005 statistics from the United Nations World Development Report and the CIA World Factbook, nearly 81% of India's population and 35% of people living in China manage to survive (though perhaps not with clean water or sanitation) on less than US $2/day. Even in the United States, 12% of Americans live under the poverty line...and yet, every year governments spend billions of taxpayers' dollars on risky space missions. Those funds could be allocated to schools or other much-needed infrastructure needed on Earth rather than aimed in the direction ...

by Martha Hiatt, Behavioral Husbandry

Animal enrichment at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is not a new practice. For many years WCS keepers have put effort and creativity into enriching the lives of our animals. Within the last few years, WCS made a commitment to formal, science-based enrichment programs at all of our wildlife parks, and thus the Animal Enrichment Program (AEP) was born. The fundamental objective of AEP is that all animals in the WCS collection receive optimal physical & mental stimulation for their health and well-being.

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Your dog can actually eat a little bit of chocolate, but if they eat about an ounce of milk chocolate per kilogram of body weight or as little as a couple of mouthfuls of cocoa mulch, there will be trouble.
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In 2007, Dr. Nicholas Christakis, a medical sociologist at Harvard University, published a study in the New England Journal of Medicine on the effect of social networks on the prevalence of obesity. I recently came across this study online, through links in a post by a friend, and revisited the results of the study. You can view a 3-minute interview with Dr. Christakis about his study and findings here.
After watching this interview and looking over Dr. Christakis' website, I composed this email to him:
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