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October 29th, 2006 - 7:26 pm § in Uncategorized

Porn and social networking: tracking STD transmission

It’s the ultimate social networking scenario: who’s been having sex with whom? I remember a health class exercise to demonstrate the power of viral transmission of STDs: the teacher secretly told one of us we were “infected” and then asked each of us to shake hands with thr[...]

October 11th, 2006 - 3:27 pm § in Uncategorized

Who is responsible for what we eat?

Interesting note: Justin King, the chief executive of Sainsbury’s, was on BBC Breakfast this morning, talking about healthy eating and whose responsibility it is to help make Britain slim. (Note that yesterday’s news featured recent findings that Britain is now the fattest country in E[...]