September 2011
3 posts
The Sweet Science of Sugar
(From WIRED Magazine, Issue 19.10)
Oh, sugar, we know how toxic you are, but you give us so much joy. The pleasure is simply a matter of sucrose hitting your tongue, right? Nope. A series of discoveries by researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center has shown that many of the taste receptors on your tongue are also present in your guts. You continue to taste sugar as it works its way...
New Takes on Slow-Cooking Tech
(From WIRED Magazine, Issue 19.09)
There isn’t much you can do with a slow cooker that you can’t accomplish with a Dutch oven on a stove top. You still have to brown your meats and sauté your onions ahead of time. You still have to chop, dredge, and deglaze. But there is one important thing a slow cooker will let you do: walk away.
However, there’s more than just...
Your Gait Can Predict Your Longevity
(From Oprah Magazine, September 2011)
Forget the “life line” on your palm and complicated medical algorithms. It turns out that forecasting how long you’ll live might be as simple as timing how fast you walk. University of Pittsburgh researchers recently crunched data from nearly 35,000 subjects 65 years or older and discovered that each increase in gait speed of 0.1...