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How Much Sugar is in Sprite?

I said that I would try and put together a visualisation of how much sugar there is in a can of Coca-cola. It turns out to be the equivalent of 20 sugar cubes. Yes, 20 sugar cubes in one can of coke. I had a 24 ounce Sprite in the house. So I figured I might as well...

Its Not Your Fault…

The Washington Post gives us 1000 words about a really smart guy with the “kind of discipline that enabled him to earn a law degree from the University of Chicago while attending Harvard Medical School” who turns to dumpster diving in order figure out how...

How to Create a Digital Living Room

With the price of hard drives continuing to fall, I figure that I might as well begin the process of digitizing and backing up my dvd collection. I expect this process to last months and/or years and so I want to plan properly so that I only have to go through it...

The Gift of the Magi

THE GIFT OF THE MAGI by O. Henry One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one’s cheeks burned with the silent...

Increase Your HDL (Good) Cholesterol

Increase Your HDL (Good) Cholesterol I’ve been asked to do a little bit of research concerning the most effective ways to increase HDL, or good cholesterol, levels. When I last talked about cholesterol, I tried to articulate the premise that the relationship...