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The Myth of the “Sugar High”

Monday, December 1st, 2008

I love sugar. I really really love sugar. I generally think of dinner as something I have to endure to get to dessert. In March of this year I stared a monthly cookie/dessert exchange where my friends and I get together under the pretext of exchanging cookies/desserts and their recipes but it’s actually just an [...]

Julie’s First Post: What Am I Doing Here?

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

Steven Levitt, of Freakonomics, gave a fascinating talk about car seats. Apparently, for kids over the age of two, car seats don’t really work much better than the regular old seat belts that are in our cars—free!
I’m a huge fan of Levitt, and getting to see him, in all his nerdly lispiness, is really a [...]

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