Like for instance when people say “X is good for your skin because of Y” and then you look at this list and they say: “well, it was small study so it’s gets a grade C and the benefit was ‘slight’ so not everyone in the study felt much of it”. With THAT information you can call bullshit a lot more easily. Examine.com allows that and encourages calling bullshit!

However, if you are talking about “how much can we trust these studies” then at least you can see the ones that claim certain benefits and decide to trust it or not. If you don’t trust anyone about anything then you’re a lost cause and nothing but you doing your own studies will ever convince you. In which case – keep walking, nothing to see here!

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Yeah, web development with all it’s constituent components and technologies is a lot to absorb and that’s why I attempted to sandbox the kids last year with a console-like development environment. But I’m cautiously optimistic that the kids are going to be able to learn it and I’m kind of developing my own little theories on how to make it work. Either way, it’s an interesting experiment and the worst case is that the kids will have fun and learn some things.

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I guess less science than we thought was actually being reproduced and verified, which is a little disconcerting to say the least. 😉

@Jeff Man I love the Onion, better than real news.

@Rich That gives me hope… 😉 Thanks for posting.

@Rob Ok ok I have the worlds worst taste in TV shows I love Falling Skies and Vampire Diaries… does that reflect badly..? 😉

@Alex Nice site, but what makes it credible.

@Udi Nice.

@Michael Oh crap you saw through my pseudo science….

@Richard I actually can’t wait to try Soylent I really wish they would get it out to the public. Reproducibility Project sounds believable. I thought Jason had mentioned that?

Phew.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/21/soylent/

Glad to hear the web development in Catalyst went well. I had my doubts when it was mentioned before because with html, css, javascript and a backend there are lots of components and a few things that ‘just have to be done like that’.

When you were talking about Reproducibility Project I thought it was the Reproducibility Initiative which is a great project in biomedical research. They just raised $1.3m to reproduce 50 major cancer studies.

http://cloudatcost.com

“Although teaching people to become ambidextrous has been popular for centuries, this practice does not appear to improve brain function, and it may even harm our neural development.”

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=can-training-to-become-ambidextrous-improve-brain-function

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I think I would actually like to do some more interviews. I’m kind of getting into the mood again. 😉

Thank you for another good show, keep it up! Hope you’ll have some interviews soon, I really miss them.

Examine tries to cite all the science while also boiling a lot of the complexity down to simple take aways!

Now specifically, you challenged Justin about his claim that “they” (!) say fish oil is good for your brain. Well, check out what Examine says about that: http://examine.com/supplements/Fish+Oil/

In a nutshell: A slight increases brain activity (but less potent than and different from classical stimulants like Caffeine) and a notable improvement in cases of depression. Some minor improvements in memory and minor reductions in anxiety have been found.

I thoroughly recommend anyone interested in nutrition and with a great suspicion of supplements (as I do!) should buy the PDF version and help keep them funded and doing what they do (they send updated PDFs as necessary). However, the site does appear to be free so you can use it without paying!!

http://chicagovps.net

I purchased the $1/mo plan for Colby over the weekend and he’s already up and jamming with the command line and Vim. He just SSH’s into his server and starts banging away. No Git yet, but we’ll get there eventually. 😉

Anyway, it’s worked so well for him that I’m going to start moving a few of the other kids over as well.

Feel free to put up an affiliate link and make a few $$s for Catalyst

Yeah, House of Cards is amazing and is up there with the rest of the top tier shows.

Sleepy Hallow, … huh? Hmm…maybe I’ll give it shot. Supernatural isn’t my top choice, but what the hell. 😉

In other news, The Walking Dead, premiered this past weekend with 16.1 millions viewers, “… demolishing its own record as the most-watched cable show ever,” and even bested Sunday Night Football. It gets even better because these numbers “… don’t take into account delayed viewings.” Like, me! I didn’t even watch it until last night because I watched football on Sunday and Monday night. 😉

http://www.forbes.com/sites/allenstjohn/2013/10/15/zombies-ate-my-flat-screen-amcs-walking-dead-premiere-sets-ratings-records/

And yeah Agents of Shields kind of sucks, but most of us will watch it anyway. Sleepy Hallow is actually fun and has a sort of X-Files/Fringe dynamic with a more supernatural base. Check it out.

@Dylan Roy – Thanks, man! I know it may sound trite, but we really do appreciate the positive feedback. Putting on the show takes up a lot of our time and comments like yours make all the difference.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/the-republican-party-cannot-stand-by-and-let-obama,34074/