Healthy fast pizza

Professor Clare Collins' healthy pizza.

Improving two minute noodles

Julie Meek show how to improve two minute noodles in Turning unhealthy two-minute noodles into a wholesome omelette.

NIST's new draft password rules

Chester Wisniewski at Sophos discusses NIST's new draft policy in NIST’s new password rules – what you need to know.

Jim Fenton, a security researcher, has a slide show discussing the changes in Toward Better Password Requirements.

Casarecce pasta with asparagus, chilli, pancetta and garlic

Neil Perry's Casarecce pasta recipe with asparagus, chilli, pancetta and garlic.

Running amok and spree killing

In Running Amok: A Modern Perspective on a Culture-Bound Syndrome Manuel L. Saint Martin explains why mengamok is the equivalent to today's spree killings, and not a cultural syndrome. Instead both are rooted in mental illness or mood or personality disorders.

Running amok is considered a rare culture-bound syndrome by current psychiatric classification systems, but there is evidence that it occurs frequently in modern industrialized societies. The historical origins of running amok as a psychiatric condition are reviewed in this article, and its relevance to modern day episodes of violent behavior is discussed. Psychotic illnesses, personality disorders, and mood disorders are all possible causes of amok, and the identification and treatment of patients who are at risk for manifesting violent behavior are discussed.

Inequality and health - Dr Norman Swan interviews Sir Michael Marmot

In this video Dr Norman Swan interviews Sir Michael Marmot about the impact of inequality on health outcomes.

Dr Karl Kruszelnicki and Professor Clare Collins on Triple J

On the Third of March, 2016, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki and Professor Clare Collins were on Triple J to answer people's calls on diet and nutrition. The audio is available at http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/science/podcast/scienceontriplej/scienceontriplej20160303.mp3.

On the Seventh of July, 2016, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki and Professor Clare Collins were back on Triple J to answer people's calls on diet and nutrition. The audio is available at http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/science/podcast/scienceontriplej/scienceontriplej20160728.mp3.

Healthy raw lemon and coconut slice

Julie Meek's raw lemon and coconut slice.

Choice's guide to storing fruit and vegetables

In Keeping your fruit and veggies fresh in the fridge Matthew Steen lists which fruit and vegetables should be stored together, which apart, which in the fridge and which out.

Plant protein healthier than meat protein

Sarah Berry reports that Plant protein is better for you than meat protein, new study finds.

Broccoli Salad Recipe

Melissa Clark's Broccoli Salad With Garlic and Sesame.

A blind study on climate change data fails to support the deniers

In Blind study fails to support deniers The University of Queensland reports on a blind study of statistical trends from climate studies. Economists and statisticians participated in the study.

“For instance, we took the figures for the shrinkage of Arctic Sea ice and turned it into a profit statement of the fictitious Supreme Widget Corporation,” Dr Ballard said.

“In other tests we presented environmental data as if it related to a trade surplus, the population trends of rural towns, agricultural output, world lithium production, and global currency trade.

“In a blind test, economists and statisticians were then asked if they agreed with statements made about the trends of each situation.

“The idea is that climate change is so politicised that we need to decontextualise our statements so that people’s arguments are based not purely on politics, but on data instead.”

In the instance of comparing Arctic ice to the fictitious Supreme Widget Company, 52 participants had to say whether ‘profits’ (ice levels) between 1989 and 2009 had consistently decreased  or had returned to health.

Data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center, used by both climate change deniers and believers, formed the basis of the question about Arctic ice.

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“In general, participants rated popular arguments by climate change deniers as misleading if applied to a profit-and-loss statement or the other forms of data we presented to them,” Dr Ballard said.

Ten core exercises

Michael Jarosky recommends 10 exercises to get great abs without sit-ups:

1. Kettlebell swings
2. Farmer's walk
3. Single leg push-ups
4. Sprints
5. Side planks
6. Woodchopping
7. Clean and press/jerk
8. Barbell ab rollout
9. Burpees
10. Mountain climbers

How exercise helps the brain

Gretchen Reynolds explains How exercise may help the brain grow stronger, at least in mice.

World War II and the danger of being liberated

The George C Marshall Foundation hosted three eminent historians, Gerhard Weinberg, William Hitchcock and Mark Stoler to discuss World War II Myths, Misconceptions and Surprises. Each gave a presentation and then they answered questions at the end. William Hitchcock's presentation was interesting because he talked about how the Allies were not always greeted with joy when liberating parts of France and Belgium. This was basically because many civilians in those places were killed in the fighting to liberate them. I think he mentioned the number of French civilian casualties on D-Day, mostly from Allied bombing, were similar to Allied causalities.

Garlic Bread

Darren Robertson and Mark LeBrooy's Doozy garlic bread with chilli.

Are the policies of American political parties realigning to their base?

In This Is What the Future of American Politics Looks Like Michael Lind argues that we're seeing an earthquake in American politics. He argues support for the two major parties will align on policy grounds rather than the current partisan alignment. That is, the Republican Party  has become the party of the white, southern and mid-western working class and we will see it's policies align accordingly (nationalistic, anti-immigration, anti-free trade, pro Social Security and Medicare). He argues the reason Trump has won the Republican Party presidential nomination is because he has espoused these policies.

By contrast the Democrats will become the party of multiculturalism and globalisation.Its support base will be "an alliance of upscale, progressive whites with blacks and Latinos, based in large and diverse cities".

The Yom Kippur War on US military doctrine

In Yom Kippur War & The Development of U.S. Military Doctrine John Suprin explains how lessons from the Yom Kippur War changed American Army doctrine and weapons.

The Americans were able to inspect captured Russian built equipment after the war and were surprised to discover that the tanks were built for a NBC battlefield. He later relates a conversation he had with a Ukrainian General (formerly of the Red Army before the fall of the wall and the break up of the USSR) where the Ukrainian explained the Red Army's plan to user nuclear weapons right from the beginning of any land war in the Europe.

Asian mushroom hotpot recipe

Neil Perry's Asian mushroom hotpot recipe.

Great rappers deconstructed.

I had no idea of the complexity in rap music and the skill needed to write it. Watch Deconstructing the greatest rappers of all time by Estelle Caswell and Martin Connor.