- A “safe starch” lowers HDL.
- DIY clinical trials
- omega-3 content versus mercury content of fish: a handy guide.
- Predictions of climate models versus reality. I have only seen careful prediction-vs-reality comparisons made by AGW skeptics. Those who believe humans are dangerously warming the planet appear to be silent on this subject.
- UNESCO’s list of “intangible cultural heritage”. I like to think the items on the list are clues to human nature.
Thanks to David Cramer and Nadalal.
There needs to be a Journal of Personal Science.
Seth: I hope so. Thanks for the suggestion.
Herring is my fish of choice. This is measured entirely by how it feels to eat it. Now the science tells me it happens to be optimum.
I recently did a Willat test of oysters vs. mussels and mussels won. As a bonus, mussels are cheaper.
Also fond of crab, and planning to do a proper test of squid.
Cod liver oil might be good at mercury and omegas, but in any significant quantities it will give you an overdose of vitamin A. It feels bad to eat.
You also want to look out for persistent organic pollutants in fish. Personally, I don’t eat any fish.
Funny, on the day you made your post saying that you haven’t seen comparisons between models and predictions except by skeptics, the top entry on RealClimate, the single most prominent global-warming-related blog that is not run by skeptics, was “Evaluating a 1981 temperature projection”: https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2012/04/evaluating-a-1981-temperature-projection/
Of course, the models have improved a lot since the 1980s but it is still good to look back.
You might also want to look at the second plot on https://web.archive.org/web/20070323005914/https://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/MSU/msusci.html which shows global tropospheric temperature anomaly for a longer series, starting in 1979. See if you can figure out why Evans chose to look at how much the temperature has changed since 1988 rather than choosing predictions from a different year. Think it has anything to do with 1988 having the highest measurements of the entire temperature record up to 1998? Nah, gotta be a coincidence, right? After all, he’s a climate change skeptic, and we can trust those people to give us the straight truth every time.