• Does Robert Greenwald have a subtle sense of humor? See for yourself. Ted Sorenson, one of the interviewees, is widely thought to have ghostwritten Profiles in Courage. He denied it, but later told American Experience: “The author is the man who stands behind what is there on the printed page.”
• Researchers fail to grasp that a spoof is a spoof. For instance, a case report involving a cartoon character was taken seriously. A Science News writer made this sort of mistake several years ago. I wrote to the magazine pointing it out. The editor who replied didn’t agree with me but said that the person who had written that piece was no longer working there.
• “The mature product”. The truth about expiration dates.
• Participatory science: “He drew the line at eating stewed mole.”

Thanks to Tyler Cowen and Ben CasnochaÂ

• aphorisms from Nassim Taleb. “ Edmund Phelps got the Nobel for writings no one reads, theories no one uses, and lectures no one understands.” Daily Beast interview with Phelps. Econtalk interview with Phelps.
• Best journalism of 2009
• What a father wishes his son’s doctors had told him. “There was almost a physical chill when more than limited [questioning] occurred.”
• Is sea level rising? Who do you trust — the IPCC or this guy? “If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that.” Not to mention this retraction.

Thanks to Dave Lull.

• data logging with iPhone
• New York cavemen
• paleo nutrition blogs & sites
• Roger Ebert stops eating
• Why Nassim Taleb walks a lot

Thanks to Ben Hyde, Dave Lull, Marian Lizzi, and Brody.