Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content...

In the comments section of my previous post on cancer rates in the US states ( ) my friend Aaron Blaisdell noted that: …comparing states ...

The table below is from a study by Hayat and colleagues ( ). It illustrates one common trend regarding cancer – it increases dramatically ...

For most people, dog attacks are not very common. But they happen occasionally, and the experience can be traumatic. Incidentally, they a...

John Stone is a bodybuilder and founder of a bodybuilding and fitness web site ( ). There he has provided pictures and stats of his remar...

Let us assume that we collected data on the presence or absence of a trait (e.g., propensity toward risky behavior) in a population of ind...

In my previous blog post, I argued that one’s optimal weight may be the one that minimizes one’s waist-to-weight ratio. I built this argu...