Having trouble concentrating? You might not be eating enough fatty foods.
University of North Dakota researchers found that pilots who ate the fattiest foods such as butter or gravy had the quickest response times in mental tests and made fewer mistakes when flying in tricky cloud conditions.
Currently reading: This. Will likely post up some bits at some point. He references some interesting studies.
Currently playing: inFamous. And I am very, very impressed. Seriously, it's eating my holiday weekend. This is some solid game-making right here. Trailer here. It's an interesting take on the superhero genre. (Well communicated in this video.) Overall structure and moral issues are well done though the underlying story (as with most games) is grossly overcomplicated and incomprehensible. But then again, games are even less about story than movies are. I won't give a lecture here but in the end, games are about gameplay. They are about fun and secondarily about visuals. And this has both of those in spades, as brilliantly displayed here.
For nutrition info I recommend this guy.
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