Very scary radio interview about drug testing - for example companies publish positive drug trial results that help them prove a new drug works, and bury the possibly many more trial results that show the drug to be ineffective. Drug companies try to keep drug trial results secret from doctors and patients - billions of dollars have been spent stockpiling Tamiflu but the trial results have never been published. Drug companies use 'Industry Sponsored Teaching' to push their products onto doctors. Once again the public and government are being gamed by big money interests.

Dr Ben Goldacre is an author, broadcaster, medical doctor and academic who rebuts scientific claims from drug companies, newspapers, government reports, and public relations firms. He has written the weekly Bad Science column in the Guardian since 2003, and his book Bad Science (Fourth Estate Ltd, ISBN: 978-0-0072-4019-7), has sold over 400,000 copies and is published in 18 countries. His new book is Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients (4th Estate, ISBN: 978-0-00-735074-2).

http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2536733/ben-goldacre-bad-pharma.asx

Or if you prefer newspaper format:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9633402/Closed-drug-trials-leave-patients-at-risk-and-doctors-in-the-dark.html

And here antidepressants dangerous for unborn child http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9632588/Thousands-of-pregnant-women-at-risk-from-antidepressants-doctors-warn.html

Senior doctors say that “study after study” shows the most widely used class of anti-depressant, called selective seratonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, cause pregnancy complications including premature birth and pre-eclampsia, which can both be fatal.
Emerging research also suggests SSRIs can double the rate of autism in children, and increase the risk of lung and bowel diseases.
The situation amounts to “a large scale human experiment”, according to Dr Adam Urato, assistant professor of maternal-fetal medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts.
Drugs firms were overstating the benefits and underplaying the risks for the sake of profit, he claimed. Family doctors were failing to grasp the true dangers and tell pregnant patients of them, he argued.
He said: “Study after study shows increased rates of newborn complications in those babies who were exposed to SSRIs in-utero. The Federal Drugs Administration [in the US] and Health Canada have put out warnings specifically regarding this issue.”

"A Bradford woman has revealed her past as a child raised by monkeys in Colombia"

http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/People/article1153249.ece

How about a forum for a Low Carbohydrate Raw Paleo Diet?

LC RPD = RAF + Low carb RVF (eg weeds, green leafy vegetables, stalks, flowers, buds, shoots, bark...)

On searching for the bigger picture of our specific evolutionary path I found this great site reptile evolution, which shows our ancestors going back 310 million years.

Here is a picture of some snap shots in time of them. The littlest guy is the first mammal, who survived the great dinosaur extinction (say meteor collision) by being so small and warm blooded. I imagine they would have had to eat a lot of high dinosaur meat before the dust cleared and plants recovered:


Here is a picture of their jaws - judging by those teeth it looks like eating animal foods was the most important source of nutrition over the last 300 MY. I am now thinking that, when looking at this time scale, the lower animal food consumption of apes is more of an aberration than the norm proposed by vegans:


http://www.reptileevolution.com/

Who thinks the American Veterinary Medical Association wants to put people off raw pet food to protect sales of manufactured foods and to increase business through creating more sick pets ? 

http://www.truthaboutpetfood.com/articles/very-bad-news-for-raw-feeders.html

Ditto: "Officials with the American Animal Hospital Association announced in August that their organization took a position that states that raw pet food diets risk animal and human health":
https://www.avma.org/News/JAVMANews/Pages/121015l.aspx?PF=1

Sam Neil, the founder of Summerhill School in England in the 1920s, presenting his passion for allowing children to grow up free and empowered in school:

A. S. Neill - Founder of Summerhill School - 1964

I am very privileged that my children go to a school modeled on Summerhill where they can run play all day and school rule meetings are chaired by a child and all children, teachers, and any parents who happen to be at school can propose and vote on motions. So they learn how to participate in meetings and a democracy.

They have a system where if someone is doing something you don't like you say "I request you not to" they may comply with the request or say "unreasonable request" or ignore you.Then if you are still not happy you say "I'm calling a meeting on you" and then another child is chosen to chair the meeting while a teacher supervises and they spend as long as it takes to resolve the issue. 

My wife drinks large amounts of wine and is saying today she has sore kidneys - any ideas on how to improve kidney function? The obvious would be to stop drinking, but until that happens maybe there is another way to help her? BTW she does not eat raw meat.

Hunter says llamas 'better than dogs' after a very successful overnight deer hunting trip - the llamas strong senses alerted the hunters to the presence of deer, and the llamas noises and outline were caused the deer to linger:

Off to work with my RP packed lunch - lamb chops, soaked almonds, orange, kiwi 

Inner Life Of A Cell - Full Version.mkv

Scientists think the appendix is a stud farm for introducing beneficial bacteria into the intestines (appeddix is in this bottom right of this picture labeled Veriform process ):


http://www.newscientist.com/blog/shortsharpscience/2007/10/appendix-good-for-something-after-all.html

Huhu Grubs... break off head first so they don't bite : )