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Added 2018-02-28 21:19:02 +0000 UTCWelcome to the SGU family. Pull up your chair, tuck your napkin into your shirt, and enjoy a nice meatball.
We plan to post extra material here for patrons only. Let us know what kind of content you would like to see. We will use this to communicate to our members, and we will experiment with different kinds of bonus content, analysis, and behind-the-scenes stuff.
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> Let us know what kind of content you would like to see I always enjoyed your conversations about the movies, and would like to hear more of them.
Pavel Matushkin
2018-03-14 22:35:27 +0000 UTCI’ve just been listening to #661 and the discussion on diet. Jay loves his smoothies as does my brother (using a Nutribullet which always reminds me of Avocado Wolfe hawking them). I attended a conference on nutrition at the New York Academy of Science a few years ago and one presentation has stuck with me ever since. I think the scientist was Dutch. In any case he showed a video of his hapless grad student eating grapes in two forms - blended into a large (at least 16oz) glass of grape juice and as whole grape bunches. The bunches occupied most of a small dinner tray. It took the grad student just over 2 minutes to drink the grapes and he seemed to have no issue finishing the glass. The next day he ate the equivalent in bunches of grapes. Less than half way through he was clearly struggling to finish the tray and it ultimately took him over 20 minutes. The team wondered what the reason for the clear difference was. One theory was that it had to do with differing blood sugar profiles of the two modes but that wasn’t borne out by tests. Ultimately they decided that the difference was due to the process of eating them. With a liquid which is swallowed easily, the brain doesn’t get the signal of satiety until well into consuming the glass. With solid grapes which must be chewed, the satiety signal kicks in far more quickly. Bottom line, you are far more likely to eat too much if you liquefy your fruit and veggies. This may be why Weight Watchers assign no points to most whole fruits and veggies but assign points to fruit juices.
Linda Tullberg
2018-03-14 06:33:11 +0000 UTCThe recent paper on how fake news spreads faster than the truth is scary. The March 8th Science Magazine Podcast had an interview with one of the authors who has some ideas, as yet untested by trials, on how they can address the problem. <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/podcast/animals-don-t-need-people-be-domesticated-astonishing-spread-false-news-and-links-between" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.sciencemag.org/podcast/animals-don-t-need-people-be-domesticated-astonishing-spread-false-news-and-links-between</a>
Linda Tullberg
2018-03-14 04:47:54 +0000 UTCThe safe harbour in tempest of fake news...
Neilo
2018-03-07 03:29:09 +0000 UTCHowdy. Glad this now exists. Topic for discussion(?) compare/contrast Homeopaths and Naturopaths - I still get confused and am not good at articulating which is which and what the arguments about them are. Just pointing me in the right direction would be a great help.
SkyGuy
2018-03-03 19:01:32 +0000 UTCOuttakes sound great, and if that's possible maybe some insights into your book? Just sneak peeks, no reason for us not to buy the book, quite the contrary!
Annika Harrison
2018-03-03 09:28:04 +0000 UTCI have a special request: please make sure that none of my nanomnorph dollars go to Marc Randazza. I want to support the SGU, but I also want to be able to sleep at night.
HugsBison
2018-03-03 07:55:54 +0000 UTCVideo of extended interviews. Video of Premium content. Video of the podcast... Videos!
Stephen Sion
2018-03-01 20:43:33 +0000 UTCI’d love to get more outtakes. It’s always fun when you guys make each other laugh.
David Oreol
2018-03-01 05:33:17 +0000 UTC
