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Monday, August 8, 2011

Are you Normal?

Attraction and feelings of desire drive our libidos, but Vivienne Parry asks what is "normal" .


Is there such thing as a normal immune system?

What does 'normal eating' mean when most of us are overweight or on a perpetual diet?
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  • Campaign for the American Reader
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    8 hours ago
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    14 hours ago
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    20 hours ago
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    22 hours ago
  • The American Prospect Articles
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    1 day ago
  • FP Passport - blogging on global news, politics, economics, and ideas
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    1 day ago
  • International Political Economy Zone
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    1 day ago
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    1 day ago
  • Mind Hacks
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    1 day ago
  • macroblog
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    2 days ago
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    2 days ago
  • John Quiggin
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    2 days ago
  • Game Theorist
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    4 days ago
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    4 days ago
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    5 days ago
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    6 days ago
  • Aplia Econ Blog: News for Economics Students
    Who Pays for Online Discounts? - The other day I woke up, looked in the mirror, and decided it was time for a haircut. Rather than picking up the phone and calling the salon where I’ve go...
    2 weeks ago
  • Trade Diversion
    Rose: Protectionism is acyclical - Andrew Rose: Almost everyone agrees that protectionism is countercyclical; tariffs, quotas, and the like grow during recessions. The abstract of Bagwell an...
    4 weeks ago
  • FinanceProfessor.com
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  • Econ Academics Blog
    The latest discussions about economics research in the blogosphere - Follow the latest blog posts discussing economics research throughout the blogosphere.
    4 weeks ago
  • How We Drive, the Blog of Tom Vanderbilt's Traffic
    You Can’t Make This Stuff Up - From the comments: I did ride my bike to the gym this morning and thus only did 5 minutes on the treadmill to warm up before lifting! If I’d driven, I’d ha...
    1 month ago
  • Bluematter.
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  • Economics and...
    Bullish It - OK, so I decided to do a substantive post – something I haven’t done in a while because this blog has fallen into the category where, if I have the time an...
    1 month ago
  • Allison Arieff
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    2 months ago
  • MTEF is The Bayesian Heresy
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    5 months ago
  • Built on Facts
    Spherical Waves and the Hairy Ball Theorem - Boy howdy do we love spheres in physics. Sure we might tell you that the reason involves deep truths in topology, and symmetry, and group theory, and all...
    9 months ago
  • Hitwise Intelligence - Bill Tancer - US
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    9 months ago
  • murketing
    Annual semi-data-driven favorite songs list: 2011 - It’s time once more to take a semi-data-driven look back at my 10 favorite songs of the year just ended. (I have previously conducted this empirical/subjec...
    11 months ago
  • Peter Levine
    this site is moving - After more than eight years at this address and more than more than seven years blogging with the same old version of MovableType software, I am shifting ove...
    1 year ago
  • The Beacon
    A Conversation about Gasoline Prices - According to yesterday’s weekly federal report, This Week in Petroleum, the average price of regular gasoline is up to $3.96 per gallon, just 15 cents shy ...
    1 year ago
  • Geary Behaviour Centre
    Behavioural Economics and Irish Public Policy - posted the following on irisheconomy.ie I have posted a few times (here and here) before on developments in the micro-side of behavioural economics. I thin...
    1 year ago
  • Schlossplatz³ Blog
    Gobal Civil Society in the making - by Johannes Staemmler The number of internationally operating NGOs has risen drastically over the last years. They are to some extent an indicator for what...
    1 year ago
  • Freakonomics
    Moving Day for This Blog: Thanks for Everything! - In August, 2007, the Freakonomics blog took up residence on NYTimes.com. It has been a great ride. But now we are riding off, back to an independent Freako...
    1 year ago
  • The Political Economist
    Stewart Lee on University and Arts Funding -
    1 year ago
  • FT.com | Gadget Guru
    U-verse app delivers TV to smartphones - ‘Place-shifting’ technology, pioneered by companies like Sling Media with its SlingBox and SlingPlayer Mobile service, has proved popular with consumers ...
    1 year ago
  • 2 Blowhards
    An Announcement - Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Friends -- You imagine it can't happen to you, and then it does. Here's why 2Blowhards disappeared: Our webhost, who'd given ...
    1 year ago
  • The Frontal Cortex
    Goodbye Scienceblogs - NOTE: This blog has moved. The Frontal Cortex is now over here. I've got some exciting news: Starting today, the Frontal Cortex will be moving over to th...
    1 year ago
  • Management Blog
    The end of management as we knew it - The death of the FT Management Blog
    2 years ago
  • Gene Expression
    Armenian genetics - Armenian genes: Scientist in Yerevan launches a project to reveal genetic history of the nation. The description of the science in the piece is *very*garble...
    2 years ago
  • Oxonomics
    - promoting the Tibetan science of healing thru natural herbal remedies.
    2 years ago
  • New America Blogs - New Voices, Innovative Ideas, Post-Partisan Policy
    REFORM: Increasing Medicare Payroll Tax Musters Support - The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities concludes that the idea of raising the Medicare payroll tax "on high-wage earners would represent a sound and ...
    2 years ago
  • Brad Setser: Follow the Money
    One time return to blogging - My post on the G-20′s agenda can be found on the official Pittsburgh Summit blog.
    2 years ago
  • tomgpalmer.com
    Protectionism and the Great Depression: Please Spread the Word! -
    3 years ago
  • Harry Clarke
    New site - I have a new site at *WordPress*: http://www.harryrclarke.com/ *Readers please adjust your browser settings. * ** It is goodbye *Blogger* for at least a wh...
    3 years ago
  • Creative Capitalism
    Re-opening for business (in one form or another) - by Conor Clarke Hi again, and sorry for the publishing hiatus. The Creative Capitalism book is now done. It comes out December 2 -- "just in time for the hol...
    3 years ago
  • MathTrek
    The Noisy Game of Baseball - By Julie J. Rehmeyer Halfway through the 2005 baseball season, John Olerud was having a great year with the Boston Red Sox. His batting average was .405, far...
    4 years ago
 
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