AAAS under way

The annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science is now underway. Among the first presentations, further study on the notion that less food makes you live longer and have more mental energy (some Asian cultures also say this) and Disney's latest computerized animation.

Eating less

[Erich]

Eating less doesn't make you live longer...

It just makes it SEEM longer.

Talking Moose?

[jandrese]

RE: that Disney thing.

I remember way back on the old Macs there was a program called the Talking Moose that used MacInTalk to simulate the voice and had primitive lip syncronization. From the article, it sounds like this brand new-cutting edge-gee whiz-It'll only-take-2-years-to-render movie trick is just an extension of the moose.

"Of course I could be wrong, that's just my opinion" (tm)

Need a lot more evidence

[bluGill]

Some family members of mine are anorexic, or they were until they died at 72. Doesn't look like it helps much if you go overboard. Now there are people who eat too much, I'll grant that.

I eat three times more then my brother, and have more engery then him. He weighs 100 lbs more then me. Our bodies are build different, and until all those differences are clasified in I won't belive it.

Let me also remind everyone that while smoking is a major factor in many cancer cases, there are smokers who live to 95, and attribute the old age to smoking two packs a day all their life. It doesn't take a genius to point our the flaws in that arguement, and I look on these arguements the same way. People living longer in spite of bad habbits are not reason I would take them up.

Is sengan going to grad school already?

[heroine]

I thought the AAAS only came up in your life when you were going to grad school. Aren't the rejected grant proposals more interesting than the stuff that actually gets done? The fact that everyone and their kid brother wants to star in Patch Adams, Virus, LA doctors, ER, and Hot Zone while Adventures in Perl isn't exactly a blockbuster smash is one reason I'm counting technical specialization on not life science specialization for income. By the way, it's reduced calorie intake that extends life, not reduced food intake.

Less Food

[Skip666Kent]

It makes sense (intuitively, anyways) to me that eating less food is healthy, but not to the extreem some would take it that "he who eats least is healthiest".

Ever go out for sushi? If I don't gorge myself, I find that I feel slightly energized, as opposed to Western fare which leaves me pleasantly drowsy.

I forget to eat sometimes (especially when I'm fiddling with Linux) and generally don't miss it. I nibble constantly but rarely sit down to 1 big meal (except when I'm visiting the folks!)

Foreskins and other articles

[Pascal Q. Porcupine]

Well, I wanted to read the other articles, particularly the "foreskin foresight" one (I figure it has to do with cloned skin, which I'm interested in, and not just circumcision, which I'm not :) but they seem to have rather... inconsistent CGI handling. At least from the links followed from the articles mentioned specifically here, I got funky CGI errors about "could not execute such-and-such a script with some odd extension which isn't .pl, .cgi, or even .exe/.dll, meaning that we're probably not using any webserver software you've ever even had a glimmer of hearing about, or even have ever come into contact with a photon or air molecule which has ever carried any piece of information regarding this software whatsoever. Fuck you."

Or perhaps I'm just unlucky. :)
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Eat less, burn your cells out slower

[paul.dunne]

Do you have any sources for this?
I am interested in doing a bit of reading about it.

eat less, live longer - a reference

[Mac]

A highly detailed paper on this (by another researcher) can be found in most university libraries (especially the medical ones, as this is a famous medical journal):

R. Weindruch et al (New England Journal of Medicine 1997; 337:986-993)

(I forget the exact title, only have this reference handy)

What foods?

[Fiachra]

What foods do they recommend? And what doeses?

Like Linux? Like Anime?

Quake II on Irvine's Onyx 2

[shadowbox]

I was at the convention, for the American Junior Academy of Science. We visited the Virtual Reality Room at Irvine, and they let us play Quake II on a Onyx 2(rsomehow they ran it). It had 2 processers just for texturing. It was the coolest thing I have ever seen.