Mr Epidemiology

I’m going to move this post to Fridays, since it seems like the weekends are busy days for people. Let me know if you prefer the Friday or Saturday updates.

I like to tweet interesting stories and articles during the week (follow me @MrEpid); if you follow me you might have seen these links already:

• The above video is from Google’s Glass project, developed by their top secret Google X lab.
• The Canadian Government will no longer police the accuracy of food labels? There’s no way this ends badly
• Toronto Mayor’s weight loss plan is a public health disaster
• The Biggest Loser promotes weight bias. Not surprising for a show that promotes unhealthy weight loss and has contestants actively destroying pictures of their previous selves (seriously, this week they had them firing baseballs at pictures of themselves)
• Finally, for my Australia and New Zealand-based readers, there’s a scholarship available for women in science through L’Oreal Australia

-Atif