Mr Epidemiology

I like to tweet random things (follow me @MrEpid), but for those who don’t use Twitter, here are some interesting posts I’ve come across this past week:

• The piece above was from a series available here. The artist repeats phrases and the entire shot consists of those superimposed on top of each other. Very cool concept. (via Laughingsquid)
• An amazing resource for those looking for information about obesity
• An interactive map of the different factors that influence obesity (hat tip to Beth Mazur for both of those links)
• Miguel Hernán discusses how Epidemiology is our best hope for the future in a post for the journal Epidemiology

Have a great weekend everybody!

-Atif

MOVE from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

I like to tweet random things during the week (follow me @MrEpid), but for those who don’t use Twitter, here are some interesting posts I’ve come across this past week:

• The video above is one video from a three-part series available here. They’re absolutely phenomenal.
• In honor of shark week, an infographic describing things that kill more people than sharks every year. Number 1? Obesity.
• The hierarchy of digital distractions. I’m sure all my grad student colleagues can relate.
• Self regulation of the food and beverage industry hasn’t resulted in less ads to children.
• A Washington Post article discusses how older athletes are reluctant to take it easy.

This week was rather busy for me, but I’ll be back to regularly updating on Mondays and Fridays from next week.

Have a great weekend everybody!

-Atif

I like to tweet random things during the week (follow me @MrEpid), but for those who don’t use Twitter, here are some interesting posts I’ve come across this past week:

• Ars Technica reports on someone who felt that Universities/Colleges were not doing enough to pass on information and research. So he made a 32 GB file with over 18,000 research articles and uploaded it to The Pirate Bay.
• Marion Nestle at Food Politics highlights some of the “winners” from CSPI’s “Xtreme Eating Awards.” For instance, the Cold Stone Creamery PB&C Shake has 2,010 calories.
• Fooducate tells us how tuna goes from being in fish form to canned form.
• Andre Picard over at The Globe and Mail reports on whether we should intervene when a child’s obesity becomes life threatening (with comments from Dr Yoni Freedhoff).

The redesign took a while to do, but it’s getting there. I’ll be back to updating next week.

Have a great weekend everybody!

-Atif

I like to tweet random things during the week (follow me @MrEpid), but for those who don’t use Twitter, here are some interesting posts I’ve come across this past week:

• Travis Saunders over at Science of Blogging talks about whether a successful academic career and fulfilling personal life are mutually exclusive or not.
• Dr Yoni Freedhoff discusses whether severely obese children should be removed from their homes
• Dr Arya Sharma writes about gene-environment interactions
• Martin Fenner asks: Did you receive spam because you published a paper?
• To completely shift gears, I’ve had smooth jazz Nyan Cat stuck in my head all week (for original Nyan Cat, click here)

And that’s all for now. Come back on Monday for a new entry!

Have a great weekend!

-Atif

I like to tweet random things during the week (follow me @MrEpid), but for those who don’t use Twitter, here are some interesting posts I’ve come across this past week:

• Fooducate posts 12 disturbing facts about obesity, and proposes 5 actions we can take here
• Travis Saunders asks if we can trust scientists who deliver TED talks, which I absolutely love, here
• Researchers at Johns Hopkins look at if we can track public health outbreaks via Twitter here
• Liveitactive writes a compelling post about balancing work and life to be  happier here
• Epiren discusses the use of infographics and how we present (and can misrepresent) data here
• Dr Arya Sharma asks whether it is ever appropriate to laugh at “fat jokes” here

Have a great weekend everybody!

-Atif