How Science Supersized Your Thanksgiving

The whole article is interesting, but the snippet that most caught my attention was:

Americans eat a pound of sugar every two-and-a-half days. The average amount of sugar consumed by an Englishman in the 1700s was about a pound a year

...and we wonder why we're fat. Here's the full article, How Science Supersized Your Turkey Dinner.

NatGeo: Best Science Images of 2008

Winning a National Geographic honorable mention for illustration: Visualization of the Bible was encouraging for me as a Christian open to the tough questions.

"It almost looks like one monolithic volume," said Carnegie Mellon's Chris Harrison.