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The Passive Habit: January 2014
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Active habits are strengthened by repetition but passive ones are weakened." - CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters. Monday, January 20, 2014. The problem with fat shaming: it doesn't work. Fat shaming is a simple concept. As a means to get people to slim down, society creates an atmosphere in which being overweight is very uncomfortable. It's been a common practice for many years and has been endorsed. Have shown that as many as 80 percent of dieters fail to keep weight off thanks to a variety of biochemical...
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The Passive Habit: April 2014
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Active habits are strengthened by repetition but passive ones are weakened." - CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters. Saturday, April 19, 2014. E-cigarette skeptics in the news again. E-cigarettes are growing in popularity and enabling millions of people to quit smoking. Naturally, the federal government wants to regulate them out of existence. Read my full response to the latest wave of e-cig hysteria at PolicyMic. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Named for a passage from The Screwtape Letters.
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The Passive Habit: May 2015
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Active habits are strengthened by repetition but passive ones are weakened." - CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters. Tuesday, May 26, 2015. Inside City Hall: radio interview about smoking bans. Last Wednesday, I was interviewed on a New Orleans-based radio show called "Inside City Hall" about the city's recently enacted smoking ban. You can download the audio of the program for free here. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Named for a passage from The Screwtape Letters. Cameron English » Home. Velvet Glove, Iron Fist.
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The Passive Habit: February 2014
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Active habits are strengthened by repetition but passive ones are weakened." - CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters. Monday, February 17, 2014. Bill Nye, debating crazy people. I have a new piece for PolicyMic. Out today, a few comments on Bill Nye's recent debates with crazy people. Go read it. Share it with your friends. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Named for a passage from The Screwtape Letters. This blog is where I write things down, because writing things down is fun. Cameron English » Home.
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The Passive Habit: Fasting + low carb = dead sexy, part 2
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Active habits are strengthened by repetition but passive ones are weakened." - CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters. Thursday, August 6, 2015. Fasting low carb = dead sexy, part 2. Last month I started a fasting experiment in which I skip breakfast, limit my carbohydrate intake to 50 grams or fewer and space my two meals roughly six hours apart every day. You can check out my previous post. Another possibility is this: years of eating a certain way have effectively conditioned my body to maintain. There's so ...
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The Passive Habit: May 2014
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Active habits are strengthened by repetition but passive ones are weakened." - CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters. Tuesday, May 27, 2014. Evolution explains our beauty standards. I have a new piece out today over at PolicyMic. Contrary to the claim that our ideas about beauty come from billboards and magazines, I argue that our preferences for certain body types and facial structures are better explained by biology. Read the whole thing. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Cameron English » Home.
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The Passive Habit: January 2015
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Active habits are strengthened by repetition but passive ones are weakened." - CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters. Saturday, January 31, 2015. Blame Genetics, Not Video Games, For Violent Teenagers. Lately I've been helping college students write essays. On a variety of subjects as a part of my freelancing. Most of the assignments are uninteresting busy work - "Explain how you are going to change the world as a student."- but occasionally I get to help a student write an interesting essay. Notice first of a...
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The Passive Habit: August 2015
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Active habits are strengthened by repetition but passive ones are weakened." - CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters. Saturday, August 22, 2015. Politics, science and the (overblown) benefits of exercise. All argue that exercise is key to losing weight. Something is very wrong if these three parties agree on this question, because they are usually at odds on health-related issues. So why do they all agree about the blessings of exercise? Not our fault, you should exercise! Anyway, the video that inspired this ...
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The Passive Habit: Amusing science news from around the web
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Active habits are strengthened by repetition but passive ones are weakened." - CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters. Tuesday, August 11, 2015. Amusing science news from around the web. I really enjoy writing, just not tonight. So instead of producing anything original, I'm going to link to a few science news stories that piqued my interest this week. According to a recent study. Women like sexy, charismatic jerks; men like beautiful young women. See this blog post. Don't I find that amusing since biotechnology.
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