Sunday, May 4, 2003

Bite me? What Your Genes Want You to Eat. The new science of nutrigenomics wants to create the ultimate personal menu. By Bruce Grierson. [New York Times: Science] A fascinating article, both for its "heads up" to the subject -- As a workable concept, "eat right for your genotype" may be a decade or two -- or more -- down the road -- and for the potential implications. The notion of real time nutritional monitoring takes my mind right to the notion of real time environmental monitoring. That, plus principle-based & class-based [in place of substance-based] environmental regulation -- and the holy grail of "getting the prices right" could go a long way to replacing command and control environmental regulation with something both more tolerable, more economical -- and more effective. 8:04:50 AM    comment []  trackback []

The darker side of "Self-reliance" It's Emerson's Anniversary and He's Nailed 21st-Century America. Individualism run amok, transformed into a cruel self-absorption, is a good description of much of American life right now. By Adam Cohen. [New York Times: Opinion] Who remembers, for example, that he also sneered at charity? 7:36:46 AM    comment []  trackback []