"Can you make a pet of him like a bird or put him on a leash for your girls?"

[larryhammer]

When you look at the studies, the evidence overwhelmingly shows that having a single alcoholic drink a day while pregnant has no discernable effect on the baby. Binge drinking is a problem, but not occasional or even light drinking. An econometrist goes through the studies behind the list she was given while pregnant, and found which foods/behaviors actually are risky. (via)

In pair with the book posters, it's book t-shirts. (via Kottke)

I guest-posted about a kestral, plus posted a week of poems about raptors: M, T, W, Th, F, Sa, Su.

---L.

Subject quote from Job 41:5.

Comments

[thistleingrey.livejournal.com]

It's easy for me to remember: were someone to have me drink 3-4 cups of decaf coffee or black tea daily for a week, I'd probably do something drastic to make it stop.

I can understand how a cannot-metabolize-alcohol-well mutation would spread across related populations; cannot-handle-caffeine is harder to see, not because caffeine is inherently more useful but because it's easier to skip by individual will power amidst diachronic social contexts of cultures whose genetic populations tend to have those mutations. *squints* I think that's all the needed qualifiers. That is, one can sip tea if in a situation where it must be drunk, whereas alcoholic beverages are sometimes for sipping, sometimes for bottoms-up. Sorry, too many thoughts. ETA Incomplete ones: I meant that there's little obvious protective effect from being required to minimize caffeine use, else suffering health woes.