If you’ve ever been sore a day or so after a workout, you’ve probably “known” that the cause of the pain was a build-up of lactic acid in your muscles.After all, that’s what “they” always told us. Well, turns out, “they” were wrong. (NY Times article; registration required.)Not just a little wrong. Really, really wrong. Not only is lactic acid no culprit where post-exercise muscle soreness is concerned. On the contrary, lactic acid is a good thing. Lactic acid is actually a fuel, not a caustic waste product. Muscles make it deliberately, producing it from glucose, and they burn it to obtain energy.

Just in yesterday from reader Michael Hoffman. Below, the Ananova story: Stilton launch blue cheese perfume The makers of the famously pungent Stilton blue cheese have launched their own perfume [top]. And they have approached Cat Deeley (below) to be the face of Eau de Stilton. It claims to "recreate the earthy and fruity aroma" of the cheese "in an eminently wearable perfume". The perfume, blended by a Manchester-based aromatics company, features a "symphony of natural base notes including yarrow, angelica seed, clary sage and valerian". It was commissioned by the Stilton Cheesemakers' Association as part of a campaign to persuade more people to eat their product.

Tara Parker-Pope, a personal health columnist and reporter at the Wall Street Journal, snagged the front page of the March 20 Journal Report with an article titled “The Case Against Vitamins” (subscription required).Parker-Pope is The Alt Health Voice of the WSJ. Irony intended. The WSJ is pretty pro-pharma — after all, they’re pro-business and pharmaceuticals make people a ton of money — so of course they aren’t going to bring a rabid alt advocate on board for anything like a regular gig.Not that she’s overtly hostile. She’s somebody’s idea of the new mainstream.

When I was young we lived at a small country town, with my parents and my sister. The town did not have but of 20000 inhabitants.There were the 60's, and we watched the TV only at night. Although being poor, we had been able to buy a television set with sacrifice and patience.One day, my father bought an 11 volumes encyclopaedia. We paid a monthly payment during many months or years, no longer memory.I loved that long books row with the same cover, which seems to me an infinite snake.My father had only gone three years to school, but he knew that information and culture was the passport to the future for their children.I was a dissuaded boy, without many friends.

  El propósito de este trabajo es el de poner al alcance de los estudiantes, así sea elementalmente, los principios eternos y, por lo mismo, imperecederos del Derecho Romano Clásico, tanto más cuanto que su estudio constituye el antecedente insoslayable para entrar al conocimiento del Derecho moderno y particularmente del Derecho colombiano. Es que esos principios fueron de tal perfección que han recibido el calificativo de “razón escrita”, al punto de que las instituciones jurídicas creadas por los romanos son las mismas que, apenas con ligeras variantes, rigen en la actualidad, fuera de que otras fórmulas legislativas tenidas en el Derecho moderno como innovaciones, no lo son tanto, dado que, strictu sensu, entrañan repetición de normas que de alguna manera existieron entre los romanos.