links adspar likes 6

Here is the 6th installment of a recurring feature, creatively titled links adspar likes. These should keep you busy with good reading material while you're bored at work, and it makes me feel productive because most of the links are educational and/or thought-provoking.

This is the Church-free and State-free edition of links adspar likes.



Felicia Lee
by Felicia Lee

adspar's quick summary:
Poker blog of Felicia Lee.

why you should read it:
This is a great poker blog for people who love poker but are sick of all Hold'em all the time.


Wearing blue-blocking eyeglasses a few hours before bedtime resets the internal clocks to an earlier hour.
by Coturnix

adspar's quick summary:
Article suggests the blue light causes suppression of melatonin, a chemical that is important in sleep regulation, and that blocking blue light in the evening might help you fall asleep earlier.

why you should read it:
I have a terrible time falling asleep, so this might be worth trying.


It's a nursing thing
by Intelinurse2B

adspar's quick summary:
Some blog by someone in nursing school.

why you should read it:
Because you're in nursing school too... aren't you?


Peanut butter concoction reverses malnutrition one spoonful at a time
by Science Blog

adspar's quick summary:
Meds and Food for Kids (MFK) uses a "a nutrient-rich mixture of peanuts, sugar, oil, vitamins, minerals and powdered milk" to help nurse chronically malnourished children back to health. "If we dig the children out of the deep immunologic and nutritional hole they are in, they are not very likely to fall back in," Wolff said. "We can't treat all of the congenital diseases they have, but we can treat malnutrition, which makes the kids healthier, smarter, taller and better able to contribute to society."

why you should read it:
A 6 week course of treatment with this stuff, which seems to be enough to get them back in shape to develop normally, costs less than $100. Interesting thought for the charitably inclined.

That's all for links adspar likes 6 (Church-free and State-free edition). This turned out pretty boring. Links for 6. Preview of 7.

I'll end with a video that is just very very cool. Messing with intuitive physics makes weird things happen.