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Cocaine Trade Moves Out of Colombia | US Defense Warns Israel | Fat Taste Receptor Gene Protein Identified

Lesley Masson & Marcella Breukers | Michelle Du Xuan | Harper’s Bazaar China February 2012

Daily French Roast

Anne is reading …

Iranians on Friday carried the flag-draped coffin of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a scientist working in Iran’s nuclear sector assassinated in Tehran.AP photoIsrael and Iran

Despite the demands of many Republican presidential candidates that the US go to war with Iran sooner rather than later, the WSJ writes that US defense leaders are seriously concerned that Israel plans to take military action against Iran, ignoring US admonitions about the dire consequences of a strike.

The Jerusalem Post is also reporting the WSJ story.

Cocaine: The New Front Lines

Since 2000, cultivation of cocoa leaves — the raw material of cocaine — has plunged 65% in Colombia, says the UN. That doesn’t mean that America’s white powder consumption is declining, writes WSJ in its Saturday essay. Rather, the drug trade has moved on, with cocaine growers ramping up production in countries not nearly as friendly to America. They include Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia, where populist leaders have no interest in cooperating with US anti-drug efforts.

Tongue Taste of Fat

Image credit: Pepino labResearchers believe they’ve found a human receptor in a gene that makes people sensitive to the taste of fat. People with a particular variant of the CD36 gene are far more sensitive to fat than others. It’s possible that it people are highly sensitive to the taste of fat, they taste less of it the more they eat. As a result, those individuals seek more fatty foods to be satisfied.

The research results don’t confirm that obese people generally carry the CD36 gene variation, based on DNA tests with a group of 21 obese people. But the variation is very significant. Those participants who made more CD36 protein were eight times more sensitive to the presence of fat than those making 50 percent as much of the protein. via Science Daily

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Image credit: Anna VergheseYesterday morning the people of Port au Prince, Haiti woke up on the anniversary of Haiti’s terrible earthquake to find JR in town. From Cité Soleil to Petion-Ville, over 500 images, taken by Haitian photographers and printed by JR’s award-winning Inside Out Project, celebrated the resilience of the Haitian people and visualizing a country being reborn. See more images on TED blog.

JR won the 2011 $100,000 TED Prize for his inspiring artwork around the world. AOC has tracked JR for years. Read some of our most important articles about this amazing guerilla artist.

Natalia Vodianova’s LOVE Ball | JR’s Inside Out in Pakistan | Beauty & Brain

Global Slums Photograffeur JR To Receive 2011 TED $100,000 Prize

Photographers JR & Jonas Bendiksen | Artistry in Kibera, Kenya

In Paris All Eyes Are On ‘Women Are Heroes’
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Thursday
Jan122012

Michelle Obama's Use of Angry Black Woman Analogy On Gibbs Events Isn't Fair | Natalie Chanin on Southern Cuisine

Daily French Roast

Anne is reading …

We are loathe to criticize First Lady Michelle Obama in any way but now she has us pretty confused about her portrayal in Jodi Kantor’s new book ‘The Obamas’. From everything that we have read in reviews (not having read the book yet), Michelle Obama emerges as a strong, smart, devoted-wife woman with an independent spirit and a whole lotta smarts.

For the First Lady to reintroduce the subject of her being portrayed as an angry black woman, wasn’t appropriate from all we’ve read. Speaking of FOX News and Rush Limbaugh, ‘yes’ this characterization continues to ring true. About Jodi Kantor’s new book — we don’t think Mrs. Obama should have played the race card.

The country adores Michelle Obama for the most part, with strong supporters far exceeding detractors or people who judge her by her skin color. We regret that she chose to reintroduce this theme into her comments on CBS News with Gayle King.

The New Yorker writes that Jodi Kantor produced six high-level witness who confirmed Robert Gibbs’ fury over a moment with Valerie Jarrett concerning the First Lady’s alleged remarks about living in the White House, quickly retracted by the French government. They agree verbatim with Gibbs’ words, and it only confirms what we already know about the boys club.

The White House news this week is the necessity of protecting Vice President Joe Biden’s ego and not discussing whether Hillary Clinton has a better chance of guaranteeing President Obama’s 2012 win for a second term. American women can lose our right to contraception but Joe’s ego will remain protected.

Nancy Regan and Hillary Clinton, along with Eleanor Roosevelt — to name three strong women — proceeded Michelle Obama in being forceful, articulate First Ladies. Yes, Nancy Regan wouldn’t comment on her husband’s morning breath, but Michelle is her own person. The First Lady has been a great success to most Americans, if somewhat disappointing to those of us who support her moral compass and goals for the country and want even stronger leadership from her on women’s issues. 

Playing the race card is regrettable at this moment in our national turmoil. Anne

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Quilts and Cuisine

Natalie Chanin is devoted to preserving the textile traditions of Florence, Ala. with her clothing line Alabama Chanin. Now the designer has turned her attention to the Southern Foodways Alliance, equally committed to preserving the culinary traditions of the American South through the Southern Foodways Alliance.

SFA is holding a silent auction with Blackberry Farm at the University of Mississippi’s annual Taste of the South gathering. via  T Magazine

More on Alabama Chanin

J’Adore: Alabama Chanin’s “Slow Design”

Unanimous Supreme Court Decision

Conservative religious groups have long predicted that church freedom would perish at the hands of “activist judges.” But the Supreme Court’s new exemption of religious groups from discrimination laws should silence the false alarms, writes The Daily Beast. 

All nine judges sided with The Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Luther School in Pennsylvania, confirming that churches have the right to discriminate in hiring.

Alcohol and Endorphins

For the first time, scientists have actually confirmed that drinking alcohol leads to the release of endorphins in areas of the brain that produce feelings of pleasure and reward, making people feel good. via Science Daily

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Wednesday
Jan112012

Film | ‘Fotoshop by Adobé’ | What Is Classical Conditioning | Obesity, Personality, and Maternal Care

Daily French Roast

Anne is reading …

Developmental psychology student Jason G. Goldman writes What Is Classical Conditioning? (And Why Does It Matter?) for Scientific American’s ‘The Thoughtful Animal.

Before you say ‘yee gads, Anne, you’re getting too deep with this morning brew column’, jump to the end with us.

Classical conditioning is also being used in wildlife conservation efforts! At Extinction Countdown, John Platt pointed out last month that taste aversion, which is a form of classical conditioning, is being used to keep lions from preying on cattle. This should, in turn, prevent farmers from killing the lions.

Similar success has been used with planting empty bee hives to keep elephants away from agricultural fields in Africa. In this case, it’s believed that the association with bees is so negative, that the mere sight of a hive keeps elephants away.

Newt’s Anti-Romney Film

We support neither Newt nor Romney, but we do support telling the truth. From what we’re reading, there are major factual problems in Newt’s attack on Romney, all of which will become truths on The Ed Show by tonight. Politics is nauseating. 

Anti-Romney Film Stretches Truth on Bain Bloomberg News

A 28-minute film that attacks Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for eliminating jobs at times stretches the truth and takes some reports out of context or selectively edits them.

The film, bankrolled by supporters of rival candidate Newt Gingrich and scheduled to be released today, focuses on Romney’s work as chief executive officer of Bain Capital LLC, a Boston- based private equity firm.

More Headlines

2011: The Year Anonymous Took On Cops, Dictators and Existential Dread Wired

Yoga Instructors Push Back at New York Times Article on Injury Risk The Daily Beast

Climate Change Driving Tropical Birds to Higher Elevations Science Daily

China’s ‘Demographic Tsunami’ Begins Bloomberg

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Outspoken Actress

Maggie Gyllenhall lashes out against the attacks on Planned Parenthood, telling Glamour Magazine:

My mother was very politically active and taught both my brother and me that it is everyone’s responsibility as a citizen and as a person in the world to fight for what you believe in. And what I believe very strongly is that every woman has the right to decide what she can do with her body.

Pregnant with her second child and the mother of a five-year-old daughter, the actress who stars in next month’s ‘Won’t Back Down’ assails politicians, saying:

With jobs bills waiting on legislative calendars, the unemployment rate at a crisis level and many Americans losing their homes, I find it incredibly frustrating that we’re being forced to spend so much time and energy (and, yes, money) defending something as basic as self-determination.

Scale and Personality


Anyone who’s faced endless battles with the scale knows the term “emotional eating”. In trying to understand the full range of lifestyle and personality issues that lead to obesity, researchers increasingly look at the brain. Several studies have already shown that the emotion-controlling center of the brain also governs appetite. “Early life experiences also set the stage for overeating years later, “writes today’s Wall Street Journal.

In a stury of 2000 Baltimore residents age 50 and older, researchers determined that those who scored high on neuroticism and low on conscientiousness, were the most likely to be obese.

The subjects in the top 10% of impulsivity weighed, on average, 24 pounds more than those in the lowest 10%. People who rated themselves low on “agreeableness” were the most likely to gain weight over the years.

Toddlers with low-quality emotional relationships with their mothers were more than twice as likely to be obese at age 15, according to another study of 977 children due out this month.

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