Weight Not Only Measure

I found this interesting. Even though the general attitude isn't quite congruent with the premise of it.
"“People get confused by the words and the mental image they get,” said Katherine Flegal, senior research scientist at the C.D.C.’s National Center for Health Statistics. “People may think, ‘How could it be that a person who is so huge wouldn’t have health problems?’ But people with B.M.I.’s of 25 are pretty unremarkable.”

Several studies from researchers at the Cooper Institute in Dallas have shown that fitness — determined by how a person performs on a treadmill — is a far better indicator of health than body mass index. In several studies, the researchers have shown that people who are fat but can still keep up on treadmill tests have much lower heart risk than people who are slim and unfit."
graph per ny times

Entertaining Question

This is what #7 on the speed dial asked me:
"Do you still consider yourself a postmodernist or have you come around?"
Engineers do have a sense of humor!

Quotation of the Day

A conversational bit I heard today and simply had to post.

- You know I look at my family and I seriously wonder: where did I pick up my particular genetic combo?
- Hm. That is the question that Aristotle would still be wrestling with.

Let the ontological discussion start.