Author of Big Fat Myths. Teaching people that food is made of carbon which we exhale as CO₂. EAT LESS, MOVE MORE means "eat less carbon atoms than you exhale"
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Dear anatomists and medical people,
I took this thermal image of my feet and discovered my left middle toe is significantly warmer than my right middle toe. Why? Different vasculature/circulation? Is this asymmetry common in feet? Many thanks in advance!
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You're very welcome Árpád... my original @TEDxQUT talk went into more detail about how to calculate those percentages. If you're interested, I'd recommend reading about "doubly-labelled water" (²H₂¹⁸O) studies. Ingenious, fascinating science invidious.fdn.fr/vuIlsN32WaE
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LIVE WEBCAST with @Ed_Harrold: A conversation about fat metabolism and the direct physiological connection between breathing and weight loss. It's going to be fascinating!
🇺🇸3:00pm 21 April (MST)
🇦🇺7:00am 22 April (AEST)
RSVP: edharrold.com/events/how-the…
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Hi Árpád, your stoichiometry is👍but my calculation answers this question:
When you burn 10kg of fat, how much of that 10kg becomes CO₂ and how much becomes H₂O?
I'm separating the products into 1) the atoms that came from the fat and 2) the atoms that came from O₂
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Hey teachers, pop these in your 2021 planning folder. Short, sharp, brilliant explainers from the @BOM_au for your weather lessons ⛈💨 Merry Xmas🎄
invidious.fdn.fr/OFeN5nMqT7M
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We kicked National Science Week off a bit early at Newmarket State School today with a preemptive science show, by me. Lots of excited little molecules buzzing around tonight. Thanks kids for being awesome and thank you teachers for your passion and enthusiasm.
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These stories surely cannot both be right?
mobile.abc.net.au/news/2020-…
versus
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Wow! The scientists in Professor Katherine Kedierska's @kedzierskalab lab are punching above their weight on understanding coronavirus. Congratulations and thanks to the whole team!
abc.net.au/news/2020-03-17/r…
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Hey SE Asia Teachers! We're all about Excellence in Science Learning at @theASE conference at @BangkokPatana and I'll show you the direct link between STEM education and health literacy. Hope you've booked your flights & tix... it's gonna be GREAT! ase.org.uk/events/ase-south-…
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Good question. I eat meat🤫which causes more warming than eating plants because e.g. methane absorbs more infrared energy than CO₂. Emitting 1 CH₄ molecule is equivalent to emitting 25×CO₂. It's CO₂eq that matters not just the number of C atoms emitted bbc.com/news/science-environ…
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While we're sharing, @ProfFeynman would have loved this @AtomicSchools video proving kids don't just love learning about atoms, they really "get it" too. Puts a little tear in your eye! invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=FmVmwmwo…
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Music to my eyes! Having my first @tedxqut talk quoted back to me while promoting my new TEDx. Very rewarding to see the message is spreading 🤓 invidious.fdn.fr/vuIlsN32WaE
Yes and the cool thing is, if you lose weight, you are losing it by exhalation. (And urination - water component of fat tissue.)
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Music to my eyes! Ian Stuart's @atomicschool has the resources you need to teach atoms & molecules in primary school. This video of Yr 1 & 2 kids learning to write chemical formulas Eagleby State School will blow your mind invidious.fdn.fr/2vQqKt4kMdk
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Where does the "C" in exhaled CO₂ come from?
This gaping black hole in health literacy feeds the weight loss industry and keeps the fads coming. My @TEDx talk explains the biochemistry and why we need to start teaching it in primary school invidious.fdn.fr/nM-ySWyID9o
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Where did all the carbon atoms you exhale come from? How does the "C" get into CO₂? My new @TEDx talk exposes the surprising gap in your health literacy, why it matters, and how we can fix it invidious.fdn.fr/nM-ySWyID9o
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Dear @australian, some science facts for you:
1) diamond is 100% carbon but not black
2) hair is >50% carbon but Ian Plimer's is not black
3) skin is >50% carbon, Plimer's, not black
4) exhaled air ~5% CO₂, not black
5) dry ice 100% CO₂, not black
Any questions, just ask
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I shot this time-lapse inside my freezer in 2012 with a GoPro Hero 2 and two el-cheapo LED lights. I'm working on a 3D animation that explains why water expands while nearly all other substances shrink when they freeze ❄️ It's all about the atoms!
abc.net.au/science/articles/…
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Here's how you immunise adults against this type of pseudoscientific nonsense: teach them what H₂O means in preschool. @AtomicSchools has been doing it for years: invidious.fdn.fr/2vQqKt4kMdk
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