The simple answer is no. Protein, fat, and complex carbs are not the same as simple carbs. Fat does not cause us to be fat, simple carbs do. Basically, by driving the insuiin mechanism it loads up our cells to be fat. Gary Taubes is a health journalist and first wrote about this in 2002 for The New York Times Magazine.

This week, in anticipation of HBO's documentary series The Weight of the Nation, Taubes writes in Newsweek about the research that the documentary fails to bring up. Simply that our obesity epidemic is being driven by simple carbs - i.e. sugar in pop; simple starches in pasta; too many french fries, etc.,. It's not fat that's making us fat, it's simple carbs.

Have some more time on your hands? Watch these two documentaries on how our 21st century diets are kiiling us. The first video is by Dr. Robert ...

It was a perfect name for a middle linebacker. Expected to make a hit on every play - either lining up opposite the running back, or cracking on the tight end crossing, or smashing through the offensive line to arrive in an a bad mood at the quarterback. He was the league's premier linebacker for years. He inherited the league's toughest dude title from the likes of Dick Butkus and passed it on to Ray Lewis. He was a bad-ass in the heart of the defense with a heart of gold off of it.

People kill themselves. People in the depths of depression or who believe their life is spinning out of control decide to end it all. Loss of a business, a spouse, a drug addiction that can't be shaken are all reasons why people feel that life is not worth living anymore. They are out of their mind ...

The Trayvon Martin case in Florida hinges on that critical moment where Zimmerman and Martin come together. If Zimmerman pursues Martin and fires at him while running away, then it's murder, clear and simple. But if Martin attacks Zimmerman and bashes his head against the curb, Zimmerman's defense is on a lot more stable ground. But, it will be Zimmerman's word and some evidence from neighbours phone calls that will determine the case. There is no impartial observer, or better yet, a video camera to capture the scene.

In Montreal over the weekend, a cabbie ran over a dude in the street. Not a pedestrian, but one of a group of guys who got into a confrontation with the cab driver. Allegedly, over a door slammed too hard. So, the cab gets vandalized for lack of a better term. A few guys bang on it, one guy jumps on the ...

Here's a follow-up video by Jim Finley just one week after his original.

Lots that still can be done, but great progress and commitment after just a few days. 

You can find their group "Bin it! Bag it! Beautiful St. Catharines" on Facebook.

Here's a cool ninety-second video that scientists at NASA created to show the all ocean currents. NASA measured the currents over a two-year period using satellites and we see them represented with the white lines.

Much more dynamic and convoluted than I ever thought. Here I was picturing the Gulf Stream just as a wide river within the Atlantic going from Florida to Britain. Well it does do that, technically, but this shows it to be way more complex than that.

Finally, I find it pretty cool how the images look like the swirls used by Van Gogh in his painting.

This is part of a twenty minute presentation called Perpetual Ocean done by the NASA Visualization Studio.