Wired weighs in on the (crazy) barefoot debate.

Tags: running, barefoot, fitness, health, evolution, shoes

Christakis and Fowler find more interesting social aspects in the Framingham cohort, this time in how people stop smoking. The nutshell visualization is here.

Tags: smoking, groups, spreading

`The Height Gap’ ( Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, April 5, 2004): how the average height of a country’s people appears to reflect a greater societal wellbeing. Eat well, grow well.

Tags: food, society, disease, height, the new yorker

The social network component of the spreading of spreading. (The main article is here.)

Tags: obesity, spreading, health