Interesting Articles: Feb 14th-20th 2006

Health:
* Maybe You're Not What You Eat (New York Times). In response to last week's study on low fat diets, a review of the history of other diets and reactions to the study.
* The Lowdown on Sweet? (New York Times). Another recent completed health study: this one shows that aspartame seems to cause a number of health troubles.
* Go With Your Gut (New York Times). Reporting on an old study that seems to imply that you absorb more nutrients from eating things you like. Happy eating! (And the piece references the relatively obscure Minnesota Starvation Study that I recently blogged about. That made me happy too.)

Misc:
* The Kiss of Life (New York Times). The columnist asks and answers a very creative question: how did kissing arise?
* If Robots Ever Get Too Smart, He'll Know How to Stop Them (New York Times). Describing a humorous new book. The book's home page also includes some additional funny excerpts, as does the related article Kiss and Fell: Techniques for Dropping a 'Droid.
* Which Water Is Tastiest? , The Purity Factor (both New York Times). Two interesting articles about the phenomenon of bottled water. (The larger article, Must Be Something in the Water, -mostly about branding- to which these pieces were attached, wasn't as interesting to me.)