Ha! Made you look!

As Google reworks its search algorithm, I thought I’d try to snare the unsuspecting…I thought about using “sex” and “nude,” but thought better of the unsuspecting trawlers that those searches might snare…..

So, now you’re here.You won’t get free money, but you’ll get something better…go to these links and you will learn something that could change your life, or even improve the lives of many of your fellow citizens who, whether they know it or not, have been positively impacted by the work being done within the University of California. Now more than ever, we need this reminder.

First check out these videos from Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig. I recommend that you watch them all….but start with this one – Republic Lost. Professor Lessig makes some fascinating arguments, but when he needed all of that valuable information on high fructose corn syrup, he turned to Dr. Robert Lustig, a UCSF scientist who studies the roots of metabolic syndrome and, in this popular talk “Sugar: The Bitter Truth,” describes in incontrovertible chemical detail how HFCS destroys human health.

Dr.Lustig didn’t make it up…he just elucidated the facts. What we do with them is another thing. Like the facts you’ll find at Keep California’s Promise, about the cost to restore this state’s near-decimated public education system.

Yeah, if you do the math, it’s just a dime a day…think you can handle it? But then again, if we let the UC decay, we won’t have to deal with understanding problems like how to grapple with a preventable disease epidemic that currently costs this nation over 170 billion dollars A YEAR…besides that little problem of destroying the health of the next generation.

It isn’t only the brilliant medical researchers at UCSF that are engaged in this battle – coming in April Steve Kay, Dean of UC San Diego’s number one ranked biological sciences program in the nation, will share how his lab’s research to understand our own biological clocks can help fight diabetes.

And then there is this other little problem we face– enter the UC…..UC Davis to be exact. Peruse these recent research findings on renewable energy from the Institute of Transportation Studies to see the facts for yourself.

Or watch this UCSD video on “Powering the Planet” to get the facts that might very well scare you, as they did me.

But then again, they’re just the facts. And they’re free. Courtesy of the University of California….