Rob Rhinehartl's 'No Eating' Diet Probably Isn't Such A Great Idea

Last week, VICE brought us a rather perturbing story of one man's self-designed diet that, he says, allows him to give up food (in the conventional sense) forever.

Rob Rhinehartl, a 24-year-old software engineer from Atlanta, told the publication he developed the diet because he'd become fed up with the inefficiency of eating regular meals. His diet now largely consists of a beige-colored slop he calls Soylent, which is filled with supposedly essential vitamins, minerals and other nutrients. Don't worry, though; it's not made of people. He explains:

Not having to worry about food is fantastic. No groceries or dishes, no deciding what to eat, no endless conversations weighing the relative merits of gluten-free, keto, paleo, or vegan. Power and water bills are lower. I save hours a day and hundreds of dollars a month. I feel liberated from a crushing amount of repetitive drudgery. Soylent might also be good for people having trouble managing their weight. I find it very easy to lose and gain precise amounts of weight by varying the proportions in my drink.

We were skeptical, to say the least. Let's forget for a moment the obvious question -- why would someone voluntarily give up the pleasures associated with eating? -- and consider if this way of life is, as Rhinehartl claims, healthy.

"It's interesting, isn't it?" said registered dietician and Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics spokesperson Bethany Thayer when we posed the question to her. "What he's done is he's basically recreated a medical nutrition formula ... very similar to what hospitals do for patients that are unable to eat for whatever reason."

So, is it healthy? "It's not unhealthy," Thayer said cautiously, although she doesn't suggest people whip themselves up a batch of Soylent on the regular just yet. "He's really playing around with very small quantities of things," she considered. Measuring out slightly too much or too little of a substance, say iron, for example, could have catastrophic consequences. In his VICE interview, Rhinehartl even admits to getting his measurements off and accidentally sickening himself in the past.

Moreover, there's much we still don't know about how the human diet works. It's possible that there are nutrients we don't even realize we require, but consume unknowingly in the course of regular eating, Thayer said. Considering this, Rhinehartl might be unwittingly leaving an essential nutrient out of Soylent.

"Every day we're finding more and more," Thayer said. "There's all kinds of various antioxidants that are in these plant foods, and they make have some benefits."

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Apple Updates iBooks With Support for Japanese Titles

Apple today launched an updated version of iBooks, which added hundreds of thousands of Japanese titles.

Japan, which boasts a 99 percent literacy rate ? one of the highest in the world ? has been locked out of the electronic bookstore since its launch more than three years ago.

But Cupertino finally opened the doors to Japanese users, today releasing version 3.1 of iBooks, with support for local content and "a number of improvements for reading Asian language books," the iTunes app description said.

Reports of an iBookstore in Japan first emerged in January. At the time, the Nikkei said iBooks in Japan would launch within the month, and feature partnerships with leading Japanese publishers like Kadokawa, Shogakukan, and Kodansha.

Despite what seems like a worldwide acceptance of e-books, Japanese publishers have largely favored paper newspapers, magazines, and books. But as tablets and e-readers begin to monopolize the market for reading, Japanese publishers have begun reconsidering their stance.

Still, the country's hesitancy is likely a product of not giving up control to Apple and other foreign firms, more than an unwillingness to embrace changing technology. Still, in the waning months of 2012, Amazon and Google announced new Japanese e-book initiatives, an early sign that the absence of Japanese-language bestsellers on Apple's iBooks store might finally be coming to an end.

If Samsung had its way, though, there may have been no need for Apple to launch its iBooks service in Japan. Last week, the Korean company failed in its bid to have Apple products pulled from Japan.

The updated version of iBooks is currently available for free in the Apple iTunes Store.

For more, see PCMag's review of the iPad mini, the fourth-gen iPad, and the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite.

Adario Strange contributed to this report.

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Sex of ancient bird fossils determined

An ancient, beaked bird that lived in what is today northeastern China was ovulating when she, yes "she," perished some 125 million years ago, suggests new research that can reveal the gender of bird fossils.

Scientists investigated the ancient, beaked bird Confuciusornis sanctus. Hundreds of fossils of the extinct, crow-sized species are found in lake deposits in northeastern China. The area back then was "a seasonal forest that surrounded small lakes, a very rich ecosystem with a great variety of animals and plants," said researcher Luis Chiappe, paleontologist and director of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County's Dinosaur Institute.

Some fossils of this ancient bird were discovered with pairs of long, almost body-length ornamental tail feathers, while others were not. Scientists had suggested these differences were sexual in nature; in modern birds, males, such as peacocks, are often flamboyantly showy to court the opposite sex, while females, such as peahens, are typically rather drab, presumably to avoid attracting the attention of predators to themselves or their young.

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Scientists had little evidence to prove whether the more flashy Confuciusornis sanctus fossils were male or not, however. But now researchers have found details in these skeletons that apparently enable clear gender identification, suggesting the showier fossils were indeed male. [ Avian Ancestors: Dinosaurs That Learned to Fly ]

Specifically, the researchers discovered medullary bone, spongy tissue unique to reproductively active female birds, in a specimen unearthed by local farmers. Medullary bone helps female birds manufacture eggshells.

"I think that it is so exciting to be able to say with certainty that this 125-million-year-old fossil bird was a reproductively active female," researcher Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan, a paleobiologist at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, told LiveScience.

"People might wonder why this has never been found before," Chinsamy-Turan added. "The reason is that for medullary bone to be observed, the female bird has to be in a particular physiological state ? that is, ovulating, or just having laid eggs."

This female fossil did not possess ornamental feathers, which supports the idea that ancient female birds were as drab as their modern counterparts.

Intriguingly, researchers found medullary bone in some fossils even before the skeletons of those birds were full-grown. This suggests that this and other early birds matured sexually well before their skeletons matured.

"The most important conclusion is that early birds had reproductive patterns very different from their living counterparts and more akin to large dinosaurs," Chiappe told LiveScience.

The research could help scientists determine the sex of birds that lived millions of years ago, as well as shed light on ancient sexual maturity patterns. Future research should analyze other early bird species, Chiappe said.

The scientists detailed their findings online Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications.

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LG Optimus G sales hit 1 million worldwide

LG proved with the Optimus G that it can produce a smartphone that stacks up with the best of 'em, and according to the company's newly released sales figures, consumers are starting to take notice. As it stands, more than 1 million Optimus G's have been sold since the handset's September debut. While the figure pales in comparison to heavyweights like the Galaxy S III and iPhone 5, that's not too shabby for a phone that's only been available in North America since November. Given the similarities between the Optimus G and the Nexus 4, we're quite curious to know how sales of the two smartphones compare, but Google's currently keeping those numbers close to its chest. That said, there's little doubt that LG currently has its hands full at the production line.

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New Reference Resource: FAIR Database Provides Access to 30 ...

From a FAIR Announcement:

The Finding Answers Intervention Research Database ? known as the FAIR Database ? contains 388 journal article summaries from 11 systematic reviews of racial and ethnic health disparities intervention literature spanning from 1979 to 2011.? The systematic reviews were published as a Special Supplement to the October 2007 issue of Medical Care Research and Review, and an August 2012 Symposium in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

?We think this tool will be useful particularly for people looking for a wide variety of interventions,? says Marshall H. Chin , MD, MPH, the Richard Parrillo Family Professor of Healthcare Ethics in the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago. Chin is Director of Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change,?a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation located at the University of Chicago.

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For example, a search for Depression + African American+ Patient + ?Providing Psychological Support? yields a list of 10 research papers (with embedded links) in journals including JAMA and the Journal of Health Psychology.?? A search of HIV/AIDS + Latino + Community + ?Restructuring the Care Team? yields four papers in journals including AIDS Education and Prevention, Research in Nursing & Health, and the Journal of Community Health.

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Camera on Maine island streams gray seal video

This Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 photo provided by explore.org shows a seal on Seal Island, Maine via a camera set to record seal-pupping activities on the remote island. Images have begun streaming live to the public on Thursday in what's believed to be the first live-streaming camera at an East Coast seal-pupping site. Similar high-definition cameras have been set up around the world in recent years to capture the activities of eagles, polar bears, loons, black bears and other animals. The camera on Seal Island, about 20 miles off the midcoast of Maine, provides views of gray seals that migrate to the island each year to give birth. (AP Photo/explore.org, Janine Parziale)

This Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 photo provided by explore.org shows a seal on Seal Island, Maine via a camera set to record seal-pupping activities on the remote island. Images have begun streaming live to the public on Thursday in what's believed to be the first live-streaming camera at an East Coast seal-pupping site. Similar high-definition cameras have been set up around the world in recent years to capture the activities of eagles, polar bears, loons, black bears and other animals. The camera on Seal Island, about 20 miles off the midcoast of Maine, provides views of gray seals that migrate to the island each year to give birth. (AP Photo/explore.org, Janine Parziale)

This Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 photo provided by explore.org shows a seal on Seal Island, Maine via a camera set to record seal-pupping activities on the remote island. Images have begun streaming live to the public on Thursday in what's believed to be the first live-streaming camera at an East Coast seal-pupping site. Similar high-definition cameras have been set up around the world in recent years to capture the activities of eagles, polar bears, loons, black bears and other animals. The camera on Seal Island, about 20 miles off the midcoast of Maine, provides views of gray seals that migrate to the island each year to give birth. (AP Photo/explore.org, Janine Parziale)

This Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 photo provided by explore.org shows a seal on Seal Island, Maine via a camera set to record seal-pupping activities on the remote island. Images have begun streaming live to the public on Thursday in what's believed to be the first live-streaming camera at an East Coast seal-pupping site. Similar high-definition cameras have been set up around the world in recent years to capture the activities of eagles, polar bears, loons, black bears and other animals. The camera on Seal Island, about 20 miles off the midcoast of Maine, provides views of gray seals that migrate to the island each year to give birth. (AP Photo/explore.org, Janine Parziale)

This Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 photo provided by explore.org shows a seal on Seal Island, Maine via a camera set to record seal-pupping activities on the remote island. Images have begun streaming live to the public on Thursday in what's believed to be the first live-streaming camera at an East Coast seal-pupping site. Similar high-definition cameras have been set up around the world in recent years to capture the activities of eagles, polar bears, loons, black bears and other animals. The camera on Seal Island, about 20 miles off the midcoast of Maine, provides views of gray seals that migrate to the island each year to give birth. (AP Photo/explore.org, Janine Parziale)

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) ? A camera that records seal-pupping activities on a remote Maine island began streaming live to the public Thursday in what's believed to be the first live-streaming camera at an East Coast seal-pupping site.

Similar high-definition cameras have been set up around the world in recent years to capture the activities of eagles, polar bears, loons, black bears and other animals. The camera on Seal Island, about 20 miles off the midcoast of Maine, provides views of gray seals that migrate to the island each year to give birth.

It's expensive and difficult for scientists to visit gray seal-pupping grounds because they are on islands, with the births taking place in the winter when ocean conditions can be inhospitable.

Seal Island's tower-mounted camera gives scientists a firsthand look into the progression of seal-pupping season so they can gather information such as when peak pupping occurs and how long it takes seal pups to molt, said Stephanie Wood, a biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

It also allows the public to watch "nature in action," she said.

The 65-acre island is owned by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and managed in cooperation with the National Audubon Society. Audubon, in conjunction with explore.org, set up two cameras on the island last spring to stream live video of clown-like Atlantic puffins that make the island their home each summer.

With the puffins gone for the season, Audubon offered to let NOAA keep one of the cameras on the island to record the gray seals that swim there each fall.

Seal Island is the second-largest pupping ground for gray seals in the U.S., with more than 500 living there during the six-week season from December into early February. (Muskeget Island off southern Massachusetts has the largest breeding colony.)

The project is funded by explore.org, a philanthropic organization in Santa Monica, Calif., and a division of the Annenberg Foundation, with the aim of connecting people to nature. The video can be seen on explore.org's website.

"With the new seal pupping cam, we are helping people escape the urban squalor and, if only for a moment, reconnect with nature in its purest state," Charlie Annenberg, founder of explore.org, said in a statement.

Wood and explore.org say they don't know of any other camera that streams live video of gray seals giving birth. Gordon Waring, who heads the seal research program at NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center in Woods Hole, Mass., said he's not aware of any cameras either, but that it's possible they might be used in other countries.

Scientists and explore.org producers can operate the camera remotely ? tilting it, moving it side to side and zooming in and out ? to get better views of the 300-pound mother seals and the newborn pups that are covered in thick, white fur. The camera also provides shots of seals quarreling among themselves and interacting with bald eagles.

The camera also will allow biologists to identify adult seals that have been tagged or branded elsewhere and learn more about their movements and life history, Wood said.

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White House praises Sen. Rubio's immigration proposals

Republican Senator Marco Rubio speaks in Iowa in November. (Charlie Neibergall/AP)The White House praised Republican Sen. Marco Rubio?s proposals for an overhaul of immigration policy and said they ?bode well? for bipartisan action early in President Barack Obama?s second term.

Obama ?expects to move very quickly on immigration after the inauguration,? press secretary Jay Carney told reporters. The president is expected to lay out some principles on the issue in his Feb. 12 State of the Union speech.

?The reports about Sen. Rubio?s ideas bode well for a productive bipartisan debate,? Carney said. ?We hope that it signals a change in the Republican approach to this issue, because if we are going to get this done it?s going to take more than just a handful of Republicans working across the aisle.?

The press secretary had been asked about proposals from Rubio?whose name sits near the top of the 2016 field of Republican presidential contenders?to undertake sweeping changes in the way America handles immigration. According to the Wall Street Journal, Rubio backs tightening border controls but making it easier for high-skilled workers and seasonal farm workers to enter the country, and favors giving the estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. a path to getting a work permit and, eventually, citizenship.

Can the polarized Congress handle two big issues?immigration reform and proposals to reduce gun violence?simultaneously?

"There is no reason to believe that these kinds of issues can?t be worked on at the same time and you can expect the president to push for both measures?to reduce gun violence and for comprehensive immigration reform?because they are both priorities," Carney said.

Rubio's ideas recall Obama's own proposals?something Carney did not fail to note.

?We are encouraged," Carney said, to find that Rubio's plan "so closely reflects the president's blueprint for reform."

He added that "the president has long called for partners from both sides of the aisle, and he has lamented the absence of partners from the other side of the aisle. It used to be a bipartisan pursuit. He hopes that this augurs well for the future.?

Carney defended the president's decision not to reach out personally (yet) to Rubio. As the reform process proceeds, the press secretary insisted, "it will involve engagement with Democrats and Republicans, and you can expect that that will happen.?

He added: ?To my knowledge, Sen. Rubio has yet to put anything on paper or draw up any legislation. We welcome reports of his positions and look forward to working with him and other Republicans in pursuit of comprehensive immigration reform, because it?s the right thing to do for the country, and the president considers it a high priority."

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