YEAH, BIG DEAL — IN NEW YORK CITY, WOMEN ARE BEING SPOKEN TO WITHOUT PERMISSION! ‘Treated like cattle’: Yazidi women sold, raped, enslaved by ISIS.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: What Would Happen If You Peed Into A Particle Accelerator.

ED DRISCOLL: Politico Violates Godwin’s Law.

BAD GOVERNMENT DIETARY ADVICE MAKING PEOPLE FAT, DIE PREMATURELY. “By the turn of the millennium, however, clinical trials funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) were showing that a low-fat regime neither improved our health nor slimmed our waistlines. Consequently, in 2000 the Dietary Guidelines committee started to tiptoe away from the low-fat diet, and by 2010 its members had backed off any mention of limits on total fat. Yet most Americans are still actively trying to avoid fat, according to a recent Gallup poll. They are not aware of the USDA’s crucial about-face because the agency hasn’t publicized the changes. Perhaps it did not want to be held responsible for the consequences of a quarter-century of misguided advice, especially since many experts now believe the increase in carbohydrates that authorities recommended has contributed to our obesity and diabetes epidemics.”

“WE CAME FROM MEXICO ON A TRAIN.” Possible Islamic State Leaflets Found in Quantico Marine Base.

IS THERE A NON-UGLY ONE? The Ugly Side of Lena Dunham.

Then there’s that thing with her baby sister’s vagina. “There is no non-horrific interpretation of this episode.”

MICKEY KAUS UNVEILS the Kausfiles Midterm Rooting Scorecard.

VITAMIN D UPDATE: Study suggests vitamin D may prevent prostate tumor growth. “New evidence suggests spending more time in the sun could make things brighter for men with prostate cancer. Researchers have found that vitamin D can help block a protein that causes prostate cancer tumors to grow. . . . A University of Colorado Cancer Center study recently published in the journal Prostate presents new evidence that vitamin D may help reduce cancer-causing inflammation. Scientists found that the gene GDF-15 – known to be up-regulated by vitamin D – can help block a protein which stimulates tumor growth. . . . Low vitamin D levels can pose certain health risks including cancer, increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease and cognitive impairment in older adults.”

How many people have died unnecessarily because of bad medical advice about keeping out of the sun?

KANSAS: Milton Wolf To Tea Partiers: Let’s Set Aside Our Differences And Elect Pat Roberts Next Week. I had dinner with him in Kansas City a couple of weeks ago and he was struggling with this. I think he did the right thing. I’d much rather have seen Wolf nominated than Roberts, but I’d much rather see Roberts in the Senate than Greg Orman. The difference between a majority-Republican Senate and a majority-Democrat Senate will be huge over the next two years.

FASTER, PLEASE: Experimental chikungunya vaccine in clinical trial.

SO WHY IS STEPHANOPOULOS MODERATING THE DEBATE? Rand Paul: Stephanopoulos ‘Originated’ War on Women Attack, Scott Brown Right to Have Concerns.

IT’S COME TO THIS: NARAL: If Cory Gardner Wins, Stock Up on Condoms. In case you wondered what desperation looks like. . . .

BEWARE OF SPLENDA: The Backlash Against Artificial Sugars.

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NEWS YOU CAN USE: Vitamin D Deficiency Aggravates Asthma.

JONAS SALK, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Doctors Mystified by Paralysis in Dozens of Children.

THE BRITAIN OF 2014: Child sex exploitation ‘social norm’ in Greater Manchester. But what’s missing from this story?

THE SCIENCE OF CHARISMATIC VOICES. “Probing the vocal presence of charisma across cultural divides, the scientists found speakers with a wide range of frequency variation in their voices were more likely to be perceived as dominant. They also found that speakers with a low fundamental rate of vocal fold vibration, called fundamental frequency or F0, are perceived as more dominant than speakers with a high fundamental frequency.”

Can we fake it with an autotune app?

READER BOOK PLUG: From J.D. Killian, Notes From The Chase.

I WAS EXPECTING AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: Gas-Spewing Icelandic Volcano Stuns Scientists.

RISE OF THE MACHINES: Elon Musk and Other Visionaries Are Worried About the Future of AI.

ASHE SCHOW: 2014 midterms are a proving ground for the ‘war on women’ narrative.

With Colorado Republican Bob Beauprez up by 21 points among men, the “war on women” stuff may be generating some blowback.

MARK RIPPETOE: The 3 Most Effective Ways To Waste Time In The Gym. From my own experience, I have to disagree with him on stretching, with this proviso: I don’t think stretching helps my workouts so much as it helps me deal with the consequences of spending a lot of time at the computer. But it most definitely helps with that.

IN THE MAIL: From David Weber & Timothy Zahn, A Call to Duty (Manticore Ascendant).

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TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 539.