Friday Links
1. ASCII Delimited text. I somehow did not know about this.
2. The evidence for "salt is bad for your health" is pretty shaky. I'll say it again: the science of nutrition is very shaky and given that this is what most people hear of as science, the credibility of science as a whole suffers.
3. On Phineas Cage, the famous "metal-rod-through-the-head patient"
Recent historical work, however, suggests that much of the canonical Gage story is hogwash, a mélange of scientific prejudice, artistic license, and outright fabrication.