Princeton scientists have been claiming that any food that has more fructose than glucose is harmful and obesity-promoting.  Table sugar and bananas, for example, have equal parts fructose and glucose.  HFCS has slightly more fructose than glucose, and many fruits have significantly more (for instance, apples).

In studies directly comparing the effect of fructose and glucose preloads on subsequent food intake, one showed no difference [7], while the majority have shown the fructose preload resulting in lesser food intake than the glucose preload [8-10]. A recent review of the literature on fructose’s effect on satiety found no compelling case for the idea that fructose is less satiating than glucose, or that HFCS is less satiating than sucrose [11].

(from Alan Aragon)

An apple has 10g of fructose.  There's no reason to believe that 50g of fructose per day is harmful.

(720p HD please)

Time lapse of Mauna Kea skies

Good acting. Stylish. I liked most of the shots. I loved a moment of contemplative silence (no soundtrack, just the murmur of the streets at night). Several nearly independent storylines, but often boring writing (not as terrible as Avatar). Critical reviews are mostly negative, which seems wrong to me. Training Day (same director) was better, but this was fine.

The current research tested the hypothesis that making many choices impairs subsequent self-control. Drawing from a limited-resource model of self-regulation and executive function, the authors hypothesized that decision making depletes the same resource used for self-control and active responding. In 4 laboratory studies, some participants made choices among consumer goods or college course options, whereas others thought about the same options without making choices. 

Making choices led to reduced self-control (i.e., less physical stamina, reduced persistence in the face of failure, more procrastination, and less quality and quantity of arithmetic calculations). A field study then found that reduced self-control was predicted by shoppers' self-reported degree of previous active decision making. Further studies suggested that choosing is more depleting than merely deliberating and forming preferences about options and more depleting than implementing choices made by someone else and that anticipating the choice task as enjoyable can reduce the depleting effect for the first choices but not for many choices.

 (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved)

If someone wants to hash out a joint plan with me ("What do you do you want to do?"  "I don't know, what do you want to do?"), I'll avoid impatiently truncating the process with an arbitrary choice.  I'm not going to make any decision for the both of us unless I'm sure that they'll gladly follow my lead.  My suggestions will come with very little internal commitment ("well, I like this place ...").  I want to make each decision at most once.

Wearing dark glasses makes people think they can get away with cheating. - Darkness Increases Dishonest Behavior

Lonely people are unhappy, but small talk doesn't help at all.  Exchange of interesting information (including gossip) makes people happy.  You can expect someone whose socialization is entirely small talk to be as miserable as someone who is completely alone.  Disclaimer: I think you can trust self-descriptions of happiness only as much as the interviewer isn't someone the subject wants to impress, but perhaps social scientists know how to compensate for that effect - Eavesdropping on (un)happiness