It's always nice to have some fun, humorous news on a Friday, and this Friday is no different: The junk food giants and soda companies have formed a "task force" that claims it will fight childhood obesity. Sound hilarious? It should. These are the same companies whose products *promote* obesity!

We have a couple other news items today, too, including an interesting piece on the 6000-year history of chili peppers. Click any headline below for the full story.

NOTE TO TRUTH PUBLISHING CUSTOMERS: For those customers who have ordered books from us recently, we've been experiencing some shipping logistics problems and a few books have been lost in transit. Fortunately, we have tracking numbers on everything, so we're notifying customers and re-shipping books (at no charge to you) to customers who didn't receive them in a timely manner. Thank you for your patience, and we apologize for this. We strive to get books to most customers in 2-3 business days, and this recent glitch is certainly not our normal way of doing business.