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Paging Doctor Charles Xavier… We Have A New X-Man, -Codename: Crazy Train

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Bio-Tech, Featured, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll, Stupid Health Tricks

Paging Doctor Charles Xavier… We Have A New X-Man, -Codename: Crazy Train
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As a bitter salve to help those of you who’ve skipped the Asparagus and are saddled with abjectly-Dickensian hangovers in the timesmudge loosely referred-to as “today”, I’d like to rub a little salt in your wounds and make it all go away.

Now the nickname could have gone one of many ways: ‘Dict, Shooter, Dragonbreath, Substance, Bender, or Sniffles.

(Cockroach has been reserved for Keith Richards for DECADES Centuries, now.)

But ultimately, it seemed prudent to just go with the obvious old stand-by.

Anyway: That’s right boys and girls. It turns out The Prince of Darkness, Ozzy Osbourne himself, is a Mutant…

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Joan’s Opus On The Elusive Hangover Cure

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Featured, Nutrition, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll, Stupid Health Tricks

Joan’s Opus On The Elusive Hangover Cure
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And while we’re on the subject of Alcohol,

Who Else but The New Yorker could do such a monster article on Drinking and Hangovers? -I have no damn good answer for that.

Ok; besides: “Ernest F****** Hemingway”,…

Nevertheless: Hop on over and be blown away by the entire geopolitical cavalcade that is Joan Acocella’s Magnum Opus,

From feeling like Gregor Samsa when you wake up,

To:..

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TED Video: Print Your Own Medicine

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Bio-Tech, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll, Video

TED Video: Print Your Own Medicine


Check out Professor Lee Cronin’s short but interesting take on where Medicine, Apps, Big Data For Chemistry and 3D Printers might go in the near future.

The implications sound pretty huge, especially for shipping-costs and disintermediation, if the process can be standardized and controlled.

*It REALLY would have to be in order to avoid scenarios like the following:

“Uh, we’re really sorry Mrs. Johnson, but we forgot a few atoms in there, and instead of HRT pills, you got Androgel 25.5%. Enjoy your new life as a man. -Yeah, I know. Shaving really is a pain. You get used to it though…”

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Little Blue Pill, My ****! All A Guy Needs Is An Eva Green

Filed Under: Exercise, Favorites, Featured, Nutrition, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Little Blue Pill, My ****! All A Guy Needs Is An Eva Green
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Chalk another one up for the “Horny Scientists Study Sex, File Results Under Captain Obvious Department”.

Stuart Brody, Petr Weiss and their cult of Kinsey-following-hound-dogs at the University of West Scotland [who would not let yours-truly tag along, DAMMIT]

Conducted a noble experiment on our favorite species: WOO-MAAAN!!!, doing our favorite activity: “Ye Olde How’s your father?”, and come up with some guessable-yet-Fantastic results…

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Even More Evidence For Fat Making You Fatter

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Favorites, Nutrition, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Even More Evidence For Fat Making You Fatter
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CiCi’s All-You-Can-Eat-Buffet-buzzkilling researchers at Trinity College Dublin have discovered both an interesting and depressing quirk about a particular fat-fighting type of cell in the body.

Their potency to regulate obesity goes down the fatter you get. Oh; And then it just quits.

It turns out these cells, called INKTs, help keep most people from getting obese.

But there comes a tipping-point, where they just seem to stop and teir efficacy then approaches zero; However…

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Forget Exercise. Lose Fat With Injecti-Cise!

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll, Vitamins/Supplements, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Forget Exercise. Lose Fat With Injecti-Cise!
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-Ok, I just made that product name up. But it’s a good one, eh?

Anyway, the ultimate use for this treatment will probably be limited to plastic-surgery spot-improvements,

But Dr. Ouliana Ziouzenkova of Ohio State University and her team have come up with an injectable substance that remodels fatty tissue, ~dissolving it in a way.

What it does is to use a very unique type…

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The Family Bishops At The American Academy of Pediatrics Toss Out A Few Jewels And Report Circumcision Healthier [If You Live In Africa]

Filed Under: Disease, Noise, Other, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll

The Family Bishops At The American Academy of Pediatrics Toss Out A Few Jewels And Report Circumcision Healthier [If You Live In Africa]
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Internet all acock, debating the subject furiously. -Flogging it, really. Beating it to death.

Despite warring sides whacking each other about like bad cops roughing up the suspect, and the recommendations from each politically-motivated party; a few recommend waiting until 18, so at that point at least the adult decision would rest in one’s own hands…

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Cool Little TED-Ed Illustrated Video On How Painkillers Work

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Noise, Other, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll, Video

Cool Little TED-Ed Illustrated Video On How Painkillers Work


If you ever wondered how Aspirin or Ibuprofen do their thing to blunt the worst effects of your various relatives at the yearly family gatherings,

(ok) before you hit the Wild Turkey,

or just liked learning well-explained technical stuff from cutely-illustrated videos, this basic TED-Ed short is for you.

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