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UPDATE! The WHO Came out with a new study that clarifies much. Read first!
I have to admit I was F***ing FLOORED when Harvard released a study that basically says, “If you are within 6 Degrees of Ron Swanson’s bacon-suffused prevailing-wind-fart-contrail, you’re as good as dead.”
But the more I thought of it, the more it seemed like a case of what economists like to call “Statistical-Reacharound-Surprise”, than anything else…
Ok, awhile ago we theorized here that as total bodyfat % increased, the body would start losing its thyroid-mojo and a given person would go into a downward spiral.
The idea was at least 1-fold. MINIMUM!
!Insulation Overload!
SO: We thought that as weight went up, that…
Supertaskers Are The Real Multi-Taskers:
Take THAT!, Anti-MultiTasker-science-studying bastard-guys! HAH!
Ever since the first studies emerging about Multitasking being a productivity+accuracy-killing time-waste, I both cheered and booed, believed and doubted.
I cheered for Focus, I cheered for Reasonable Expectations in the Workplace.
But my Evolutionary Brain was Booing and calling BOGUS!!!
I remember thinking about Gordon Ramsay. The first thing that came to mind was, “CHRIST, WHAT AN A****LE!!!”…
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In an interesting interspecies twist,
that is mercifully not NSFW,
Dr. Michael Zasloff shares his observations about our funny, wake-surfing friends in a letter to the JID, hoping that some day maybe we can gain abilities similar to them.
Nope; their miraculous ability to…
You would think that staying in a more wakeful state longer would mean you burn more calories.
And it does.
-But only for awhile.
Then you go downhill.
In an experiment conducted by Ken Wright and the Department of ChronoBiology at UC-Boulder, they found that metabolism was up by about 7% above normal while people were kept up.
BUT: It was down…
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Now that they’ve been linked to some cases of Alzheimer’s, we need a prion-killer more than ever.
-Or at least something to break up the structures they form in those cases.
Because what the Yale team found out is that the Beta-Amyloid glop that normally hallmarks the disease is made worse when it runs into prions. That-is, the non-mutant,…
Basically, at one point, I was getting ~all my water from a highly-filtered source.
I soon found myself having very sensitive teeth.
I’d heard something awhile back about how even though it’s sterile and clean, that actually drinking Distilled or Deionized Water is really bad for you.
And on another forum through some weird coincidence, it turns out a guy was killing his plants by watering them with distilled water…
Like many brilliant men with stomach flu before me, such as Eddie Izzard, I believe that most problems and their solutions come down to Monkeys. -And The French.
Okay, I’ve had this more than once this year and it’s been excruciating.
It’s also No Fun to hear of your friends and relatives writing writhing in agony when waiting seems to be the only strategy & Advil + Pepto doesn’t work that well.
So, with their bandmate Eddie,…
