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Health & wellness tips + hacks. -Backed by !SCIENCE! and studies, not bros & Voodoo. Why just survive when you can thrive? Become "The Better You", 1% at a time – starting today. If you're already healthy & want to nerd-out on how to get even more rad, HT is the place for you.
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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Citing this video Here is not just an illustration to show you what some supplement companies may or may not be doing.
It’s Actually just a great example of what terrible nutrition or even binging can do to your body.
Now if you’re here watching this, there’s a good chance you’re a Civilian. Furious Pete on the other hand, is a monstrous freak of nature.
He can shrug off these wild dietary indiscretions because…
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The Slingshot Water Filter Even Removes Doritos:
I could go on about how Perpetual Hairstyle Makeover Candidate Dean Kamen saves the third world with a machine they can’t afford,
That will be taken right off the UNICEF trucks by warlords and sold to Idi Amin‘s grandchildren,
So they can run hexavalent chromium-removal experiments … Ah, Screwit! -Here’s a funny vid after teh jump!:…
Good Eats Shows Turkey Fires Are No Joke:
-Video excerpt from my Favorite Food Geek. The fun stuff is half way through.
This has certainly been done on Mythbusters before, but just a safety reminder when trying such potentially-volatile cooking-methods. Worth a cautionary look…
[UPDATE: If you are unable to view this vid because of Food Network being difficult, There are 2 that are working (for now) after the Jump.]
Happy Thanksgiving!…
Here, Stephen Colbert takes an in-depth look into the questions that drive real genetic research, like:
“Why am I ugly?”, “Who’s my baby-daddy?”,
“Can DNA help me have a successful long-term career as an alcoholic using stem-cell-generated liver-transplants every few years?”,
And terrible tractor-trailer jackknifing accidents in the quad-cities area of Iowa.
Actual Doctors like Spencer Wells and Gene-Sequencing-Badass Craig Venter try to help clear up Stephen’s confusion later on after the jump…
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A bit moldy yes, and -Strictly Speaking, their motivation Not health related
-BUT the effects -> Definitely health related. An important lesson for all:
Apparently a man in Rio De Janeiro has discovered a new potentially lethal substance interaction.
-Involving steel, firing charge and PETN;
–Rocket Propelled Grenade, meet Sledgehammer.
A truer Biohazard…
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