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[Ok first, if you haven’t checked out Dirty=Good & The Hygiene Hypothesis, start there; otherwise:]
Just a short while ago, RadioLab replayed their fantastic September ’09 episode on Parasites!
was called “Sculptors of Monumental Narrative”,
About Jasper Lawrence, a man who cured himself of basically ALL allergies,…
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Here’s a great video by ASAP Science to show you what 200 calories looks like.
It’s also a pretty good primer on the different Calorie-Densities of the foods you’re probably eating.
And while you’re thinking about them, remember: Processed, Take-out, and Restaurant foods will likely have a lot of extra calories you don’t really need.
One example is the difference between…
Ok, the pattern wasn’t taken Exactly from spiderwebs, but it’s damn close.
And if SpiderPig ever did ding a hoof, you know he’d wear something just like this.
As long as they can sort out the shock-absorption angle that looks as-yet missing, this looks like it might actually work, while also looking cool and being comfortable…
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Well, with all the very serious, researchy Sheldon-Cooper “Multi-Dimensional-Math” crap going on in “normal” science, it’s nice to know that a few health-technologists can get down to some Real Damn Business!
These intrepid code-monkeys have finally put those analytical chops to some good and,
Decoded the DNA of The world’s most popular Cocoa Beans!
So, perhaps …
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Okay, -so we’re a ways off from using meditation to invade peoples’ thoughts or flipping tractor-trailers through the air like baby toys the way that Dr. Charles Xavier and Magneto do,
But here’s a BIG hat-tip to the previously-thought woo-woo field of Meditation:
In the first(?) study known to have taken and analyzed blood-samples of people before and after the test,
It turns out that Meditation can Actually Control Something…
So a recent blip in health-stuff came up again about one of the most dreaded liver-slugging painkillers we have: Tylenol.
It turns out that since at least 2009, studies have been revealing some unanticipated psycho-social Freakonomics in their function;
And even one or two weird back roads in how our brains work with pain, too…
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This time, the girl-wonder’s turned her sights on a specific strain of Leukemia.
But more important than just the smackdown she’s about to layeth down on a very tough condition,
and even in-spite of the fact the final call will be probably be made by a specialist,
–is the likely fact that Brittany represents what the future of medicine might become:
Creativity, …
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So there was this study on diseases that got published for some mad reason in-spite of the fact it didn’t work.
And that is one of the best. mistakes. ever.
So: they tried to say Herpes causes cognitive decline in people as they age, but the thunderous statement eventually came out in the results that [and I quote],
“IB was not associated with cognitive decline over time.”,
and the even sneakier one,…
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