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Alzheimer’s Treatment Potential, New Approaches:
(just Like Gardasil, another)
Shot Heard ‘Round The World, mortals!1!
Neuroscientists from UCLA and USC inject an Alzheimer’s patient with an anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) agent called etanercept (brand name Enbrel)
And the patient shows Marked cognitive improvement within minutes.
The published papers focus on…
Many Small Meals: “Grazing” To A Higher Metabolism:
No, this is not how to grow udders and look fashionable like Bessie the Cow. (although udders Are pretty swanky)
Have you ever felt like your Diet/Nutrition and Exercise Program was less effective than it could be?
-That your effort in was not equal (!=) to the results you got out?
-Like you were wasting time?…
A Woman’s Body Shape & Waist Hip Ratio Is Related to IQ?:
Damn You SALMA HAYEK!!!
!-Yet Another reason to love hot women!!
(++ Note to self: Must become scientist who gets paid to study female hotness.)
According to a study by the University of Pittsburgh and UC Santa Barbara on about 16,000 women…
Brain Games For Kids And Maybe A Few Adults, Too:
Check out this fun site I found a short while ago! Plenty of fun puzzles and games to exercise your mind.
It’s sort-of like the free, school-safe version of Lumosity. Don’t know what the progress tracking is like, though it seems limited to the user themselves.
Some of the games are image-based, others are animated with Flash.
Note: Many of them will seem a bit limited to about high-school level, but if you can get past the graphic-style, they can still give your thought-muscles a little workout…
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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!…
Breast Enhancement, Thanks To A Japanese Tea Party:
Eleven score and eleven years ago, our great Founding Fathers saw fit to burden themselves with throwing off the uncharitable chains of British colonialist hegemony.
To that end, a mighty band of brothers (special forces -even), took to the shipyards of great hoary old Boston, and in demonstration cast aside into said harbor the symbol of our Mother Country’s royalist oppression -Tea.
Had those most wily and crafty bastards been alive today,…
EN GARDE, high fructose corn-syrup junkies! Your soda is trouble.
:( No, this is not an entry on how to make a sub-nuclear pipe bomb out of a 2-Liter Splenda-fied bottle of Diet Coke, 2oz. Ammonia, #0000 Steel Wool, and a pack of Mentos.
(try BoingBoing for that)
Researcher Extraordinaire, Dr. Chi Tang Ho and his associates at Rutgers Food Science Department have tested several carbonated sodas containing that longtime HT “Agent Smith”…
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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