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You Don’t Want To Learn This Lesson The Hard Way:
Now remember to put your sunblock on, boys and girls!
And while you’re at it, go back & read the post on the EWG’s list of the best ones for you.
Here are a few of the 18 painful examples Pleated Jeans rounded up to remind you to do it.
YEOWCH!…
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Reefer Madness Perhaps Not So Mad After All:
Now I know the stoner-crowd has a rep for being a bunch of hippie-dropouts who will use just about any pseudoscience available to defend their habit.
Because they want their drugs and that’s all there is to it. -Munchies be damned.
Well buckle-up Amanda Bynes, because !SCIENCE! just dropped one of the dankest jams in-favor of THC since the invention of the cannabinoid-receptor 600 million years ago.
(not counting any of the Magnum Opuses by Messrs. Cheech & Chong)…
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My Favorite Martian:
In addition to being one of the oddest and most sarcastic people on Earth like, you’ve-got-me-so-confused-I-don’t-know-who-I-am-anymore sarcastic,
Parks & Recreation’s Aubrey Plaza has apparently thought a lot about both staying young and how to behave gracefully if/when she ever does get old.
-As Conan O’Brien finds out in this interview…
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First They Saved Your Health, Now Your Skin!:
You might remember our previous post on the EWG’s great work on produce safety and pesticides.
If you don’t, The Dirty Dozen with Garrick Dee Tan’s infographics is a good & worthwhile read.
Especially for the addition of The Clean 15, and The Hazardous 3.
Well just in-time for sunny weather, the EWG is at it again for Sunscreens. And their results are pretty surprising…
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Are your cheeks & jowls starting to sag? Smile lines starting to show?
Well look no further for your solution!
Because in an awesome throwback from at least the 80’s, we learn at some near Kristen-Wiig-ian-scale silliness…
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Though this discovery was originally aimed at the developing world, it might just turn around & George Jetson the hell out of a tricky surgical procedure.
What happens with a cataract is that some of the proteins in the lens go a bit wacky over time.
And these changes make them stop working the way they’re supposed to.
Since the standard fix is a bit iffy to have done in low-tech facilities, the researchers thought, “What if we could take that operation and put it in a bottle?”…
Well, Nat Geo has started putting on a new series, and it’s right in-line with just about everything this site would ever hope to be about. -Just in video format.
It’s on Sundays, 9/8C and we’re already starting to get to the good stuff like, “More Than Human”, “Decoding The Brain”, and “The Age of Aging”.
So, while you’re waiting for the next installment, check out their trippily-animated, Hayden Planetarium-meets-Minority Report-On-LSD website.
A linked-list of the major sections is below, to help you sift through & target the content you’d like to check out…
-Except this time, it just might work.
Everyone’s done this type of amateur Sherlock Holmes evaluation since they were born. But now, at the intersection of a facial-recognition technologist, a doctor, and Big Data, the studies might just prove both true and useful.
What Face My Age’s technology does…
