The Health Weblog
A Star Is Born:
Sometimes the internet does fantastic things to create interesting combinations and hacks.
A lot of these odd connections come together via social media’s ability to broadcast the exceptional.
However, few companies are willing to risk big losses by backing an outsider.
But just like Mahatma Gandhi or Steve Jobs before them, KFC has the guts to “Think Different” with their newest superstar, and the results are spectacular…
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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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Well, NatGeo 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…
[UPDATED!] With all due respect to previous queen, Helen Mirren and her fabulous rack, I think we have a new winner here.
It is always a thrill to see someone out there with that Dick Clark Immortality-Factor who is living everything this site hopes to be about.
And as a 59-year-old mother of 2, grandmother of 2, and a girl who Started modeling at 28!, she’s a case-study in good habits meet good genetics.
SO, Takeaways: What can we tease out of what she says in the source-articles about her secrets to eternal youth that are good tips for…
UK Food Scientists International Heroes like these guys have [re]disovered a curious natural protein that happens to have some seasonally-apt, and awesomely-paradoxical properties.
When the magical stuff is added to ice cream, the ice cream, in-fact, melts slower. Not zero hot-weather drips, but dang close.
Also, this angel from upon-high to sweaty summer children has other benefits. It seems to make the ice cream smoother, similar to the more expensive varieties that have less air, finer crystals, & more butterfat…
Nerve injuries of all types are terrible events for anyone experiencing them.
And the outlook is generally-poor, because we really don’t heal as well as Dr. Connors in The Amazing Spiderman.
So George Bittner’s UT team has come up with the obvious solution: Turn people into crocodiles.
They soon discovered that was really hard to do. So for the time being, they came up with a workaround: Stop the ‘scarring’ process & get things back together…
For the discerning, yet old-school health nerd, Alicia Watkins has come up with some fantastic gifts for the cross-stitch boosting, microbe afficionado on your gift list.
The 8×10″, 12 microbe sampler above is just one of many gifts by the multi-medium nerd-crafter in her cross-stitch gallery.
Other choices besides the 12 include: Rabies,…
Links:
Etsy-The 12 Microbe Sampler
A little while back, we told you about the great conference Wired put on with MDAnderson, called WIRED DATA | Life.
And one of the standout presentations of that conference was put-on by inveterate smartass, David Newman, of the site: The Number Needed to Treat.
Well, Wired has seen fit to remind us of David & Co-Founder Graham Walker’s work in a recent Science post.
What the NNT tries to do is take the highest-quality studies it can find and publish a ratings-system…
A few adults in Scotland are lacking in the awesomeness department, as put on display by their reaction to school-lunch nutrition blogger and awesomeness expert, Martha Payne.
Not only couldn’t they handle the public discussion heat brought on by Martha’s photo-reviews, the local council tried to silence her with some ne-plus-ultra-idioticratic bullying.
Links:
TheNextWeb-School Lunch Blogger
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…
