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Absinthism For The “Hey Y’All, Watch This!” Crowd. Seriously: Don’t Drink The Hand Sanitizer. Even If You Do Work For Wells Fargo

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll, Stupid Health Tricks

Absinthism For The “Hey Y’All, Watch This!” Crowd. Seriously: Don’t Drink The Hand Sanitizer. Even If You Do Work For Wells Fargo
vintage french poster for absinthe parisienne


As Stupid As Nascar Cartman:
Every once in awhile, a health news story comes out that is truly inspirational.

Not since Eric Cartman drinking Vagisil in his bid to qualify as a Nascar driver, has something so majestic gone public.

And though in the small “Fail-Army” part of HT there is probably none that will exceed the caution against mixing grenades & sledgehammers.

-Which to be fair, for the rational-minded among you is pretty much the same equation as career blackmail+ impossible sales goals…

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The Economic Impact Of The Common-Cold And 3 Types of Sick People You Should Avoid

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Disease, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll

The Economic Impact Of The Common-Cold And 3 Types of Sick People You Should Avoid
the soldier type of sick person to avoid by Jacob Andrews Caldwell Tanner and CollegeHumor


The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year!:
Around the colder months of the year, we all get a set of mixed-blessings.

Lots of fun new Winter sports, several new if inconvenient paintjobs on the landscape by Mother Nature that make everything a quiet wonder to observe.

And the inevitable disruptions in our body’s internal-balance that make us get sick in all kinds of glorious post-new-years-eve-vomit-jamboree ways.

Well CollegeHumor and U.Michigan have each gone their own unique ways to show us the different shades of awful this productivity-sapping season can go…

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Video: Eater Tries The Impossible Burger, Here To Save Planet Earth And One Day, Your Taste Buds

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Bio-Tech, Nutrition, Video

Video: Eater Tries The Impossible Burger, Here To Save Planet Earth And One Day, Your Taste Buds


Can Food Save Planet Earth?:
In this video, Eater’s Kat Odell and Nick Solares introduce us to another salvo in the war to make a better burger with its inventor, Dr. Pat Brown.

This particular version has taken over 5 years to research and launch.

And thanks to some increasingly-fancy food chemistry, Impossible Foods might be getting us a step closer to a more earth-friendly, healthier future.

And while people should have the luxury to eat what they want, and a burger won’t save the planet, every little bit helps…

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What The World Needs Now … Is An Alzheimer’s-Prion-Blockage Buster

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Bio-Tech, Mind/Brain, Thinking Out Loud

What The World Needs Now … Is An Alzheimer’s-Prion-Blockage Buster
crazy passport paper


Now that they’ve been linked to some cases of Alzheimer’s, we need a prion-killer more than ever.

-Or at least something to break up the structures they form in those cases.

Because what the Yale team found out is that the Beta-Amyloid glop that normally hallmarks the disease is made worse when it runs into prions. That-is, the non-mutant,…

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