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Winter Is The Season Of Giving…:
You can catch a cold or flu from being cold, right?
There is actual “cold” in the air and if you stick your hand out, you can catch some?
So, ever since we were little, we’ve been told to bundle-up in the winter.
-Or you’ll catch a cold.
Well in this video, ASAPScience explores a few of the myths on how you really do…
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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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More Than Just Manners:
So we’ve all been taught it’s good manners+hygiene to grab a hanky or an elbow.
Well now, the strangely-obsessed fluid-dynamics researchers at MIT are putting some more weight behind that.
And anyone near as strangely-obsessed might have watched the MythBusters episode on the same subject.
What both of them found might make you reconsider leaving the house between November and March ever again…
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It would sure explain a lot of memes.
And if Pinky ever does take over the world, he will surely be succeeded in quick Game-of-Thrones style by the Lolcats;
after they EAT HIM.
SUSPICION! CONNECTION-SEEKING! SHABBY-CLOTHING! SEX-KITTENISM! BRAIN-EROSION! AILUROPHILIA! ANXIETY! FOOLHARDINESS! HERMITAGE! INTREPITUDE! PSYCH-DISORDERS! SOUNDGARDEN LYRICS! –THE SKY IS FALLING!!!
Scientists would never like the idea that a small microbe could go so far as to…
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Awhile back, I had some odd thing going on.
It made me feel entirely too much like Keith Moon. Mad; mad as a hatter; mad as an Afghani outhouse rat.
I had tight muscles around the neck and jaw, was feeling flu-like and absolutely positive the major arteries in my neck had all been circulating pure, uncut, lab-grade hydraulic concrete.
So, thought I: it’s probably Lockjaw, Scarlet…
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, UC Santa Barbara and Zosano Pharma are hard at work,
Drying the tears of little children, de-freaking the phobics and the Adrian Monks of the world.
In the works, is a small, sometimes gel-dissolvable patch bristling with teeny-tiny needles.
The purpose: get drugs into the body that would ordinarily be administered by means originally designed as much for physical pain and psychological torture as they were for chemical-delivery…
According to this study by Turner & Pals, Echinacea is not effective against the common cold.
-Bummer.
If you believe that study.
There may be light at the end of the tunnel, though.
This post by UVA Med + Turner himself reveals something interesting about Echinacea versus other herbal supplements; especially tricky ones like Kava…
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