The Health Weblog
Productivity Enters An Ice Age:
In the past, we’ve all been told that changes in seasons bring on various types of sickness.
Well, in addition to all the old wives’ tales about cold being bad for you, esp. going outside without a hat on in the winter, etc.
It turns out a few studies have found that cold can have a real economic impact. Especially in the workplace.
And it all starts out with something Ron Friedman found out about the Campbell Soup Company’s “Misery Index”…
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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!!! …
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…
Fellow HT-ers, Check this out:
Now that cold+flu season is in full swing, I thought it would be a plus to the site for one of our commenters to have his say come up in a post.
Our pal Zach had a very detailed read of one of the full studies cited in the Cheeky Monkey Stomach Flu post awhile back.
He was nice enough to cook down some of the conclusions into his comment which…
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