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Fantastic Yeasts & Where To Find Them: Lisa Stinson & Scientists Find Comedy Gold In Study Titles

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Fantastic Yeasts & Where To Find Them: Lisa Stinson & Scientists Find Comedy Gold In Study Titles
twitter lisa stinson fantastic yeasts thread


Fantastic Yeasts! Lisa Stinson Shows Researchers Are Funny Too:
And now for something completely different!

Science has a habit of being very serious all the time.

Especially research that could seriously impact the future of health or humanity.

And in that struggle to solve our problems, I think we all can get stuck being a little Too serious.

Well funny post-doc, Lisa Stinson found out Scientists are funny, too.

And her thread on Twitter is worth at least a few chuckles, even from nerdy research-nuts like HT visitors…

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#FitnessFail Is a Hashtag Anyone Who Ever Set A Goal Can Relate To. So Let’s All Laugh At 30 Embarrassing Moments From Twitter To Feel Better!

Filed Under: Exercise

#FitnessFail Is a Hashtag Anyone Who Ever Set A Goal Can Relate To. So Let’s All Laugh At 30 Embarrassing Moments From Twitter To Feel Better!
fitness-fails kacey gideons mcdonalds gym


Fail Your Way To Fitness Success!:
We’ve all had the unenviable joy of joining the crowd to New Year’s Resolutions, often for fitness.

It lets you remind yourself of how much further you have to go,

And also gets you to take stock of just how hard the holiday hors d’oeuvres and drinks hit you over the past few months.

Because we all end up failing a bit, even on our way to success, Jimmy Fallon asked Twitter users for help…

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Jason Headley’s “F*ck That” Meditation Is Short But Fantastic, Foul-Mouthed Stress-Relief For Your Real Life. [Video]

Filed Under: Mind/Brain, Video

Jason Headley’s “F*ck That” Meditation Is Short But Fantastic, Foul-Mouthed Stress-Relief For Your Real Life. [Video]


The 3rd School Of Meditation We All Needed:
So over the years, we’ve learned a lot about Meditation.

From ancient shamans and their wild claims, all the way to present-day experts like Eckhart Tolle.

And all the while, the discipline has preached a serene, near-wordless detachment in its suggested-state.

It hasn’t been until now that a more purpose-built school for the trials of modern life has taken Meditation into the realm of something practical & liberating.

Jason Headley’s “F*ck That” school of thought…

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Video: Doctor Ken Jeong Answers The Internet’s Most Pressing Medical Questions

Filed Under: Disease, Featured, Video, Vitamins/Supplements

Video: Doctor Ken Jeong Answers The Internet’s Most Pressing Medical Questions


And Now For Something Completely Different:
Somehow in their infinite-power, Wired has managed to wrangle the best doctor ever to answer some health questions.

“The Hangover”-series crazy-man, Ken Jeong!

And although he’s a bit more serious here than in his roles as Mister Chow, or Ben Chang on cult-hit TV-show “Community”, he’s still a lot of fun…

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Like Napoleon At The Battle Of Austerlitz, KFC Revolutionizes Fast-Food With Clean-Food Superstar, Figgy Poppleton-Rice

Filed Under: Nutrition, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Like Napoleon At The Battle Of Austerlitz, KFC Revolutionizes Fast-Food With Clean-Food Superstar, Figgy Poppleton-Rice
KFC clean eating burger by figgy poppleton-rice


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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Video: The Facts Crew Tries Meat Subsitutes, Saves Planet Earth From Death By Cow-Farts

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Nutrition, Video

Video: The Facts Crew Tries Meat Subsitutes, Saves Planet Earth From Death By Cow-Farts


Saving The Planet 1 Video At A Time. Maybe:
So, an increasting percentage of our dietary choices are made for health reasons.

And in a few new edge-cases, also for the chance to help more than just yourself, by reducing the environmental impacts of some farming.

This is the angle taken most recently by Impossible Foods.

But who cares about that? As-usual, the Facts crew is here to give you a fairly-normal [Irish] person’s perspective and tell you how it really is!…

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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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