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Germaphobe? Feeling Sluggish? -Rolf Halden Gives Us A Good Scare About Antibacterial Soaps On Leonard Lopate

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Disease

Germaphobe? Feeling Sluggish? -Rolf Halden Gives Us A Good Scare About Antibacterial Soaps On Leonard Lopate
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So in a surprisingly-functional proposed ruling set to take effect in 2016, the FDA seems poised to +/-ban antibacterial soaps that show no definite efficacy over the average bear.

-Especially those that contain Triclosan and Triclocarban.

In this spot from the Leonard Lopate Show, Leonard interviews ASU Global Sustainability professor Dr. Rolf Halden on the subject and the revelations are pretty surprising.

It turns out these 50’s-era antimicrobials not only work by disrupting the microorganisms, but they also disrupt…

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The Case Of The Curiously-Healthy Mice, Mysterious Microbes And Auto-Immune Joint Damage

Filed Under: Aging, Bio-Tech, Disease

The Case Of The Curiously-Healthy Mice, Mysterious Microbes And Auto-Immune Joint Damage
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Okay, so keep in-mind that a little while back we told you that you were your microbes and how lots of them affect you in “No Man Is An Island”…

Fast-forward to 3 years ago when the 2 magic ingredients of curiously-healthy mice and immune cells called Th17s combined in the persons of Drs. Mathis and Littman.

Because Immunologists are the House-ian cool-kids of the science world, and much like freestyle-rap-battlers, they hang out and talk a…

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Historic Literary Woo-Woo Over Epidemiology: How The Mummy’s Curse Persisted

Filed Under: Books, Disease, Other

Historic Literary Woo-Woo Over Epidemiology: How The Mummy’s Curse Persisted
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I thought it was just tse-tse flies, early cases of west-nile virus, and toxic mold on the walls of the tomb.

But Aeon Magazine pulls out a spooky episode from the Sherlock Holmes Era of science history, and describes how they had such a hard time killing the old ideas of superstition for explaining the unknown in life.

-Even if that particular superstition did get its start in British popular fiction,…

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Red Meat Amino May Be Related To Heart Disease

Filed Under: Disease, Nutrition, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Red Meat Amino May Be Related To Heart Disease
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So two years ago Stanley Hazen published a paper saying the compound TMAO is linked to heart disease.

When mice were fed more of it, their risk for atherosclerosis went up.

It turns out the stuff is created when gut bacteria break down some foods.

So in a new study, Stanley makes this mental leap: Red Meat is something people eat, passes through the gut, and is associated with heart disease.

-Maybe there’s something in there that gets turned into that TMAO from 2 years ago?…

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Klari Reis’ Petri Dish-Inspired Art Looks Beautiful And Biohazard-y

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Noise, Other

Klari Reis’ Petri Dish-Inspired Art Looks Beautiful And Biohazard-y
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Ok, so technically it’s not quite as cool as color-tagged bacteria manipulated via lazors and EMFs to create a microbial generative art,

But check out Klari Reis’ culture-inspired petri dish art at the links anyway.

Pretty Neat!…

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The DMB Human MicroBiome Project Explores Strange New Worlds With Reefer And Salvia on The Leonard Lopate Show

Filed Under: Bio-Tech

The <strike>DMB</strike> Human MicroBiome Project Explores Strange New Worlds <strike>With Reefer And Salvia</strike> on The Leonard Lopate Show
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Friday’s “Please Explain” segment on WNYC’s “Leonard Lopate Show” was a great episode on the Human Micro-Biome Project and why people die in the Matrix but not Inception.

Guests Dr. Lita Proctor and (the awesomely-named) Dr. Martin Blazer chimed in on how the HMP’s 5-year-mission is to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before sequence a basic microbial dna landscape using a reference set…

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Hot Chicks Sex Kittens With Douchebags On The Fringe: Is Your Behavior Controlled By Parasites Loyal Only To Cats?

Filed Under: Disease, Family, Mind/Brain, Other, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll

<strike>Hot Chicks</strike> Sex Kittens With Douchebags On The Fringe: Is Your Behavior Controlled By Parasites Loyal Only To Cats?
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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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Neti-Pot Deaths: Brain Eating Amoebas Kill Two

Filed Under: News, Other

Neti-Pot Deaths: Brain Eating Amoebas Kill Two
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Absolutely Terrifying, but so far 2 people have died from a fresh-water amoeba via Neti-Pot nasal irrigation in Louisiana.

IIt turns out it’s MUCH easier for bad things to cross into the brain if they get up in the sinus cavity via your nose.

Both victims died of encephalitis.

There is no way to know if the microbe, or something similar, is in your own water or not without specific testing.

Usually most people don’t read the manual, and…

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