In other news, leg injuries halved for patients who underwent preemptive leg amputation surgery.
[CNN]
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Preventative Medicine
A study in the Journal of the American Medicine Association reports that women who preemptively get breasts or ovaries removed are at lower risk for developing breast or ovarian cancer.
In other news, leg injuries halved for patients who underwent preemptive leg amputation surgery.
[CNN]
In other news, leg injuries halved for patients who underwent preemptive leg amputation surgery.
[CNN]
Dancing with the "Stars"*
If Jennifer Grey doesn't own this, I'll be shocked. Like the media will be when, at the end of the season, we're introduced to baby Stag Hunter Palin-Fox.
Cool Hand Fluke
A brave soul at PopSci dunked his hand into liquid nitrogen and was fine, due to an insulating layer of steam that prevented actual contacted, called the Leidenfrost effect.
Apparently this principle also holds for dipping fingers into molten lead. Apple bobbing can finally be taken to that next level.
[Popular Science]
Apparently this principle also holds for dipping fingers into molten lead. Apple bobbing can finally be taken to that next level.
[Popular Science]
Oval Office Makeover
From optimistic rays to inspirational quotes.
An often-neglected aspect of leading the free world - it's an interior decorator's dream.
The quotes are:
An often-neglected aspect of leading the free world - it's an interior decorator's dream.
The quotes are:
- “The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself” – President Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “The Arc of the Moral Universe Is Long, But It Bends Towards Justice” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Government of the People, By the People, For the People” – President Abraham Lincoln
- “No Problem of Human Destiny Is Beyond Human Beings” – President John F. Kennedy
- “The Welfare of Each of Us Is Dependent Fundamentally Upon the Welfare of All of Us” – President Theodore Roosevelt
Polamalu's Treasure
As spokesman for Head & Shoulders, Troy Polamalu is getting his hair covered by a $1MM insurance policy. The company says that his hair is "so thick that, end to end, it spans 1,100 football fields and can hold approximately 24,062 pounds."
SWOON.
Troy hasn't cut this bounty for 7 years. He says “It’s like J.Lo’s insured butt! Head & Shoulders has gone above and beyond by insuring my Samoan locks for a cool $1 million dollars. This reinforces that my full and thick hair is unstoppable.”
If this doesn't work out, he could always join the cast of The Lion King.
SWOON.
Troy hasn't cut this bounty for 7 years. He says “It’s like J.Lo’s insured butt! Head & Shoulders has gone above and beyond by insuring my Samoan locks for a cool $1 million dollars. This reinforces that my full and thick hair is unstoppable.”
If this doesn't work out, he could always join the cast of The Lion King.
Set Change
"We got 35 seconds."
"We're screwed!"
"Cialis, give me Cialis."
"Hold that wall."
Live comedy is great.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Beer Goggles
Researchers in England rounded up some folks in London pubs and gave them Breathalyzer tests and showed them photos of people. The thinking is that beer goggles is a physical phenomenon, whereby alcohol takes away our ability to detect symmetry or balance. This is worse for women than for men. So my followup theory is that women actually have a worse case of beer goggles and drunk judgment, whereas men are more likely to take the excuse. Unfair but probably not untrue.
[Alcohol Journal] which I follow religiously
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