CNN seems baffled by the discovery that professional football players are more prone to high blood pressure than other American men. The mystery lies in the prevalence of borderline high blood pressure among NFL players and neither the reporter nor the doctor who conducted the study seem to be able to figure out why.
“So our [...]
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Reuters is reporting that the number of confirmed swine flu cases has reached 109. This will no doubt cause folks to run around screaming about pandemics and, somewhere, Stephen King is getting just the tiniest bit nervous.
I just want to help keep things in perspective. The Census Bureau estimates the population of the United [...]
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Randall Munroe gets on the Swine Flu/Twitter humor train early and decisively. I posted the comic after the jump. It’s funny, trust me (and there’s another webcomic joke in there that you may or may not get).
More seriously, let’s get real, folks. Swine Flu is not a screaming hot deal here in the United States [...]
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You know the saying “You’re only as old as you think”? Well, turns out it might not be hooey after all if the study by Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer holds up.
Langer did a study like this with a group of elderly men some years ago, retrofitting an isolated old New England hotel so that every [...]
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Can we make Wendy Sullivan our Secretary of Education now? It’s kind of a shame, though, that she (a Canadian, as you’ll find out) had to be the one to defend the Pledge of Alliegance to an American public school teacher.
An entertaining excerpt:
Due to the lack of decent television programming in my country, I [...]
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