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Loud Noises, Big Plans

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Stop by for my take on the news item of the day, including health, science, environmental, and condiment-related topics.

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  • Your Love of Crabs Will Kill Us All

    Posted on Monday November 2nd, 2009 at 07:03 in science, environment, food, Nature, survival, unsung breakthroughs

    Congratulations, University of Alabama at Birmingham. Your research into blue crabs is going to poison the environment and kill us all. Sorry, what I meant to say was that UAB has made an exciting new discovery about a potential food source, and I'm ...

  • Hey, Doctors! Time to Feng Shui it Up!

    Posted on Friday October 30th, 2009 at 07:00 in science, health, medicine, unsung breakthroughs

    So, the Mayo Clinic conducted a study to see how patients were affected by the rooms where they met with their doctors. (Not the exam rooms where they run all the tests on you, the rooms where you actually sit and talk with your doctor about what's w...

  • Insomnia for Cancer

    Posted on Thursday June 11th, 2009 at 14:39 in health, medicine, Cancer, unsung breakthroughs

    Staying up late slows the disease's progress.I wish that was the case. It seems like the press release from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a bit of a tease in that respect. The title indicates that messing with your circadian cloc...

  • Granny Tipping

    Posted on Tuesday June 9th, 2009 at 13:02 in health, medicine, safety, unsung breakthroughs

    Knocking old people around could provide a valuable service.I was just looking at a paper in the Journal of Neurophysiology that presents new theories for preventing falls. Not that I read the Journal religiously or or anything. I guess I stumbled a...

  • I always loved that Angelina Jolie movie

    Posted on Monday June 8th, 2009 at 22:28 in paid posting

    I honestly believe that Hackers was the high point of her career. Real-life computer hacking is at once better and worse than what I expected after watching that movie. For one thing, no Fisher Stevens (definite plus), but no Lorraine Brocco or Angel...

  • Bloggers of Interest: Da Old Man

    Posted on Friday May 8th, 2009 at 07:00 in bloggers of interest

    I'd like to introduce you to a little concept I call the "snowball of shame." It starts with something that you've been putting off doing for a while, and you're ashamed because you should have done it earlier. The "snowball" part comes in when you p...

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