Lack of sleep leads to early death, study shows - Healthzone.ca
“Consistently sleeping six to eight hours per night may be optimal for
health,”
“Consistently sleeping six to eight hours per night may be optimal for
health,”
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
How hot would the Earth have to get before it would be unlivable?
How Hot Would The Earth Have To Get Before It Would Be Unlivable? - Posthumanity - io9
If global temperatures rise just 21 degrees Fahrenheit, half of humanity
will be cooked. A recent study shows that the planet doesn't have to
warm up very much before it becomes unlivable. And the death blow comes
from humidity.
...
If global temperatures rise just 21 degrees Fahrenheit, half of humanity
will be cooked. A recent study shows that the planet doesn't have to
warm up very much before it becomes unlivable. And the death blow comes
from humidity.
...
Listening to prayer halts brain activity
Study Shows that Listening to Prayer Halts Brain Activity - Science - io9
Excerpts:
A team of Danish researchers have found that when listening to a
well-spoken person who claims to have divine healing powers, the regions
of the brain responsible for scepticism and vigilance become less
active.
...
Only in the devout volunteers did the brain activity monitored by the
researchers change in response to the prayers. Parts of the prefrontal
and anterior cingulate cortices, which play key roles in vigilance and
scepticism when judging the truth and importance of what people say,
were deactivated when the subjects listened to a supposed healer.
...
Excerpts:
A team of Danish researchers have found that when listening to a
well-spoken person who claims to have divine healing powers, the regions
of the brain responsible for scepticism and vigilance become less
active.
...
Only in the devout volunteers did the brain activity monitored by the
researchers change in response to the prayers. Parts of the prefrontal
and anterior cingulate cortices, which play key roles in vigilance and
scepticism when judging the truth and importance of what people say,
were deactivated when the subjects listened to a supposed healer.
...
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Woman with severe environmental allergies is evicted.
Woman evicted despite chemical sensitivity claim - thestar.com
Those plug-in air fresheners burn and constrict my throat. And I have mild environmental allergies.
Those plug-in air fresheners burn and constrict my throat. And I have mild environmental allergies.
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Why Americans should never be allowed to travel
why americans should never be allowed to travel
(thanks Glen!)
Hilarious anecdotes from travel agents.
(thanks Glen!)
Hilarious anecdotes from travel agents.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Canadian DND contracted with Blackwater
as we were saying: DND contracted with Blackwater
Excerpt:
Excerpt:
National
Post: The National Defence Department has spent more than
$6-million having its troops trained by the controversial Blackwater
security company [recently renamed Xe Services], whose own employees
have been accused of needlessly killing civilians in Iraq and
Afghanistan, documents show.
Post: The National Defence Department has spent more than
$6-million having its troops trained by the controversial Blackwater
security company [recently renamed Xe Services], whose own employees
have been accused of needlessly killing civilians in Iraq and
Afghanistan, documents show.
The department sent a
succession of personnel to Blackwater's Moyock, NC, training compound
from 2005 to as recently as April 2009... The work continued even after
the US State Department cancelled its pricey security contract with the
company in Iraq amid mounting criticism of Blackwater's actions...
succession of personnel to Blackwater's Moyock, NC, training compound
from 2005 to as recently as April 2009... The work continued even after
the US State Department cancelled its pricey security contract with the
company in Iraq amid mounting criticism of Blackwater's actions...
Monday, April 26, 2010
Americans to pay health care penalty
4M Estimated to Pay Health Care Penalty in 2016 - CBS News
Excerpt:
Nearly 4 million Americans will have to
pay a penalty if they fail to get health insurance when that element of
President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law kicks in, according to
congressional projections released Thursday.
The penalties will average a little more than $1,000 apiece in 2016,
the Congressional Budget Office said in a report.
The vast majority of people paying the fine will be middle class,
which would violate Obama's 2008 campaign pledge not to raise taxes on
individuals making less than $200,000 a year and couples making less
than $250,000.
...
Excerpt:
Nearly 4 million Americans will have to
pay a penalty if they fail to get health insurance when that element of
President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law kicks in, according to
congressional projections released Thursday.
The penalties will average a little more than $1,000 apiece in 2016,
the Congressional Budget Office said in a report.
The vast majority of people paying the fine will be middle class,
which would violate Obama's 2008 campaign pledge not to raise taxes on
individuals making less than $200,000 a year and couples making less
than $250,000.
...
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Psychedelics and anxiety treatments
Psychedelic trips
aid anxiety treatments in study
Excerpt:
aid anxiety treatments in study
Excerpt:
"There is now more psychedelic research taking place in the world
than at any time in the last 40 years," said Rick Doblin, executive
director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies,
which funds some of the work. "We're at the end of the beginning of the
renaissance."
He said that more than 1,200 people attended a conference in
California last weekend on psychedelic science.
But doing the research is not easy, Doblin and others say, with
government funders still leery and drug companies not interested in the
compounds they can't patent. That pretty much leaves private donors.
"There's still a lot of resistance to it," said David Nichols, a
Purdue University professor of medicinal chemistry and president of the
Heffter Institute, which is supporting the NYU study. "The whole hippie
thing in the 60s" and media coverage at the time "has kind of left a bad
taste in the mouth of the public at large.
Boobquake
» Heroic Woman Answers Back Muslim Cleric by Calling for a Worldwide “Boobquake” Boston.BarstoolSports.com
Excerpt:
Excerpt:
A
ONE-WOMAN mission to prove breasts don’t cause earthquakes has
swollen into a shirt-straining global movement preparing for the
inaugural “Boobquake”. Iranian cleric Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi angered
womens’ groups around the world on Monday when he claimed that
promiscuous women were responsible for literally making the earth move.
“Many women who do not dress modestly … lead young men astray, corrupt
their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently)
increases earthquakes,” Sedighi said…
Jennifer McCreight is determined to prove him wrong. Since
launching the “Boobquake”
Facebook page two days ago, she has enlisted more than 20,000 women
promising to show as much cleavage as possible on Monday, April 26. If
the world doesn’t then disappear into an apocalyptic fiery chasm, then
Sedighi will have no option but to admit he was wrong. “On Monday, April
26th, I will wear the most cleavage-showing shirt I own,” Ms McCreight
wrote. “Yes, the one usually reserved for a night on the town. I
encourage other female skeptics to join me and embrace the supposed
supernatural power of their breasts. Or short shorts, if that’s your
preferred form of immodesty. With the power of our scandalous bodies
combined, we should surely produce an earthquake.
...
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Noam Chomsky has "Never seen anything like this"
OpEdNews - Article: Noam Chomsky Has "Never Seen Anything Like This'
(thanks Ron!)
Excerpt:
...
(thanks Ron!)
Excerpt:
...
What are
people supposed to think if someone says "I have got
an answer, we have an enemy'? There it was the Jews. Here it will be the
illegal immigrants and the blacks. We will be told that white males are
a persecuted minority. We will be told we have to defend ourselves and
the honor of the nation. Military force will be exalted. People will be
beaten up. This could become an overwhelming force. And if it happens it
will be more dangerous than Germany. The United States is the world
power. Germany was powerful but had more powerful antagonists. I don't
think all this is very far away. If the polls are accurate it is not the
Republicans but the right-wing Republicans, the crazed Republicans, who
will sweep the next election."
"I have
never seen anything like this in my lifetime," Chomsky added.
"I am old enough to remember the 1930s. My whole family was unemployed.
There were far more desperate conditions than today. But it was
hopeful. People had hope. The CIO was organizing. No one wants to say it
anymore but the Communist Party was the spearhead for labor and civil
rights organizing. Even things like giving my unemployed seamstress aunt
a week in the country. It was a life. There is nothing like that now.
The mood of the country is frightening. The level of anger, frustration
and hatred of institutions is not organized in a constructive way. It is
going off into self-destructive fantasies."
...
Upcoming summer 2010 movies
The Ten Summer 2010 Movies We're Most Excited to See - VideoHound Blogs - VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever
I really wanna see Inception!
I really wanna see Inception!
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
US Troops fire on passenger bus outside Kandahar, killing 4 civilians
Anti-American anger grows in Afghanistan - The Globe and Mail
U.S. troops fired on a crowded
passenger bus on the outskirts of Kandahar city, killing four civilians
and injuring 18 others, stoking anti-American protests that promised to
complicate a massive offensive against Taliban insurgents this summer.
...
U.S. troops fired on a crowded
passenger bus on the outskirts of Kandahar city, killing four civilians
and injuring 18 others, stoking anti-American protests that promised to
complicate a massive offensive against Taliban insurgents this summer.
...
Friday, April 9, 2010
Kowloon the Walled City
The Walled City Where Sunlight Couldn't Reach - Megacities - io9
A dystopian megacity, in which buildings merge together to become a
single solid block, is the stuff of science fiction — but it already
happened, in Hong Kong. The Kowloon Walled City was packed so tightly,
it became an arcology.
A dystopian megacity, in which buildings merge together to become a
single solid block, is the stuff of science fiction — but it already
happened, in Hong Kong. The Kowloon Walled City was packed so tightly,
it became an arcology.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Strawberry Pancakes
Strawberry Pancakes - Weebl's Stuff
An old classic, but worth another watch/listen - every day.
Watch what happens with the population gets to zero.
An old classic, but worth another watch/listen - every day.
Watch what happens with the population gets to zero.
We were designed to PARTY!
What youth is all about.
This is Nathan's speech from the rooftop at the end of episode 6, season 1 of the UK TV series Misfits:
She's got you thinkin' this is how you're supposed to be. Well it's not! We're young. We're supposed to drink too much. We're supposed to have bad attitudes and shag each others brains out. We are designed to PARTY! This is it!
Yeah, so, a few of us will overdose, or, go mental. But Charles Darwin said 'You can't make an omlette without breakin' a few eggs.' And that's what it's all about - breaking eggs! And by eggs, I do mean gettin' twated on a cocktail of [?].
If you could just see yourselves! It breaks my heart! You're wearing CARDIGANS!
We had it all. We fucked up bigger and better than any generation that came before us. WE WERE SO BEAUTIFUL!
We're screw-ups. I'm a screw-up. And I plan to be a screw-up until my late 20s, maybe even my early 30s.
And I will shag my own mother before I let her, or anyone else, take that away from me!
This is Nathan's speech from the rooftop at the end of episode 6, season 1 of the UK TV series Misfits:
She's got you thinkin' this is how you're supposed to be. Well it's not! We're young. We're supposed to drink too much. We're supposed to have bad attitudes and shag each others brains out. We are designed to PARTY! This is it!
Yeah, so, a few of us will overdose, or, go mental. But Charles Darwin said 'You can't make an omlette without breakin' a few eggs.' And that's what it's all about - breaking eggs! And by eggs, I do mean gettin' twated on a cocktail of [?].
If you could just see yourselves! It breaks my heart! You're wearing CARDIGANS!
We had it all. We fucked up bigger and better than any generation that came before us. WE WERE SO BEAUTIFUL!
We're screw-ups. I'm a screw-up. And I plan to be a screw-up until my late 20s, maybe even my early 30s.
And I will shag my own mother before I let her, or anyone else, take that away from me!
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Gonorrhoea is becoming more drug-resistant
Sex infection gonorrhoea risks becoming "superbug" - Healthzone.ca
The sexually transmitted disease gonorrhoea risks becoming a
drug-resistant “superbug” if doctors do not devise new ways of treating
it, a leading sexual health expert said.
...
The sexually transmitted disease gonorrhoea risks becoming a
drug-resistant “superbug” if doctors do not devise new ways of treating
it, a leading sexual health expert said.
...
Anti-vaccinationist family breaks out with measles in Vancouver
Measles outbreak in Metro Vancouver - The Globe and Mail
Excerpts:
Excerpts:
The centre said Tuesday that there have been 10 confirmed and four
suspected cases of measles in the past two weeks.
Eight of those
cases stem from a single household, while two others are believed to
have come from out-of-country visitors in February or early March.
Dr.
Monika Naus, the centre's immunization director, said the risk remains
low for the general public because most B.C. children receive the
measles vaccine between their first and second birthdays.
None of
the people who caught the disease had had the two doses of vaccine
required for full protection and many weren't immunized because of
philosophical objections.
“Most years, we see no cases of measles
in B.C. because our vaccination rates are high,” Naus said in a written
statement.
“Whether it's measles, mumps, rubella, or a host of other
vaccine-preventable diseases for which we have vaccines, the best thing
anyone can do is to make sure that their vaccinations are up to date,”
she said.
“Two doses of measles vaccine are 99 per cent effective
against the disease. Those are pretty good odds.”
In the summer of
2008, about 200 cases of mumps were recorded in B.C.’s Fraser Valley.
Health officials said at the time the illness began with a religious
group that shunned immunization.
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Friday, March 26, 2010
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Brother from Siberia - a possible new branch of ancient humans
Is human ancestor in Siberia new member of family tree? - thestar.com
NEW YORK, N.Y.—In the latest use of DNA to investigate the story of
humankind, scientists have decoded genetic material from an unidentified
human ancestor that lived in Siberia and concluded it might be a new
member of the human family tree.
...
Excavation camp in Southern Siberia in the Altai Mountains.
NEW YORK, N.Y.—In the latest use of DNA to investigate the story of
humankind, scientists have decoded genetic material from an unidentified
human ancestor that lived in Siberia and concluded it might be a new
member of the human family tree.
...
Excavation camp in Southern Siberia in the Altai Mountains.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
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