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The Found Future of Cardio Cleaners

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Hey, wait a sec!

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Posted by Will on 10/26/10 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Microneedle Drug-Delivery Patches May Replace Syringes One Day

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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, UC Santa Barbara and Zosano Pharma are hard at work drying the tears of little children, de-freaking the phobics and the Adrian Monks of the world.
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Posted by Will on 08/21/10 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button




Best Hoax Study Ever: Men Who Stare At Boobs Live Longer

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Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. YOU ARE NOT READING THIS. YOU ARE STARING AT THE PHOTO ABOVE, AREN'T YOU?

[moving on] Thank GOD there was a study that did not actually appear in the New England Joural of Medecine as far back as 2009 or 1997, that had not actually been conducted over the course of 5 years and 500 participants.

The hoax study asserts that 10 minutes of boob-staring is equivalent to 30 minutes of aerobic

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Posted by Will on 08/ 9/10 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

How Science Reporting Works

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Funny, but

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Posted by Will on 01/13/10 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Two Inhalation-Based Nanoparticle Deaths In China

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Two women are dead in China as a result of nanoparticle inhalation exposure of almost a year.

Without increased precautions, these are probably the first of many confirmed cases in the future of death due to nanoparticle exposure.

It's a terrible thing to have been right about, but here's the original article where we called exactly this type of health risk about ~2 years ago: Nanotech Ultra...

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Posted by Will on 09/ 6/09 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

What The World Needs Now ... Is A Prion Killer

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Now that they've been linked to some cases of Alzheimer's, we need a prion-killer more than ever.

-Hopefully one that won't kill everything else.

These odd little assassins are the things that eventually kill you in all Creutzfeldt-Jakob diseases, like Mad Cow Disease, and my personal favorite: Kuru.

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Posted by Will on 03/ 3/09 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Hey, Let's All Play Along! -It's Cellphone Football!!!

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Hey look Junior, it's the ocean! -Go Swim!

Insomnia! Confusion? Headaches! -Oh My!

2008-India To Join CP Study Mosh Pit; -you know, 'cause all the cool kids are doing it, Mom!

2008-STUK,Finland: May Alter Proteins in Skin

2007-Cleveland: Damaged Sperm

2007-MTHR,UK: Could Be As Dangerous As Cigarettes

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Posted by Will on 08/ 6/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

The G-Shot. Not Gardasil, But Definitely A Shpot Heard 'Round The World

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Once Upon A Time, sweet kind ladies like my adopted Aunt, who was recently made an official Saint by The Vatican, would get together and have quaint little sales parties discussing things like makeup and reusable plastic storage containers.

In another notch down the ratchet of our increasingly Britney-fied culture, Ladies who had long-ago abandoned their prim but sassy Doris Day dresses for -well maybe not Christina Aguilera Underpants

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Posted by Will on 06/21/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Stephen Colbert Makes Dean Kamen Remove Doritos From Water

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I could go on about how Perpetual Hairstyle Makeover Candidate Dean Kamen saves the third world with a machine they can't afford, that will be taken right off the UNICEF trucks by warlords and sold to Idi Amin's grandchildren so they can run hexavalent chromium-removal experiments in Ye Olde Backyard Minefield, and how anything that evaporates at or near water's evap point may collect also (like hydrocarbons), if not allowed to escape in a very sneaky way. -AND how distilled water will literally pull the minerals right out of your bones and teeth if you don't add it back into the water for the lucky 3rd-worlders who Do see one of Dean's boxes, but Screwit! -Here's a funny vid after teh jump!:...[read more >>]

Posted by Will on 05/15/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

F-Cup Tea Makes Boobs Happy!

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Eleven score and eleven years ago, our great Founding Fathers saw fit to burden themselves with throwing off the uncharitable chains of British colonialist hegemony.

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Posted by Will on 09/20/07 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Colbert Report Demystifies DNA

An in-depth look into "Why am I Ugly?" and "Who's my Baby Daddy?"

-religious jokes aside, still funny!

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Posted by Will on 08/29/07 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

PSA: French Maid TV Demonstrates CPR

-in my humble opinion, this is the single best mV entry; -ever.

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Posted by Will on 06/19/07 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Nanotech Ultra Mega Mesothelioma Asbestosis w/a Half-Gainer off the High-Dive

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Once upon a time, "back in the day"(s) when afro hairdos were huge and Bruce Lee had just officially become a God, a few enterprising caffeineheads decided to make a better mousetrap coffee cup; styrofoam, that is.

They were sick and tired of their coffee

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Posted by Will on 02/25/07 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Excessive Ultrasound May Harm Embryonic Neurons

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No more 'scan-your-noggin' booth at the kegger anymore, boys and girls! It'll rot your brains worse than TV!

Dr. Pasko Rakic and his colleagues from the Neurobiology department of the Yale School of medicine have shown that ultrasound use impedes some brain development in baby mice.

They are therefore recommending that though the distances are greater in humans, ultrasound for human babies

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Posted by Will on 08/10/06 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

The New 'Polygraph': Liar Liar, Brain's On Fire!

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Newsflash:The first ever explosion at an MRI facility has just occurred.

It seems Bill Clinton has just staggered out of the wreckage with a few pieces of the ‘donut’ stuck to his head like a giant sombrero; however his hairdo looks in fine shape.

The first ever MRI Lie Detector on a politician looks like a complete success! They just need to completely rebuild the facility and recalibrate. More fireworks to follow.

In an effort to expand the uses of existing MRI technology,

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Posted by Will on 08/ 1/06 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

You Can't Fix Stupid, but You -Can- Grow New Brain Cells

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Churchill would paint, Einstein played the violin; Stalin had nude ballet. -On a personal note, I'll go with the ElectroShock therapy and a 5g Gotu Kola chaser.

Elizabeth Gould (who is kind of sexy for a geek) and others have shown that lab animals can grow new neurons after the time that it was said to be impossible.
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Posted by Will on 06/29/06 | Comments (1) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Tinfoil Hat Brain Firewall Not So Secure After All

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It turns out that the old "protection" from being brainwashed by radio waves sent out by the CIA and various unnamed government agencies has been soundly debunked by scientists at MIT.

According to them, the foil hats (double-walled, even) Reduced radiowave signals across the entire usable spectrum by up to 10db. -A 3db change either way, would be deemed significant.

AHA! -But before you start breaking out

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Posted by Will on 06/12/06 | Comments (1) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

The Dangers of DHMO

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Due to the fairly-recent breakthrough research of scientists Eric Lechner, Lars Norpchen, Tom Way, Nathan Zohner and others, it has been shown that another chemical compound is pervasively affecting lives all around the country (and probably the world).

This insidious substance is called DHMO, and is sometimes known as hydric acid or hydroxic acid.

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Posted by Will on 04/ 1/06 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

How Fat Kills

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The type of tissue itself seems to work against us when in sufficient quantities, according to this article in Wired.

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Posted by Will on 05/ 4/05 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

How to Live to be 100

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Okinawa or bust, -sonny!

Scientists are on the trail to decoding what makes the oldest people such amazing survivors.
In studies like: The New England Centenarian Study, a Swedish Study on Twins in 1998 and others, they are trying to separate the anecdotal from the real science, or better, use it to track down what is actually happening.

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Posted by Will on 05/ 4/05 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button






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