Rachmaninoff Etude - Tableau Op 39 No 6
One of my friends just e-mailed me this video of Valentina Lisitsa playing Tableau Op 39 No 6. It’s freaking amazing.
Tags: music, piano, Videos
Aborted Children can save Rats from Parkinson’s!
All the more reason to send the national guard to beat down those “Anti-Abortionist” protesters. Scientists have recently conducted an experiment that used stem cells to alleviate symptoms of Parkinson’s disease in rats.
The team, which was made up by scientists from MIT and Harvard, has transplanted healthy neurons cultivated from reprogrammed stem cells into the midbrains of rats which were previously damaged similarly to the effects of Parkinson’s. The rodents showed significant alleviation of symptoms of brain damage, such as wandering in uncontrollable circles.
“This is the first demonstration that reprogrammed cells can integrate into the neural system or positively affect neurodegenerative disease,” said Marius Wernig, a scientist at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and lead author of the research, quoted by The Boston Globe.
Via EFluxMedia
Ladies, this can only mean one thing: You need to go out and have sex and get abortions like crazy. Think of all the dying rodents you can save!
Your Child is Fat
…because you let him watch TV and eat cake.
Recent studies by some people that probably think they’re pretty smart show that the more your child watches TV and less they sleep, the more the chance they have of being overweight. This is why I barely watch TV and stay up on my computer until 2AM writing this stuff for you guys to read; they didn’t say anything about using computers…
Via MedHeadlines
Tags: obesityWanking your path to a Healthy Future?
Many religions may view it as unjust, but surprisingly enough, research over the past years have concluded that masturbation and other sexual activities may actually be a key to living a healthy life-style. More »
Tags: health, masturbation, sexYou Are Too Healthy
Or so says a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, “The Other Ex-Ante Moral Hazard in Health”, via MarginalRevolution and The Economist blog.
As The Economist has it:
IF WE all had malaria, the incentive to pharmaceutical companies to develop a cure for malaria would be massive. In all probability, some company would then develop a cure for malaria, and none of us would have malaria. QED, we should all develop malaria.
This is one of the paradoxical and counterintuitive–not to mention absolutely insane and counterfactual–conclusions that regularly comes out of modern microeconomics.
Tyler Cowen presents this strange thesis this way: More »
Tags: economics, economist, health, marginalrev, microeconomics, obesityHigh Blood Pressure Problems Increasing…
In the US, it seems like a race and competition to get the highest blood pressure apparently. Recent study shows the number of Americans with high blood pressure issues is not dropping, and for women, the numbers are actually rising. All this hypertension is going to lead to merry things such as heart-attacks, strokes and kidney failure. If you can’t take a piss, consider checking your blood pressure.
A guy who’s apparently really smart, otherwise I wouldn’t be reading about him, and goes by the name of Dr. Merle Myerson, says:
Some of the reasons may be, are we’re becoming more obese, we’re becoming more sedentary, we’re super sizing our portions.
The moral of the story:
Tags: blood pressure, eating, food, health, heart, kidneys, pissing, popeye, spinachLive Healthy, Live Longer
What else more is there to say? I mean really.
Tags: health, length, lifespan, Lifestyle, live, livingDavid Tyree and The Greatest Catch Ever
For all of you that watched the Super Bowl and wanted the Patriots to win… hahahahaha kill yourselves. Eli Manning somehow avoided getting taken down while the Patriots are all jumping and grabbing at him and he flings the ball across the field and it ends up, amazingly, in the hands of David Tyree for the completion, leading the Giants to victory in the last minute of the fourth quarter last night. Pure epicness.
Tags: David Tyree, Eli Manning, football, Giants, Patriots, Sports, SuperbowlBird Flu meets Pakistan
In the past two months, the Bird Flu (H5N1) has killed a person in Pakistan and has infected six other people. Two people with the Bird Flu have recovered and four are being quarantined. Just thought I’d let you know… so if you go to Pakistan, go there in a bubble.
