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This is my 898th post, and it will be my last. Healthbolt has been my biggest project for almost a full year now. I’ve nursed it from a baby-blog that, literally, only my mom and dad read, into a Technorati top-2000 blog that sees 600,000 page views per month. It’s been really fun and I’ve [...]
The BBC is currently running a story about and independent lab in the U.K. that tested 16 do it yourself teeth whitening kits. They found that 14(!) of them contain illegal levels of Hydrogen Peroxide. Like, really illegal levels.
In one case the legal limit was exceeded by a factor of 230 times.
Hydrogen peroxide, commonly used [...]
My wife got poison ivy last week. It’s been driving her nuts. You get it in one little spot on your body, and you scratch. Then it gets moved to another spot, and you scratch some more. Pretty soon, you’re red and itchy everywhere. You’re transferring it around your body by way of your hands, [...]
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Derek Paravicini is blind and autistic. He is also one for the world’s most talented pianists. Derek has memorized thousands and thousands of songs, after hearing them once or twice. He has given concerts all over the world, and his first CD is now available for purchase.
The video above is part 1 of a five [...]
This one is a gimme: would you wash your car every night and then park it a mud puddle? That would be stupid, right? Well, don’t do the same thing to your face. You pillow case absorbs dirt and oil from your noggin’ and then redeposits it on your face night after night. If breakouts [...]
Since 1976, every year on June 17th the Diego family has photographed themselves. the result is a voyeuristic look into one of the most personal and universal aspects of all of our lives: aging. This small image is 1983-1986. See the whole thing here: Diego Goldberg – The Arrow of Time.
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Continental airlines flight 1970 (Amsterdam to new Jersey) treated their passengers to sewage running down the aisle for 7 hours. Creepy and a little unsanitary. Read about the whole ordeal, first hand, here.
Holland America tells a man his cabin (flooded with fecal water from the broken loo next door) isn’t fecal water at [...]
Buckyballs To Fight Allergy? - Science Daily
A research team has identified a new biological function for a soccer ball-shaped nanoparticle called a buckyball — the ability to block allergic response.
Boss donates kidney to his office assistant - MSNBC
When doctors told Lisa White she needed a kidney transplant to stay alive, she never expected her boss [...]
This is Kata Dobo form this months issue of Maxim Magazine. A hottie, to be sure, but did anyone notice anything funny about this picture? It’s a total hack-job:
Please, sirs, if you’re going to distort my reality and present me with unrealistic images of the human form, the least you could do is polish up [...]
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