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March 30th, 2008

The Sunday Sidebar - Cars and Your Health.

I just spent the last 5 days on a road trip (along the stunning West Coast of New Zealands’ South Island) and it got me thinking about cars. In particular, it got me thinking about how cars affect our health.
So I did a little checking and it seems that cars (especially new ones) might not […]

By Liz -- 2 comments

October 23rd, 2007

The Most Dangerous Personality Type in Trying Times

The Most Dangerous Personality Type on an Expedition, and How to Avoid It
I was aboard a wooden raft with an unstable man once, just a few years ago, and as we drifted and sailed on the open sea this strange man began to radiate a mania, a dark, venal paranoia, a malaise that today terrorizes […]

By Sara -- 4 comments

October 16th, 2007

4 Things You Must Know if You Find Yourself in a Life Raft

Should you ever find yourself suddenly stranded and traumatized in an inflatable raft, with a barren sea all around you and with the plastic walls of the little boat crinkling and crackling in your ears, you are going to need to:
1. Be prepared for an emotional explosion from one or more of the group in […]

By Sara -- 10 comments

August 22nd, 2007

Man Slams 8 Red Bulls, Has Heart Attack, Gets Pissed

Where are my f*#@ing wings?!?
A 28-year-old motocross racer downed 8 Red Bulls in 5 hours to flood his body with adrenaline in the hopes of having a better shot at winning. Instead, he had a heart attack and nearly died.
Red Bull advises consumers not to drink more than two cans in a 24-hour period, […]

By Sara -- 14 comments

August 15th, 2007

Morning News Fix

Western Diet Is Unhealthy!
This is news? Yes, my little curmudgeons, primarily because the latest study has established a link between junk food favorites and colon cancer recurrence. French fries, burgers and shakes (and pretty much all the other fried favorites) are bad for us. Fortunately, we at least have junk food that isn’t. The only […]

By Sara -- 1 comment

June 21st, 2007

Feces on Vacation

Via The Consumerist:

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 […]

By Wade Meredith -- 2 comments

February 19th, 2007

Survive: Quicksand

Quicksand does not “suck you down”. In fact it’s very similar to water, just much heavier. Death by quicksand has more to do with panic than the the actual sand/water mixture.
Here’s how to beat it:

DON’T PANIC! If you ever finds yourself in the stuff. Despite its heralded place in pop-culture mythology, it may be helpful […]

By Wade Meredith -- 0 comments

January 3rd, 2007

Ask Metafilter Roundup

Corpses on Everest? (Don’t miss this one! It’s an oldie, but a goodie.)
Are my chest pain and shortness of breath caused by stress?
Gum trauma causes painful white blister?
How to dispose of medical waste in Toronto…
Drunk driver totaled my car and neck!
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By Wade Meredith -- 0 comments

December 21st, 2006

Survival Horror: 14 Hours On a Russian Platzkart with Food Poisoning

Platzkart - The infamous Russian third-class railway carriage.
Our Hero - “I was about to start a17-hour Platzkart Hell journey back to Moscow, and this was the kicker: I was suffering from brutal food poisoning that I’d picked up in a platzkart on the way out to Izhevsk. I was shivering, every muscle in my body […]

By Wade Meredith -- 1 comment