I went to a doctor in August who suggested that I have my Vitamin D level checked. She seemed fairly confident that my level would be low given my lack of regular sun exposure and my diligence with sunscreen. While the average adult only needs 15-20 mins of sun/day without sunscreen to meet their vitamin [...]
I want to see this movie.
I could go on forever about the disaster that is the American health care system. About how our litigious society has made it impossible for doctors to admit mistakes which then fuels discontent and disatisfaction. How litigation drives up malpractice costs which then drives up costs to everyone. How insurance companies are [...]
I read this article in Scientific American about a girl with musicophobia: she had seizures in response to music. And not just any music – only music she liked. Music she didn’t like (jazz, classical) had no effect. Partially because music is basically unavoidable in urban life (stores, ring tones, street musicians, etc) she chose [...]
I remember hardly anything about my biology laboratories in college. I know there was a lab with cockroaches that gave me nightmares, and one where we drank a liter of soda and peed in cups for a couple hours, but other than that I basically draw a blank. Until….
Somehow I stumbled across a [...]
While I don’t drink tea expressly for its health benefits and I’m not overly concerned about my cardiovascular health right now, this news still falls in the category of no good!
Milk cancels health benefit of drinking tea: study
The study is Addition of milk prevents vascular protective effects of tea. by M. Lorenz, N. Jochmann, A. [...]
Okay non-biology geeks, so maybe you’ve never gotten excited about anything bio-related before, but if there were ever anything that was gonna get you going it’d be this video.
tRNA!!!!!
They played this during my first year bio class at Dartmouth (wayz back in ‘99) and for the rest of my miserable bio classes I found myself [...]
Like this ad? I do.
Guinness is really good with hard cider (a Black Velvet). Especially through a straw.
Back when I pretended to run indoor track for about half a season in high school (before I realized that of all the running sports indoor track is by far the worst), someone on the team told me that if you drink too much water too soon after you run you don’t absorb it, you [...]
Every routine task or chore that comprises the general collection of “housework” seems, for me at least, to have a rate limiting step. You know, the step that determines the rate at which the whole process can proceed.
With the dishwasher, it’s unloading the clean dishes. I don’t like dirty dishes, so once [...]