Don’t drink alcohol. Take vitamins. Avoid eating eggs. We’ve heard these pieces of nutritional advice for years - but are they accurate?
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Dispelling The Top 10 Nutrition Myths
Directions from California to Sweden
When you check with Google Maps on how to get from California to Stockholm, Sweden to jokesters at Google have suggested an interesting option. Check out direction #33.
The Convoluted World of Virginity Testing
Dr. Marc Abecassis, who does two to four hymen restorations a week, with a 23-year-old patient.
Virginity tests merely tell us, as Blank puts it, whether a particular woman “conforms to what people of her time and place believe to be true of virgins.” The most common tests look for evidence only “as experienced and reported […]
N.Dakota Recaptures Snow Angel Record
Legislators waved their arms in a snow-angel salute Wednesday to celebrate North Dakota recapturing a world record for those whimsical works of winter.
British Dentistry Reforms Fail
Radical Government reforms to improve patient access to NHS dentists have failed, it was claimed today.
Study: Smokers Make Poorer Workers
Smokers take an additional eight days of sick leave a year and are more likely to perform poorly in the workplace compared with non-smokers, according to two new studies published today.
Pulsing Light Used as Non-Surgical Treatment for Epilepsy, Parkinson’s
Scientists at the MIT Media Lab have invented a way to reversibly silence brain cells using pulses of yellow light, offering the prospect of controlling the haywire neuron activity that occurs in diseases such as epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease.
Music Album Sales Shrinking
According to new figures from Nielsen SoundScan, so far in 2007 digital singles are outselling digital albums at a rate of 19 to 1.
Fashion TV Banned in India
India has again banned satellite television channel Fashion TV (FTV), this time for two months, because its programmes were "against good taste" and could affect public morality, the government said on Thursday.
Online Travel Business May Get Bumpy
By any measure, the online travel market has been a huge success, a bellwether sector of the Internet industry. However….
Wouldn’t Your Child Look Much Better With A Tattoo?
Tattoos 4 Toddlers is a new tattoo studio specializing in tattooing children!
Potty In A Briefcase - The Ultimate Time Saver (w/pic)
Even ladder climbing, globe trotting, time strapped corporate executives need to stop and take a break when Mother Nature calls, right? Not anymore. With the Gotta Go Briefcase, executives with an eye for the top don’t need to waste time tending to their bottoms:
