The creative language that doctors use to insult their patients and each other is in rude health, with the former Baywatch star David Hasselhoff lending his name to one of the latest slang medical terms.
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Hasselhoff Heads New Wave of Medical Slang
Holiday Stress? Don’t get Mad. Don’t Get Even. Make it Public
Ticked Off? Social networking site GoToTheDoghouse.com offers one of the hottest new ways to send someone to the Doghouse.
UFO Debate Invades Politicians’ Space
A debate over flying saucers has kept Japanese politicians occupied for much of this week, ensnaring top officials and drawing a promise from the defense minister to send out the army if Godzilla goes on a rampage
Are You a Cyberchondriac?
First-year medical students are some of the biggest hypochondriacs around. Bombarded with information about every disease under the sun, they start to imagine they have them all.
Private College Nation’s First Carbon-Neutral Campus
Tiny College of the Atlantic, with 300 students and only one major, human ecology, has become the nation’s first "carbon-neutral" campus, school officials said Wednesday.
Humour Comes from Testosterone
Men are naturally more comedic than women because of the male hormone testosterone, an expert claims.
The Seven Great Medical Myths
Reading in dim light won’t damage your eyes, you don’t need eight glasses of water a day to stay healthy and shaving your legs won’t make the hair grow back faster.
National Geographic On Giant Human Hoax
Five years ago, "IronKite" submitted this wonderful photo illustration to a Worth1000.com Photoshop contest on the theme of "Archaeological Anomalies." The powerful picture was transformed into an Internet urban legend about the National Geographic Society’s discovery of the remains of giant humans in India. Several media outlets reported the story as fact. To this day, […]
Mars Could Be In For An Asteroid Hit
A newly discovered hunk of space rock has a 1 in 75 chance of slamming into the Red Planet on Jan. 30, scientists said Thursday.
Poland Opens First Exorcism Center
Poland is planning to open its first ever exorcism centre near the German border.
Dubai Building $1 Billion Robotic Jurassic Park
The idea of Jurassic Park has always intrigued us. After taking the splash on the theme park ride at Universal Studios in Hollywood, we often wondered why a whole theme park couldn’t be created around this idea. And now it is finally happening.
