Doctors admit to giving too much medical care to their patients.
Nearly half of doctors believe their patients are getting too much medical attention, but they’d love to compare notes with other physicians, according to a survey published on Monday.
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Urban Station in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Co-working spaces may be for you if you are tired of working at Starbucks. They’ve been mushrooming over the last few years, and not only in the US. Cool co-working spaces have also opened in most Latin American cities, and there’s more to come. Here are eleven Latin American co-working spaces:
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Groupon launches Groupon Goods.
On Wednesday, Groupon launched its online retail arm Groupon Goods for its American subscribers, moving beyond daily group discounts to compete with leaders like Amazon Inc.
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Is Wi-Fi the new spy eye?
Neal Patwari of the University of Utah discovered that breathing affects Wi-Fi signal strength. Chest expansion during a breath bends the wireless signals and they lose some power. This slight drop can be measured and used to calculate your breathing rate.
Measuring someone’s breathing rate is helpful, but the use of this technology as a spy tool is where things get interesting…
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Men who regularly complain of ‘man-flu’ may not be exaggerating after all.
For centuries women have been labeled as the weaker sex. But when it comes to the battlefield of illness and infections, women are far more robust than their male counterparts.
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‘Sleep memory’ is a new, previously undefined form of memory.
According to a study by researchers at Michigan State University, even after people have gone to bed for the night their brains can carry on processing information thanks to a “separate form of memory” that processes the day’s events.
A federal study concluded in 2008, certain states have higher incidence rates of sleeplessness than others.
Functioning on a few hours of sleep isn’t just miserable, it’s dangerous, as recent news has suggested. Several air-traffic controllers were caught sleeping on the job last month, prompting the FAA to fire a few. Recent studies have proven that sleep deprivation can make people more unethical, less attractive, and can weaken problem-solving skills.
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Cayce Zavaglia took hand embroidery to the next level with her thread paintings. The detail is amazing. (Pics)
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Elvy Musikka, 72, displays her marijuana cigarettes, which she regularly receives from the U.S. Government.
On a moonlit highway in rural Oregon, sometime after midnight a state trooper is checking a car he has just pulled over. In the car he finds less than an ounce of pot on one passenger. That passenger is a 72-year-old woman blind in one eye.
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Drinking that depression away.
For many women, the mood-elevating effects of a cup of coffee may be more than fleeting. A new study shows that women who regularly drink coffee – the fully caffeinated kind – have a 20 percent lower risk of depression than nondrinkers. Decaf, soft drinks, chocolate, tea and other sources of caffeine did not offer the same protection against depression, possibly because of their lower levels of caffeine…
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Did you ever wonder?
The Visible Barbie Project is part of the Foundation for Unnatural Research’s long-range plan for advancing the state of human knowlege of things that no normal person would ever think to wonder about.
The project began with the acquisition of a suitable marked-down subject at a nearby toy store and ended approximately six hours later, not including the time required to pick out the bits of hair that got stuck in the bandsaw.
The cause of the subject’s markdown was unknown, but we didn’t care; all that mattered was that the gross physical anatomy of the body was intact…
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Art or not art?
Culture officials in Rome are mulling a ban on “living statues”, arguing that dressing up in costume and standing on the street to solicit spare change has no artistic merit.
“Living statues demonstrate no artistic activity, to the extent that they can’t be compared to mimes, and they amount to a veritable racket,” said Federico Mollicone, deputy culture chief in Rome’s mayorship…
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