The M.M.R. vaccine doesn’t cause autism, and the evidence is overwhelming that it doesn’t,” Dr. Ellen Wright Clayton, the chairwoman of the panel, assembled by the Institute of Medicine, said in an interview. She was referring to a combination against measles, mumps and rubella that has long been a focus of concern from some parents’ groups.
The opinion, jointly written by judges Joel Dubina and Frank Hull, said Congress had broad power to deal with the problems of the uninsured, “but what Congress cannot do…is mandate that individuals enter into contracts with private insurance companies for the purchase of an expensive product from the time they are born until the time they die.
Health-Law Mandate Ruled Unconstitutional by Appeals Court. Congress really should consider just making health insurance a government granted, state sponsored right. This is the only part of Obamacare I completely disagree with; forcing people to pay for medical insurance or risk thousands of dollars in penalties defies belief.
If the U.S. government mandated affordable health insurance then people would not think twice about paying for it - it would be a no-brainer and all American citizens would have coverage.
How exactly does blood type personality theory work? According to Nomi’s book, the ABO blood type determines personality, temperament, and compatibility with other people. Specific blood types are characterized by representative traits that can be used to distinguish between different individuals.
What’s Your Blood Type? Very few things annoy me, but I completely despise the generalizations associated with blood typing. The various blood type traits are so generalized that they could be applied to the other types, depending on circumstances and context. The whole thing just reeks of people’s inability to think critically, needing some way to tag people to ostensibly associate their personality traits.
As far as I’m concerned, blood typing is just another way for people to demonstrate their prejudices so they can get away with some form of institutionalized - read: country wide - discrimination.
I’m not quite there yet but if, or probably more appropriately - when, I need reading glasses then these are all mine. They are stylish enough for my taste, plus they are yet another fine Moleskin product. (via Moleskine Unveils Reading Glasses)
They want to “protect life” so much that they have written into the bill a new amendment that would override the requirement that emergency room doctors save every patient, regardless of status or ability to pay. The law would carve out an exception for pregnant women; doctors and hospitals will be allowed to let pregnant women die if interventions to save them will kill the fetus.
This 8 month old baby was born deaf, watch the moment as his cochlear implant is activated and he hears sound for the first time, and his mother’s voice.
The facts of schizophrenia are so peculiar, in fact, that they have led Torrey and a growing number of other scientists to abandon the traditional explanations of the disease and embrace a startling alternative. Schizophrenia, they say, does not begin as a psychological disease. Schizophrenia begins with an infection.
This weekend, when traveling through the airport at Buffalo, NY I happened upon one of those new whole body x-ray scanners. Refusing to be screened that way, I chose for a full body pat-down. Upon gathering up my stuff, I asked one of the screeners if she knew how much radiation she was exposed to each day. She said she did not know and wanted to wear one of the badges that her friend wears at a local hospital, but was told “no,” that would not be permitted. She was upset with that decision.
Why do dentists, doctors, med techs, etc.. who work in other x-ray environments gladly wear these exposure detectors on their clothing but TSA employees do not or cannot?
Maybe the allure for guys is they want to live the life of a male porn star. Hate to say it but they’re not the studs you think they are. Kira says all the men are on Viagra so they can perform. They even have to turn down sex in their personal lives because they have to “save it” for film. That’s crazy talk! That’s like winning the lottery but never being able to spend the money.
Dog bites man. Again and again. And, in doing so, saves his life
A dog bit off a man’s long-infected big toe while he was passed out from a drinking binge. Upon waking, he goes to the hospital, where he is told he has diabetes. The dog apparently ate only diseased tissue. Only one thing smells like bacon…and it’s gangrene!
Oishi - Green Tea - Boobs. WTF? (via Andrew Guyton)
Prolonged Sitting Is Bad, Even When Supplemented with Exercise
Men who spent more than 23 hours a week watching TV and sitting in their cars (as passengers or as drivers) had a 64 percent greater chance of dying from heart disease than those who sat for 11 hours a week or less. What was unexpected was that many of the men who sat long hours and developed heart problems also exercised. Quite a few of them said they did so regularly and led active lifestyles. The men worked out, then sat in cars and in front of televisions for hours, and their risk of heart disease soared, despite the exercise. Their workouts did not counteract the ill effects of sitting.
We’re all dying - it’s just a matter of how long you prolong the inevitable.
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
The Instinctive Drowning Response – so named by Francesco A. Pia, Ph.D., is what people do to avoid actual or perceived suffocation in the water. And it does not look like most people expect. There is very little splashing, no waving, and no yelling or calls for help of any kind. To get an idea of just how quiet and undramatic from the surface drowning can be, consider this: It is the number two cause of accidental death in children, age 15 and under (just behind vehicle accidents) – of the approximately 750 children who will drown next year, about 375 of them will do so within 25 yards of a parent or other adult. In ten percent of those drownings, the adult will actually watch them do it, having no idea it is happening (source: CDC). Drowning does not look like drowning.
Holy. Fucking. Shit. That is one of the scariest articles I have ever ready.
One reason why humans are special and unique: We masturbate. A lot
This conjuring ability to create fantasy scenes in our heads that literally bring us to orgasm when conveniently paired with our dexterous appendages is an evolutionary magic trick that I suspect is uniquely human. It requires a cognitive capacity called mental representation (an internal “re-presentation” of a previously experienced image or some other sensory input) that many evolutionary theorists believe is a relatively recent hominid innovation.
When it comes to sex, we put this capacity to very good—or at least, very frequent—use.
Now you know why you cannot stop masturbating. So much for it being all the pr0n on the internets!
Now you can stop fighting the urge to jerk one out and just act naturally - as Nike would have us all: Just Do It.
