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Category Archives: Health
Your Pelvic Floor
News some of you can use.
Cancer
I’m skeptical that these researchers have found a total cure (for one thing, it’s too many different things), but it would nice if it were true. I suspect that this is just a fundraising announcement, though.
From Brain Waves
…to synthesized speech. This could be a huge breakthrough for people locked in (one of my personal nightmares).
Alzheimer’s
Caused by gum disease? This is huge, if true. A vaccine against both gum disease and Alzheimer’s would be an amazing health breakthrough.
[Friday-afternoon update]
Oh, well…
.@newscientist: This headline is irresponsible. The study was performed mostly in mice, and the evidence in humans is indirect and flimsy. https://t.co/B2GmKAgSmt
— Nsikan Akpan (@MoNscience) January 25, 2019
Lab-Grown Meat
Does it have a future? Maybe, but it’s a tough roe to how for now.
Eating Fatbergs
Here’s a yucky sewer story, but it doesn’t answer the first question that came to mind as I was reading it: What do these bacteria excrete?
Technological Progress
…and the global sex recession.
As the machines get better, this is just going to get worse.
Overrated Restaurants
A top six.
I’ve never had Papa John’s, or Chipotle’s and it’s been years since I ate at an Olive Garden, but that’s Patricia’s complaint, too (she used to have a boss who loved to go there for lunch). I concur on the fries at In’n’Out. I like Chick-fil-A, but don’t worship it. I only go to Cracker Barrel for breakfast (and rarely — there are none in LA of which I’m aware, and we have better chain places here, like the Black Bear Diner).
But I don’t eat out much in general unless I’m traveling, because it’s terrible both for your budget and from a nutritional standpoint. Unless it’s some kind of exotic cuisine, I can cook much cheaper and healthier at home, and don’t have to endure the noise of restaurants. The notion of going out for a steak seems absurd to me.
[Late-afternooon update]
Sorry, here’s the link.
Toxic Anti-Masculinity
Thoughts on the need for both masculinity and femininity from a (female) psychotherapist.
And Kurt Schlichter writes that we need to retoxify it.
[Update a while later]
Heh. Least masculine society in human history is concerned about “toxic masculinity.”
And this will be fun: Harvard could be sued under Title IX for calling traditional masculinity “harmful.”