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A law against serving food to fat people?

Posted in Law, STFU, nanny state, politics, unusual behaviors, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on February 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »

In one of the most bizarre lawmaker acts ever, Mississippi legislators seek to stop any restaurant – which requires a state health permit and has more than five seats – from serving food to obese customers.
From The Smoking Gun:
FEBRUARY 1–Mississippi legislators this week introduced a bill that would make it illegal for state-licensed restaurants to [...]

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Cool quote

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on February 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

“The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”  – Robert Frost

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How the media messes with your mind

Posted in Science, media, tagged , , , , , , , , , on February 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

From Scientific American:
In 2003 nearly half of all Americans falsely assumed that the U.S. government had found solid evidence for a link between Iraq and al Qaeda. What is more, almost a quarter of us believed that investigators had all but confirmed the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, according to a 2003 [...]

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Are we literally running out of time?

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From The Daily Galaxy:
Remember a little thing called the space-time continuum? Well what if the time part of the equation was literally running out? New evidence is suggesting that time is slowly disappearing from our universe, and will one day vanish completely. This radical new theory may explain a cosmological mystery that has baffled scientists [...]

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Alzheimer’s treatment on the horizon?

Posted in Science, health, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »

From The Independent:
Scientists performing experimental brain surgery on a man aged 50 have stumbled across a mechanism that could unlock how memory works.
The accidental breakthrough came during an experiment originally intended to suppress the obese man’s appetite, using the increasingly successful technique of deep-brain stimulation. Electrodes were pushed into the man’s brain and stimulated with [...]

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Smoking a joint is equal to smoking an entire pack of cigarettes

Posted in Science, War On Drugs, health, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on February 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »

From Yahoo News:
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Smoking a joint is equivalent to 20 cigarettes in terms of lung cancer risk, scientists in New Zealand have found, as they warned of an “epidemic” of lung cancers linked to cannabis.
Studies in the past have demonstrated that cannabis can cause cancer, but few have established a strong [...]

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Bush/Cheney to finally be indicted on war crimes?

Posted in human rights abuses, impeachment, politics, terrorism, torture, war, war crimes, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on February 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »

From SNAFU-ed:
Brattleboro, Vermont calls itself the place “Where It Can ALL Happen!” That appears to include a possible indictment of Bush and Cheney on war crimes. A petition with the required number of signatures was presented to the Brattleboro Selectboard on January 25th, and they voted 3-2 to place the measure on the ballot.
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Don’t leave anything unattended at Goodwill

Posted in Shine on you crazy diamond, humor, personal responsibility, tagged , , , , , , on February 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

A 13-year-old and his friends were used to parking their bicycles unlocked inside a local Goodwill store in Salem, Oregon (I have no idea why they did that, the article didn’t say). However, when he came back to get his black BMX last Sunday, he found that Goodwill had sold it for a measly [...]

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