A recent study published in the May/June 2012 issue of General Dentistry, the peer-reviewed clinical journal of the Academy of General Dentistry, found that an alarming increase in the consumption of sports and energy drinks, especially among adolescents, is causing irreversible damage to teeth...
'Brain freeze' is a nearly universal experience - almost everyone has felt the near-instantaneous headache brought on by a bite of ice cream or slurp of ice-cold soda on the upper palate. However, scientists are still at a loss to explain this phenomenon. Since migraine sufferers are more likely...
Dennis Leary once said he did a stand-up routine but left out or mispronounced a word that was crucial to the story and consequently no one laughed after his 5 minute story. What was it?
A commonly used insecticide, and possibly an increasingly widely used form of that pesticide, could be causing bee colony collapse. It is not 100% certain that this pesticide causes this problem, but there is a very good chance of a relationship. From the paper's abstract:
Nonlethal exposure...
A two-year study of high school football players suggests that concussions are likely caused by many hits over time and not from a single blow to the head, as commonly believed. Purdue University researchers have studied football players for two seasons at Jefferson High School in Lafayette...
What would we do without the media making people wary of exercise? Today, Matt Lauer interviewed Jane Fonda about her new workout videos targeting baby boomers. But instead of focusing on how great it is that Fonda is offering something to help keep aging women and men healthy, strong and...
Except for murder, slavery has got to be one of the most immoral things a person can do. Yet slavery is rampant throughout the Bible in both the Old and New Testaments. The Bible clearly approves of slavery in many passages, and it goes so far as to tell how to obtain slaves, how hard you can...
Julie McCabe, 38-year-old a wife and mother in England, has been in a coma for three weeks, caused by what's believed to be an allergic reaction to L'Oreal hair dye. Just minutes after applying the dye—which she'd used before in the past—she collapsed and stopped breathing; now doctors give her...
DNA adducts caused by carcinogens in tobacco smoke are:
A) Breaks in the DNA molecule that our cells can't repair
B) Molecules that are covalently bonded to RNA transcripts that cause
mutation in cell regulatory proteins
C) Molecules that bind to nucleotides that can lead to mutation
D)...
...favors by govt to big business), then why? ...would you want to give the government MORE power to grant favors to favored big businesses?
Dodd-Frank, for example, gives unelected government bureaucrats the power to determine who is and who is not "too big to fail." In other words, they have...
I accidentally closed the lid of my macbook while listening to music with my visualizer on iTunes. After opening it, these tiny dots started appearing in darker areas as well as whenever something is moving on my screen. Here is a screenshot of what is going on...
A battle that brews in the mother's womb between the father's biological goal to produce the biggest, healthiest baby possible vs. the mother's need to live through delivery might help explain preeclampsia, an often deadly disease of pregnancy. The fetus must be big enough to thrive, yet small...
...details? I have a Blue Ray player on my computer, (desktop)
and last night i was watching Transformers. It was working fine for most of the movie.
Now i have had this happen before but never to the extent it did last night.
I dont know if its the computer, the Blue Ray player or the movie...
Adhesive capsulitis, sometimes described as "frozen shoulder," is a condition where the connective tissue around the shoulder joint becomes chronically inflamed, causing thickening and tightening in the affected joint. Diagnosing adhesive capsulitis can be difficult because its symptoms -...
This has been going on for awhile now and I don't know what it is. People say it's because I have dry airways, but I am constantly drinking and hydrated.Steamy showers and tea don't work either. What should I do, and am I wrong about what I think it is?