I love out of the box thinking, and here is a person who took a complicated process and simplified it enough that I’d almost call it revolutionary. Michelle Khine arrived at the University of California’s brand-new Merced campus in 2006 eager. She was experimenting with tiny liquid-filled channels in hopes of devising chip-based diagnostic tests, [...]
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Young Chinese girl deafened by excessive kissing A young Chinese woman was left partially deaf following a passionate kiss from her boyfriend. The 20-something from Zhuhai in Guangdong province arrived at hospital having completely lost the hearing in her left ear, said local reports. The incident prompted a series of articles in the local media [...]
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I’m sure if you thought about this title, people like Michael Jackson would come to mind. But I swear this doesn’t look like one too many surgeries and ears falling off. This is a story of someone who was given a needle and told how who went too far on herself. Cosmetic surgery addict injected [...]
The finding that women who do not use condoms during sex are less depressed and less likely to attempt suicide than are women who have sex with condoms and women who are not sexually active, leads one researcher to conclude that semen contains powerful-and potentially addictive-mood-altering chemicals.Study author Gordon G. Gallup, Ph.D., a psychologist at [...]
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After all the complaints. After all the excuses on why sales haven’t been good. At least some good news has come out on the PS3 front: Sony Computer Entertainment have trumpeted its participation in the medical research project Folding@home. The Stanford University distributed computing project is part of research into understanding protein folding and diseases [...]
As regular readers know, about two years ago I lost my ability to speak. The problem is called spasmodic dysphonia (SD). This update is primarily for the benefit of the other people with SD. Many of you asked about my experience and for any advice. The rest of you will find this post too detailed. [...]
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Women who suffer from an allergy to sex with men can mercifully be treated, according to a revealing report on LiveScience. The allergic reaction is apparently to proteins from the prostate gland, which can cause “itching, burning and swelling in the genitals”, or the victim might suffer “hives or swelling … elsewhere on the body [...]
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Fans of abstinence had better be sitting down. “Saving yourself” before the big game, the big business deal, the big hoedown or the big bakeoff may indeed confer some moral benefit. But corporeally it does absolutely zip. There’s no evidence it sharpens your competitive edge. The best that modern science can say for sexual abstinence [...]
Seriously… I’ve heard of some strange shit. And this supposedly is common world wide. But if it is, why is this the only article I found with a quick search? What am I talking about? Take one person… feed them a lot, and don’t have them move from where they are sitting on a couch. [...]
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