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Cancer Clinical trials Medicine Politics

Smoking and Parkinson’s disease

After the invasion of the smoking cranks last week into the comments of the three posts I somehow ended up doing on the topic of secondhand smoke (SHS), the health dangers it poses, and some of the deceptive quote mining used in the service of trying to discredit studies demonstrating a moderate but real risk […]

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Biology News of the Weird

More bizarreness from Modern Mechanix

Can anyone explain how something like this might have happened? Maybe I lack imagination, but I’m having trouble figuring out a plausible explanation.

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Humor Medicine

How much I’ll be worth when I’m dead…

I’m not sure whether this is reassuring or depressing. $3590.00The Cadaver Calculator – Find out how much your body is worth. From Mingle2 – Free Online Dating Mingle2 – Free Online Dating So…how much is your cadaver worth? (Found via Attuworld.)

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Blogging Humor

Following the crowd one last time…

Yesterday, it was a personality quiz. Today, other ScienceBloggers have been assimilated into the LOL Cat craze. Given that I’ve had a tangential brush with the craze myself in the past when I posted a bunch of LOL Doctor Whos, and because last week was sufficiently serious, with all the posts about secondhand smoke and […]

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Entertainment/culture Music News of the Weird

Talkin’ ’bout my g-g-generation. (Now where did I leave my teeth again?)

What do you get when you mix a bunch of octogenarians and nonagenarians with The Who? You get this: It’s a band called The Zimmers. Members range in age from 69 to 99. I particularly like the mass instrument smashing at the end of the video. I have to admit, however, to the near irresistable […]