This is funny!
mental_floss magazine – Where Knowledge Junkies Get Their Fix
Month: April 2007
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Alcohol, Tobacco Worse than Pot, Ecstasy
In research published in The Lancet, Professor David Nutt of Britain’s Bristol University and colleagues proposed a new framework for the classification of harmful substances, based on the actual risks posed to society. Their ranking listed alcohol and tobacco among the top 10 most dangerous substances.
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Wear your seatbelts!
Kevin, M.D. – Medical Weblog: Wear your seatbelts
They typically don’t wear them here. And you always see the head bump on the windshield!
Lots of rollovers of the Japanese SUVs.
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Kuwait Weather
The weather remains unsettled and nicely not too hot.
Here is some of the rain that we had on the weekend. And quite the lightning also in the sky and saw some incredible bolts.
Click here to see a Quicktime movie of the rain pouring down in front of our place. And how do you like the pink place across the way! And our little garden.
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Man races world’s fastest cat
Man races world’s fastest cat – CNN.com
- On a South African track, a rugby star takes on the world’s fastest land mammal
- The cheetah can reach a top speed of 70 mph
- Event was to raise awareness for the cheetah as a threatened species
- Cheetah numbers in wild have been in sharp decline for 100 years
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Healthful Chocolate
Healthful Chocolate – washingtonpost.com
German scientists reviewed a number of studies on different substances containing polyphenols, compounds that seem to have salubrious effects on the human cardiovascular system. They found that, contrary to some assertions, black and green tea appear to have no marked effect on blood pressure. Cocoa-rich diets, on the other hand, had lowered both systolic and diastolic blood pressure in study subjects after only two weeks.