20 percent of scientists polled by Nature Magazine use either ritalin (66 percent of users), provigil or beta blockers (this was just an April Fool’s Day joke)
Republicans boo latest addition to the U.S. Congress - Jackie Speier (D-CA).
“The process to bring the troops home must begin immediately,” she told Pelosi. “The president wants to stay the course and a man who wants to replace him suggests we could be in Iraq for 100 years. But Madam Speaker, history will not judge us kindly if we sacrifice four generations of Americans because of the folly of one.”
She’s not particularly different from other democrats, so why the hostile reception? If anything, her life is just tragic.
including parts for F-14 fighter jets, unused chemical-biological canister and a used Nuclear Biological Chemical protective suit, all stolen from the Department of Defense, of course.
“I will make a commitment that Al Gore will be at the table and play a central part in us figuring out how we solve this [climate change] problem,” Barack Obama said today. [CNN Political Ticker]
I wonder if he’d ask Gore to head the EPA. Wouldn’t that be a major change for environmental health?
This latest information from CNN adopts a slightly different tone from MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann’s ramble a few nights ago. The credulous Olbermann spent considerable time supposing a Gore victory in the democratic primary — as if it were in any way acceptable for delegates to throw away popular opinion and vote for someone who is not even running for office.
“If it goes into the convention,” said Representative Tim Mahoney (D-FL) last week, “don’t be surprised if someone different is at the top of the ticket.” [The Daily Mail]
“What? Does Olbermann smoke crack?” In the words of my friend, “Not a single democrat would be happy about that.”
Joey Chestnut broke the world record by eating 59 1/2 hot dogs in July 2007 Despite all the media hype around the high-protein Adkins diet, a new study from Ohio State University found that protein deficiency causes weight loss in mice. The scientists crossbred mice deficient in protein and fat mice, commonly used in obesity research.
The result was smaller and leaner mice that lost weight while eating up to 30% more food. Despite their genetic propensity for obesity, the mice lost weight while eating more food. (more…)
McCain wants the US to stay in Iraq for 100 years. We all know the price of this war is driving down social services for everyone, but the US citizens who pay the biggest price are the soldiers and their families.
Already the US has 25 million veterans. Of just the Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans, there will be an estimated 300,000 thousands cases of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
The cost of treatment could be as much as $600 billion, and law makers are excited about new research that shows great potential in treating PTSD: ecstasy (MDMA).
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)-funded researchers developed a nasal spray of a brain peptide, Hypocretin-1 (orexin A), that stimulates wakefulness. Previous studies have shown this effect of Hypocretin-1 on other animals, such as rats, but this latest study looked at nonhuman primates (rhesus monkeys) and at a new nasal spray administration method. The researchers found that sleep deprived monkeys (30-36h) who received Hypocretin-1 performed better on short-term memory tasks, which are measures of the effects of sleep deprivation, than sleep deprived monkeys who did not receive the drug. When given Hypocretin-1, sleep deprived monkeys preformed about as well as non-sleep-deprived monkeys. Hypocretin-1 also removed all visible signs of sleepy minds in PET scans. Basically, it countered the effects of sleep deprivation. (more…)
McCain wants the US to stay in Iraq for 100 years. We all know the price of this war is driving down social services for everyone, but the US citizens who pay the biggest price are the soldiers and their families.
