Student groups at USC hosted a “consent carnival” last Thursday that included an obstacle course of sexual consent, — likened to “a bouncy house.” Source: USC ‘Consent Carnival’ Features Bouncy House of Sex – Breitbart
A YouGov poll published this past September found Americans almost evenly divided, with 44 percent favoring legalization of prostitution, and 46 percent opposed. That’s up from 38 percent support for legalization in 2012. Amnesty International is among the organizations seeking to recognize people’s right to, in the organization’s words, “the full decriminalization of all aspects… Read More »
Leni Loving, Narratively Source: My secret sex-work past – Salon.com
Officials in Dallas reported that a patient with Zika virus was infected after having sex with an ill individual who had returned from a country where Zika was circulating. Source: Zika Infection Transmitted by Sex Reported in Texas – The New York Times
‘I have done what I pleased,” H G Wells once wrote, “so that every bit of sexual impulse in me has expressed itself. I am a very immoral person. I have preyed on people who loved me.” This may shock readers who think of Wells as a science fiction guru, the author of such influential… Read More »
Eating at least one serving of seafood a week could help stave off Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study. A strong case has been building for the role that omega-3 fatty acids found in fish could play in protecting against Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. But questions remained about whether these benefits could be… Read More »
Last December, the United States joined 194 other countries in signing the first ever agreement to address climate change. While the delegates in Paris were tinking wine glasses over the 12-page agreement, politicians in Washington were grumbling about how bad the deal was for America. Those grumbles continued today in a hearing of the House… Read More »
The Miami-Dade police officer pulled over by a civilian for allegedly speeding, the scene captured on video that has now gone viral, was identified Monday as Daniel Fonticiella, a former Hammocks District officer who now works at PortMiami. Police released little other information on Fonticiella — like his age or years of service with the… Read More »
A comprehensive review, which has sifted through data from 70 trials of the most popular drugs for the treatment of depression, shows that antidepressants may up risk of suicide, aggression. Study authors also found that big pharmas often fail to report critical side-effects of their products along with drug-related deaths. The review found that antidepressants… Read More »
The advice changes all the time The advice changes all the time Are the official dietary guidelines useful to average Americans? I’m not so sure. Every five years, numerous dietary experts are tasked with putting together a summary of the most up-to-date nutritional science. Their end product is intended to be a series of dietary… Read More »
Six Foods Bill Marler Never Eats Posted By Bill Marler on January 23, 2016 Unpasteurized (“raw”) milk and packaged juices. Unpasteurized milk, sometimes called “raw” milk, can be contaminated with bacteria, viruses and parasites. Between 1998 and 2011, there were 148 food poisoning outbreaks linked to raw milk and raw milk products in the US—and… Read More »
It’s difficult to keep a conspiracy under wraps, scientists say, because sooner or later, one of the conspirators will blow its cover. Source: Maths study shows conspiracies ‘prone to unravelling’ – BBC News
An Indiana principal reportedly pushed students out of the way of an oncoming bus before she herself was struck Tuesday. Susan Jordan died at the scene after a school bus jumped a curb, killing her and injuring two children. The bus driver told firefighters that she’s not sure why the bus jumped the curb, but… Read More »
Six Cleveland police officers have been fired in connection with a November 2012 car chase that ended with officers firing 137 bullets at a car, killing Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams, said Detective Steve Loomis, president of the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association. Loomis identified the officers as Wilfredo Diaz, Brian Sabolik, Erin O’Donnell, Michael Farley,… Read More »
A 2010 article published in Oncology Reports states pancreatic cancer is among the most aggressive forms of human cancer, characterized by a very high mortality rate. It represents the fourth leading cause of cancer death in United States, killing 32,000 people annually. With a 5-year survival rate of only 3 percent and a median survival… Read More »
Imagine being charged with a DUI when it’s been hours since you’ve had a drink, only to later discover that your body brews its own alcohol. That’s what happened to an upstate New York woman when she blew a blood alcohol level more than four times the legal limit. Just before Christmas in Hamburg, New… Read More »
For decades, scientists believed that excess body fat was mere storage for unused calories. However, research conducted over the past 20 years suggests added fat is more than a little extra cushion—fat cells are actually “toxic factories,” each one producing inflammatory cytokines (chemical messengers of inflammation) throughout the body and causing potentially serious damage to… Read More »
The mosquito-borne Zika virus, which has been linked to brain damage in thousands of babies in Brazil, is likely to spread to all countries in the Americas except for Canada and Chile, the World Health Organization said on Monday. Zika transmission has not yet been reported in the continental United States, although a woman who… Read More »
Monthly Archives: June 2014 Beren Ataç, Gerd Lindner, Roland Lauster Dr. Gerd Lindner and Dr. Beren Ataç June 28, 2014 3 Comments Desmond just sent me an e-mail with the below summary of an interview that he conducted with Dr. Gerd Lindner (who works with Dr. Roland Lauster) and his PhD candidate student (now doctor?) Beren Ataç at… Read More »
Getting too little sleep during the week can increase some risk factors for diabetes, but sleeping late on weekends might help improve the picture, a small U.S. study suggests. Researchers conducted a sleep experiment with 19 healthy young men and found just four nights of sleep deprivation were linked to changes in their blood suggesting… Read More »
Early markers of heart disease are worse with depressive symptoms, but that association was lessened or eliminated with regular physical activity, an observational study showed. Higher Beck Depression Inventory-II scores correlated with more inflammation as indicated by C-reactive protein levels (P<0.001), more oxidative stress assessed by lower antioxidant glutathione (P<0.001), and poorer vascular function measured… Read More »
A clinicaPatricia Simpson l trial will use freeze-dried poop pills to determine whether or not a fecal transplant can help obese patients lose weight. Fecal transplants are not as disgusting as one might imagine they’d be — they actually involve taking pills filled with freeze-dried fecal matter. Taking these pills can help change the communty… Read More »
Otzi the Iceman, a famously well-preserved Copper Age man found in the Alps in 1991, has given researchers a lot of insight into how our ancestors lived. The long-dead man’s clothing, tools, manner of death, and even tattoos have given us a peek at how life was 5,300 years ago – or how it was… Read More »
Stereotyping is a necessary evil. Stereotyping simplifies complex information so our brains can easily understand it, reducing the amount of processing we go through when seeing or meeting new people That said, it also causes us to generalize. If we see one hipster drinking PBR and wearing an “Everyone loves Grandpa!” T-shirt, our brain is… Read More »
Obama: Time to Disarm Americans so they’ll die faster, Islamists, gun control, Source: Obama: Time to Disarm Americans so they’ll die faster
A $5 million lawsuit against Apple seeks to hold the company responsible for making the still-perfectly good iPhone 4s obsolete. The perpetrator, according to the lawsuit, is a misleading and harmful iOS software update, which Apple claimed would improve performance and security, in addition to other alluring improvements, on all devices, Apple Insider reported. And… Read More »
Source: College Professor Allegedly Told Teaching Assistants To Sleep With – News aggregator IdealMedia – all the top stories
The total number of people using drugs in Portugal has actually fallen by more than a third since the country began focusing on treatment programs instead of punishment. In 2001, critics worried that drug addiction rates would skyrocket, but not only have they come down, heroin addiction rates have been cut in half. HIV infections,… Read More »
What Deters is describing is the basic function of every police department across the country. Everyone from the street cops to the mayor depends on drivers being extorted for traffic violations. It’s what pays their salaries. Arlington Heights, OH — For years, locals knew that the stretch of road running through the village of Arlington… Read More »
Hughes explains that potassium rich foods generate alkali and that bone is the great reservoir for the storage of alkali. Alkali is needed to counteract acid produced by protein rich foods such as meat, poultry, fish or dairy products. She adds that if the body gets more acid than it can excrete, it breaks down… Read More »
Seventy years ago this year World War II came to an end. Alongside the collective sigh of relief in Allied countries that the most brutal war humanity had ever witnessed was over, there was as well a sense of disbelief at the sight of the concentration camps, the existence of which to be sure had… Read More »
Model and actress Pamela Anderson will appear on the cover of the final nude issue of Playboy, her 14th cover for the magazine. Source: Pamela Anderson’s Playboy covers – UPI.com
A growing number of women and men say they are bisexual, according to the latest national survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As awareness about bisexuality has grown over the years, it could be getting easier for people to label themselves as bisexual, said Debby Herbenick, associate professor at Indiana University and… Read More »
Don’t pay too much attention to the raw numbers. Focus instead on what the trends mean for you. Source: Here’s How Much The Average American Made Last Year, by Age and Sex — The Motley Fool
Antibiotics make C. diff infection easier because of their effects on bile acid and bacteria living in the gut, according to new research. Bacteria in the gut are involved in many of the body’s functions, from the creation of neurons in the brain to regulating chemicals that help break food down. Scientists at North Carolina… Read More »
The virus you likely never heard of is steadily marching north from Brazil. It’s Zika, spread by Aedes mosquitoes. It’s a flavivirus related to yellow fever, West Nile, Chikungunya, and dengue. The latest two that hit the U.S., Chikungunya and dengue, are painful and bad enough—and dengue can kill people […] The virus you likely… Read More »
A team of researchers plans to figure out why this happens In recent years, scientists have made small steps towards understanding the relationship between sleep and Alzheimer’s disease. Now, researchers from Oregon Health & Science University in Portland may soon illuminate the connection—they are launching the first experiment of its kind that will study a… Read More »
small study suggests that for adolescents, their number of Facebook friends may be related to their stress levels, with more than 300 friends associated with higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol. The study only included 88 participants at one point in time, so it can’t indicate whether changes in Facebook metrics cause an… Read More »
Prosecutors say the former Suffolk County police chief should be denied bail Friday because he’s a danger to the community for a long-running pattern of behavior that includes beating a prisoner who snatched sex toys and pornographic videos from his SUV and covering up the crime. They plan to argue against bail for James Burke,… Read More »
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (UPI) — A pesticide used by farmers until it was banned for commercial sale in the United States in 1988 was linked to the development of Parkinson’s disease in people who consumed it in milk, researchers reported in a new study. Previous studies have suggested milk could increase the risk for Parkinson’s,… Read More »
There are multiple ways to determine if that carton of milk in your fridge should be thrown out (smell test, taste test or just checking the “sell-by” date). But what’s the best way to figure out if your food should be tossed or saved? “Sell-by” dates may seem like an easy way to tell when… Read More »
Narcissists are bred, not born, by parents who tell them they are superior to others and deserve special treatment. Source: How parents create narcissistic children – The Washington Post
A new study shows that the happiness of a first-time parent falls after the baby arrives. That may be why so many don’t end up having a second. Source: It turns out parenthood is worse than divorce, unemployment — even the death of a partner – The Washington Post
The researchers say the belief that unhappiness and stress directly cause ill health “came from studies that had simply confused cause and effect.” Source: Happiness won’t help you live longer (but unhappiness won’t kill you either) – The Washington Post
Scientists keep discovering more information about how vitamin D, which is the only one the body produces by exposing the skin to sunlight, can affect our health. Source: Vitamin D helps boost testosterone levels in men
The debate over vitamin D3 and what it can or can’t do in the body has taken a positive spin. Using biopsies of actual tissues samples, scientists in the UK have documented actual regeneration or repairs in muscle fibers. Source: Study says vitamin D3 may speed up recovery process | KSL.com
A drug that’s commonly used to treat diabetes may hold the secret to longevity, according to a recent study. Source: Miracle Drug Metformin May Hold Longevity Secrets : Health & Medicine : Science World Report
What do you get when you cross half an arachnid and an electric car? It’s called the SwinCar, and it is French, fully electric, and completely awesome. Source: Could the SwinCar Revolutionize Electric Off-Roading? – JK-Forum
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Balcony Scene (Or Unseen) Atop the World; Episode at Trade Center Assumes Mythic Qualities By SHAILA K. DEWAN Published: August 18, 2001 The affair of the balcony ended, if indeed it ever began, with the appearance in July of a slender book of curious title, obtainable in very few places, one of them being an art… Read More »