One day certified nursing assistant Brenda Chaney was on duty in an Indiana nursing when she discovered a patient lying on the floor, unable to stand. But Chaney couldn’t help the woman. She had to search for a white nursing aide because the woman on the floor had left instructions that she did not want [...]
Medical science can show us x-rays featuring objects not considered normal to show up when going in for that check-up. And if you are unfortunate enough to personally have x-rays like this, they aren’t the kind of photos to post on your Facebook page, showing all of your friends and co-workers how: (1) Stupid you [...]
Turns out that tall people lead better lives, so say scientists that polled more than 454,000 adults. These folks were polled via telephone and asked about their height and how they viewed their lives. Reporting in the journal Economics and Human Biology, the scientists found that taller people judged their lives more favorably and overall [...]
Tell me if you’ve heard this one before. 18 year old Kimberley Vlaminck strolled into a tattoo parlor in Belgium to get three tasteful stars on her face. Supposedly she fell asleep in the chair of tattoo artist, Rouslan Toumaniantz, only to wake up to 56 stars on her face! Now she’ll have to spend [...]
So last week, Holly opined on a public service announcement from the town of Leister. They had a rather dramatic way of letting teens know that teen pregnancy isn’t all that its cracked up to be. Come to find out that dramatizing health issues is their stock and trade in Leister as evidenced by this [...]
Mark Twain once said, “Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.” If that’s true, then maybe there is hope for China. The world’s most populous nation is also the world’s largest cigarette producer. While they export some, most of that is for the [...]
Six German states have ordered retailers to stop selling Red Bull Cola after an analysis found .4 micrograms (1/2500 of a milligram) of cocaine in one liter of the drink. Well, sort of cocaine. It does come from the cocoa plant but it’s a “non-active degradation product” according to Fritz Soergel of the Institute for Biomedical and [...]
The City Council of Leister (that’s in the U.K. for the geographically challenged), in an effort to curb teen pregnancy has produced and posted a viral video. The spot ends with,“Not what you expected?… Being a teenage parent might not be either.” I think this would have a bit more credibility if it didn’t take [...]
Anger has been the theme of the last few posts, so let’s flip to the other side and investigate love. Somewhere in Europe, scientists have determined that the time needed for a man to fall in love at first sight is 8.2 seconds. The longer a man’s gaze rests on a woman when they meet [...]
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