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It's World Toilet Day: Celebrate with Squats
In America, we tend to think of squats as exercises, but for the 2.5 billion people worldwide who have no access to toilets, they're practiced for an entirely different reason. About half the world's population has no access to proper sanitation, which puts them at risk for several infectious diseases, including cholera and dysentery, and kills nearly 2 million people annually. At least 5,000 children die from water-related disease every day. READ MORE
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Men, the stereotype goes, are dragged to the altar, fingernails clawing the floor of the church aisle into splinters until the very last step. There may be some truth to that, but once the marriage is underway, the shoe seems to migrate pretty quickly to the other foot. Read More
This weekend, the New York Times Magazine has an article written by Fred Vogelstein, a contributing editor to Wired and father to a young boy with epilepsy. Sam's condition is severe: at one point, the boy was having up to 130 seizures a day and was not responsive to medication. To treat him, the family has put Sam on a special diet: a typical breakfast consists of eggs mixed with heavy cream and served with bacon; lunch is full-fat yogurt mixed with coconut oil; dinner: hot dogs, cheese, nuts, more bacon. Read More
Americans are overstressed — and you probably didn't need a national study [PDF] to tell you that. But the recently released survey — of more than 2,000 adults and 1,100 tweens and teens — by the American Psychological Association finds that the most anxious groups in the country aren't the ones you'd immediately expect.
Girls getting suspended on breast cancer awareness day for wearing breast cancer awareness bracelets? It just seemed so unfair, which is why on Monday, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Pennsylvania filed suit on behalf of two middle- school girls who were suspended for wearing “I ♥ Boobies! (Keep A Breast)" bracelets. Read More
So you care about the environment, and you take a reusable shopping bag with you to the grocery store to avoid polluting the planet with countless plastic sacks. Now you find out your bag is made with potentially harmful lead. What's an environmentalist to do? Read More
SPORT3 days ago
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Number of serious head blows taken by the college football player who experienced the most hits — in a single season. The study, which examined the type and frequency of head impacts by player position in college football in 2007, also found that the average player sustained 14.3 such hits per game, and that quarterbacks were most likely to be blindsided from behind [via Journal of Athletic Training]
In America, we tend to think of squats as exercises, but for the 2.5 billion people worldwide who have no access to toilets, they're practiced for an entirely different reason. About half the world's population has no access to proper sanitation, which puts them at risk for several infectious diseases, including cholera and dysentery, and kills nearly 2 million people annually. At least 5,000 children die from water-related disease every day. Read More
QUOTES3 days ago
"Facebook, and social networks in general, could be a new source of psychological stress, representing a triggering factor for exacerbations in depressed asthmatic individuals."
—DR. GENNARO D'AMATO, an allergist based at the High Speciality Hospital A Cardarelli in Naples, Italy, describing a case study in which a teenager experienced repeated asthma attacks upon viewing his ex-girlfriend befriending other men on Facebook [via ABC News]
The family of a 20-year-old Florida man, who shot and killed himself after binging on the caffeinated malt liquor beverage Four Loko is suing the drink's manufacturer, Phusion Projects, for wrongful death. The family says the drink made their son so manic and erratic that he accidentally shot himself. Does the suit have merit? Read More
Saturday is National Adoption Day. This year, Martin Gill is free to mark the day as the official father to two foster children he’s been raising since a caseworker dropped the boys — a feverish baby and his wary 4-year-old brother, both riddled with ringworm — on his North Miami doorstep six years ago. Read More
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