According to the American Psychological Association's annual stress survey released earlier this week, women are more likely than men to say they lack the willpower to make lifestyle changes to improve their health. But, Helen Coons, director of the Women's Mental Health Center in Philadelphia, says "willpower" is a misleading term because women may really mean they're too exhausted to make changes and think of themselves as being "selfish" if they put their needs ahead of others'. [Newsweek]
A survey of 1,212 doctors published in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that many doctors do unnecessary pap smears, adding to heath care costs. Doctors were asked what screening they'd recommend in various situations and most said they'd give a pap smear to a 35-year-old woman with no history of cervical cancer whose cervix had been removed, which is inconsistent with guidelines from several medical associations. [NY Times]
Scientists reverse engineer HIV, use it to deliver gene to two children that cures them of their neurological disorder. Imma repeat that: scientists have used HIV to insert healthy genes into living children. [MedPage Today]
ganked from jezebel.com & reddit.com
And, now for... uh.... this:
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| User: |  sgtred |
| Date: | 2009-11-06 13:15 |
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| User: | sgtred |
| Date: | 2009-11-06 12:53 |
| Subject: | Fan Fic |
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I would really like Mr. grrm to finish his 5th book so I can finally curl up with it (after re-reading the four before it) over the winter.
Because, winter is coming, dammit.
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"In yet another blow to positive thinking supporters, scientists have found that a bad mood can improve people's memory and judgment, and make them less reliant on stereotypes."
[Study author Joseph Forgas] added, "positive mood is not universally desirable: people in negative mood are less prone to judgmental errors, are more resistant to eyewitness distortions and are better at producing high-quality, effective persuasive messages."
[jezebel.com]
And...
According to a recent survey from the UK, more than a third of secretaries have been asked to do something that went "beyond the call of duty," including bathing a boss's mother, making curtains, and holding a boss's hand.
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We had a good handful of trick or treaters come to the house before we set off to do our adult antics.
Gregg even put a bunch of wannabe-healthy fruit roll-ups in the candy bowl mix.
One was quite memorable:
Three kids and their guardian (with a baby strapped to his front) came to the door.
I held out the bowl of candy to let them go for it.
Healthy conscious Dad (or whatever) exclaimed, "grab a fruit-rollup!"
So, the little girl, about 4 or 5 years old, grabbed ALL of them and shoved them deep in her bag!
Horrified, Dad-type-person exclaimed, "OMG! Put some back!!"
Acknowledging that she took too many, Little Girl replied, "I can't find them now."
Dad-brother-what?: further horrified, perplexed and apologized to me profusely.
Me: laughing my ass off so hard I decided she could keep her bag of lies. I nearly dropped the candy bowl and they probably thought I was drunk or high, so they high-tailed it out of there.
Little Girl needs to be lawyer or a con artist.
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| User: | junya |
| Date: | 2009-10-30 23:33 |
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| Mood: |  uncomfortable | | Music: | Mysterons - Portishead |
My biological father, whom I haven't spoken to in almost 25 years now, has apparently been diagnosed with ALS.
I have no idea how to feel about this.
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Does math have big scary teeth or something?
Over and over, I heard people say, "I can't do this stuff. I'm just not a computer person." Now to some extent, this is true. These people were born before the Internet and the PC revolution, and their fear of the technology WAS a stumbling block. But the bigger stumbling block seemed to be that these folks couldn't handle basic problem solving.
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| User: | sgtred |
| Date: | 2009-10-30 16:25 |
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Pay problem parents not to breed - mayor
AN outspoken Kiwi politician has proposed a new solution to the country's child abuse problem - pay the "appalling underclass" not to breed.
So amazingly crass... a seeming impossibility for an elected politician.
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| User: | sgtred |
| Date: | 2009-10-30 11:29 |
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For your movie cliché list:
http://imagechan.com/images/52f12d2acd0a7040d119f42d0c2e8d41.png
:D
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