The latest study is in, and homeopathy is no better than a placebo. Interestingly enough, placebos can be remarkably effective. But you have to believe in them, which is my problem, because I'm pretty skeptical.
No, really, I think Intelligent Falling Theory should be taught alongside the theory of gravity in physics classes. Teach the controversy!
People (not me) may be addicted to tanning.
I seem to remember reading something very similar almost twenty years ago about tanning releasing endorphins, but according to this release the sun/endorphins link isn't fully substantiated.
It appears the secret to happiness isn't having money. It's
having more
money than the people you know. So, I guess, the secret to happiness is
hanging out with really, really poor people. Like Mother Theresa did. I think
this makes it very clear. If you have more money than your friends, it is important
to spend money on your friends so they will continue to like spending time with
you. Buy them drinks, expensive cheeses, that sort of thing.
Especially if they are cartoonists.
It's important to remember that some 15 year old boys drive as badly as some 85 year olds:
RENTON -- A pickup truck driven by a 15-year-old boy crashed into an apartment living room, landing on top of a pregnant woman who had been lying on her couch, police said. The teen apparently thought the truck was in reverse, but when he hit the gas, the truck lurched forward, went over a cement parking barrier, down a 20-foot embankment, and then crashed through a sliding glass door into the 28-year-old woman's apartment.
...managers of the Seattle Weekly confirmed they blocked the paper's Web site from staffers of their bitter rival, The Stranger. To hear the Weekly's publisher, Terry Coe, tell it, the paper's business managers began to receive complaints -- "several, at least four," he offered -- from classified advertisers that they had begun to receive solicitations from The Stranger's advertising sales representatives. At The Stranger's Capitol Hill digs, publisher Tim Keck said it wasn't a spam fight at all but instead a tiny, semi-funny practical joke. The Stranger, Keck explained, recently discovered that Coe had placed a long-running classified ad to sell his own Elan skis. "Someone told me he's been trying to sell those skis a long time," Keck said with a laugh. "So we decided to post the same ad on our Web site to see if we could sell the skis for him since he was having no luck on (the Weekly's) site. "We got responses and forwarded them along to him." The humorless reaction, Keck claims: The Weekly blocked all Internet Protocol addresses, called IPs, originating from The Stranger. "We got our access yanked," he said, adding that he called the Weekly to find out why his staff was blocked.
