Things That May Only Interest Me

I realize I have been negligent of this blog, but frankly sometimes work must come first. Here are some links to amuse, scare, and keep you awake on a dreary (in Cali) Friday afternoon.

How fast can humans actually run? Is there a limit...evidently, we could potentially get to 40 mph.

Do you get migraines? Do you suffer from depression? There may be a genetic link which means taking drugs or lamenting your existence are unnecessary. In other words, just live with it and take five advil!

It appears that smoking kills, but quitting at any point -- even after getting cancer -- radically improve your life span! Evidently, people who quit smoking after getting lung cancer more than double their chances of living at least five years longer (Here). This is very good news, even if one shouldn't really smoke in the first place; or, for that matter, wait until they contract a terminal illness to quit.

I knew it! Sitting too much can be deadly! Office life be damned...sitting is correlated to fatness, heart disease, and death.

In other news, American public and courts are still trying to wrap their heads around the fact that being gay is rooted in biological causes and not environmental conditions (being a lesbian is a bit more complicated and cloudy). During the Prop 8 hearings an expert witness testified that being gay is not a choice. The fact that there has to be testimony suggests this is disputed scientific knowledge, when it is not. This would be like the courts asking an astronaut to come in and testify that the Earth is flat or that Budweiser is beer.

10 years ago, I laughed about the fact that America would never legalize marijuana let alone decriminlize it. California proved me wrong. And, what's more the state's courts are routinely preventing city councils and law enforcement agencies from stopping the people's voice from being hear. California legislators recently altered the law to limit the number of plants someone with a prescription could grow and how much they could legally have for personal use...the courts rejected this, saying that people can have as much weed as they can smoke, grow as much weed as their house can hold, and get as high as they want to. Stay classy California!

I leave you with this study: erectile dysfunction predicts heart disease. Better use it while you got it, otherwise that's not all that's going to stop working!!