No, not really, but a new article in Scientific American suggests that what I do here has some physiological benefits. Personally I would think that spending less time at the computer and more time being active outside would be better for me, but I'm not going to get wrapped up in the "blogging is good for you" vs. "blogging is going to kill you!" debate. We've all been through that before with eggs, and the only thing that taught me was "I like eggs." So it is with blogging.
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