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Old joke: With our product, you can cure a cold in just seven days, but left untreated, it could linger for a week!
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"The lesson for public health workers is that hip-hop is not just music but a support system and social structure that dominates youth culture, Dr. Muñoz-Laboy said. "
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"We tend to think people have an explicit agenda to rewrite history to make themselves look right, but that's an outsider's perspective. This experiment shows that there isn't always much conscious thought going on."
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"Those of us from the Baptist tradition of religious liberty cannot help but be embarrassed for Barber because we recognize this for what it is: a confession of a frail and flimsy faith and of a moral character that is wholly dependent on external crutche
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"David Simon, he loves him some Landsman"
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For example, "This is what it feels like when you lose all your money..."
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Charlie Stross on the Worldcon in Yokohama
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All gas giants, but you take what you can get.
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"Being overweight boosts the risk of dying from diabetes and kidney disease but not cancer or heart disease, and carrying some extra pounds appears actually to protect against a host of other causes of death, federal researchers reported today."
Wow, that Zinc article is spectacularly useless!
I'll continue reaching for the Zicam nasal gel whenever I feel a cold coming on, though. I don't care if it's a placebo, as long as it keeps working for me!