Archives for March 2006

No matter how much evidence has surfaced exonerating the sun from its wrongful status in the mainstream as a carcinogen rivaling asbestos, dioxin, or red dye #2, some just won't see the light.

It begins with this: According to a recent MSNBC article, women would prefer that men were more like dogs-and vice versa!

Almost exactly 2 years ago (Daily Dose, 4/23/04), I wrote to you about the initial, promising tests of a universal blood substitute called Polyheme.

Apparently, the next big thing – more like the final frontier – in cosmetic surgery is, brace yourselves: Vaginoplasty

In that study's findings, evidence strongly suggested that several of a certain class of drugs used to treat Parkinson's disease may spur a compulsion toward gambling…

Back in the fall, I wrote to you about how weight problems were plaguing the nation's military – so much so that thousands every year are routinely dismissed because of excess heft. This hasn't been the case until relatively recently.

n the last Dose, I posited that earlier in American history, a Winchester rifle was the most potent health insurance (it was the only kind, really) most people could get.

At the end of this month, the U.S. Repeating Arms Company will shut down and shutter up the New Haven, Connecticut manufacturing plant that has been the sole site of production for the Winchester lever-action repeater since its unveiling in 1866.

In part 1 of this essay, I briefed you on the recent findings of a federally funded study that revealed a more or less 1-to-1 link between attractiveness and criminality.

Some recent research shows that an association between attractiveness and criminality may indeed be REAL.