World Water Day - how to make water out of urine - print, India | Adland
Topic: Health and Wellness
2:06 am EDT, Aug 2, 2008
For world water day Ogilvy & Mather, Mumbai decided to go the educational route and actually tech us how to make your urine drinkable water in this poster, which looks a lot like old school posters in its Art Direction/ Illustration style.
It's pretty simply actually, all you need is a hole in the ground, a bucket, some tarp and rocks, the sun itself and then of course, your pee. In fact I hear that the �bertough French foreign league men and Chilean army soldiers do this all the time. So next time you're at a loss for water, here you go.
Cynical-C Blog - » A Tour of Mike Tyson’s Abandoned Mansion
Topic: Health and Wellness
3:07 pm EDT, Jul 24, 2008
Somebody went into Mike Tyson’s old mansion and took pictures. There’s an explanation on the site about the history of the mansion but either my reading comprehension is shot or it’s the first thing that this person has ever written in their life.
http://www.ted.com Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt...
Your Skin Produces Marijuana-Like Substance | LiveScience
Topic: Health and Wellness
12:57 pm EDT, Jul 12, 2008
Back up. We've got pot growing out of our skin?
Essentially, yes. The skin has joined the growing club of organs that is known to produce "endocannabinoids" — the body's own reefer. The biggest producer of endogenous pot is the brain.
Significantly, the new study pins down long-suspected connections between brain and skin and between stress and zits.
LA Weekly - News - Why Did He Cut Off That Man's Leg? - Paul Ciotti - The Essential Online Resource for Los Angeles
Topic: Health and Wellness
1:05 pm EDT, Jul 4, 2008
Twenty-five years ago, when I was a junior reporter and stringer for the San Francisco bureau of Time magazine, I came across the greatest story I never wrote, which was actually a pretty smart decision at the time, given that the story had no ending, I didn’t know how to write such a story then, and even if I had written it, Time wouldn’t have run it. It wasn’t merely that the story was too bizarre. Time was a news magazine, and this wasn’t news. It was, rather, a glimpse into the darker corners of the human spirit, the kind of thing you naturally gravitate to late in the evening, when, tired of films and politics, you’d say to your friends, "Do you want to hear something really sick?" And there’d be a silent, collective "ahhh," like that of children snuggling in for a bedtime story, knowing they were about to hear what they’d been waiting for all night.
I first came across the name John Ronald Brown in the late fall of 1973 in the San Francisco Chronicle when I saw an item in Herb Caen’s column about a doctor down on Lombard Street who was "lopping" people’s penises off. As it was my (self-appointed) job for Time in those days to cover the more raggedy edges of the ongoing paradigm shift, I called up the clinic and found myself talking to Brown’s partner at the time, Dr. James Spence, who, despite some reservations, invited me to see him.
An old story, but still interesting. About the infamous "Table-Top" brown
Is Watermelon A Natural Viagra?, Researcher Says Popular Summer Fruit May Have Viagra-Like Effect On Blood Vessels - CBS News
Topic: Health and Wellness
4:00 pm EDT, Jul 3, 2008
Watermelon may be a natural Viagra, says a researcher. That's because the popular summer fruit is richer than experts believed in an amino acid called citrulline. (CBS/AP)
I have a feeling half of Japan just got a nose bleed.
Morbid thoughts make you reach for the cookies | Health & Fitness | Reuters
Topic: Health and Wellness
3:31 pm EDT, Jun 24, 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Thinking about your own death can make you reach for the cookie jar, with an international study finding that morbid thoughts tend to whet the appetite.
