The World’s Longest Married Couple.
“Married in 1924, Herbert is 104 and Zelmyra is 102 years old…they each have their own bedroom — so Herbert can stay up late watching baseball.”
Apparently, this couple is accepting relationship questions via TWITTER and answering them on Valentine’s Day.
Could they BE any cuter?!
(via BrideTide:remarkablelulu) (via allthingsalishan)
The TV watching experience has changed forever. Going forward it will always be dual screen and will now always include a social “stream” element. TV executives will be forced to come up with even bigger and more grandiose real time events in order to take advantage - G
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In early January a friend mentioned that his New Year’s resolution was to beat his chronic depression once and for all. Over the years he had tried a medicine chest’s worth of antidepressants, but none had really helped in any enduring way, and when the side effects became so unpleasant that he stopped taking them, the withdrawal symptoms (cramps, dizziness, headaches) were torture. Did I know of any research that might help him decide whether a new antidepressant his doctor recommended might finally lift his chronic darkness at noon?
The moral dilemma was this: oh, yes, I knew of 20-plus years of research on antidepressants, from the old tricyclics to the newer selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) that target serotonin (Zoloft, Paxil, and the granddaddy of them all, Prozac, as well as their generic descendants) to even newer ones that also target norepinephrine (Effexor, Wellbutrin). The research had shown that antidepressants help about three quarters of people with depression who take them, a consistent finding that serves as the basis for the oft-repeated mantra “There is no question that the safety and efficacy of antidepressants rest on solid scientific evidence,” as psychiatry professor Richard Friedman of Weill Cornell Medical College recently wrote in The New York Times. But ever since a seminal study in 1998, whose findings were reinforced by landmark research in The Journal of the American Medical Association last month, that evidence has come with a big asterisk. Yes, the drugs are effective, in that they lift depression in most patients. But that benefit is hardly more than what patients get when they, unknowingly and as part of a study, take a dummy pill—a placebo. As more and more scientists who study depression and the drugs that treat it are concluding, that suggests that antidepressants are basically expensive Tic Tacs.
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Begley, “The Depressing News About Antidepressants” (via newsweek) And again, please read The Truth About Drug Companies Drug companies understand that most drugs help 1/3 of people, don’t do anything for 1/3 of people, and harm 1/3 of people. But the cost and time required to get FDA approval means that drug companies can’t afford to find the 33% of people for whom a drug will work very, very well. That would cut their potential market, and potential revenue, by 66%. So they treat everyone the same. The future of the pharmaceutical industry is genetically matching super low cost generics up with the perfect people for whom that 5 cent pill works like magic. (via jayparkinsonmd) (via ericmortensen) |
*Part* of the reason I became a vegetarian was to try to avoid fecal contamination of my food. What’s a gal to do?
For its latest analysis, Consumer Reports had an outside lab test 208 containers of 16 brands of salad greens, sold in plastic clamshells or bags, bought last summer from stores in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York. Among the findings:
- 39 percent of samples exceeded 10,000 CFUs (or another similar measure) per gram for total coliforms and 23 percent for Enterococcus, the levels industry consultants deemed unacceptable.
- 2 percent of samples exceeded French and 5 percent Brazilian standards for fecal coliform bacteria.
- Many packages containing spinach, and packages which were one to five days from their use-by date, had higher bacterial levels. Packages six to eight days from their use-by date generally fared better.
- Whether the greens came in a clamshell or bag, included “baby” greens, or were organic made no difference in bacteria levels.
- Brands for which there were more than four samples, including national brands Dole, Earthbound Farm Organic, and Fresh Express, plus regional and store brands, had at least one package with relatively high levels of total coliforms or Enterococcus.
Brooklyn Gunners FC manager, Ross Greenberg will finally hold his Grand Opening (he had a soft opening for the bar in January) for Woodwork BK on Friday, February 5th. Woodwork BK is a soccer bar with a twist located at Vanderbilt and Dean Street in Prospect Heights. The bar has a full beer and wine menu with a unique food menu featuring a cheese plate, macaroni and cheese and paninis. Plus they play soccer all day and night on three big screens. We’re big fans of Barcelona (Mas Que Un Club) and Arsenal though all patrons (footie and non-footie fans) alike are invited. Looking forward to catching up with old and new friends alike this Friday. - G
If they can’t get it on their mobile phone or a social network, younger people seem disinterested in blogs (both writing and reading). - G
It took 12 years, but the medical journal the Lancet has retracted once and for all a controversial paper that drew a link between vaccines and autism and helped fuel a backlash against immunization of children.
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Michael Mullen: Mr. Chairman, speaking for myself and myself only, it is my personal belief that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do. No matter how I look at this issue, I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy that forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens.(via thinkprogress1)
about time.
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Wonk Room » Obama Rejects $2.7 Trillion In Bush-Era Budget Gimmicks (via robot-heart-politics) Leading by example. And a move that even Ron Paul can get behind! Hopefully this encourages people to dig even deeper into the budget, where additional trickery undoubtedly lies. (via ericmortensen) |
We are Allison and Geoffrey, married with baby girl and dog in Brooklyn.
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