Can you tell which toe of yours is being touched? When they’re not allowed to peek, many people can’t differentiate between which toes of theirs are being “prodded” by an experimenter. Sounds a bit kinky: Researchers at the University of … Continue reading →
This is potentially very good news. Very: Researchers gave one dose of the new vaccine, developed by the Canadian government, to more than 4,000 people who were contacts of confirmed Ebola cases within 10 days of being identified. In comparison, … Continue reading →
Here’s an article about Dr. Joel Salinas, a Boston neurologist with mirror touch synesthesia, which is the sensation, when watching other people, of perceiving that “whatever touches their body [is felt] on my own body as well and it’s kind … Continue reading →
The Planned Parenthood videos have brought home an ugly reality that has less to do with Planned Parenthood and its policies and more to do with abortion itself. Abortion, both legal and illegal (and I remember the days of illegal … Continue reading →
Last night as I was getting ready for bed I saw a little black speck floating around in the left side of my vision and I thought Great, another floater to add to the collection. I’ve got a lot of … Continue reading →
This guy has found the fountain of youth: It’s certainly not from a lifetime of clean living, although he went on the wagon in 1988: Starr was the only Beatle who accepted the presence of Yoko Ono and when the … Continue reading →
…that most of us don’t floss. I happen to be one of the world’s champion flossers. Perhaps that’s because I have a pretty complex dental situation. I have two congenitally missing teeth—a canine and a bicuspid—as well as a root … Continue reading →
Disability activists would very much like to see Princeton University bioethics professor Peter Singer lose his job. The reason is fairly obvious: Singer advocates the killing of disabled infants if the parents request it. What’s less obvious is why Singer … Continue reading →
…down the slippery slope of euthanasia.
Continue reading →A good attitude, I might add. Just two days after the terrible moment when a shark bit off his arm, and after surgeons cleaned up the traumatic amputation and made it a surgical one, 16-year-old Hunter Treschl had this to … Continue reading →
Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner refers to his/her state as “the new normal,” but transgenderism is actually quite unusual in the statistical sense, and it’s a poorly understood phenomenon as well. Some people think transgendered people are mentally disturbed, and some think they … Continue reading →
Old people—especially really old people in their upper 90s—who seem otherwise healthy, can become highly debilitated due to a mysterious wasting that happens to a great many of them as they approach advanced old age. It’s called sarcopenia, and although … Continue reading →