Sad news from Mars this week as NASA officials are openly questioning the future of the Spirit rover, which has been cruising the surface of the red planet for six years. It’s not out of batteries or anything. It’s just kind of, well, stuck:
In April, Spirit’s wheels broke through a hard crust on the Martian [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘health’
November 13, 2009
Friday Random 10: Fading Spirits Edition
April 9, 2009
You can, in fact, freeze your ass off
Pax Arcana
The Scandinavian nations boast some of the healthiest people on earth, with Iceland, Sweden, and Finland placing in the top 3 on Forbes’ list of the healhiest nations (Norway was disqualified for filling out its paperwork in troll blood).
I always assumed that the good health of those people was due to their outdoorsy lifestyle [...]
February 9, 2009
“Dude, are my balls supposed to, like, be this color?”
Pax Arcana
Everybody knows Michael Phelps should be frozen solid, ground into a fine powder and left to melt in the hot sun for having the temerity to be photographed indulging in recreational drug use. It was an affront to Jesus, your grandmother, and the American flag.
Unfortunately our righteous fury at Phelps’ satanic devotion to commie-weed [...]
November 25, 2008
We are all equally as likely to die
Pax Arcana
This may be nitpicking, but is anyone else bothered by the grammatical construction contained in the following sentence?
A new study, which followed the health of more than 90,000 women over an average of more than seven years each, found that those who attended services were one-fifth less likely to die than those who did [...]
September 17, 2008
Vegetarians are getting dumber
Pax Arcana
Scientists at Oxford University have discovered that people who consume an all-vegetable diet are six times more likely to suffer from “brain shrinkage,” which sounds like a made-up disease from a slapdash 1970s sci-fi movie.
As it happens, the human body — which evolved over a few hundred thousand years to digest meat as part [...]
July 30, 2008
The Red Sox are good for you
Pax Arcana
It appears that watching punchy ragamuffin Dustin Pedroia trot around the bases (and pump his arms like an officious schoolyard bully from Our Gang) is not only annoying to Yankee fans, but may also make Red Sox fans healthier. Or something.
Can D.P. cure your V.D.?
Freakonomics points to a three-year-old issue of a Blue Cross [...]
May 28, 2008
Your menu is lying to you
Pax Arcana
I have a bit of news to share this morning, but first I want you to brace yourselves.
You ready?
As it turns out, those nutritional information guides at chain menus are less accurate than Ray Allen in the postseason.
According to a Scripps-Howard investigation, major “casual dining” chains understate the amount of fat and calories in [...]
April 28, 2008
The poor are even better at dying than they used to be
Pax Arcana
While overall life expectancy has risen since the 1960s, the Harvard School of Public Health says poor people are even better at dying than they were back when Pappy would set his own broken leg with an ironing board and a rusty bicycle chain:
“There has always been a view in U.S. health policy that [...]
April 25, 2008
Your shoes suck
Pax Arcana
By this time next year, expect to see an awful lot of white people walking around gentrifying urban areas totally barefoot.
That’s because, according to this article in New York Magazine, there is a growing body of evidence that shoes — all shoes — are bad for human feet. They’re so bad, in fact, that [...]
April 22, 2008
The epileptics wish you would stop stuffing things in their mouths
Pax Arcana
If this blog is about anything, it’s saving lives.
First we taught you how to motorboat that collapsed fatty back to life. Now we bring you the following important message:
Swallowing your own tongue is pretty much impossible, so epileptic people kindly ask that you stop shoving things in their mouths during seizures.
From the Times:
Ryan Brett, [...]
