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Archive for June 29th, 2008

During my cross country drive this week I was forced into getting an oil change at Wal-Mart. I thought I knew how evil they really were, but during my hour long visit they surpassed all of my wildest expectations of evilness and they tried to steal $24 from me.
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Ever wonder about the people who will live around you when you are thinking of moving into a new place. Check out who is likely to be the person to make your new housing life a living hell.
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It’s no secret that skipping valuable sleep time can have negative effects on our physical and emotional health. But could a rise in the lack of sleep be an unacknowledged contributor to the steady rise in divorces over the years?
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False beliefs are everywhere. Eighteen percent of Americans think the sun revolves around the earth, one poll has found. Thus it seems slightly less egregious that, according to another poll, 10 percent of us think that Senator Barack Obama, a Christian, is instead a Muslim. The Obama campaign has created a Web site to dispel [...]

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Many women are left unhappy in the aftermath of casual sexual encounters. Four out of five men, in contrast, said they were happy with a brief fling.
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“Targeting the CB2 receptor could be a therapeutic strategy to prevent or treat diseases like Crohn’s disease [inflammation of the intestinal tract], liver cirrhosis, osteoarthritis, and atherosclerosis,” said lead study author Jürg Gertsch.
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The growing body of evidence that marijuana (cannabis) may be effective as a pain reliever has been expanded with publication of a new study in The Journal of Pain reporting that patients with nerve pain showed reduced pain intensity from smoking marijuana.
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On Thursday we asked you what books have changed your life, and over 250 thoughtful comments later, it’s clear you all have book shelves stuffed with meaningful tomes. Now it’s time to share the love. Today we’ve compiled some of the titles that you mentioned the most, with summaries so you can check ‘em out [...]

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Fascinating! Think you know everything about you? Think again.
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My two favorites…#1 Your houseplants are alive, and you can’t smoke any of them and #5 You hear your favorite song in an elevator.
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