According to the British medical journal Lancet, researchers are testing an experimental daily “polypill” that combines aspirin and four blood pressure and cholesterol medicines. The aspirin is there to kill the pain from stretching your jaw to swallow a pill the size of a baseball.
New York is getting part of the federal stimulus package to repaint the Brooklyn Bridge. Because there’s a huge surplus of it available after President Obama unveiled his budget, the project will cost half as much if the bridge is painted black using painted tinted with black ink.
The journal Pediatrics reports that infants who gain too much weight as babies are more likely to grow into obese toddlers. If you want to read the report yourself, it’s on page “duh.”
Weather authorities have no logical explanation for the mysterious flashes of light reported in the sky above eastern Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina over the weekend. One theory blames global warming for allowing promoters to hold outdoor Pink Floyd laser shows earlier in the year.
When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, she mistakenly asked who painted the picture of the Virgin Mary that actually appeared miraculously on the cloak of St. Juan Diego. Her staff blamed it on the fact that she always gets flustered when the conversation turns to virgins.
A new business in Thornton, Colorado, offers weddings, funerals and cremations all under one roof. It’s popular with families holding shotgun weddings.
Four New York University freshmen tore down a secret marijuana den called "Narnia" that was entered through a hole in the back of a wardrobe. Apparently they were caught when Michael Phelps got stuck in the hole.
A new study found that video games involving high levels of action, like first-person-shooter games, can actually increase a player's real vision. Unfortunately, the benefits go away when the game players get older and switch to squinting at porn.
Rick Wagoner, the chairman and CEO of General Motors, stepped down at the request of the White House. That explains why Vice President Joe Biden is now in charge of starting the president’s Cadillac limo.
The Obamas have turned down a $100,000 allowance and are instead using their own money to redecorate the private areas of the White House. It’s costing more than they had budgeted for, which is the official explanation for why the portrait of former president George W. Bush is hanging on the refrigerator door with magnets.
The Fox Network announced a new reality dating show called “More to Love” that will feature plus-sized women competing to date an overweight man. Critics are predicting it will be the “feel full” hit of the summer.
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