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Weird Health Wednesdays – Funniest Complaint Letter, Unusual Poisoning, Playground Security
I have to invert the usual order of this feature and lead with an off-topic link instead of the usual health ones. It’s that funny: “It’s your hamster Richard. It’s your hamster in the box and it’s not breathing.” If you haven’t seen this one yet, prepare yourself. A hilariously disgruntled Virgin Airways passenger sent [...] -
Weird Health Wednesdays – Anti-Smoking Ads in Japan (Again)
Oh, man. I just love Japanese anti-smoking signs with their mild reprimands and intricate diagrams. Remember these? I found even more. Check ‘em out. The first one is poetry, even: If you can’t read this one well it says, “My smoke is enveloping that man over there.” To wrap up, a little more poetry: “Inhaled. [...] -
Weird Health Wednesdays – Twins & Babies
British Couple Has Second Set of Black and White Twins By “second,” I don’t mean the second set in the UK. I mean the second set for this couple. Here’s how it works: the mom, Alison Spooner, is white, while the dad, Dean Durrant, is black. The twins are fraternal, meaning they come from two [...] -
Weird Health Wednesdays – Eye Meets Arrow, Deathly Retirement Party, Weird Christmas
Boy Survives Arrow Impalation of Eye, Head In China, 11 year-old Liu Cheong is okay because even though the arrow went all the way through to the back of his skull, it actually missed his brain. Make sure you click on this one to see the x-rays. Worst. Retirement. Party. Ever. This guy wasn’t so [...] -
Weird Health Wednesdays – Bird Flu Sign, Smart Sperm
This Vietnamese bird flu poster creeps me out: (Photo by Flickr user Joe Gatling) Then again, so does actual bird flu. The Smarter the Man, the Better His Sperm Apparently the difference in sperm quality between brainy and–shall we say–less intelligent men is “marginal,” so we can’t make IQ assumptions about, for instance, infertile men. [...] -
Weird Health Wednesdays – Bizarre Skin Treatments, Breastfeeding Men
New Anti-Aging Skin Treatment Restores Youth from Inside, and You’ll Never Guess How The British company that pioneered this new procedure, which is similar to Botox treatments and called Vavelta, claims it’s permanent. That’s not the interesting part, though. Click on the link to check out where they get the skin cells to make the [...] -
Weird Health Wednesdays – Healthy Beer, Asthma Snorkel, Rabid Fox Workout
Beer – Not Your Mother’s Health Food This is much better than plain old lite beer. Rice University grads and undergrads figured out how to add resveratrol to brewer’s yeast to produce the drink. Resveratrol is the red wine chemical that appears to help protect against heart disease and cancer. Behold, the Asthma Snorkel While [...] -
Weird Health Wednesdays – Thursday Edition, Exploding Remote, Snake Massage, More Extreme Pumpkins
TV Remote Explodes House, Blast Blows Resident Outside None of that is an exaggeration. It’s probably easier if you just go read it. (The woman blown outside is fine, by the way.) 15 Pounds of Burger Cannot Possibly Be Good for Your Digestive Health However, would you eat that much at once for $400? And [...]
