Evolution was once considered a theory, and a heretical one at that, at least in the view of some. Today, it seems the majority of scientists and the average man on the street has come to accept evolution as an established fact. Even ministers of religion seem to have thrown in the towel, and are trying to mix a little …
It’s About Time
As a helpful public service, we remind the tens of thousands of Medical Examiner blog readers across the fruited plain that most of these unified states will revert to standard time at 2:00 a.m. tomorrow by the time-honored formula, SPRING FORWARD, AUTUMN REVERT. Or as some say, “Spring Forward, Autumnal Regression.” Either version is fine. (In some areas people are …
Pet Therapy
Notice how concerned the cat is after causing this (below). Who says animals have no emotions? Need motivation to exercise? Use your dog as your workout buddy (bottom).
Today marks exactly 198 years
Can you imagine having a tooth pulled without novocaine? Having an ingrown toenail treated without local anesthesia? What about having a wound of some kind cauterized with a red-hot poker while you’re watching, fully alert? As one doctor says in this week’s cover articles, medicine at one time was like the Spanish Inquisition. The screams of patients haunted him decades …
V is for Video
Is this a song about breakups? Or about mitosis? You decide. Forget from Michael Fragstein on Vimeo.
Hump Day Hiatus
Well, you’ve made it half-way through the week. Congratulations! Are you feeling a little worn out? A little unhappy with your lot in life? By way of taking your hump day hiatus, take a brief peek into the life of Alonzo Clemons. It will take you about two seconds to see what he can’t do. But check out what he …
PSA of the Week
This is truly an epic PSA in its beneficial message and simple presentation.
Church of the Infinite Chasm
We have written before in this space (here, for instance: http://www.augustarx.com/news/?p=3224) about the apparently runaway success of evolution. It isn’t just that man has evolved, as the story goes, it’s that teeth evolved, and so did the brain; so did the tremendously complex system of jointed bones and ligaments in our hands and feet; the eyes, the lungs, the kidneys, …
Pet Therapy
Can you relate? Ever feel like you could lay down in the middle of the street and be asleep within ten seconds? Give in to that urge (although not in the middle of the road): a new study says not only that sleep is essential for life, i.e., death results from extreme sleep deprivation, but also that sleep lets the …
Actual Reader Mail
We get letters. We get phone calls. We get e-mail. It is a rare week, indeed, when a reader doesn’t spontaneously pick up a phone, keyboard, tablet, cellular device, pen (ballpoint, roller ball, felt tip, fountain, etc), pencil (usually a No. 2), pad and paper, envelope and stamp and give us a written or verbal high five – and sometimes …