Posted on Feb 10, 2013 | Comments Off on Coffee Addiction: Four A Day – Enemas, That Is
You might be a crackpot if you won't drink coffee because it is bad for your health, yet you are shoving it in your rectum multiple times per day. "My Strange Addiction" on TLC this week has a story about a Florida couple who each have at least 100 coffee enemas per month, and totaling 6,000 in the last two years.How can they pull it off? Vacations are clearly out of the question,...
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Posted on Jan 24, 2013 | Comments Off on Why People Sometimes Believe In Magic
Some people believe in magic. In Science Left Behind, in the process of debunking claims that one American political party is overwhelmingly pro-science and one is anti-science, we put a handy chart on page 213 itemizing the various anti-science positions of registered voters. Sure, evolution and climate change was higher on one side but the list of anti-science beliefs by the other...
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Posted on Jan 16, 2013 | Comments Off on The Science Is Settled: Slimmer Waists On Women Lead To Better Erectile Function In Men
Psychologists in Scotland are not politically correct. While Americans are loathe to state the obvious, in Scotland it is okay to just speak some plain truth – if you weren’t fat, maybe men would not need a chemical boost to be interested. Writing in Archives of Sexual Behavior (where else?!?) two psychologists did some surveys [...]
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Posted on Jan 16, 2013 | Comments Off on The Science Is Settled: Slimmer Waists On Women Lead To Better Erectile Function In Men
Psychologists in Scotland are not politically correct. While Americans are loathe to state the obvious, in Scotland it is okay to just speak some plain truth – if you weren’t fat, maybe men would not need a chemical boost to be interested. Writing in Archives of Sexual Behavior (where else?!?) two psychologists did some surveys [...]
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Posted on Jan 15, 2013 | Comments Off on New Year’s Resolutions: Food Will Fail Before Facebook
January 10th came and went last week. Did you notice? Perhaps you did if losing weight was part of your New Year's Resolution.Because chances are that by day 10 you were off the wagon.What could you give up for the entire year? New survey results show that Facebook and Twitter are easy to cast off but pizza, potato chips and french fries are far more difficult. Of the 1,000 individuals in...
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Posted on Dec 21, 2012 | Comments Off on We Want To Believe: 86% Of Shoppers Make Buying Decisions Based On Sustainability
Industry Intelligence Inc., formerly ForestWeb, does surveys-for-hire in a number of industries, covering everything from food to paper to packaging. Their 2012 EcoFocus trend survey addressed what makes the 'eco-friendly shopper' tick and concluded what marketing people who have bankrolled the future of their employers on sustainability want to see; 86% of U.S. adult grocery shoppers are...
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