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XMRV A Retrovirus With Implications

~Sushma~ — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:01:24 -0800

People who suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome may have an answer as to why Nobody knows what causes CFS and fibromyalgia, for many years doctors poo-poohed the patient and sent them home with anti-anxiety drugs, but studies now show that there is a link to this retrovirus and these disorders. It's not in your head. Some studies earlier showed a link between prostate cancer and this virus, but the jury is still out on this. It's thought to be sexually transmitted via the blood, and actually binds with human DNA.

He's the goddamn Batman.

ricochet biscuit — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:22:21 -0800

Twenty years ago today, Warner Brothers took a risk and paired a director-and-actor pairing known for a quirky, moderately successful supernatural comedy and turned them loose with a high budget-take on an iconic character: Batman. From the minimalist poster to its tone lifted from Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns and Alan Moore's The Killing Joke, Burton's Batman set out to make its own way. It marked a shift in the way Batman was portrayed and with a quarter billion dollars in ticket sales at the box office, demonstrated that the success of Superman a decade earlier had not been a total fluke. In fact, superhero movies have been the top box office draw as often as not for the last decade, a a situation almost unthinkable twenty years ago. But how much longer will the superhero bubble last? The ten biggest opening days in movie history have been in the last seven years, and five of those movies (including the top two) were about comic book heroes. With another Wolverine movie in the works, with even B-team superheroes like The Green Lantern warming up in the bullpen, with DC prepping The Justice League for a roll-out in 2011, a year before Marvel plans to have The Avengers in theatres, when will superhero fatigue set in?

State of Sleep Deprivation

TurkeyWalk — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 09:50:28 -0800

Sleep Deprivated Nation "Sleep is the new sex, as the experts in sleep disorders like to say. Men think about it every seven seconds or so. Women romanticize it. Teenagers yearn for the weekends, when they might get a little of it." Even worse, we may sleep less than we think

Hey, guess what? Shut up.

raaka — Wed, 19 Feb 2003 18:45:45 -0800

Do us all a favor and shut up. You're for the war? Wrote an essay about it? Good, good. Good for you. Guess what? Shut up about it. Thanks. Oh, you're against the war? Fantastic. Wrote a poem about it? Find the nearest closet and tell it to the coats. Yea, that's right. Shut it.