Friday, July 3, 2009

Importance of sex ed in school

Why teaching sex ed in schools saves lives.

"A group of teenagers misunderstood a woman's screams during sex and, thinking they were stopping an assault, beat a 25-year-old man in her bedroom, police said."

And now everyone in school will know that these kids have never had sex before.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Homeopathy stole my sense of smell

Many people have heard of and probably at one point used the well known cold remedy Zicam. Well aside from being all natural and homeopathic it is also apparently very dangerous to your health, who would have guessed.  Aside from not curing your cold, according to the Associated Press reports that:

     "Consumers should stop using Zicam Cold Remedy nasal gel and related products because they can permanently damage the sense of smell, federal health regulators said Tuesday."

Zicam contains large amounts of Zinc which can cause nerve damage, and has resulted in at least 130 cases of loss of smell. While many think that the FDA is supposed to prevent things like this from happening but what they don't realize is that Zicam falls in to a special group of remedies called homeopathic products, which are, according to the FDA not required to undergo review.

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Say wait to buying a new iPhone

Rumors have been cirtulating recently about the release of a next generation iPhone as well as a next generation iPod Touch and iPod nano. Apple is expected to release details at WWDC in June and a possible release of the new devices in July. According to HardMac the future iPhone will be similar in shape and size to the previous one and the new iPods may possible contain a camera. The addition of a camera would make the iPod much more like the iPhone and would be a really cool addition.

The war rages on

This sounds like how most battles between logic and superstitious people play out, though i am not a fan of the ending. http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/oh_no_its_making_well_reasoned