Twins commercials

Hilarious....

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Heart Muscle Renewed Over Lifetime, Study Finds - NYTimes.com

This one deserves a WOW.

Heart Muscle Renewed Over Lifetime, Study Finds - NYTimes.com:

"About 1 percent of the heart muscle cells are replaced every year at age 25, and that rate gradually falls to less than half a percent per year by age 75, concluded a team of researchers led by Dr. Jonas Frisen of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. The upshot is that about half of the heart’s muscle cells are exchanged in the course of a normal lifetime, the Swedish group calculates. Its results are to be published Friday in the journal Science.

“I think this will be one of the most important papers in cardiovascular medicine in years,” said Dr. Charles Murry, a heart researcher at the University of Washington in Seattle. “It helps settle a longstanding controversy about whether the human heart has any ability to regenerate itself.”"

Study: Triathlons can pose deadly heart risks on Yahoo! Health

It would be interesting to see if the order was switched...run, swim, bike. Or even bike, swim, run.

Study: Triathlons can pose deadly heart risks on Yahoo! Health:

"Statistics show that for every million participants in these 26.2-mile running races, there will be four to eight deaths.

The rate for triathletes is far higher — 15 out of a million, the new study shows. Almost all occurred during the swim portion, usually the first event.

'Anyone that jumps into freezing cold water knows the stress on the heart,' said Dr. Lori Mosca, preventive cardiology chief at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and an American Heart Association spokeswoman. She had no role in the study but has competed in more than 100 triathlons, including the granddaddy — Hawaii's Ironman competition....

'It's quite frightening — there are hundreds of people thrashing around. You have to keep going or you're going to drown,' Mosca said."

Leaving computers on overnight = $2.8 billion a year : Christopher Null : Yahoo! Tech

Leaving computers on overnight = $2.8 billion a year : Christopher Null : Yahoo! Tech:

"...all the power wasted while computers are sitting idle overnight adds up, and one study has finally tried to measure it. The tally: An estimated $2.8 billion wasted on excess energy costs each year in the U.S. alone.

On a CO2 basis, that's 20 million tons of carbon dioxide, about the amount produced by 4 million cars on the road."

for perspective:

"If you run a company with 1,000 PCs left on overnight, you can save about $28,000 a year if they are turned off after hours."

Airborne Dust Reduction Plays Larger Than Expected Role In Determining Atlantic Temperature

Airborne Dust Reduction Plays Larger Than Expected Role In Determining Atlantic Temperature:

"The result suggests that only about 30 percent of the observed Atlantic temperature increases are due to other factors, such as a warming climate. While not discounting the importance of global warming, Evan says this adjustment brings the estimate of global warming impact on Atlantic more into line with the smaller degree of ocean warming seen elsewhere, such as the Pacific."

Social Skills, Extracurricular Activities In High School Pay Off Later In Life

Social Skills, Extracurricular Activities In High School Pay Off Later In Life:

"According to a University of Illinois professor who studies the sociology of education, high school sophomores who were rated by their teachers as having good social skills and work habits, and who participated in extracurricular activities in high school, made more money and completed higher levels of education 10 years later than their classmates who had similar standardized test scores but were less socially adroit and participated in fewer extracurricular activities....Academic achievement is part of the story, but it’s not the whole story. You’ve got to have the social skills and work habits to back those achievements up.”"

Scholars and Rogues » Does the Wilderness need a Walmart?

Written by Chris Mackowski of SBU's JMC school.

Scholars and Rogues » Does the Wilderness need a Walmart?:

"Today, battle still rages in the Wilderness, but this time, the federal government doesn’t face an army of Confederates—it faces the largest corporation in the world. The foot soldiers, if they arrive, will wear blue smocks adorned with yellow smiley faces and a pledge for low prices every day.

I say “if” because there’s still a chance Walmart won’t come to the Wilderness. If the retail giant stays away, it’ll be one of the biggest upsets in preservation history.

“I still think we can pull this one out,” says Jim Campi, policy and communications director of the Civil War Preservation Trust (CWPT), one of the groups leading the opposition to the planned Wal-Mart project."