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  1. Turns out, you can't "stretch" your IT band because it is attached to your femur basically all the way along. You can certainly tension it, but it's effectively stapled to the bone and cannot be substantially elongated.
  2. "The results of our meta-analysis showed that oral zinc formulations may shorten the duration of symptoms of the common cold."
  3. "Intake of zinc was associated with a significant reduction in the duration (days) (mean difference (MD) ?1.03, 95% confidence interval (CI) ?1.72 to ?0.34) (P = 0.003) (I2 statistic = 89%) but not the severity of common cold symptoms (MD ?1.06, 95% CI ?2.36 to 0.23) (P = 0.11) (I2 statistic = 84%)."
  4. "Under the rules of the restaurant, scientists, medical professionals and social scientists are eligible for a discount if they have recently published papers in journals that are included on internet databases such as the Science Citation Index and the Social Sciences Citation Index. The paper's impact factor is multiplied by 10 to determine the discount, which can account for as much as 30 percent of the bill."
  5. Seems like caffeine itself is basically not bad for kids beyond obvious stuff like keeping them from sleeping, suppressing appetite, coming in drinks with tons of sugar, etc.
  6. Answer: Yes.
  7. New Zealand's mandatory helmet law doesn't seem to have had the effects people hoped.
  8. Who need to eat? "A 27-year-old male patient fasted under supervision for 382 days and has subsequently maintained his normal weight."
    updated: 2012-02-02, original: 2012-02-02 to , , , , , , , by mako - Archived Link
  9. Drugs may also let us fly around and shut lasers out of our fingertips!
  10. This article, and the other articles in this "Room For Debate" about ADHD are awesome.
  11. "It's not that the old meds are getting weaker, drug developers say. It's as if the placebo effect is somehow getting stronger." I'm not sure that sentence even makes sense, but it sure is intriguing.
  12. via ari
  13. 2008-09-01 to , , by mika and 1 other - Archived Link

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