11 Sep 2006
Amateur boxing linked to brain cell injury

The short, layman's summation: if you beat somebody in the head, they're gonna lose some brain cells!

I have to wonder if the authors of this "study" weren't some of their own test subjects: anybody who couldn't deduce this bit of trivia from simply taking a ringside seat has an obvious shortage of brain cells themselves!

Rumor has it that the next exercise in idiocy from these folks will prove definitively that pain hurts...

A study of 14 Swedish amateur boxers suggests that they have higher levels of certain chemicals in their cerebrospinal fluid in the days following a bout, indicating injuries to neurons and other cells important to brain function, according to a report in the September issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

(link) [EurekAlert!]

20:26 /Humor | 0 comments | permanent link

9/11 + 5

Vali's Vengence for 9/11

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Wearing a helmet puts cyclists at risk, suggests research

There are serious questions about the protective value of the helmets in and of themselves, one being the increased sense of invincibility on the part of the cyclist. This study seems to show the flip side of that phenomena.

Technology ignores the human factor in it's implementation at it's own (and the humans) peril.

Bicyclists who wear protective helmets are more likely to be struck by passing vehicles, new research suggests. Drivers pass closer when overtaking cyclists wearing helmets than when overtaking bare-headed cyclists, increasing the risk of a collision, the research has found.

(link) [EurekAlert! - Breaking News]

08:49 /Technology | 1 comment | permanent link