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Expanding Waists, Decreasing Populations?

Monday, July 30th, 2007

I listened to the second half of that BBC documentary on obesity that I mentioned. It was equally fascinating, and it got me thinking about the converging problems of increasing global obesity and declining birth rates (the program didn’t cover this particular ground).
Obesity rates are predicted to increase dramatically in the developing world, and certainly […]

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Mashups, Education Style

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

Fellow Northern Voice organizer Brian Lamb has written an instructive and very readable (that is, comprehensible to laypersons) article about mashups and how they apply in educational contexts.
Educational technologists may wonder if “remix” or “content mashup” are just hipper-sounding versions of the learning objects vision that has absorbed so much energy from so many talented […]

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Plastic Surgeons Hot and Bothered About G-Spot Augmentation

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the newest plastic surgery on the market is a, uh, shot to your g-spot. Somewhat mundanely, they call it the ‘g-shot’:
By 4 p.m. she sat inside Dr. Justin Salerno’s office, readying to become the surgeon’s first patient to receive an injection called a G-Shot, also known as G-spot Amplification. […]

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Additional items in this category:
I Wanted to Shoot the Moon Occulting Venus
When Do Our Children Need to See Both Sides?
On Global Warming and Extreme Weather Events
Nine Movie Myths
Circumcision Reduces the Chances of Acquiring HIV Virus
Sleep Hygiene and Curing Insomnia
Russia is Shrinking by 700,000 People a Year

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