Highlights at Eleven, or Whenever You Want

If you work in an office, you probably look up and bookmark quite a few things over the course of the day. They may not be work related, but either way you don’t want to lose them. If you study, this is doubly true. For those who bookmark every little thing that interests them – this is a category that I certainly belong to – we simply don’t have time to label them all.

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Don’t Turn First Aid into Worst Aid

What Would You Do? Your Misconceptions Could Cause Further Injury!

Emergencies do not come with warning bells. They strike at unexpected moments and your response or lack thereof could be the determinant in how things come out in the end.  How much do you think you know about first aid and proper emergency response?  Most people think they know quite a lot, but most of what they have learned consists of myths that could actually do more harm than good.

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There Goes the Neighborhood…

In 2007, an 86-year-old woman named Edith Macefield became a folk hero of sorts when she turned down an offer of $1 million to move from her 1,000 sq ft house to make way for a 5-story multi-use development in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle.  So, the complex was built around her house and Macefield’s story became national news.  During the ordeal, Macefield — who was widowed and without family — struck up a friendship with the construction superintendent, Barry Martin, who brought her … [Continue reading this Article]

Like I Need Another Hole in my Head

Trepanation, the ancient practice of drilling a hole in your skull to relieve pressure on the brain, is now being studied as a possible treatment for dementia. The effort is being led by Russian neurophysiologist Yuri Moskalenko, now at the Beckley Foundation in Oxford. Apparently, dementia may be correlated with cranial compliance, a measure of how cerebrospinal fluid circulates around the brain. If that system gets mucked up, the brain doesn’t function well.

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