Swans on Tea

A doctor tells a man, “You’re fat. Lose some weight.”
The man says, “I want a second opinion.”
“OK, you’re ugly, too.”
According to the International Journal of Obesity, we’re fat because we’re stuffing our faces, and not so much because we’re sitting on our duffs (Ha! Speak for yourself. I’m a double-threat.)
(from the journal)
Conclusion: As [...]

Bunk beds Declared Dangerous
Top-bunked for several years. Never wore a bike helmet, either. The pediatricians at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio are wussies.

Physics of GPS relativistic time delay over at Unused Cycles, yet another appears-to-be-new math-y/physics-y blog. Goes through the calculation of the gravitational and kinematic effects on GPS satellites.

Alcohol ‘cuts risk of arthritis’
The risk was up to 50% lower for those who drank the equivalent of five glasses of wine a week compared with those who drank the least, they found.
The results should be taken with a grain of salt (on pretzels or peanuts, preferably) because the researchers were pretty well liquored-up and [...]