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mental_floss Blog - Oct 3, 2008
In last week’s article I talked about my initial experience with sleep apnea: going to a sleep disorders clinic and being evaluated for risk factors. After going through that process, I was prescribed a one-night sleep …
mental_floss Blog - Sep 26, 2008
It’s time for a new occasional feature! Rejoice! In this column, I’ll talk about my personal experience being diagnosed with sleep apnea, what treatments are available, the science behind the condition, and (hopefully) …
Also tagged: blogs
mental_floss Blog - Jul 1, 2008
In the most recent issue of The New Yorker, Dr. Atul Gawande delves into the mystery of itch, that most curious of sensations that rides the boundary between pain and nuisance. Following the story of an anonymous …
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mental_floss Blog - Jun 6, 2008
We’ve blogged about the relationship between height and pay before, as well as height and electability, but I’ve just come across a four-year-old New York Times article on height and how it’s changing around the world …
Also tagged: blogs, history, around the world
mental_floss Blog - Apr 2, 2008
Ray Kurzweil is probably best known for his 70’s era reading machines — early speech synthesizers that could optically scan printed words, recognize them (despite being in multiple typefaces), and speak them back. (We …
Also tagged: technology, blogs, science, computers
mental_floss Blog - Feb 29, 2008
I think we all have nights where sleep won’t come — despite flipping the pillow and persistent rolling over, it just doesn’t happen. What do you do when this happens? Personally, I’ve developed only one good way to …
mental_floss Blog - Feb 1, 2008
You can do a lot with less than the normal complement of fingers — including becoming a guitar legend! Here are five famous examples of people achieving fame despite missing some digits! 1. Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead …
mental_floss Blog - Nov 20, 2007
One of the more common kinds of situs inversus–the condition in which one’s internal organs appear on the opposite side of the body–is dextrocardia, when the heart sets up headquarters on, yes, the right side …
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mental_floss Blog - Nov 14, 2007
As is usually the case with bills in Congress, I had a lot of trouble believing that the 2007 Farm Bill was applicable to me. After all, the last time I even remember going to a farm was on a kindergarten field trip …
Also tagged: politics, blogs, environment, current events, food and drink
mental_floss Blog - Sep 27, 2007
I’m learning how to cook, which has been an adventure. The other night, after an encounter with some particularly spicy Italian sausage combined with even spicier barbecue sauce, my roommates and I found ourselves …
Also tagged: blogs, science, bizarro, food and drink