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trying to make my way through medical school one day at a time |
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Notes"All men are created equal. No matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about."Harvey Milk (via think-progress)
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Mice That Eat Yogurt Have Larger … Whoa, WHAT?!
An MIT team set out to study the effects of a high-fat, low-fiber diet in mice that also ate yogurt. You know, basically “Can probiotic supplements help overcome a crappy diet?”
What they found surprised them. Mice that ate yogurt were shiny, and had thick, dense, healthy hair, like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever. The males also, well … I don’t know exactly how to say this … they walked with a certain “swagger”.
That’s because the testicles of the yogurt-eating males were 15% larger than the junk food mice. Not only were they bigger, but they produced more pups when they mated with females. Females weren’t left out, though. Yogurt-eaters gave birth to healthier, bigger litters.
Surely you’re thinking “So, Biology Man, if I eat yogurt by the wheelbarrow-full, will I turn into Don Juan of the breakfast buffet?” Well, we don’t know how dietary observations like this translate to humans quite yet. But probiotic foods like yogurt likely create a healthier microbiome in the mouse gut, leading to less inflammation and a stronger immune system. All of that leads to a healthier, more virile mouse.
Hey, it’s good for ya. Couldn’t hurt. Unless you’re lactose intolerant.
(via Scientific American)
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Couldn’t have said it better myself.
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and i’m spending my day taking my master’s comprehensive exam. 9 hours of essay writing. FML
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Ivy League school janitor graduates with honors
For years, Gac Filipaj mopped floors, cleaned toilets and took out trash at Columbia University.A refugee from war-torn Yugoslavia, he eked out a living working for the Ivy League school. But Sunday was payback time: The 52-year-old janitor donned a cap and gown to graduate with a bachelor’s degree in classics.
As a Columbia employee, he didn’t have to pay for the classes he took. His favorite subject was the Roman philosopher and statesman Seneca, the janitor said during a break from his work at Lerner Hall, the student union building he cleans.
“I love Seneca’s letters because they’re written in the spirit in which I was educated in my family — not to look for fame and fortune, but to have a simple, honest, honorable life,” he said.
His graduation with honors capped a dozen years of studies, including readings in ancient Latin and Greek.
(via apsies)
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This woman is flawless.
Jenny Packham dress, pre-Olympics gala, perfectly flawless Duchess.
Wow.
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