Archive for March 15th, 2009
Ten Whole Peanuts!
British researchers have discovered that it is possible to retrain the human immune system to prevent deadly anaphylactic reactions, through incremental dosing of tiny particles of the offensive material, specifically peanut flour. I find it surprising that this approach hasn’t been experimented with successfully before, but I suppose immediate, terrifying, and painful death might be somewhat of a deterrent for those subjects involved.
Quarter-life Crisis: It’s all downhill from here
Thanks to those smart-alecky UVA profs, Timothy Salthouse, et al., I’m now plucking at my temples and fretting over senility… at 26!
Patient B, age 30
In a report published in the academic journal Neurobiology Of Ageing, researchers presented evidence that 75% of test subjects’ average peak performance came at age 22 before falling into irreversible nosedive just five years later.
However, they also found that abilities based on accumulated knowledge, like vocabulary or trivia, continued improving until age 60. What would a demoralizing research study be without a bright side, eh?
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some Metamucil and Centrum Silver waiting. This is obviously a marketing scam to make us to buy more health supplements and therapy, anyway. Why rob them of their prize?
