Damn "The Devil"!

Here is an excerpt from a recent BBC.com article:

Inconsiderate bosses not only make work stressful, they may also increase the risk of heart disease for their employees, experts believe.

A Swedish team found a strong link between poor leadership and the risk of serious heart disease and heart attacks among more than 3,000 employed men. And the effect may be cumulative - the risk went up the longer an employee worked for the same company. The study is published in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Researchers from the Karolinska Institute and Stockholm University tracked the heart health of the male employees, aged between 19 and 70 and working in the Stockholm area, over a period of nearly a decade. During this time 74 cases of fatal and non-fatal heart attack or acute angina, or death from ischaemic heart disease, occurred.

Cute'n'Creepy

 A work from "NAKED FACES" By DOU. OLEG DURYAGIN

This makes me happy.

Next week's issue of Rolling Stone...

That explains why he looks like a girl...

Get it?

Here is an excerpt from a BBC.com article:

Boys born to women exposed to hairspray in the workplace may have a higher risk of being born with a genital defect.

Imperial College London scientists talked to women who had babies with hypospadias, where the urinary tract is found away from the penis. They reported that hairspray exposure more than doubled the risk. The study in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, said it was too early to say for certain that hairspray was the cause.

Pepno!

"Pepsi's recently announced identity makeover from Omnicom's Arnell Group has been the object of a few grimaces in the design world. The logo and packaging redesign for the mega-brand's suite of soft drinks has morphed the iconic mark's white band into a happy mouth, of sorts. For original Pepsi, the band will represent a smile, the essence of the brand, while the slightly indulgent, yet controlled Diet Pepsi has a bit of a grin and Diet Pepsi Max gets full out laughs. Arnell Group founder Peter Arnell says all he did was tweak the original logo to reflect what consumers feel when they're with the brands."

Apparently other designers hate it...I'm not a big fan either.

Here are all the previous Pepsi designs.

Michael Jackson is now Muslim?

Oh goodness. Click HERE for the Perez post.

Stem Cells Wonder...All over the news.

Surgeons in Spain have carried out the world's first tissue-engineered whole organ transplant - using a windpipe made with the patient's own stem cells.

The groundbreaking technology also means for the first time tissue transplants can be carried out without the need for anti-rejection drugs. Five months on the patient, 30-year-old mother-of-two Claudia Castillo, is in perfect health, The Lancet reports. She needed the transplant to save a lung after contracting tuberculosis. The Colombian woman's airways had been damaged by the disease. Scientists from Bristol helped grow the cells for the transplant and the European team believes such tailor-made organs could become the norm. To make the new airway, the doctors took a donor windpipe, or trachea, from a patient who had recently died.

Then they used strong chemicals and enzymes to wash away all of the cells from the donor trachea, leaving only a tissue scaffold made of the fibrous protein collagen. This gave them a structure to repopulate with cells from Ms Castillo herself, which could then be used in an operation to repair her damaged left bronchus - a branch of the windpipe.

This reminds me of my thesis...

Fashion Designer Manish Arora.

It is a pretty video...

Princess RiRi's "Rehab" Featuring JT.

Trip to New Orleans...

So technically I have only been back for one night. Here are some quick shots of my trip, which was amazing...

The first is of the airport in Charlotte, NC. Note (although you can't see it) that on the right side instead of regular chairs and benches, they had white rocking chairs everywhere! I love the south.

The first night I walked around the hotel area uptown (first picture) and then to the French Quarter, Bourbon Street (next picture), where there were some funky Mardi Gras stores (next picture).

The last day I walked around the wester side of the city where both LSU, Tulane Undergraduate, The Zoo, and the Audobon Park were located.

IN TRANSIT.

Currently in my suit attire, exhausted from a long day getting interviewed at Tulane Medical University in New Orleans. Amazing trip. I might just post pictures on here...well the few i took with my phone.

Lots of other stuff to upload also.

:-)

Bad news for me.

Here is an excerpt from a recent BBC.com article:

Warning over MP3 volume levels: Listening to an MP3 player at its highest volume for one hour a day is enough to seriously damage people's hearing, according to a study for European politicians.

It claims being exposed to loud music could lead to people getting tinnitus, or ringing in the ears. The condition already affects more than 3 million people in the UK and it's feared a million more are at risk. Studies by charities working with deaf people estimate that two thirds of 16 to 34-year-olds listen to music at very high volumes without knowing the risks.

David Brinn is 33 and from Chippenham in Wiltshire. Until a few years ago he loved listening to music on his MP3 players and would use his for around three hours a day. He admits he would turn his up high. "In the gym when you are on the treadmill and your favourite song comes on I'd turn it up as loud as it goes," he said. David owned half a dozen MP3 players, buying new ones hoping they would be louder. Three years ago doctors diagnosed him with tinnitus. He describes his condition as a "whistle blowing" in his ear constantly, when he's eating, sleeping and working.

Crystal Rolf is an ear specialist for the Royal National Institute for the Deaf (RNID). She explains that tinnitus happens when small sensory cells in the ears get damaged after exposure to loud music over long periods of time. At first the ringing sensation may be temporary but the damage can become permanent over time.

I promise I am not racist.*

Am I the only one who thinks this sounds like baby-gibberish?

This is the most unintentionally funny music video. Note that the chorus is in "english".

* OK. Maybe I am just a little. But "Everyone's a little bit racist." (- Avenue Q)

Time to die(t).

Here is an excerpt from a recent BBC.com article:

Carrying extra fat around your middle dramatically increases your risk of early death, even if your overall weight is normal, say researchers.

A study of almost 360,000 people from nine European countries found waist size a "powerful indicator" of risk. Each extra 2ins (5cm) raised the chance of early death by between 13% and 17%.

The link between waist fat and health problems has been established for some time, but the sheer size of the study gives scientists a far more accurate picture. The researchers, including some from Imperial College London, followed the volunteers, who were an average of 51 years old at the start of the study, for the next 10 years, during which time 14,723 of them died. The standard measure of obesity, body mass index (BMI) remained a reasonable predictor of health problems, with those with a high reading more likely to die from cardiovascular disease or cancer.

However, the 'hip/waist ratio', a number produced by dividing the waist size by the hip measurement, and just the waist measurement on its own, were both good ways of sorting out those at highest risk.Some people who had a completely normal BMI score, but a larger than average waist, were at significantly higher risk of early death. At the extremes, men with waists exceeding 47ins (119cm) had a doubled rate of death compared with those with waists under 31.5ins (80cm), and a similar statistic was found when women with waists over 39ins (99cm) were compared to those under 25.5ins (64.7cm).

An increase in risk of death could be plotted every time the belt was let out by another two inches - for two people with the same BMI, every additional 2ins (5cm) on their waistband added up to a 17% increase in risk for men, and 13% for women.

Trippy Tower.

BASQUE HEALTH DEPARTMENT HEADQUARTERS
Architects: Coll-Barreu Arquitectos - Juan Coll-Barreu & Daniel Gutiérrez Zarza
Location: Bilbao, Spain

Palin: Normal and honest!?

I don't believe this.

Here is an excerpt from an article on BBC.com:

More evidence has emerged that babies born from frozen embryos are healthier than those that develop from fresh embryos, researchers say.

Three studies presented to a US fertility conference found frozen embryo babies were less likely to be premature and under weight.

Previous research has suggested this is down to only the strongest embryos surviving the freezing process.
Fertility experts said more work was needed on the issue.

Sick Watch.

LED WATCH By Japanese designer hiranao tsuboi of 100%.

New Disney/Pixar

Totally Rad.

The Mitsubishi MMR25 is multi-terrain futuristic vehicle with omnidirectional wheels made of eight independently-controlled motors, allowing for a 8x4 wheel drive so that the car can be driven forward while pointing in any direction.

The Mitsubishi MMR25 showcases a shocking look, with multi-terrain, omnidirectional wheels which consist of eight independently-controlled motors, allowing for “8 x 4” wheel drive so that the car can be driven forward while pointing in any direction.

"The MMR25 drives sideways into a corner and points the nose of the car outwards before even reaching the apex of the curve while driving sideways or backwards."

The MMR25 also uses special Oblique Aerodynamics to give the vehicle aero advantages.
The center wing acts as a spoiler, actuated by pneumatic and fabricated from Memory Metal Alloy while the front and rear spoilers double as suspension blades which are able to control stiffness and ride height.

Mitsubishi Research & Design of North America - Design Team