The Astonishing History of Vibrators

http://www.tbd.com/content/article/basic_article.article:::love_life_history_vibrators
invented 120 years ago by a doctor to treat female hysteria which was actually "just" sexual frustration.

Oral Contraceptives Cut Ovarian Cancer Risk

http://health.usnews.com/usnews/health/healthday/080125/oral-contraceptives-cut-ovarian-cancer-risk.htm
The Pill prevents as many as 30,000 deaths each year, study says
The researchers found that women who took oral contraceptives for 10 years reduced their risk of ovarian cancer from 12 per 1,000 women to eight per 1,000, and death from the disease from seven per 1,000 women to five per 1,000. They also found that this protective effect can last for decades after a woman stops using the Pill.

Booksthatmakeyoudumb

http://booksthatmakeyoudumb.virgil.gr/

smart kids read classics and philosophy
dumb kids read erotics, religion, chick, and "ethnic".

what else it new?!

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sit down.
lift your right foot and rotate it clockwise (in the negative direction)
while doing this, draw in the air the digit 6.
your foot will change direction to counterclockwise (to the positive direction)

сядь.
подними правую ногу и вращай ей (в коненном суставе) по часовой стрелке (в отрицательном направлениi).
одновременно нарисуй в воздухе цифру 6.
нога непроизволкьно сменит направление на против часовой стрелки (на положительное направление).

The town that measures life in 15-second intervals

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/mary-dejevsky-the-town-that-measures-life-in-15second-intervals-773885.html

Life here is measured in intervals of 15 seconds. It is how long the people of Sderot have between the sounding of the sirens and the inevitable explosion. Civic life is almost non-existent. People are on edge, unwilling to plan anything in advance, entertaining – if at all – at home, and fearful of dropping their children at school, lest it is the last time they see them.

What Israel seems to have learnt, however, is that it is not just with rockets, but with publicity that this conflict is increasingly being fought.