News time!!
May. 28th, 2003 11:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
singularity75Two women in Georgia get into an argument. So of course they worked it out between themselves....by having one douse the other with about two litres of gasoline and setting her on fire.
Yet another problem has creeped up over HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy). The risk of dementia is higher it seems. It was believed by some that HRT helped prevent memory loss and dementia due to results from small studies. This was a large study and showed an increased risk. It's expected that in a group of 10,000 women over 65, there will be 22 cases of dementia a year. For those taking HRT, the number climbs to 45.
This one is mainly for me since it's astronomy, but astronomers have found evidence that planet formation may occur far more quickly than originally thought. They concluded in their study that the beginning of planet formation may start as soon as three million years after the birth of a star, three times faster than believed by most astronomers. Odd fact, being off by a factor of three in astronomy isn't always a bad thing for your calculations hehe. Yes, I'm still amused by that.
Can anyone say they are surprised by this? Kids who live with smokers miss more school. To most of the population, this is common sense and easily understood. To smokers, they tend to either deny this or not care. Those who say they can't quit, if you have kids, that alone should be enough of an incentive to try to quit over and over. How can you live with yourself knowing you are sentencing them to a shorter life span with increased risk of health problems all their life?
Regarding a British man who decided to trek his way to the North Pole without support or notifying people as everyone else does, has just recently been rescued. No one tries it this late in the year due to extreme danger of warming temperatures that break up the ice. I like what person said:
"It's not the issue of him running out of food. It's the issue of going to the pole at this time of year that is just a bit stupid and you are putting a lot of people's lives at risk doing it," he said.
That about sums up what the guy did heh.
Yet another problem has creeped up over HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy). The risk of dementia is higher it seems. It was believed by some that HRT helped prevent memory loss and dementia due to results from small studies. This was a large study and showed an increased risk. It's expected that in a group of 10,000 women over 65, there will be 22 cases of dementia a year. For those taking HRT, the number climbs to 45.
This one is mainly for me since it's astronomy, but astronomers have found evidence that planet formation may occur far more quickly than originally thought. They concluded in their study that the beginning of planet formation may start as soon as three million years after the birth of a star, three times faster than believed by most astronomers. Odd fact, being off by a factor of three in astronomy isn't always a bad thing for your calculations hehe. Yes, I'm still amused by that.
Can anyone say they are surprised by this? Kids who live with smokers miss more school. To most of the population, this is common sense and easily understood. To smokers, they tend to either deny this or not care. Those who say they can't quit, if you have kids, that alone should be enough of an incentive to try to quit over and over. How can you live with yourself knowing you are sentencing them to a shorter life span with increased risk of health problems all their life?
Regarding a British man who decided to trek his way to the North Pole without support or notifying people as everyone else does, has just recently been rescued. No one tries it this late in the year due to extreme danger of warming temperatures that break up the ice. I like what person said:
"It's not the issue of him running out of food. It's the issue of going to the pole at this time of year that is just a bit stupid and you are putting a lot of people's lives at risk doing it," he said.
That about sums up what the guy did heh.
