1. Amusing article about the increased use of Testosterone treatment after the financial crash on Wall St. – FT.
“The patient then spends an entire day being probed and tested for a range of ageing-related issues at one of the company’s centres – not only for hormone levels, but also for such problems as vitamin D deficiency.”
Really, you need a test for that? If you sit inside all day and don’t take supplements, you have the deficiency.
2. The most comprehensive article about Jaroslav Flegr and his research on Toxoplasmosis. How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy – Atlantic:
“The psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey agrees—though he came to this viewpoint from a completely different angle than either Webster or Flegr. His opinion stems from decades of research into the root causes of schizophrenia. “Textbooks today still make silly statements that schizophrenia has always been around, it’s about the same incidence all over the world, and it’s existed since time immemorial,” he says. “The epidemiology literature contradicts that completely.” In fact, he says, schizophrenia did not rise in prevalence until the latter half of the 18th century, when for the first time people in Paris and London started keeping cats as pets. The so-called cat craze began among “poets and left-wing avant-garde Greenwich Village types,” says Torrey, but the trend spread rapidly—and coinciding with that development, the incidence of schizophrenia soared.”
3. Finally former Red Sox pitcher ‘Oil Can’ Boyd talks about his cocaine use while playing the game. Audio of the interview – CBS Boston. At the 3:57 mark the craziest thing ever said on the record.
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It’s not that crazy to me that Oil Can would claim, twenty-five years down the road, to have dictated to Red Sox management under what circumstances he would confront his drinking/drugging issues.
Oil Can was always a HOF BSer. I doubt much has changed since his playing days.
Philip, it wasn’t the content of the interview but the delivery of the last segment, it is simply unbelievable, they have been playing that part over and over here, just for kicks.
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