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Morning Cup of Links: Man of the Year
by Miss Cellania - November 6, 2008 - 3:07 AM
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The Road to the Inauguration. Newsweek takes an in-depth look at the secrets of the 2008 presidential campaign in a seven-part series.
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Do you know a manly man, a man you can look up to, who epitomizes the best in manliness? Then you’re lucky! Nominate him now for the Man of the Year award from The Art of Manliness.
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The average hand in a study of 51 college students had 150 different species of bacteria on the skin. If that doesn’t make you want to go wash your hands right now, I don’t know what will.
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If Simba keeps letting Pumbaa push him around like this, he’ll never be king of the jungle.
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How much does it really cost to eat healthy? Junk food is way cheaper than nutrient-rich foods like fruits and vegetables.
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Those Magnificent Men and Their Flying Machines. Early airplane designs that had widely varying degrees of success.
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Silent Movies from A Galaxy Far Far Away. Star Wars gets the retro treatment in ten different videos.
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Let’s Paint TV. The host paints while jogging on a treadmill and, better still, making blended drinks!

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Comments (3)

  1. Regarding the bacteria on the hands article:

    The human body is not sterile. There are several locations where bacteria normally colonize, which includes the skin. The bacteria in these locations actually prevent infections by preventing pathogenic bacteria from settling down on skin surfaces and invading the body.

    posted by Peter on 11-6-2008 at 8:41 am

  2. What Peter said, and…

    I’ve often heard loud mouthed reactionaries saying stuff like, if these Americans are so poor, how’d they get so fat?
    Maybe now they’ll get it.
    Nah, probably not.

    posted by BassMan on 11-6-2008 at 10:41 am

  3. Peter is right, except that almost the ENTIRE human body is colonized with bacteria. In fact, there are more bacterial cells in and on the human body than there are cells that make up the body itself! We are “sterile” when we are born, though, and we pick up our “normal flora” from the environment and from our parents, etc. Some of the normal flora bacteria we carry around are pathogenic; about a third of us are Staph aureus carriers! Yuk.

    posted by ScienceGeek on 11-6-2008 at 12:25 pm

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