Did you know that London taxi drivers take a test called the “Knowledge Exam” in order to obtain a license to drive a taxi? It’s been a requirement for London taxi drivers since 1865. According to the official website: “London’s taxi service is the best in the world, in part because our cab drivers know the quickest...
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Brain health, what is it? A recent study using the data from the United Kingdom (UK) Biobank Research Study that can give clues as to ways to keep brains functioning like a well tuned automobile. What is the UK Biobank Research Study? Between 2006 and 2010, the UK Biobank Research Study recruited half a million (500,000) participants aged 40 to 69....
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Clang, clang, clang…I didn’t set that alarm…what’s going on? I don’t know if I said that, or thought it but in the fog that is 2 in the morning, I didn’t know what I was hearing. The ringing didn’t stop. “Oh, it’s the phone! Oh, yeah!” I said, fumbling at my bedside for the phone....
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Image by rawpixel.com It’s hard to see people in lab coats and say, “there goes a superhero.” But that is what I call the people who created the first vaccines for some extremely scary diseases. They took a perilous journey into unknown territory. In early days, before there was a clear understanding of germs and how they...
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A month focused on men’s health and mustaches, what’s not to love? It’s Movember! Movember started in 2003 in Australia when a couple of mates sat in a pub moaning over the loss of the mustache as a “Fashion Do.” At the time, mustaches (or Mo’s in Aussie speak”) were a “Fashion Don’t” with...
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