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Gummy Worms' Meat
If you eat crap, you will die sooner. More specifically you will increase your odds of colorectal cancer. If you’re really bored you can read all about this stunning breakthrough here.
Good news - most GI doctors seem to believe colon polyps take about a decade to grow enough to become a problem, so as long as you get a colonoscopy every decade you should be mostly good. Schedule yours today!
Microdosing Doesn’t Work. (Maybe)
Researchers in Spain published a summary of a psilocybin microdosing trial they did on healthy, youngish volunteers who had prior experience with psychedelics. It's kind of hard to follow, but they said that even though this was a double-blind trial, 75% of participants correctly guessed whether they were given the active drug vs placebo.
Huh. Makes you wonder if this so-called microdose really was. Anyways, amongst the people who correctly guessed they were on psychedelics, the results showed improvements in some mental well-being scores. For everyone else, it showed nothing.
To us, this whole study seems to have done nothing more than show experienced drug users are better at detecting smallish amounts of drugs in their systems. Everything else was placebo effect.
Stink or Die
Never heard of anyone doing it, but during a strong enough rainstorm, you could theoretically go outside and take a shower. Would be weird, but on the flipside the CDC recommends you not take a shower or bath indoors during a thunderstorm. Or wash the dishes. Basically don't touch water that comes through a pipe.
While theoretically possible, when was the last media report of someone dying by taking a shower during a storm? That would be highly interesting news, but we've never heard of it. Seems like the CDC is being a little too over the top here. If our tombstone reads “electrocuted by lightning while showering” we'd be shocked.
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