Senseless
Bike helmets are great at softening rare catastrophic blows. But what about more common crashes, the ones that happen at slower speeds but can still result in concussion?
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By 2008, inventors associated with Sweden's Karolinska Institute had a working ­model. Their MIPS (Multi-directional Impact ­Protection System) helmet contained a ­low-friction slip plate between the head and EPS liner. On impact, the helmet rotates independent of the MIPS liner, absorbing some rotational acceleration.

  Julius Escaping
"Bored of being in a dark room, she flips on the light, opens the door and bails."

  Det livsfarliga vattnet
Barn kan drunkna genom att ramla och lägga näsa och mun i en djupare vattenpöl. (...) När barn ramlar i vatten kommer de inte skrika. De kommer inte fäkta med armarna i de flesta fall utan bara börja andas in vatten och sjunka, eller flyta med huvudet nedåt. Därför måste barn vid vatten övervakas hela tiden! Varje sekund! Av en simkunnig vuxen. (...) När barn leker vid vatten, vid strand eller brygga, eller på båt, använd alltid flytväst! Det ska vara en flytväst med krage (den vänder sig så barnet ligger med huvudet uppåt automatiskt). Spänn grenremmen. (...) En situation som jag vet lett till flera drunkningsolyckor är när flera vuxna funnits vid bassängkanten/strandkanten och alla tänkt att någon annan nog vaktat barnet. Kom överens om vem som är badvakt. Byts av, och gör det tydligt. (...) Lär barnet simma! Fyra-femårsåldern brukar vara en bra ålder att börja i ”vanlig simskola”.

  At The Movies, The Women Are Gone
There are 617 movie showings today within 10 miles of my house. 561 of them are stories about men or groups of men, where women play supporting roles or fill out ensembles primarily focused on men. Thirty-one are showings of movies about balanced pairings or ensembles of men and women. Twenty-five are showings of movies about women or girls.

If I were limited to multiplexes, as people are in many parts of the country, the numbers would be worse. In many, many parts of the country right now, if you want to go to see a movie in the theater and see a current movie about a woman — any story about any woman that isn't a documentary or a cartoon — you can't. You cannot. There are not any.

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  Vitamins: stop taking the pills
"What explains this connection between supplemental vitamins and increased rates of cancer and mortality? The key word is antioxidants. The likely explanation is that free radicals aren’t as evil as advertised. (In fact, people need them to kill bacteria and eliminate new cancer cells.) And when people take large doses of antioxidants in the form of supplemental vitamins, the balance between free radical production and destruction might tip too much in one direction, causing an unnatural state where the immune system is less able to kill harmful invaders. Researchers call this the antioxidant paradox.
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Of the 51,000 new supplements on the market, four might be of benefit for otherwise healthy people: omega-3 fatty acids to prevent heart disease; calcium and vitamin D in postmenopausal women, to prevent bone thinning; and folic acid during pregnancy, to prevent birth defects."

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