Packer fans across the country are scrambling to get their foam cheeseheads before Green Bay and Pittsburgh square off in Sunday’s Super Bowl. Ralph Bruno made the first cheese wedge hat 25 years ago by burning holes in his mother’s sofa cushion.
Click here to listen to the history of the Cheesehead on NPR: http://www.npr.org/2011/02/02/133424492/Cheese-Head-Hat
She stabbed him to death with a cooking knife after finding a hickey on his neck.
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/01/31/man-stabbed-to-death-in-medford/
First published in 1924, the Happy Birthday Song still generates about $2 million a year in royalties.
http://musiced.about.com/od/historyofmusic/a/happybirthday.htm
Birthday Wishes from The Beatles:
It’s an emergency – there might not be enough strippers in Dallas to meet demand during Superbowl XLV. It’s estimated that the city will need about 10,000 exotic dancers for the weekend.
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/Dallas-faces-stripper-shortage-before-Super-Bowl-XLV-012711
Click here to watch one viewpoint on how the Internet is changing advertising:
BPM 37093, a crystallised white dwarf star 4,000 km across and 50 light years away from Earth, is the largest diamond yet discovered.
Students at the University of Puerto Rico are rioting to protest an $800 tuition hike. At the beginning, the Universtiy hired this much-loved professional wrestler from Puerto Rico to assemble a security force. That wasn’t so successful, and now the police are out in full force on the campus.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maritza-stanchich-phd/more-violence-in-puerto-r_b_810628.html
Originally discovered by an Allied forces Army nurse in WWII, the placebo response continues to mystify physicians, researchers, and pharmaceutical companies alike. Our body’s physiological response to medicine is largely impacted by our interpretation of social cues, anticipation of reward, and our beliefs and expectations. This complex constellation of factors in the mind can yield significant clinical improvement in patients taking nothing more than inert sugar pills. As Steve Silberman describes, “The placebo response doesn’t care if the catalyst for healing is a triumph of pharmacology, a compassionate therapist, or a syringe of salt water. All it requires is a reasonable expectation of getting better. That’s potent medicine.” Interestingly, it also works the other way – the ‘Nocebo Response.’
http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/17-09/ff_placebo_effect?currentPage=all
Pioneered at the Benrath Senior Centre in Düsseldorf, some treatment centers are now encouraging Alzheimer’s sufferers to wait at a fake bus stop as part of pioneering treatment for the disease.
http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2010/mar/23/the-bus-stop/
http://www.fastcompany.com/1598472/uncommon-act-of-design-fake-bus-stop-helps-alzheimers-patients
1950s human research on LSD.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2011/01/18/exp.nr.housewife.lsd.new.cnn?hpt=C2
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