The Little Blue Pills are ten years old but the Little Pink Pills have yet to be released. Beware, it'll be here soon. Viagra for women.

Quoted: Viagra turns 10 this month, and didn't time just fly? It seems like only yesterday we started guffawing at the Symbolism for Dummies ads on TV for the little blue pill and its "erectile dysfunction" rivals -- footballs tossed through tires, faucets erupting. The spots ended with a list of potential...

This race looks unlike any other I have seen. Dirty and nasty. 8 miles of challenging obstacles.

Quoted: The 'Tough Guy Challenge', in Perton, UK, is a biannual race over a course of eight miles. Its 21 obstacles include fire, tunnels, barbed wire, slides and swamps. Thousands of normal citizens compete.

I didn't see this article on nutritionism from Michael Pollan last year. I wish I had. Speaking in a no-nonsense style, he tells us just how little scientific knowledge of food that we have.

Quoted: The story of how basic questions about what to eat got so complicated reveals a great deal about the institutional imperatives of the food industry, nutritional science and journalism.

Well maybe if one of these meteorites hit a nuclear waste storage facility (or any other superfund cleanup site, or a good deal of the area in China) we'll see people ACTUALLY getting sick. Then this author will feel silly.

Quoted: On what started as a normal Saturday night one week ago, residents of a small, remote Peruvian town saw a bright light streak across the sky, heard a resounding bang and suddenly found themselves at the center of a media frenzy.

Scientists are starting to use World of Warcraft to model real world responses to pandemics. Cool!

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A really thorough blog post on the workout regimen the folks form the the movie "300" used to get that Spartan look.

I just got invited to do the Mt. Rainier to Pacific Relay with Ken (redelk2535) and some of his friends. Looks like a bunch of fun and it's only a few weeks after I'm doing the Mountains to Sound so I should be in shape already.

I just got signed up to do this with a group of friends. I'm doing the 6-mile Sprint to glory at the end! Time to start getting fast!

A great wiki-how on acheiving six-pack abs. No real secrets but a good reminder of the work you can do to get there...

A healthy reminder that I need to start hitting the gym again, especially now that it's getting dark so early.