Nothing against pumpkin pie, but sometimes its nice to change things upor add to the food fest. So, with Thanksgiving less than a week a way, feast your eyes on these 5 drool-worthy Thanksgiving desserts that are just as fun to look at than they are to eat. Two words: cake pops!
Judy Mikovits, who has been in the spotlight for the past 2 years after Science published a controversial report by her group that tied a novel mouse retrovirus to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), is now behind bars.
Sheriffs in Ventura County, California, arrested Mikovits yesterday on felony charges that she is a fugitive from justice. She is being held at the Todd Road Jail in Santa Paula without bail. But ScienceInsider could obtain only sketchy details about the specific charges against her.
The Ventura County sheriff’s office told ScienceInsider that it had no available details about the charges and was acting upon a warrant issued by Washoe County in Nevada.
One of Men’s Health’s top experts, T.E. Holt, M.D., a physician in North Carolina, tells this story about one of his patients:
A man came in, dragged by his daughter because, she explained, he had been steadily losing weight and was covered in big lumps. The lumps had been growing for 2 years, maybe more, she said.
I had no doubt, from the moment I saw him, that this man was dying. He had lumps as big as my fist on his forehead and his back, and as I came closer and moved around him, more came into view. When I pressed deeply into his belly, I felt a solid rock where there should have been yielding space.
It was metastatic sarcoma, a rare cancer of the connective tissue. Fou
People with birthmarks, scars and other facial disfigurements are more likely to receive poor ratings in job interviews, according to a new study by researchers at Rice University and the University of Houston.
Discrimination Against Facially Stigmatized Applicants in Interviews: An Eye-Tracking and Face-to-Face Investigation was published online last month in the Journal of Applied Psychology and is one of the first studies to examine how individuals with facial blemishes fare in job interviews. The findings show that interviewers recalled less information about these candidates, which negatively impacted evaluations of the applicants.
When evaluating applicants in an interview setting, its important to remember what they are saying, Rice Professor of Psychology Mikki Hebl said.
Auburns Jennifer Page knew better than to think her friend and exercise instructor Anna Hlywa would skip their pre-dawn fitness class at the YMCA even though Hlywa had run in the grueling New York City Marathon three days earlier.
At 5:15 a.m. Wednesday just like every Wednesday there stood Hlywa ready to jump-start her hourlong strength and conditioning class. Like always, she beamed with energy.
I was laughing at her. I said to her, Arent you going to rest. She said she was tired but you would never know it. I couldnt keep up, Page said with a chuckle.
Hlywa, a 38-year-old mother of two school-age children, toyed with the idea of canceling class.