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Doctors issue urgent warning over cancer-causing energy drink ingredient taurine
US funeral businesses are being squeezed by the rise of cremations
There’s a long tradition in the history of medicine where people figured out the cause of an industrial disease by noticing that one profession had a much higher rate of the disease than everyone else. For example, in Victorian and Edwardian England, chimney sweeps had a rate of scrotal cancer more than 200 times higher than workers who weren’t exposed to tar on the job.
2013: Alan Markovitz is “so over” his ex-wife. […] he bought the house next to hers and erected a $7000 statue of a hand with its middle finger raised in the backyard. […] It’s even spot-lit to ensure the neighbours can see it at night. Mr Markovitz is a “local legend” who owns three strip clubs in the US city of Detroit.
I always felt like social media creates an illusion of convenience. Think of how much time it takes to stay on top of things. To stay on top of music or film. Think of how much time it takes these days, how much hunting you have to do. Although technology has made information vast and reachable, it’s also turned the entire internet into a sludge pile. And now, instead of relying on professional curators to sort through things for us, now we have to do the sorting.
