Is the Applewatch a way to self-health? The Apple Watch wants to keep every Dick Tracy alive and healthy. He will be notified when it’s politic to get up and stand, how many steps he takes getting to a perp, and whether fellow cops, friends or criminal masterminds are anywhere in the vicinity. […]
Cheap, Beautiful Skin (4/28/14)
Just Beautiful What does a $46 billion hostile stock offer for a drug/cosmetics company have in common with physical exercise? Could it be that the office lobby of the company making the offer is a basketball court? No. It’s that both options promise healthy, beautiful looking skin. Though at very different prices. Valeant Pharmaceutical […]
Supercharged breast implants (1/9/12)
Fuel Additives and Industrial Silicone What are fuel additives doing in breast implants? That’s the question asked by French national radio station RTL after a prominent toxicologist declared he discovered baysilone – sometimes used as fuel additive and lubricating grease – silopren and rhodorsil in the frequently rupturing 300,000 silicone implants made by Poly Implant […]
Sleeping Beauty (10/26/11)
Is Sleep the Secret to Looking Good? Why sleep? people ask me. I give them a welter reasons starting with avoidance of death. Sleep deprive any animal and it dies – rather quickly. Yet fear of death does not seem to motivate people to take more time for rest, or to even pay attention to […]