Crazy Diet Plan Involves Syringes & Starvation
A trendy new doctor-prescribed diet makes use of pregnant women’s pee. The daily injections of the hormone hCG (which is what makes that blue line appear on home pregnancy tests) combined with a 500-calorie-a-day diet is said to make women-who are paying upwards of $1000 for monthly consultations-lose weight rapidly. It’s probably obvious to anyone…
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Tracie Egan Morrissey
Physics of Pruney Fingers Revealed
An exploration of mathematical shapes could explain why skin gets wrinkled after too much time in the tub. Understanding the geometry of wrinkly skin could help design new materials that can stretch out without losing strength. “The paper explains a mechanism that can explain the structural stability of keratin in skin and its ability to…
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Lisa Grossman - Wired
