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JAMES HAMBLIN

It's like, we should be tolerant and respectful of everyone's beliefs, whatever they are. Just so long as you believe in a cataract month.

Cataracts are more common than glaucoma, macular degeneration, and diabetic retinopathy combined.  Be aware: don't get them. 

Things to avoid if you don't want cataracts:

•  family history of cataracts
•  smoking
•  UV rays
•  serious eye injury
•  steroids

Were you thinking of sustaining serious eye injury this month?


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The Tooth Fairy Rots Your Brain

JAMES HAMBLIN

"Children's beliefs in the reality of fantastic phenomena [may] give rise to genuine constructive memory errors in line with their fantasies."

“To examine how children’s fantasy beliefs can affect memory for their experiences, 5- and 6-year-olds with differing levels of belief in the reality of the Tooth Fairy were prompted to recall their most recent primary tooth loss in either a truthful or fun manner. Many of the children who fully believed in the existence of the Tooth Fairy reported supernatural experiences consistent with the myth..., whereas those who realized the fictionality of the myth recalled mainly realistic experiences."

Define "supernatural" and "realistic," science.

If you're looking to purchase children's drawings of the tooth fairy, consider this one, available in 5 x 7 for $7.49 plus shipping.

Keep in mind, you're buying a print, not the original. 

If you're looking for the original, hand-drawn kid tooth fairy drawings, stained with the tears shed as the they watched their parents sell them, talk to me.

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It's An Eye. You Have To Kind Of Squint, But, Yeah, It Is.

Huge news in the journal Nature, researchers in Japan were able to create a retina out of embryonic stem cells.  That’s a great step towards a treatment for many types of blindness, not to mention a step towards synthesizing all kinds of organs that many people desperately need.

Every time the lady stem cell looked over to that corner of the bar, there he was, peering at her suggestively.  She waited all night, but the guy stem cell never came over to her, so finally she went to him.  

“Hey,” she said.

“Hey,” he said.

“Are you making eyes at me?” she asked.

“No,” he said.  “We’re making them together.”


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