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October, in case you weren’t already aware, is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so get aware. And more so than just about any other medical cause, the folks behind breast cancer awareness have some really spectacular merchandising and licensing ideas, which is how they’ve come up with the items listed in Comedy.com’s 15 Strangest Breast Cancer [...]

It’s officially summer (and finally beginning to actually feel like it here in New York), and that means that it’s time to break out the mosquito repellent. And beyond the obvious unpleasantness of itchy bites, squashed bug corpses and that infuriating buzzing sound, there’s always malaria to worry about.
And you can thank Christopher Columbus (seen [...]

Now that fears of the swine flu apocalypse are behind us, it’s time to start putting this mini-epidemic (minidemic?) into context. After all, comparisons to global zombiism pandemics as in 28 Days Later quickly proved excessive in this case, but there have been times when such analogies wouldn’t be so far-fetched. For posterity’s sake, Neatorma [...]

Especially with web video, when a moment of boredom is enough for viewers to lose interest and click away, educational and informative texts have to be extra-cool to keep people watching. In this edition of Thursday’s 3 Cool Videos, we look at some particularly successful examples. We hope you enjoy (and are somewhat enlightened by) [...]

Airborne disease season is upon us, so put on your SARS mask and don’t lick any subway poles. I’m pretty sure they cured Bird Flu, but just in case, peruse these disorders and ailments you can’t catch from kissing or anywhere else:
Premature Aging (as seen in Jack): Robin Williams’s titular character was born with a [...]