Ewww Factoids of the Week: Toilet Trivia
March 26, 2008 by Liberty Kontranowski
Filed under Easy Health Tips, Exposed!, Health, How To, Prevention, Your Body
Now, what would your Wednesday be without a little disgusting trivia centered around the Porcelain God, hm? Exactly.
In a recent Men’s Health snippet, the sheer repulsiveness of toilet splatter (for lack of a better term) is spelled right out for us. Right down to the nitty gritty details of all that a flush of the toilet has in store for us. Curious? Okay, put down your sammich and read on…
* With each flush, fecal pathogens can splash out of the bowl and hang tight on nearby surfaces – including you!
* The splash radius of a toilet is usually 3 to …read more
Medical Googler or Cyberchondriac ?
January 24, 2008 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Computers, Health, Medicine, Misc., Oddities, Psychology, Technology
Cyberchondriac (sy bur KA WN dree ak) n.
- a person who imagines they have a particular disease because their symptoms match those listed on an Internet health site.
You’re spending an extraordinary amount of time on the internet seeking out information on medical conditions, digging yourself deeper and deeper in into the abyss.
Does that make you a medical googler or a cyberchondriac?
Here’s a clue – do you feel better or worse at the end of your search?
A medical googler, such as myself who seeks out medical information for the purpose of writing will feel great at the end of the …read more
