Posted by Thor on October 23rd, 2008
Solving our drinking problems or a secret enemy of Bud Light? You decide. Story at 9AM.
I read this news story about a drug that reduces your desire for alcohol and cuts down your binge drinking. It’s called naltrexone and is the same stuff they give to herion addicts. According to Dr. Robert Leeman’s study:
Naltrexone has been shown to halve the amount people drink and cut the number of heavy drinking sessions by 70 per cent after 12 weeks.
So, if you go out drinking, what do you do if you are on this pill? Now, I’m not sure if that is a good or a bad thing. Can you see yourself taking a pill every single day to prevent yourself from binge drinking? Don’t people who binge drink know what happens?
Binge drinking is bad for you, but people do it because they have boring lives, are insecure or just want to do something out of the norm. I’m sure we are all guilty to some extent.
Binge drinking (for our purposes) means having more than 5 drinks in 3 hours for men and 4 drinks in 3 hours for women.
On Average, How Many Times A Week Do You Binge Drink?
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Posted by Thor on January 9th, 2008
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Wanna know what a grad student in Nerd Studies does on her time off? Research!
This is not at all scientific, but I’ve got tables of the gender/age breakdowns of the online daters in Cville as of January 6, 2008. Do with it what you will. All geographic radii were set to within 25 miles of 22902, except in the case of Yahoo Personals, which just had a near Charlottesville designation that reached all the way to Harrisonburg.
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Posted by cocoNUT on July 26th, 2007
The massive mountains that frame Charlottesville’s beautiful sunsets have intrigued me ever since I came to cville. I asked how they could be so blue during a party last weekend and no one could really answer…until now! This Biopact article explains why:
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Posted by Thor on May 16th, 2007
I apologize that this isn’t about Charlottesville, but it’s too funny. The guy’s name is Virgin.
http://www.livescience.com/health/070516_herpes_upside.html
These new results do not mean people should go out and get infected with herpes, Virgin stressed. They probably already are.
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