This week, the NEW YORK TIMES finally wrote an article about a study that WEB WATCH wrote about in a September 2009 piece entitled “MULTITASKING SUCKS”. Glad to see that the NY Times is on top of today’s news…
In the NYTimes article called “Your Brain on Computers – Attached to Technology and Paying a Price” (or, depending on which version you’re reading, also titled as “Your Brain on Computers – Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price”, take your pick), the NYTimes examines the impact that computers and portable gadgets have on people today, and whether being so surrounded by information and multitasking our way through the Internet marsh is worth it.
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Odd invention of the day: Anti-Aging Cream made from Infant Foreskin
SkinMedica – TNS: Essential Serum
SkinMedica is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in anti-aging creams and lotions to help restore elasticity to aging skin.
And, it appears from what Web Watch reads on other sites, that they will make an anti-aging cream just for you… if you send them your baby’s foreskin to use as an ingredient. It must be true, as it was allegedly announced as such on an episode of the Oprah Winfrey show in 2007.
And we know that Oprah wouldn’t lie to us, would she? Besides, SkinMedica isn’t the only company doing this. A different company uses foreskins to make Vavelta, which is injected to help smooth wrinkles as Botox does.
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