This study attempted to see how giving a cup of coffee, or not giving a cup of coffee, to 22 old people would affect the balance of those old people. The study is: “The acute effects of coffee ingestion on postural control and physical function in older adults: A randomised crossover trial,” Darren L. Richardson, […]
“… at what age, if any, should a person start riding a motorcycle? More importantly, at what age should a motorcyclist stop riding?” [our emphasis] ask co-authors professor William E. Thompson, Ph.D (Texas A&M Uni.) and his daughter Mica L. Thompson, B.A., M.Sc., in the Nov. 2013 issue of the journal Deviant Behavior. Their paper […]
“We estimated these large clones to be hundreds to thousands of years old”, says the study” “Implications of Extreme Life Span in Clonal Organisms: Millenary Clones in Meadows of the Threatened Seagrass Posidonia oceanica,” Sophie Arnaud-Haond [pictured here], Carlos Duarte, Elena Diaz-Almela, Nuria Marbà, Tomas Sintes, et al. (2012) PLoS ONE 7(2): e30454. (Thanks to investigator Mike […]
Old men have big ears, is the consensus of several medical studies. The most celebrated work focused exclusively on men, according with British male doctordom’s smug tradition of showing interest mainly in themselves. But in Japan and in Germany, wide-ranging investigations have made plain a long-untold half of the story: that old women also have […]