This past Sunday I was about as uneasy about the NFL as you can be in early June. My beloved Steelers had two players quoted on the NFL website as defending Tim Tebow and were giving signs that Pittsburgh was possibly looking into signing the Sultan of Sub-40 Percent Completion Percentage. Well thankfully it was talk, and the Tebow circus has found its way into the one place we never thought it would, but kind of makes sense, New England. Continue reading Eat My Sports: Teb-“oh $#%+”
Day: June 11, 2013
Which came first: soccer or brain damage?
MRI scans of soccer players revealed that those who routinely strike the ball with their heads — called “heading” — show evidence consistent with traumatic brain injuries.
‘We looked at the relationship between heading and changes in the brain and changes in cognitive functions [thinking and memory], and we found that the more heading people do, the more likely we are to find microscopic structural abnormalities in the brain, and they’re more likely to do poorly on cognitive tests, particularly in terms of memory,’ said study author Dr. Michael Lipton, associate director of the Gruss Magnetic Resonance Research Center at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and medical director of magnetic resonance imaging at Montefiore Medical Center, both in New York City.
One failed cognitive test? Deriving enjoyment from playing and or watching soccer.
Dr. Liptin, however, cannot say for sure if heading directly caused these signs of brain injury, that he has merely observed an association. For all we know, these players could enjoy soccer so much because they were already brain-damaged.
Servers to mini-copters: ‘Dey dook dur jurbs!’
It’s truly a life full of ennui and largesse when someone is bored with people just serving them their food. “Oh, food that’s given to you? By a human being? How pedestrian.” No longer will that statement be uttered at London’s YO! Sushi restaurant.
Catering to an audience that’s apparently made up of nothing more than Margaret Dumont and the women in movies that go “Well, I never,” the sushi joint is employing a mini-helicopter to get their food to their patrons.
Waitress Gabriella Micu, 28, said: ‘It’s really fun for customers and I hope we can get to the point where we can serve guests from the central kitchen as it would definitely help to cut down the time walking around the restaurant.’
While replacing people with iPad controlled gadgets isn’t happening immediately, it’s also pointed out that the ‘copter can travel more than six times faster than the average server. Unless you want Skynet to take your job, we recommend that lots and lots of gyroscope accidents start happening.
Interbreeding bees
In case you hadn’t read our ongoing coverage for the last several years, bees are dying off, and the hippies think that’s a bad thing. Yep, one of the many animals we all hate is taking massive population hits around the world, and there are people who think that’s wrong.
A group of those people happen to work at Washington State University, located in, of all places, Washington state. It’s there that researchers plan to start a honey bee sperm bank for a particular subspecies. Taking sperm from the strongest bees in Europe, and bringing it to North American queen bees. Mixing bees genes always works so well.
We can only assume they have a lot of interns with small hands at WSU.