Cosmetic Safety Database
As a follow-up to the last posting about lead in lipstick, here’s the link to the Environmental Working Group’s Skin Deep cosmetic safety database.
Category: Health & Med
Another Reason to Not Lick Your Lips
via Reuters
Lipsticks contain lead, consumer group says
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Lipsticks tested by a U.S. consumer rights group found that more than half contained lead and some popular brands including Cover Girl, L’Oreal and Christian Dior had more lead than others, the group said on Thursday.
The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics said tests on 33 brand-name red lipsticks by the Bodycote Testing Group in Santa Fe Spring, California, found that 61 percent had detectable lead levels of 0.03 to 0.65 parts per million (ppm).
Article here
Update: Here’s the link for The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
My Wikipedia Contribution
I created this example for the optic neuritis wiki entry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:OpticNeuritisExample.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optic_neuritis
Bad Pun, Interesting Research on Color Perception
From CogNews:
“Colour is a product of our nervous system–it is a pigment of our imagination. The colours that we see are more related to the materials that things are made of than the light reflected from them into our eyes. Making this happen involves many complex processes. One of the earliest involves seeing contrast between pairs of colours. We have found that this important step of seeing colour contrast happens much earlier in the brain than we had realised up to now.”
Diet.com Offers Free Fitness Videos
Two magic words together: fitness and free! I’m always looking for ways to add some variety to my workouts, and these short clips offer just that.
More at Diet.com
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Return of the radioactive boy scout
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 08, 2007
Mark Frauenfelder: A couple of years ago, Rudy Rucker posted an entry about the boy scout who tried to make a nuclear reactor in his garden shed. Years later, he’s been caught again trying to do the same thing.
Now, it seems as if he has yet to learn his lesson, as he has been busted once again, this time for stealing smoke detectors in an effort to experiment with radioactive materials.
Weird treadmill may help stroke survivors
via MSNBC.com: Health on Aug 06, 2007
A weird treadmill is pushing people at a Baltimore research hospital into sloppy versions of Michael Jackson’s moonwalk, in hopes of training stroke survivors and others with brain injuries to walk normally again.
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A 3-D View of the Brain
via Slashdot by CmdrTaco on Aug 06, 2007
Jamie found a nifty story about Researchers at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital coming up with new 3D Brain Imaging Software. The interesting bit is that it merges data from MRIs as well as various other types of brain scans to create a single visualization for your noodle.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.