Dr Wingnut

Category: General

  • Star Wars

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    Dwayne: You standing in line, already?Me: No. 😅 waiting for the line to die back to a reasonable length.  It would be great if this was like it was in 1977 when the lines wrapped around the ciné-Capri twice in Phoenix!Dwayne: Yeah.  It was quite the phenomenon!

  • Earworm

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    The creepiest thing I ever heard on public radio was a piece of filler where someone had mashed up the dance of the sugar plum fairies with the theme from Jaws.  It was probably between 1980 and 1983 when I was in college at the University of Nevada Las Vegas on Morning Edition or All…

  • Is sugar bad for you or just an addictive drug?

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    “Every aspect of their metabolic health got better, with no change in calories,” said study author Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in San Francisco.  “This study definitively shows that sugar is metabolically harmful not because of its calories or its effects on weight.  Rather, sugar is metabolically harmful because…

  • WW drops ActiveLink

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    Wow WW has really dropped the ball on this one.  First of all, they don’t sell the fitbit one which is the closest to the activelink in functionality, and the cost is more than twice what the activelink was.  I guess that since there won’t be a monthly charge, and they’re giving a 25% discount…

  • No you don’t need eight hours of sleep

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    If we can’t blame the lack of sleep as causing our obesity, mood disorders and the like could it it be that the reason we feel so unrested is because of poor health?Sleep study on modern-day hunter-gatherers dispels notion that we’re wired to need 8 hours a day via The Washington Post

  • Most common one-word descriptions of Hillary Clinton and the Donald

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    Among those who say they favor Donald Trump for president, here in descending order of frequency are the most common first-word-that-comes-to-mind-when-you think-of Hillary Clinton: liar, dishonest, crook or crooked, bitch, Bill, women, untrustworthy, stupid, old, no.Turnabout being, as they say, fair play, herewith the most common words that came to the minds of Clinton supporters…

  • Managing Complex Change

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    Vision Skills Incentives Resources Action Plan Result Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Change No Yes Yes Yes Yes Confusion Yes No Yes Yes Yes Anxiety Yes Yes No Yes Yes Resistance Yes Yes Yes No Yes Frustration Yes Yes Yes Yes No False Starts Adapted from Knoster, T., Villa R., & Thousand, J. (2000).  A…