Friday, June 14, 2013
Blogging May Be Sparser Than Usual
It is about time this office rat got out and honed some survival skills, endured sunburn and became one with wildlife, nature, and giant Florida mosquitos.
I will try to stay away from the giant cockroaches, I won't be anywhere near Miami so I can concentrate on fishing without distractions, I'll try to stay away from Sanford and the mobs, I KNOW I will be safe from drones, unless of course PETA comes after me but I have something for them.. being in a boat keeps me safe from sinkholes, and I will have protection on me.
I shall return a little more manly, sweaty and with a twinkle in my eye....
Bizarre Scientific Experiments
Caffeine For Imprisoned Twins
In the late 18th century, King Gustavus III of Sweden was rumored to have carried out a strange experiment to determine the harmful health effects of coffee. Two identical twins who had been condemned to death had their sentences commuted to life in prison on the condition that one would drink three pots of coffee per day, and the other three pots of tea, for the rest of their lives. The only problem was that the doctors assigned to monitor the cases died before either of the patients did, their observations lost--as the story goes, the tea drinker died first, and there's no record of the coffee-drinker's death. The experiment proved nothing, suffering from a lack of rigor (to say the least).
Source: Uppsala University, "Coffee - rat poison or miracle medicine?"
In the late 18th century, King Gustavus III of Sweden was rumored to have carried out a strange experiment to determine the harmful health effects of coffee. Two identical twins who had been condemned to death had their sentences commuted to life in prison on the condition that one would drink three pots of coffee per day, and the other three pots of tea, for the rest of their lives. The only problem was that the doctors assigned to monitor the cases died before either of the patients did, their observations lost--as the story goes, the tea drinker died first, and there's no record of the coffee-drinker's death. The experiment proved nothing, suffering from a lack of rigor (to say the least).
Source: Uppsala University, "Coffee - rat poison or miracle medicine?"
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