I kinda want this shirt, or at least I think its funny. Yea I am a geek.
via neatoshop.com
Archive for the ‘Health’ Category
60% of Americans engaging in couch potato multitasking
That translates to about 3.5 hours of overlapping TV/Internet time per month for the average American consumer, according to Nielsen’s data from the fourth quarter of 2009. Nearly 59 percent of consumers reported doing this at least once a month as well, up from 57.5 percent in 2008. That’s a lot of people spreading their attention across multiple screens, which is why so many shows are beginning to advertise live online polls, chats, and more during the course of broadcast. People aren’t just hitting up those websites after the show is over—they’re hitting them up as the show is going on.
Glad to see that I am not the only one.
The Fun Theory
The Fun Theory is a project which is sponsored by Volkswagon that is testing the theory that they can change peoples behavior, for the better, just making a simple task more fun. Below is a video done by the project where they have video taped a crowded subway station with a stair case and an eslcalator next to each other. On first day they video taped people getting off the subway train and heading straight for the crowded escalator, leaving the stair case empty. Later that night, after all the people were gone, they came back and modified the stair case to look like a piano’s keyboard, complete with sound. The next day when people got off the train and well, see the result for yourself.
Pretty amazing that something so small can change people behavior to start taking the stairs. I wonder how long this behavior would continue or are they just using the stairs the first time that they see it looking like a piano or does the behavior continue. My vote, they go back to the escalator.
On their website they have a few other video’s of changing human behavior. Check it out
Flu season is here, N1H1!!!! Ahhhh!!!!
The vice president of the company that I work for sent an email today stating the new flu policy for the upcoming flu season. Basically it gave some good information that we should all be doing anyway such as:
• Engage in thorough and frequent hand washing. Be sure to use soap and water or alcohol-based solutions.
• Cover all coughs and sneezes. Try not to cough or sneeze into your hands, but if you do, wash your hands immediately with soap and water. If you have children, you know they are taught at school to cough/sneeze into the inside bend of their elbow.
• Do not come to work if you are sick.
• Do not send children to school or day care centers if they are sick and do not bring them to the office if they are sick or if their schools have been closed due to the flu outbreak.
• Contact a health care provider if you have been exposed to someone who has been diagnosed with the flu or if you develop flu-like symptoms — fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue.
Which then lead to the some one who buys in to the FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) of the media. She sent the VP and everyone else an article written by the USA Today with the headline written in scary 36 point bold font that 30,000-90,000 people are expected to die this year from N1H1. Wow that a lot, right? I’m scared! At least I was (not really) until you break down those numbers:
- Total US population is approx. 304,059,724
- Number of deaths: 2,426,264
- Death rate: 810.4 deaths per 100,000 population
- Heart disease: 631,636
- Cancer: 559,888
- Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 137,119
- Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 124,583
- Accidents (unintentional injuries): 121,599
- Diabetes: 72,449
- Alzheimer’s disease: 72,432
- Influenza and Pneumonia: 56,326
- Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 45,344
- Septicemia: 34,234
Septicemia!!!! I don’t even know what that is but there is about the same chance of me dying from it this year. (OK I do now http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepsis )
You may contract N1H1, but your odds of dying from it pretty slim. In the words of John Stossel “Give me a break”