For more than 2.5 million North Americans, the exhaustion, pain and brain fog of chronic fatigue syndrome are an everyday challenge. Now, a new Institute of Medicine report suggests a new name and a better way to diagnose the condition, also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis.
The new designation, systemic exertion intolerance disease, or SEID,...
The heavy metal band Manowar became the Guinness World Records' "World's Loudest Band" when they hit 129.5 decibels in a live concert in 1994. And why isn't that cool? Because permanent hearing loss can happen from listening to 85 dBs for an extended period of time, and it takes only 15 minutes of 100 dBs for that kind of damage to be...
In the 1988 movie "Twins," Julius and Vincent Benedict (Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito) are the result of an experiment to produce the perfect child. And you're supposed to accept that the two are genetically identical, yet, in outward appearances, polar opposites.
While that premise may be hard to believe, finding adult twins...