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Well, here's some news about science. Turns out that eggs, according to a new study, might protect your brain health. So if you eat eggs, you're less likely to have cognitive dysfunction in your middle age and longer. Now I was quite interested in this study, and I was thinking about taking out a loan to get myself one of these eggs. If any of you have been lucky enough to be able to afford an egg, yeah, they're good. They're good for your brain. If you can afford one, go get one.
Meanwhile, in the biggest surprise in all of science, there's a study that says that alcohol might be bad for your brain and is linked to Alzheimer's risk. Huh, a gigantic surprise. Alcohol is not good for you.
Here's a fun one. SciTechDaily says there's a breakthrough in regeneration. They're adding synthetic peptides to your own blood, and it can mimic your own regenerative hematoma. So somehow they take your own blood and they give it a little boost with some peptides, and next thing you know you've got super blood. You will be enrolling in the X-Men School of Excellence with your super blood. Or possibly it'll just make you healthier.
There's a study that Quartz is talking about that shows that politics can trump truth. And it's funny they use the word Trump there. So here's what they did. They gave people various facts, some true, some fake, about politics, and they noticed that people were more likely to believe things that agreed with them politically. Huh, I wonder how they could have saved some money. Well, you could have just asked me. Yes, people do tend to agree with the people on their side and thin
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k that that's totally right and everybody else is totally wrong. It's true. It's true. I know it's a shocker. Shocker. But they found that, they say, people who favor Trump were more likely to believe fake news if it agreed with their team. Huh, raises an interesting question, doesn't it? Apparently there is a group of scientists who know what news is real now. Wouldn't it be helpful, instead of…
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