Indeed it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_f…

People with 1 allele experience some flushing, and more easily get hangovers. People with 2 alleles experience nausea, headaches, vomiting and other severe symptoms with only small amounts of alcohol.

From how I understand the mechanism, basically due to the lack of…

Prayer, when you won’t help, but don’t want to look bad.

*rubs eyes* Weekend BCO? WEEKEND BCO!!!

Ah cassie, doing the Lord’s work in explaining the differences between immortalized cell lines and stem cells (very commonly confused even among people who should be science-literate, I’ve found)

Wait... HeLa cells are not stem cells. They are cancer cells.

Fun fact mineral based sunscreens are effective and unlike Oxybenzone based ones, aren’t absorbed through the skin. Oxybenzone in particular is a problem for young children who don’t yet have the enzymes necessary to break it down once in the body.It also bleaches coral reefs.

Aww *hugs back* I can take all the hugs I can get! I got inspired after I read an article about how that’s the most needed item at women’s shelters: tampons/pads. I don’t need them anymore (hysterectomy) so I gathered the ones I had left, have been buying a ton of them, along with formula and stuff, and have been…

That’s so awesome! I’ve been doing what I can for battered and homeless women in my own little corner of the world- setting aside money every month to buy tampons, pads, formula and towels for a couple of the women’s shelters in our area. I even bought one of them a new DVD player and some movies for their kids for…

That’s what I do: When I want to see Americans speaking English, I go to a kebab shop.

I worked in cosmetics for 4 years, and could probably write several books on the bullshit labeling companies use, and what I like to call “paraben-mania”. A lot of companies will use the phrasing “natural-derived lathering agent” when they use SLS, because it is technically made from coconuts. (Does is still resemble…

You know, she hasn’t gone public with that. It happened when she was under age. It’s easy to figure out who she is based in the details, but she never attached her name to anything. I really don’t think it’s appropriate to discuss a sexual assault that happened to her when she was a teenager if she hasn’t first.

Gun control and insurance and access issues aside, why are mental health checkups not a regular part of our encouraged health regimen? Like, you have to feel bad about your life if you don’t go to the dentist every 6 months, but we don’t care about checking to make sure that children aren’t depressed or homocidal or…

I was going to say something like Eminem’s lyrics are terrible but posting them doesn’t necessarily mean anything... and then they go and find the terror equipment hidden in the house, and I don’t know what to think anymore.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Kim Davis’ understanding of religious freedom is seriously flawed. The marriage license only indicates that the couple has met the legal requirements to qualify for marriage. It does NOT confer religious acceptance of the marriage, so her religion isn’t being violated as far…

it’s natural to want to defend your country but publicly sanctioned punishment rapes might not be the best hill to die on...

“The sisters weren’t convicted of any crimes, rather their sentence was punishment for their brother’s elopement.”

I don’t have an answer for how you guys fix this. But from the outside, it seems fucking crazy that nothing has been changed since Sandy Hook.

Canada too...considering that the few gun murders we have are usually committed using guns that are smuggled across our massive border.

I think Japan, Australia & the UK need to hold an intervention at this point

“We care for you. We can’t see you keep hurting yourself like this...”

He’s a 25 year old who has been previously charged with heroin possession and heroin distribution and endangering the welfare of a minor. And his mother is not concerned when he brings home a young girl. Something is definitely off in that home!