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Friday, September 22, 2006

Bulletpoints mofos!

I wrote a big long post yesterday but then the new Nero 7.5 froze my comp, teach me for not restarting it for like 2 weeks... So today we have bulletpoints. Mofo.

  • Scientists find popular acne drug leads to depression. I'd just like to point out that this is pretty useless research, I took that same acne drug when I was a teenager (Accutane, well actually I took Roaccutane but same thing) and it says on the packet that side-effects include depression, and the doctor who prescribed it gave a verbal warning about it too! Still it's good for the purposes of seeing what causes it biologically. Why am I writing in bulletpoints if they're so long, you may ask? I don't know, would be the answer.
  • 3.3 million years ago a three year old girl died in what is now Dikika in Ethiopia. She was recently discovered by a paleoanthropological research team from the Max Planck Institute inLeipzig, Germany. She belongs to the same species as Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis) and left behind some amazing bones, including a complete skull (picture) with a natural brain sandstone impression in addition to many previously unknown skeletal parts including the hyoid bone. Also, the spinal column, both shoulder blades, the ribs and both collar bones, both knee caps, substantial parts of the thigh and shinbone from both legs and an almost complete foot.
    This is so amazing! Also as some of you will know I'm studying anthropology so this is a great time to be doing it :)

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2 Comments:

  • About the acne drug that leads to depression:
    Have they ever thought about what acne (without the drug) leads to?
    It is not difficult to find a teenager with acne AND a bad self image, shyness, not wanting to go out, feeling ugly, self consciousness... and perhaps then depression?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Tuesday, 17 October, 2006  

  • Sure, and it's possible that taking the drug reminds them even more of their acne problem so leads to the depression in that way. Good point.

    By Blogger SubJunk, at Tuesday, 17 October, 2006  

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