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Thursday, April 10, 2008
Do fourteeners make you dumb?
Scientists have long seen signs of brain damage among certain climbers on Mount Everest and other high peaks, and now a National Institutes of Health researcher says that even tackling Colorado's fourteeners could lead to irreversible brain damage.R. Douglas Fields, a senior investigator in neuroscience at the NIH, writes about his concerns in the latest issue of Scientific American Mind.
TCR could try posting the study on their web page as a way of limiting the number of people who want to enter that race...whatever it's called, I can't remember...
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In the words of Judge Smails-
"The world needs ditch diggers too."
Ah, if there's a bad Bushwood Country Club joke, I haven't heard it...
Ya probably. But so does beer. And I'm not giving that up.
TCR could try posting the study on their web page as a way of limiting the number of people who want to enter that race...whatever it's called, I can't remember...
It may not be the 14,000+ feet that makes one less intelligent, but rather the doughnuts served at that altitude that does the trick.
It iz spelled "crueller".
Zut Alors!
Your both wrong:
French Cruller
https://www.dunkindonuts.com/aboutus/nutrition/Product.aspx?Category=Donuts&id=DD-552
"You're", rather.
I love that dunkindonuts.com has been used to settle a dispute.
It is the wikipedia for all pastry related arguments.
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