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.

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10 comments:

  1. Teleken9:15 AM

    In the words of Judge Smails-
    "The world needs ditch diggers too."

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  2. Anonymous10:49 AM

    Ah, if there's a bad Bushwood Country Club joke, I haven't heard it...

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  3. Anonymous11:06 AM

    Ya probably. But so does beer. And I'm not giving that up.

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  4. Anonymous11:44 AM

    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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  5. Anonymous12:43 PM

    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.

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  6. Anonymous1:33 PM

    It iz spelled "crueller".

    Zut Alors!

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  7. Anonymous10:34 PM

    Your both wrong:

    French Cruller

    https://www.dunkindonuts.com/aboutus/nutrition/Product.aspx?Category=Donuts&id=DD-552

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  8. Anonymous10:36 PM

    "You're", rather.

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  9. Dave Philipps8:36 AM

    I love that dunkindonuts.com has been used to settle a dispute.

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  10. Anonymous9:31 AM

    It is the wikipedia for all pastry related arguments.

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