Study: Painkillers Dull Pleasure

Every week, more than 50 million Americans take acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol and many other popular painkillers, to ease their aches and pains. But a new study has revealed that the drug also dulls emotions—including happiness. Prior research showed that acetaminophen can help take the sting out of negative feelings like dread, but the new findings from Ohio […]

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Poem – AFTER THE FACT (By Ray Gallucci)

  AFTER THE FACT   The mystery of history Reduces all to sophistry If fecklessly, not skeptically, Accept we its validity.   Did Kennedy form strategy Preventing Cuban tragedy When quarantined Fidel at sea? Or was it serendipity?   Did atom bomb need dropping on To-be-defeated-soon Nippon, Because Japan, to its last man, Would fight invasion hand-to-hand?   Was Civil […]

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