If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or email alerts. Thanks for visiting!BBC World Service is offering a free ringtone for your cell phone that goes “condom, condom” and is aimed at an effort to make the word ‘condom’ more socially acceptable [via]. Whether you use it or [...]
Posts in Health Category
March 25th, 2008
Healthy Fast Food Restaurants
Is there such a thing as a healthy fast-food restaurant or is simply an oxymoron? We stopped eating burgers at MacDonalds or tacos at Taco Bell after reading (and watching) Fast Food Nation. But apparently, there are a few healthy fast-food restaurants and I’ve frequented and liked at least two of them.
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October 16th, 2007
Health Guidelines for BPO Employees?
What is it about our Indian government that refuses to butt out of our personal lives? The moron that is our Union Health Minister, Anbumani Ramadoss who had earlier tried to ban smoking from movies now wants (health) guidelines for people working in the BPO and IT industry [via]. In an earlier statement, he even [...]
Patrix | Governance, Health, India | 4 Comments »
July 20th, 2007
Sex Education Done Wrong
Sex education has been making the news lately; not that it never fails to when it pops up in conversations. Barack Obama was at the Planned Parenthood Conference and remarked that sex education was the right thing to do for kindergarteners and added that it should be age-appropriate and meant primarily to help kids guard [...]
Patrix | Health, India, Society Culture, education | 7 Comments »
July 2nd, 2007
Google vs. Sicko
Michael Moore’s latest documentary Sicko released this past weekend and although I have yet to see it, the reviews have been highly appreciative and even go to the extent of calling it his best work yet. Even Fox News praised Moore’s maturity as a filmmaker. That is why I was extremely surprised to see Google [...]
Patrix | Business, Health, Movies, The world is ill, Weblogs, World Wide Web | 3 Comments »
March 8th, 2007
A Green Holi
I guess I missed the bus on mentioning Holi or wishing my readers a happy Holi-day, which incidentally wasn’t where I live (ok! ghissa-pita joke.) It really doesn’t matter because I think most of my readers live on this side of the Atlantic anyway (readers in India, this is the time to prove me wrong.) [...]
Patrix | Environment, Health, India, Society Culture | 4 Comments »
February 22nd, 2007
The HPV Dilemma
The HPV vaccine issue in Texas is a classic policy example of ends versus means with a little bit of wacky ideological mixed in for good measure. The genital human pappillomavirus (HPV) is known to cause cervical cancer among women and the chances of an average person getting the disease is quite high. “Since it [...]
Patrix | Governance, Health, Science | 11 Comments »
January 9th, 2007
School health report pisses off parents
I remember the time when we had an annual health checkup in school. A doctor sometimes accompanied by a nurse would come to the school and examine students over a couple of days. We were subjected to preliminary tests including sight and hearing tests. For us as long as we weren’t in the classroom we [...]
Patrix | Health, Society Culture, The world is ill, United States | 2 Comments »
December 1st, 2006
It is not bad for me?
Top 10 BAD things that are actually GOOD for you. Only if we knew this before. Sigh! Yet it is not too late.
March 28th, 2006
Stupid Red Bull
Red Bull not only gives you wings but if taken with alcohol, it makes you stupid as well.
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January 16th, 2005
The Sacrosanct Tainted
I have always argued in numerous arguments with my friends that life is no longer pure and innocent as it seems; we can merely look at it in a positive light and heed no attention to the spoils of the world if we are to enjoy our existence guilt-free. WorldChanging – Another World is Here, [...]
Patrix | Health, Mother Nature, Society Culture | 9 Comments »
Movies I've Watched...
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2008-09-02 21:00
Explores the brother-sister relationship brought together during their father's last days.
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2008-09-01 21:00
Poignant but slow narrative of an orphaned girl living with her aunt in rural Maharashtra.
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2008-08-09 23:00
Stunning and engaging narration. Raw violence and personal struggles of ordinary guys in a tough neighborhood.
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2008-08-05 20:00
Underwhelming. Johansson is miscast but continues her run of being the 'other woman'.
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