Link Collection

The swine flu is rapidly spreading throughout the US, so it is good that the swine flu vaccine began to be available on Tuesday. It is scary that pregnant women have a 6x greater chance to die from the swine flu, with 100 pregnant women in the US sent to emergency rooms between April and August (when the swine flu was much less widespread than it will be this Fall and Winter), with 28 pregnant women (and almost certainly the kids they were carrying) dying:
http://www.physorg.com/news173841614.html

German scientists developed a nasal spray that improves memory if a person gets a good night's sleep afterwards. Young men taking this nasal spray remembered more things that they were studying the night before when they woke up the next morning...the market for college students alone could be huge for this!
http://www.physorg.com/news173622201.html

Brain imaging shows that playing Tetris actually enlarges the brain and may increase brain efficiency!
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090901082851.htm

Astronomer says that the discovery of new Earths is imminent:
http://www.physorg.com/news173378368.html

Awesome photos show that the upgrades done by astronauts in May have resulted in the Hubble Space Telescope being more powerful than ever:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112684702

Study found that when you eat, not just how much you eat, can make a big difference in weight gain. Study found that when mice ate at unusual hours they gained twice as much weight despite exercising and eating as much as others:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8234386.stm

Study found that certain forms of arsenic that are contained in seafood may be toxic. Even worse, the researchers found that the arsenic seems to build up inside of some people over an extended period of time:
http://blogs.discoverychannel.co.uk/discovery-news/2009/09/arsenic-in-seafood-may-pose-health-risk.html

Study seems to indicate that dogs were first domesticated in China...for food:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/09/090904-dogs-tamed-china-food.html

102-year-old woman is quitting smoking--she has been smoking for 95 years!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1212928/Im-giving-cigarettes--95-years.html

Study found that 3% of adult women have been the object of a sexual advance from their clergy:
http://fredericksburg.com/blogs/view?blogger_id=28&p=1253030996

According to the NY Daily News Britney Spears used a 'music video audition' to try to pick up model Bekim Trenova but he turned her down:
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/09/13/2009-09-13_britney_spears_used_music_video_audition_to_try_to_pick_up_model_bekim_trenova_s.html