While listening to this weeks Wait, wait, don't tell me!, I heard that scientists at Rutgers University have found that rats that had a combination of regular exercise and caffeine intake also displayed increased destruction of precancerous cells that had been damaged by the sun's ultraviolet-B radiation (A.K.A. fewer cancerous cells actually made it past the rats normal defense system). Being a grad student (What! The coffee cart is only open till 11:30pm!, but what happens if the expresso machine in my office dies?), and a regular at the gym, this excited me. Maybe all those summers working long hours at the pool, undergrad in Hawaii, and a youth spent in the state with the highest melanoma rate won't mean that I will have skin cancer after all! Then I started thinking. If exercise and caffeine help prevent skin cancer (Aloha Boulder residents), why does Colorado still have the highest melanoma rate?
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Nice artwork.
I am still looking forward to a "fishprint".
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