Thursday 1/12/23
Celebrate:
Curried Chicken Day
Feast of Fabulous Wild Men Day
Healthy Weight, Healthy Look Day
International Kiss a Ginger Day
National Hot Tea Day
National Marzipan Day
National Pharmacist Day
Stick To Your New Year's Resolution Day
Work Harder Day
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Jeff Beck, the British rockstar known for his skillful mastery of guitar has died at 78.
The eight-time Grammy winner earned two spots in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, in 1992 with the Yardbirds in 1992 and as a solo artist in 2009.
Here is a performance from 1999 on The David Letterman Show.
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ChatGPT, a free AI program that launched to the public in November, can write in a range of styles about seemingly any topic. (An example prompt: "Explain gravity to a five-year-old.")
Sometimes the program falls short in its attempt to sound human, but it's making enough progress that Microsoft is considering investing $10 billion in the technology, according to a report from the newsletter Semafor.
my need2know newsletter commented:
This paragraph was artisanally crafted by a fair-trade human writer.
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Nobody picked the right numbers for the Mega Millions jackpot Tuesday night, so those with eyes on the prize will see an estimated $1.35 billion jackpot for the next drawing Friday. It will be “making history as the second highest Mega Millions jackpot ever,” lottery officials said.
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A new study out of China says there's a link between Pepsi and male pattern baldness. Not just Pepsi . . . but all sugar-sweetened beverages: Soft drinks, juice, sport drinks, energy drinks, and sweetened coffee and tea.
Researchers in Beijing found that men who indulged in just ONE soda per day had a 57% higher risk of experiencing male pattern hair loss compared to those who avoided them. And just one to three sugary drinks per WEEK saw a 21% increase in risk of hair loss.
That said, the findings are considered "correlative" . . . meaning that the researchers can't report that soda CAUSES hair loss, only that soda drinkers are losing their hair at higher rates.
This also isn't the first time that sugar and male pattern baldness have been linked. Previous studies have found that high sugar intake leads to an increase in blood glucose, which can start a chain reaction that results in the shrinking of hair follicles and potentially early baldness.
I call Bull....I have a lovely head of hair and I practically eat sugar right out of the bowl.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Coffee tables are a result of prohibition.
Before 1920, the tables in living rooms were called "cocktail tables." But once alcohol became illegal, people started serving coffee to their guests instead, and the name "coffee table" stuck.
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