{"id":1747,"date":"2010-04-19T07:03:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T11:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/?p=1747"},"modified":"2010-04-15T22:20:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T02:20:56","slug":"keeping-cancer-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/04\/keeping-cancer-in-the-dark.html","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Cancer in the Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-1265277\/Cancer-danger-night-time-trip-toilet.html?ITO=1490\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Switch\" src=\"http:\/\/static.politifact.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/photos%2FLight_switch_.jpg\" alt=\"Switch\" width=\"300\" height=\"278\" \/><\/a>There are times it seems when scientists mostly seem to prove that they&#8217;ve run out of interesting things to study.\u00a0 Which is amazing when you think about it because television and comic books have been promising me interstellar space travel, x-ray glasses, and six-pack abs in 3 minutes a day for decades now, and that stuff remains undone.<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t worry about that.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-1265277\/Cancer-danger-night-time-trip-toilet.html?ITO=1490\">Worry about whether or not you turn on the light at night when you get up to pee<\/a>.\u00a0 Professor Charalambos Kyriacou (no, I don&#8217;t think the human tongue is capable of pronouncing that either) somehow convinced a bunch of mice to turn the light on at night while others peed in the dark.\u00a0 The result?\u00a0 Higher cancer rates for mice that can&#8217;t tell whether or not the lid is up or down without flipping the switch first.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose the upside is that I always peed in the dark just because the light hurt my eyes and then made it harder to get back to sleep.\u00a0 Now I know I&#8217;m being health conscious.\u00a0 Assuming of course that the asbestos, the red meat, and the second hand smoke don&#8217;t catch up to me on my way to the bathroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are times it seems when scientists mostly seem to prove that they&#8217;ve run out of interesting things to study.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/04\/keeping-cancer-in-the-dark.html\" title=\"Read Keeping Cancer in the Dark\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-madscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1755,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions\/1755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}