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Life and death at the new age ER

From the comedians at the UK television series That Mitchell and Webb Look, a sketch on what would happen if the people who believed in the healing properties of ever-diluted tinctures and of quartz took care of trauma patients. Stick around for the beer at the end.

A thought on healthy jobs

"Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness."
- Galen

(Sw)eat to the beat

Keith Moon may have been bloated and horribly out of shape when he died after years of excessive drug and alcohol intake, but the fellow was as fit as a fiddle in his prime. No wonder, according to some new research, which found that an hour of drumming is as good a workout as you'll get anywhere. This is far from an exhaustive, double-blind study; the subject of study was Blondie's Clem Burke (above). Click here to see a BBC report on the findings. Click below to see Clem Burke in action, with the propulsive drumming behind Dreaming, Blondie's 1979 single.