One of my favorite blogs at the moment is Effect Measure , which is theoretically all about pressing public health issues but also includes such nuggets as "Paul Revere was a member of the first local Board of Health in the United States" (and that's just in the "about us" profile). Right now on EM, you can read about Robert Frost's "Fire and Ice," the Indian blogspot ban, Iraqi cats that have come down with bird flu, and " popcorn workers' lung ," which is apparently the modern-day equivalent of black lung :
Candy too? There goes my Plan B. More seriously, popcorn lung does appear to be real; one of the victims died in May, and Congress recently started an investigation .
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