Summer Facts and Life Hacks

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Summer officially starts next week with the solstice, even though school is already out, and the temperatures have been high for months. But we've got a lot of summer ahead of us, so we may as well learn something new from Mental Floss about our favorite summer activities. This episode of Scatterbrained has trivia about ice cream, summer travel, iced tea, and more. John Green has some handy tips to make summer easier. Learn the history of the state fair. And don't forget your sunscreen!  


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My Rotary club bought "expired" tetracycline for pennies on the dollar. Sent it to San Salvador and saved thousands of lives after rebels destroyed water and sewage plants.
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This is so obvious... If you double the expiration date of a medicine, you cut the profit of the companies by half (sort of, of course - if you don't need to discard an expired medicine, you won't need to buy a new box if needed at least not that often). The pharmaceutical industry is evil, profiting on people's life and death at their own will. See the HIV for example (or even cancer): instead of searching more effectively for an actual cure, they just prefer to let people live thethered to their "cocktails" (which aren't cheap) for life. Profit, of course, so they can "spend the money of the profit on new researches"... yeah, sure.
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This is the oldest news... There are studies showing this same result every couple years, dating back to the Army circa Korean war. (1950s)
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Except that you do have to watch the expiration dates of some drugs. That should be pointed out in the article. This is from the Harvard University site http://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/drug-expiration-dates-do-they-mean-anything

It's true the effectiveness of a drug may decrease over time, but much of the original potency still remains even a decade after the expiration date. Excluding nitroglycerin, insulin, and liquid antibiotics, most medications are as long-lasting as the ones tested by the military.
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