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show first aired December 27, 2007
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This has to be one of the busiest times of the year. Holiday travel, making plans for the new year, figuring out who you can re-gift that reversible, plaid smoking jacket to. And that’s just what we have to do! On this week’s Health Show, we’ll buy ourselves a little time by rerunning some of our favorite stories of the year. We’ll once again hear how some states are repealing their motorcycle safety laws. Explore an old time doctors manual that’s quaint, informative...and just a little bit gruesome. Remind you that some of the cargo on that airplane you just got off may be a bit past its expiration date. And basically ruin your latest hot infatuation by studying the micro-biology of love.
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LET THOSE WHO RIDE DECIDE - SPLAT!
It’s not exactly motorcycle weather in most of the country...but if you were to get on a bike to day, would you have to wear a helmet? The answer is yes in only 20 states and the District of Columbia. In 1976, the federal government no longer made mandatory helmet use laws a condition for getting federal highway funds. Since then, bikers have lobbied states to drop their laws with a lot of success. But at what cost? Jacqueline Froelich reports with loud pipes from Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Fly The Eerily Silent Skies
There are regulations governing the transport of nearly everything between states in the US...including the bodies of deceased loved ones. But some states are dropping at least one of those restrictions...and that has some people fearing a flying epidemic. Rebecca Sheir reports.
Olde Tyme Health
There are a lot of old books in the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Reynolds Historical Library, some 13-thousand in all. One, though, stands out a bit more than the others. Only five copies of The English Physician are in existence today and U-A-B has one of them. It’s a book that, as Rosemary Pennington found out, helped shape what would one day become the United States of America.
The Neuro-Biology Of Love
The poet Lord Alfred Tennyson wrote "In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love". But what exactly is going on in a newly smitten young man’s mind? Neuroscientists, not a group you’d consider to be at the forefront of romance, recently got together at a conference at the University of California at Berkeley. There, the scientists pored over reams of neuro-physiologic data – about love. Lonny Shavelson reports.
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