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8 Actors and Directors Who Did Not Get Along
When two highly paid creative visionaries work together, things don’t always go smoothly.
Meet the Man Who’s Found 83 Messages in Bottles
Some people collect stamps or build models, but Clint Buffington has a more unusual hobby.
EpiPens, the auto-injectors that reverse severe allergic reactions, have become obscenely expensive in the last decade, with costs rising more than 450 percent since 2004—and you can’t always get the generic version. A set of two EpiPens costs $600, though the devices only cost the UK’s National Health Service (not the consumer) about $69. Even members of the U.S. Congress have demanded an explanation for the rising costs—in part because, since 1997, it has been misclassified as a generic drug.
CVS is now stepping in to give consumers another option, according to Ars Technica. The drug store is debuting a generic epinephrine auto-injector in a partnership with Impax Laboratories. This generic version of Impax’s Adrenaclick will cost only $109.99, and Impax is making coupons available to reduce the price to just $10 for some patients.
Last year, under intense scrutiny over the price of EpiPens, Mylan began selling a generic version, but that still costs $300. Hopefully, competing with the CVS alternative, sold at 9600 pharmacies around the country, will force Mylan to bring down its prices to a more reasonable rate.
[h/t Ars Technica]
January 13, 2017 – 11:15am
Snooker player Bill Webeniuk was famous for his drinking ability. He once drank 76 cans during a match. On another occasion after winning a drinking competition by drinking 43 pints he said I’m away to the bar now for a proper drink”. 10
A programmer developed an operating system called TempleOS since 2003. Hospitalized for mental health problems, he believes that TempleOS is literally the Third Temple as biblically prophesied. Per God’s “instructions,” the OS uses a 640×480, 16 color display, and uses the language HolyC. 10
The ‘stomach in your mouth feeling’ on a roller coaster is your organs floating inside you. 10
Kathryn Johnston became the first girl to play Little League baseball in 1950, when she tucked her hair under her hat, adopted the nickname “Tubby”, and joined the Kings Dairy team, posing as a boy. When she told her coach she was a girl, he said “That’s O.K., you’re a darned good player.” 10
A 2015 study found that people posting duck face pictures are more likely to be associated with neuroticism and emotional instability. 10
A clinical trial in 2016 held at Stanford University School of Medicine found that injecting modified human stem cells directly into the brains of chronic stroke patients can re-enable patients to walk. 10
Franklin D Roosevelt called for a maximum wage of $25,000 (about $365,000 in today’s money) and 100% tax on all earnings above that. 20