Juxtaposition win

The napping device

Old school cigarette ads

Old school cigarette ads - with Santa and doctor's recommendation

The worst cereals for you

Interesting exercise contraption for women

Green tea flavoured coke

Now available in Japan - green tea flavored coke. Is this an oxymoron? Doesn't coke have coke flavor?

Don't believe me? Check out the press release in Japanese
http://www.cocacola.co.jp/corporate/news/news_20090604.html

Perspective

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jxe0fMOya_-tlGkWkRR6R1FW640A

Medical students use faulty procedure because of TV show ER

"When physicians at an Alberta hospital asked why so many medical students and residents were using a faulty technique for inserting life-saving breathing tubes in patients, they received an unexpected answer: It's television's fault.

Many of the doctors in training said they had learned the procedure from watching medical dramas. And a subsequent analysis of the show ER revealed its fictional MDs and nurses performed intubations incorrectly almost every time."

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1420155

Jumping Frenchmen of Maine is a disease

"First noted among related French-Canadian lumberjacks in the Moosehead Lake area of Maine"

The symptoms of the disease are described in the name of the disease

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_Frenchmen_of_Maine

Beer becomes new luxury product as cocaine prices fall

Cocaine, once the drug of investment bankers and other people with way too much money, now costs less that beer.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4602051/Cocaine-cheaper-than-lager-and-wine-as-drug-price-falls-by-half.html

American restaurants study ways to cut portion sizes

Restaurants are attempting to cut back on portion sizes, while maintaining the appearance that the portion sizes are unchanged. Some tricks include using smaller plates or stretching out food. This is all a move to cut food costs. Ironically, reducing American portion sizes from gigantic to large should also help cut down health care costs.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/12/AR2008041201225.html