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Except that you can develop a tolerance for acetaminophen, and that it ends up causing medication overuse headache. Compound analgesics are on par with triptans in this regard, extremely addictive if one is not careful). Taken chronically more than once per week these drugs can induce an addiction. Simple analgesics and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug drugs taken more than twice weekly become addictive too. The brain begs for his meds by giving the patient a headache.

I've seen patients with a daily dose of 40-60g of acetaminophen. In a non-accustomed person, 8g in one take can induce a fulminant hepatitis (lethal in a couple of days unless treated with a graft)...


Cluster Headache (CH) is also known as the Killer headache, because of the high prevalence of suicide in suffers.

Methadone has also recently been demonstrated to be an efficient CH treatment, and it can legally be prescribed (though I would recommend it only for medically intractable CH, i.e. CH resistant to the usual prophylactic treatments like Verapamil and Lithium salts).

Occipital nerve (electro)stimulation is also an effective treatment in ~75% of intractable chronic CH patients (almost daily attacks all the year without remission). We're currently trying to get the surgical procedure reimbursed by the social security in the European Union.


Clojure crossed Common Lisp on Google Trends in october 2008, then remained stable until 1.0. From then, it kept on growing, at a slow but steady pace.

I guess we'll see another boom when the major libraries will have stabilized as well...

http://www.google.com/trends?q=clojure,common+lisp


The trend for Clojure is encouraging, however when comparing it with the trend for Common Lisp, one has to keep in mind that the latter is often called simply Lisp. A slight decline in the trend for Common Lisp may be related to an increase in such usage (if there is one, which I am not sure about).


Especially since the NOR logic gate symbol almost looks like a heart...

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


From this(http://www.well.ox.ac.uk/cvri/people/fellows/sears.htm), we can infer the apprximative average volume of a cardiac myocyte as 21 048 µm³.

Knowing that the human heart weights on average 300g, it makes about 10^(10(+/-0.5)) cells, hence 2^(10^10) states for a FSM built on it (rough approximation).

Even though the simulated experiment had obviosuly less cells, I think that the real heart can in practice be considered as turing equivalent.


I'd rather say they're lagging regarding Wirth's law.

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


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