Want a laugh? This is just too funny: TOKUS Smackers!
Be warned, this Alfred Hitchcock documentary on the Nazi Holocaust is pretty gruesome, but it is important.
Here are just 5 Ways Europeans Live Better than Americans. Why are we so arrogant as to believe that the world wants to be like us?
Something different: Adrift In Manhattan. Apart from the still luscious & lovely Elizabeth Peña(so she's put on a few pounds), Adrift is A meditation on isolation. Among the best movies I've seen in a long time.
Excellent list of 10 Ways to Become a Better Writer. I'll be bookmarking this at home.
With all the advances in cybernetics & a long sci-fi history of such, it was bound to happen: UK researchers give robot a "biological brain". Of course, if you can't touch the future, you can't stop it from happening.
Should we do this here?
Typical! Pill Users Choose 'Wrong' Sex Partners. Just typical.
As if things weren't bad enough, Sats results: School reading standards drop. Shouldn't that be SAT's?
When I'd lived in London that sweltering, yet amazing summer in the 80's, I'd suddenly found that I wasn't feeling ill after meals. Since my early teens, most anything I'd eat would either make me feel a little queezy, or -- most often -- gave me heartburn. But the food I'd eaten in London, including even KFC & a Big Mac from McDonalds, didn't have any ill effects on me whatsoever. Upon returning to the US, I was back where I'd started -- geographically as well as gastronomically.
At some point in the 90's, I'd started taking an over-the-counter antacid which is only to be taken once a day, as opposed to the chewing of minty, chalky antacids after each meal. For some time, I was in heaven. I could eat anything & not feel ill or experience any heartburn. Naturally, I'd put on some weight.
Later, apart from not being pleased with daily diarrhea, I'd learned that these little, pink pills have the nasty effect of making one's liver work overtime, leading to eventual, early failure. Plus, it appears, they do many other nasty things to us.
I'd immediately stopped taking these pills & went back to chewing Rolaids. At least Rolaids won't likely kill me, right?
Well, isn't it interesting that this isn't disclosed in the pink pill adverts. Even a nurse practitioner I'd gone to see about my heartburn issues had told me it's all true, &, since I have to eat, chew those chalky tablets. Anything bad they may do to me won't come close to what the pink pills do.
So, it turns out that there are a number of meds the pharmaceuticals don't want us to know are worse for us than the initial symptoms (uncontrollable flatulence aside). Here's a nice little article: 8 Drugs Doctors Would Never Take.
Hmm, if they won't touch them, why do they prescribe them? Could there be something akin to kick-backs involved...?
Maybe we all should just avoid anything coming from the pharmaceuticals.
Interesting. I've never tried it (although I don't find it very difficult to get the gist of things once you get past the accent -- same goes for any Germanic language, they may be different, but there is enough Germanic in English, in my opinion, that they're all easy enough to figure out), but blogger explains Why Norwegian is the easiest language for English speakers to learn. Funny, this brings me back to reading Martin Luther in Dutch, & -- heh -- Moliere in French without having studied the languages.
Emerald Bay. Sweet!Here's one for Gertrude: Texas Town OKs Teachers Packing Heat.
Aliens calling? Signals detected from beyond Solar System. Wonder if we'll hear any more about this -- either way.
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