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Linda Rivera update from her brother-in-law:
Linda will be discharged from her “home” of Desert Springs Hospital for the past year and to an unknown rehabilitation center. Her tracheostomy opening...
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At Berkeley, one of my most unusual students was a psychology major named Sandy Tesch, who by then had risen through Red Cross volunteer ranks to be on their national youth council. A few years later she...
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During a 2009 FBI/NYPD raid of a house in Queens
A hazmat team in full protective gear was brought in to investigate a jar of kombucha tea fermenting in the basement.
The police seized a Mao Zedong re frigerator...
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The QuietComfort 15 headphones ($300) are Bose’s newest noise-cancelling headphones. I had two of an earlier model, the QC 2, because when they broke I couldn’t bear to be without one for two...
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Victims of foodborne illness gathered in the nation's capital last week to speak to Senators about the need to move food safety legislation forward. Senate bill 510 (S510, the Food Safety Modernizatio n...
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My friend David Gumpert over at The Complete Patient broke the news tonight that Whole Foods will be stopping raw milk sales in its stores in several states - "Another Body Blow to Food Choice As Whole...
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A skeptical look at Karl Popper by Martin Gardner
Effects of food on the brain
fat sensitivity correlates with BMI (less sensitive, greater BMI)
Bill McKibben on Climategate: “If you managed to hack...
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According to Chicago press reports, the number of people sickened by the Shigella outbreak traced to a Lombard sandwich shop is now at 50, DuPage County Health Department spokesman David Hass said thi s...
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ORIGINAL STORY OVER AT MY EXAMINER.COM PAGEMarch 11 is World Kidney Day. Health organizations around the world are promoting the proper care and use of kidneys. The kidneys are two bean-shaped organs in...
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Yesterday I blogged about a sudden improvement in how fast I could do arithmetic. The improvement was much larger than normal variation and happened after I did four things that I rarely did. In chron ological...
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