My Own Thoughts

Ellicia Stanley died today. God be with her family in this hard time. How do you ask God for something when he didn’t answer the last one with a yes? I guess you just ask. I’ve been praying for her. I even asked a friend who is a cancer survivor to write her. We prayed [...]

to you and yours. May you be blessed in this year.

that what you do on the first day of the year is how you will spend the year, I am devising a list (of 125) of my blessings. I hope that I will be blessed this year and that I will recognize my blessings. These are not necessarily in order of importance. God loves me. [...]

An Orthodox Jew weighs in. I also will refer you to my last discussion on this topic. The author referred to in the second article is more readable than the first.

A lawyer’s Christmas card: Play it and laugh. It appears to be from an actual law firm. Ho. Ho. Ho. Read it, even if the holiday is passed. We could all use the laughs. And a political set of holiday wishes brought here from Clayton Cramer.

A parrot, N’Kisi, with a 950 word vocabulary. After meeting Dr. Jane Goodall, and seeing a picture of her with the animals, asked, “Got a chimp?” Being shown a picture of a man on the telephone, N’Kisi asked, “What are you doing on the phone?” BBC’s article on N’Kisi. From Mirabilis, one of my daily [...]

I seem to be posting a lot on top tens, so… a list. Top 10 in Medicine Top 10 in Junk Science Top 10 Facts on Raising Children Top 10 National Geographic stories 10 Times Weather Made a Difference Top 12 Bizarre PC Classes Top 10 Weirdest Science Stories From BBC News is Science’s Top [...]

Top 10 stories in medicine in 2006 includes curing diabetes in mice (my personal favorite), the pulseless guy, and eight others I now don’t remember.

Supposedly this guy at Wired’s job was to shoot straighter within four weeks. He succeeded. But according to my hubby, he should have gone to Front Sight.

Since I often quote stuff here on how to make your brain better and stave off Alzheimer’s, dementia, and senility, I offer this fun article from Wired on what the writer did to lower his brain age. It includes showering with your eyes closed, eating beans on toast for breakfast (That sounds good to me.), [...]

I saw my mother today. I know I must have seen her before we left on the cruise, as we went to her house, but I don’t remember seeing her. But today I realized that she is several sizes smaller than the last time I saw her. Maybe 60 pounds. And she is off oxygen. [...]

Read it at Fox News. It starts with Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and goes through other bogus science faith points.

The list of 12 pc classes that are bizarre includes a class of history on the American Dream. Death of a Salesman is a story most of my age group read in high school, but maybe they don’t teach it there anymore. I don’t know all the texts, so this might not be a very [...]

If you think “the fourth estate is becoming a fifth column,” Right on the Left Coast’s joke will tickle your funny bone. Whoo Hah.

Apparently parthenogenesis (virgin birth) is found in 70 species of vertebrates, including the recently proven virgin birth experience of Komodo Dragons. What’s really odd is that all the children of virgin birth Komodo Dragons are male. Maybe Bones was right. Maybe there is no one single happening in the world. Of course, the thing about [...]

Most of my female ancestors lived to be in their 80s. One lived into her 90s. I have always supposed that this would mean I would live into my 80s or longer. In an article that reminded me of Heinlein’s Lazarus Long , Live Science says that a longevity gene also gives good brain power. [...]

of the year at Live Science. I particularly liked the Amazon flowed West and the Red Sea is parting the continent of Africa. But the whale dialects was interesting too.

Most Americans want government interference to stem tide of obesity. Okay, that’s not how the article put it, but that’s what it means.

without killing them seems to be the way to go. Live Science says the scientists are using displacins to get rid of bad DNA/plasmids on bacteria. Apparently regular bacteria can spread this “infection” of infertility to bad bacteria. Can they do it without “disarming” good bacteria? It doesn’t say.

People don’t come to church because of stuff like worship style, they come because of personal connection. The rest of it is about us, and frankly, this bit does not reflect well on us. Ouch. This kick in the shins is found at Blogotional, another of my daily reads.