Writer Elisabeth Rosenthal has worked as a physician and says it’s far more lucrative in the U.S. health system to provide a lifetime of treatments than a cure. Her new book is An American Sickness. Health care is a trillion-dollar industry in America, but are we getting what we pay for? Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal, a… Read More »
Much of the book is devoted to explaining why we can’t turn to the experts for guidance, or at least, why we should expect no more from them than from parents or grandparents. As one of the world’s leading developmental psychologists, Gopnik is in a position to state, with authority, that no one knows what’s… Read More »
Balcony Scene (Or Unseen) Atop the World; Episode at Trade Center Assumes Mythic Qualities By SHAILA K. DEWAN Published: August 18, 2001 The affair of the balcony ended, if indeed it ever began, with the appearance in July of a slender book of curious title, obtainable in very few places, one of them being an art… Read More »
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Haunting chalkboard drawings, frozen in time for 100 years, discovered in Oklahoma school – The Washington Post. Teachers and students scribbled the lessons — multiplication tables, pilgrim history, how to be clean — nearly 100 years ago. And they haven’t been touched since. This week, contractors removing old chalkboards at Emerson High School in Oklahoma City… Read More »
Flood Stories from Around the World by Mark Isaak. Copyright © 1996-2002 [Last Revision: September 2, 2002] Mirrored from http://home.earthlink.net/~misaak/floods.htm Introduction he stories below are flood stories from the world’s folklore. I have included stories here if (1) they are stories; (2) they are folklore, not historical accounts… Read More »
(Bloomberg) — Shoppers thronged grocery stores across Caracas today as deepening shortages led the government to put Venezuela’s food distribution under military protection. Long lines, some stretching for blocks, formed outside grocery stores in the South American country’s capital as residents search for scarce basic items such as detergent and chicken. “I’ve visited six stores… Read More »
We spend our lives reaching out to the people we love. But could it be that some people can make contact — even after they’re gone? Here’s Tracy Smith: In a way, this story is like almost the view from across the Golden Gate: intriguing, even beautiful, but sometimes hard to see through all the… Read More »
Frankly, I’ve never mentioned Bickel’s UFO detector on these pages because I thought this was one of those things best left unsaid. Living in the wilderness with all those cats caused many people to judge the old miner as a few gold flakes short of an ounce, and I didn’t want to add to that… Read More »
A former high class call girl is suing an ex-boyfriend after he said she was not a prostitute. Dr Brooke Magnanti — who achieved fame as blogger “Belle de Jour,” writing about her experiences as a $500 an hour call girl — is taking the legal action in Scotland, reports the Independent. It may be… Read More »
FATAL heroin overdoses in America have almost tripled in three years. More than 8,250 people a year now die from heroin. At the same time, roughly double that number are dying from prescription opioid painkillers, which are molecularly similar. Heroin has become the fallback dope when an addict can’t afford, or find, pills. Total overdose… Read More »
Because the Holocaust is force fed by state law enacted at the demands of the special interest group that will benefit the most from it. Uniformly, social studies textbooks fail to allow the Irish to speak for themselves, to narrate their own horror. These timid slivers of knowledge not only deprive students of rich lessons… Read More »
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How Growers Gamed California’s Drought Consuming 80 percent of California’s developed water but accounting for only 2 percent of the state’s GDP, agriculture thrives while everyone else is parched. “I’ve been smiling all the way to the bank,” said pistachio farmer John Dean at a conference hosted this month by Paramount Farms, the mega-operation owned… Read More »
Probiotics are important in maintaining our gut flora, but they can still cause issues just like any supplement and most issues with supplementation go unreported on the natural health blogosphere. Everyone writes about the pros of taking probiotics, but what are the cons? The cons of taking probiotics is the topic of this upcoming blog… Read More »
A book worth reading and a blog worth looking into: Magnesium is important in over 325 enzyme reactions in the body.1 It is used to regulate blood sugar in the body, and to help prevent you from developing diabetes.2 Magnesium relaxes arteries that carry blood throughout the body, which lowers blood pressure. Magnesium also chelates… Read More »
Urban says that long-form writing doesn’t only have to be engaging for the reader. If you’re writing something approaching 2,000 words, you better damn well be excited about the topic or else it will show—and your readers won’t be gripped enough to make it to the last sentence. via The Secrets Of Writing Smart, Long-form… Read More »
Because scientific studies are examining the role of magnesium in alleviating or circumventing many commonly occurring chronic ailments, it is important to be educated on the variations in magnesium supplements; especially magnesium orotate, the best form of the mineral supplement. Magnesium is not easily absorbed in the body unless first attached to transporting substance. For… Read More »
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Everything you have is nothing. It is all a spec on a metal surface. Your movies, photos, music. Google boss warns of ‘forgotten century’ with email and photos at risk | Technology | The Guardian.
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ON CREATIVITY How do people get new ideas? Presumably, the process of creativity, whatever it is, is essentially the same in all its branches and varieties, so that the evolution of a new art form, a new gadget, a new scientific principle, all involve common factors. We are most interested in the “creation” of a… Read More »
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The peace symbol originated as a logo based on an “individual in despair . . . in the manner of Goya’s peasant before the firing squad.” Written By Mark Sinclair 6 Notes 2 Pin 98 Plus 156 Share 1.1k Tweet 699 Like The symbol that would become synonymous with the Campaign for Nuclear… Read More »
Investigative reporter Gary Webb linked the CIA to America’s introduction to crack cocaine In a scene from the new movie Kill the Messenger, investigative reporter Gary Webb (played by Jeremy Renner) says that he doesn’t believe in conspiracy theories. He does, however, believe in real conspiracies: “If I believe it, there’s nothing ‘theory’ about… Read More »
These romance writers ditched their publishers for ebooks — and made millions By Mandi Woodruff August 1, 2014 6:03 PM Yahoo Finance . View photo Photo: Romance novelist Bella Andre earns eight figures as an independent writer. In early 2010, things weren’t going very well for San Francisco-based romance novelist Bella… Read More »
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Follow Wired Twitter Facebook RSS HealthTap’s Video Chatting Doctors Want to End Your WebMD Meltdowns By Issie Lapowsky 07.30.14 | 9:00 am | Permalink Share on Facebook 198 inShare16 HealthTap “On the internet,” says Ron Gutman, “every headache becomes a brain tumor in four clicks or less.” For Gutman and his colleagues in the world of health tech,… Read More »
When Akihiko Takahashi was a junior in college in 1978, he was like most of the other students at his university in suburban Tokyo. He had a vague sense of wanting to accomplish something but no clue what that something should be. But that spring he met a man who would become his mentor, and… Read More »
9 Things to Know About Reviving the Recently Dead By Greg Miller In 1986, a two-and-a-half year-old girl named Michelle Funk fell into a stream and drowned. By the time paramedics found her, she hadn’t been breathing for more than an hour. Her heart was stopped. In other words, she was dead. Somewhat inexplicably, the… Read More »
Robert David Steele, former Marine, CIA case officer, and US co-founder of the US Marine Corps intelligence activity, is a man on a mission. But it’s a mission that frightens the US intelligence establishment to its core. With 18 years experience working across the US intelligence community, followed by 20 more years in commercial intelligence… Read More »
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PHILADELPHIA — DINNER with your children in 19th-century America often required some self-control. Berry stains in your daughter’s hair? Good for her. Raccoon bites running up your boy’s arms? Bet he had an interesting day. As this year’s summer vacation begins, many parents contemplate how to rein in their kids. But there was a time… Read More »
There’s so much money in American politics these days that fat-cat donors don’t just spend it on candidates and issues anymore — they also spend it attacking each other. Hedge-fund investor Tom Steyer, a heavyweight Democratic contributor, plans to start running ads taking on billionaire Republican donors Charles and David Koch for their positions on… Read More »
Woman who wrote fake Holocaust memoir must pay back $22.5M to publisher | Fox News. A Belgium-born Massachusetts woman who admitted to fabricating a best-selling memoir about her experiences during World War II and the Holocaust has been ordered to pay back $22.5 million to her publisher. Judge Marc Kantrowitz issued what he called “the… Read More »
Gene Sperling is a stone-cold Pop-Tart thief. “At one point, Meg [McConnell, an adviser] noticed that a strawberry Pop-Tart she had bought from one of Treasury’s vending machines had vanished. She looked over at Gene [Sperling, then a counselor to Mr. Geithner], who shrugged and admitted he had eaten it. He said he would buy… Read More »
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IF you walk into a farm-supply store today, you’re likely to find a bag of antibiotic powder that claims to boost the growth of poultry and livestock. That’s because decades of agricultural research has shown that antibiotics seem to flip a switch in young animals’ bodies, helping them pack on pounds. Manufacturers brag about the… Read More »
David Icke’s book “…and the Truth Shall Set You Free” lists a summary of the basic themes of the Elite’s plan following World War II: To introduce a world authority called the United Nations (with associated bodies like the World Health Organisation), which could evolve into a world government with powers to control the lives… Read More »
Rothschilds & Rockefellers – Trillionaires Of The World Learn your history before it repeats on you. By New World Order 12-3-7 “Money is Power”, or shall we say, “The Monopoly to Create Credit Money and charge interest is Absolute Power”. (Alex James) Amsel (Amschel) Bauer Mayer Rothschild, 1838: “Let me issue and control… Read More »
Updated Dec. 28, 2013 10:46 p.m. ET Philadelphia ‘What you’re seeing is how a civilization commits suicide,” says Camille Paglia. This self-described “notorious Amazon feminist” isn’t telling anyone to Lean In or asking Why Women Still Can’t Have It All. No, her indictment may be as surprising as it is wide-ranging: The military is out… Read More »
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Full text preserved here for educational benefit. By Matt Welch, Matt Welch is editor in chief of Reason magazine and co-author with Nick Gillespie of The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What’s Wrong With America, now out in paperback with a new foreword. Tony Pierce remembers vividly the exact moment in November 2000… Read More »