Laundry is a perfect example of just how far you have to go and invariably it makes you wish that you were there yesterday! Our washing machine is getting a bit cranky lately. After a bit of mood swings, it overflowed yesterday with some nasty temper, yet again. Not too…
That’s one of history’s famous kisses. Alfred Eisenstaedt’s 1945 “LIFE” magazine photograph of a sailor stamping a passionate kiss on a nurse (Edith Shain). Well, if kissing is universal, then someone must have invented it, or rather discovered it. Vaughn Bryant, an anthropologist at Texas A&…
The Paradox of our Age [http://www.sharrongold.com/tshirts.html]. “We have bigger houses but smaller families, more conveniences, but less time; We have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgement; more medicines, but less healthiness; We’ve been all the way to the moon and…
Once upon a time, in a far away land, there was Clementine. I’ve been told that there are six people [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation], anywhere, who might spend this day without thinking of Clementine. So if you are one of those six, then don’…
Can parasites manipulate the behavior of host organisms? Consider this … > The fluke Euhaplorchis californiensis causes fish to shimmy and jump so wading birds will grab them and eat them. Hairworms, which live inside grasshoppers, sabotage the grasshopper’s central nervous system, forcing them to jump into pools of water,…
> The debate over Charles Darwin [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin]‘s theories pits scientists against fundamentalist Christians, who take the Bible’s version of creation literally and equate evolution with atheism. Proponents of intelligent design don’t deny that life evolved over billions of years. But they…
> Running short of words or just too drunk. Nobody told me it feels so good, nobody told me you feel so beautiful. You are the light when I close my eyes, I’m coming to you. Am I Colorblind? 🙂 Sabrina, the teenage witch, who happens to be a good…
Imagine an ant walking on a crumpled sheet of paper. The ant would say that there was a mysterious “force” which pulled it left and right. But we know that there is no “force” pulling the ant; there is only the crumpled sheet of paper pushing the ant left and…