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A family learns the true meaning of the vow “in sickness and in health” - The Washington PostOne of the most beautiful love stories I have read, EVER.

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Clayton Christensen: How Pursuit of Profits Kills Innovation and the U.S. Economy - ForbesThis makes SO MUCH SENSE.

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Led by the child who simply knew - The Boston GlobeThis article is a hard read because the thought of transgender children is a challenging one. To be honest, I would have been opposed to aiding a minor in transitioning genders, until I read this article. It is thought-provoking and informative. Full kudos to the parents of this child for trusting, respecting, and accepting her.

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Do Bach flower remedies have a ro... [Complement Ther Clin Pract. 2007] - PubMed - NCBI"The use of Bach flower remedies has brought about positive emotional changes in the majority of clients in this study. Whilst it is difficult to draw a definitive conclusion as to significance of the therapeutic value of these remedies in relation to pain above that of a placebo, the results are encouraging.

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1 stick butter (one quarter-cup) 1 cup sugar 1.5 – 2.0 cups applesauce 2 cups mashed very ripe bananas (about 4 bananas) 2 teaspoons baking soda 2 and one-quarter cups flour (can use gluten-free flour from Bulk Barn – you can't tell the difference) milk chocolate chips to taste, one-quarter to one-half a cup (optional) In large mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar. Add bananas, eggs, and

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Effect of delayed versus early umbilical cord clamping on neonatal outcomes and iron status at 4 months: a randomised controlled trial | BMJBabies whose umbilical cords were clamped 3 mins or more had better iron levels at 4 months of age compared to those whose cords were clamped within 10 seconds of birth. FYI.

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Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory // University of Notre DameJames J. McKenna is probably THE expert on co-sleeping. It's a longer video interview (12 mins) but his discussion of bed-sharing is thoroughly considered and articulate. A pleasure to watch someone who is so good at what he does.

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Please meet my newest role model: At 102, therapist is too busy to stop working - latimes.com

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Study debunks myths on organic farmsThe results are in from a 30-year side-by-side trial of conventional and organic farming methods at Pennsylvania's Rodale Institute. Contrary to conventional wisdom, organic farming outperformed conventional farming in every measure.Read more: http://www.thestarphoenix.com/business/Study+debunks+myths+organic+farms/5462520/story.html#ixzz1ZOimmLdA

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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #86: Tiny Revolutions - The Rumpus.netI know as women we’re constantly being scorched by the relentless porno/Hollywood beauty blow-torch, but in my real life I’ve found that the men worth fucking are far more good-natured about the female body in its varied forms than is generally acknowledged. Naked and smiling, is one male friend’s only requirement for a

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Russell Simmons presents Def Poetry Jam - Knock Knock - YouTube Goosebumps ... EVERY TIME.

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Is right here: * American Solutions, the fundraising powerhouse at the center for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s promotional empire, has quietly shut its doors. Gingrich was forced to sever ties with the 527 group in order to run for president. At its peak, the group raised more money than any other such organization, collecting in excess of $52 million in its first four years. But it also

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Looting with the lights on | Naomi Klein | Comment is free | The Guardian

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Dan Buettner: How to live to be 100+ | Video on TED.com Profound.

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The NFL star and the brain injuries that destroyed him | Science | The GuardianIf I had a child, I would never let him/her play tackle football ...

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Gardasil Researcher Speaks Out - CBS NewsVERY interesting article about the HPV vaccine.

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Effects of Melissa officinalis L. on oxidative status and DNA damage in subjects exposed to long-term low-dose ionizing radiation

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Pill Users Choose "Wrong" Sex Partners - CBS News

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Suzuki warns Tory scheme to cancel green energy plans is ‘absolute insanity’ - thestar.comSomething to think about while we're in the throes of Thermageddon ...

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A journalist's Jerry Maguire moment. Awesome. Why I quit my job: « Kai Nagata

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Go ahead—sleep with your kids. - By Robert Wright - Slate Magazine

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megan rosalarian gedris | Dressed to Kill

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“Arrival of the Fittest” by Rachel Giese | The Walrus | June 2011In addition to finding out whether their teenage respondents were getting into trouble, the researchers also asked them about their values, habits, and temperaments. Do you talk to your mother about your feelings? Do you finish your homework? Do you like to take chances? What ultimately set the first generation kids apart were three

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"Worst" analogies found in high school papers.Some of them are brilliantly funny. ;->

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I used to do patrols for birds before school took over my life. This is a fascinating article on legal steps that are being taken to try to hold landlords accountable for so many killed birds (some of them endangered!)This one’s for the birds - Life - Macleans.ca

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Cheap, 'safe' drug kills most cancers - health - 17 January 2007 - New Scientist

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'Growing up bin Laden - Book: Osama's son Omar Speaks - TIMEIntelligence agencies and scholars of extremist movements might do well to pay attention to Omar's al-Qaeda childhood for clues about how to inoculate young people against radicalism. His remarkable achievement — to have maintained humane beliefs despite being pulled from school at the age of 12 and exposed to a near constant deluge of

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Lower corporate taxes won't create more jobs - Fortune Finance

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Dear Globe and MailA wonderful response to the Globe and Mail's editorial endorsing Harper for PM.

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C-Sections and Induced Labor Don’t Mean Better Outcomes for Infants, Study Finds - NYTimes.com

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Ric Elias: 3 things I learned while my plane crashed | Video on TED.com

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Royal wedding: Does Kate Middleton really want to marry into a family like this? - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate MagazineI can't argue with anything Hitchens writes here, but I still hope for the best for these two. It helps that I don't watch TV news.

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An Open Letter to Stephen Harper: "Nowhere is your mastery of fiction more evident than in your decision to run on your economic record when you don’t actually have one. Smart of you to take credit for Canada’s financial stability in the current global recession when it was exactly neoconservative policies like yours that unraveled the economy south of the border, and shamefacedly socialist ones,

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Canada's image lies in tatters. It is now to climate what Japan is to whaling | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian: "Canada is a cultured, peaceful nation, which every so often allows a band of Neanderthals to trample over it. Timber firms were licensed to log the old-growth forest in Clayaquot Sound; fishing companies were permitted to destroy the Grand Banks: in both cases these

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Gender Imbalance in Media, Geena Davis, Broken Models of Masculinity & Femininity - Thompson on Hollywood: "“the more hours of television a girl watches, the fewer options she believes she has in life. And the more hours a boy watches, the more sexist his views become.”"

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Alzheimer's: Diabetes of the Brain? | The Dr. Oz Show

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Utterly amazing.: "Kish can hardly remember a time when he didn’t click. He came to it on his own, intuitively, at age two, about a year after his second eye was removed. Many blind children make noises in order to get feedback — foot stomping, finger snapping, hand clapping, tongue clicking. These behaviors are the beginnings of echolocation, but they’re almost invariably deemed asocial by

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Silencing Dissent: The Conservative Record | Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives: "The Harper government’s now lengthy record of silencing – or attempting to silence – its critics also includes the removal of heads of government agencies, commissions, and tribunals who insist on making independent decisions. Academics who have spoken against government actions or policies have also been

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An open letter to Canadian journalists - CAJ: Under Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the flow of information out of Ottawa has slowed to a trickle. Cabinet ministers and civil servants are muzzled. Access to Information requests are stalled and stymied by political interference. Genuine transparency is replaced by slick propaganda and spin designed to manipulate public opinion ...In addition, the

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The Dollars and Cents of Bats and Farming - NYTimes.comEvery day, a bat eats much of its body weight in insects, many of them harmful to crops. A group of scientists led by Thomas Kunz at Boston University calculated how much more money cotton farmers in one region of Texas would spend on pesticides if bats weren’t present. Extrapolating from those numbers, they estimated that bats save American

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Love this blog post.

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The Canadian Nixon | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk: "As prime minister, Harper's shocking comments about Elections Canada's investigation of the 'in and out' scam alleged by the agency are perhaps the most alarming outburst by any sitting prime minister. Desperate to take Canadians' focus off the Conservatives' allegedly illegal overspending during the 2006 campaign, Harper actually publicly

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FDA Probes Link Between Food Dyes, Kids' Behavior : NPR

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A government in contempt, no doubt - The Globe and Mail

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A government in contempt, no doubt - The Globe and Mail

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Freedom’s Painful Price - NYTimes.com: "“The revolution isn’t over yet,” Ms. Omran told me. “Freedom isn’t for free.”"

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Harris: Owl Whisperer | mamapunditThis story is so beautiful that I can hardly breathe.

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How Carrots Became the New Junk Food

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Is Daylight Saving Time Bad for Your Health? – TIME Healthland: An Australian study study published in 2008 in Sleep and Biological Rhythms found that men were more likely to commit suicide during the first few weeks of Daylight Saving Time (DST) than at any other time during the year.Another 2008 study, published by Swedish researchers in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that the

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Eye of The Newt - NYTimes.comGingrich is asked about his personal life more often than most politicians. If you’re on your third wife, cheated perpetually on the first two, and are running for the Republican presidential nomination as a social conservative, these things come up.The most famous story about Gingrich’s failed marriages is about his first wife, Jackie, who had been Newt’s high school

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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #67: The Black Arc Of It - The Rumpus.net: "... compassion isn’t about solutions. It’s about giving all the love that you’ve got."

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44 - Newt Gingrich: 'Passion for the country' led to personal indiscretions (video)It's times like this that I would really like to live with someone who follows U.S. politics. Because right now, I'd like to walk into the next room, saying "You gotta hear this", and proceed to read:"There's no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I

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Is Gandhi really in hell? - CSMonitor.com: "“I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” – Gandhi"

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The Cost of Integrity (Christiane Ouimet's Big Payoff) | Green Party of Canada

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Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science - Magazine - The AtlanticFascinating article about some of the questions about "Evidence-based" medicine.

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The 'Nocebo' Effect: Pessimism Can Hinder Treatment: "'We all know that many treatments work for some people but not for others,' says neuroscientist Dr. Randy Gollub of Massachusetts General Hospital. Instead of stressing only the percentages, 'say, `I have every reason to believe that you could be one of the people who will respond.''"

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The Tipping Point | Coffee Party

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Zip-line crash victims lose lawsuit - British Columbia - CBC News

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Madeleine Albright: On being a woman and a diplomat | Video on TED.comThis gladdens my heart on so many levels ... the full-throated, unapologetic embrace of feminism, a celebration of the accomplishments of a strong and smart woman, the intelligent conversation between two women, and - not least - two women "of a certain age" whose faces haven't been maimed in the name of "beauty" and pulled as

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BBC News - Gene Sharp: Author of the nonviolent revolution rulebookTruly fascinating. We are living in a new time.

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Daily Kos: Union is the measure: "Nothing has changed since the time that first line of the Constitution was written. Union is not just a means to oppose tyranny, it is the only means."

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Lying to Ourselves « WilloToons: "Often our white lies are our inability to forgive ourselves for messing up or not knowing better. So if we lie to ourselves, and others, we’re really just trying to be [an illusion of] perfect. By blaming something else, it’s not your fault. Or by making up an answer, you don’t look stupid. What if we started accepting responsibility? What if we committed to

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Enviroblog: Borax: Not the green alternative it's cracked up to be Archives

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The G.O.P.’s Post-Tucson Traumatic Stress Disorder - NYTimes.com: "Indeed, his appearance at CPAC on the morning of Friday, Feb. 11, was entirely consistent with his public image as an otherworldly visitor from an Aqua Velva commercial circa 1985."

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La Vida Locavore:: Researcher: Glyphosate (Roundup) or Roundup Ready Crops May Cause Animal MiscarriagesScary stuff.

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Fox News Insider: "Stuff Is Just Made Up"

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Hikers in Iran: Hiker who was imprisoned in Iran describes ordeal, pleads for companions' release - latimes.com

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YouTube - Senator John Kerry on HypocrisyGod, if only he had won that presidential race ... :(

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Willie Smits restores a rainforest | Video on TED.comSo empowering and exciting.

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How has Southwest Airlines made money for 30 plus years while other airlines barely survive? | Business and FinanceFantastic interview. 25 mins.

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Dana Ullman: Luc Montagnier, Nobel Prize Winner, Takes Homeopathy Seriously

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Abortion doesn't trigger mental distress, says study - Health - Mental health - msnbc.com

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Childhood self-control predicts adult health and wealth

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Unexpected find opens up new front in effort to stop HIVMarvellous Cordyceps sinensis ...

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The Body Odd - Back away from the bok choy, ma'am

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Eviscerating.

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Antioxidants may cause fertility problems in females

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NSAID receptor responsible for olive oil's 'cough' and more

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Stress, anxiety both boon and bane to brain

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Fat associated with chemical changes in DNA that may help explain obesity-related disease

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In 1997 Letter, Vatican Warned Irish Bishops on Abuse Policy - NYTimes.comI can understand why Catholics continue to go to their own local churches. I can understand why Catholics give some of their hard-earned money to support their churches. What I cannot understand is why they don't fight TOOTH AND NAIL to keep any of that money from going to the Vatican to support these f---ers.

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Enjoying a (small) bottle of this tonight.

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Amazing writing and a fascinating account of the history of nuclear weapons.

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Awesome, so awesome. Sounds like a program I'd love to do once I got over the current one. :->

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Love it! Hard to improve on Nature.

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CBC News - Health - Dairy fat may cut Type 2 diabetes risk: study Interesting.

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Something to read on a regular basis. Amazing.

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Sarah Palin is wrong about John F. Kennedy, religion and politics

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The ideas in this column should inform our economic policy going forward. It's that important.

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Don't tell the Ontario Chicken Board this, but this oh-so-easy and -yummy chicken noodle soup recipe works great with leftover turkey! I really recommend using FRESH rosemary rather than dried, though. And don't forget the parsley (fresh or dried, doesn't matter). A little squeeze of lemon juice adds some snap to the bowl.Catelli's come out with whole wheat egg noodles that are yummy, so you

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Like Crocuses in Spring, the Shovelers Appear - NYTimes.com

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I am blown away by the beauty of this thought:"Each of us is a seed, a silent promise, and it is always spring." - Merle ShainThis, my friends, is a meditation-worthy quote. I think it could be a life-changing one.

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Fascinating. It's not just genes, but which ones are turned on/off, and how somehow this gene activation is transmitted from one generation to another. The implications are enormous - not just for those who are considering having kids, but what about *society*? If we needed additional moral imperative to intervene in famines, wars, etc., or even just in elevating the standards of nutrition in

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Damn cool.

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It might not be such a good idea to supplement with folate as you get older ...

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Interesting, for geeks like me, at any rate.

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A great account of one man's experience being on a jury.

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Desert dawn Originally uploaded by John_Freeman.Wow!!!

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