Desert dawn

Desert dawn
Originally uploaded by John_Freeman.

Wow!!!

The science of your hangover - Features, Food & Drink - The Independent

The science of your hangover - Features, Food & Drink - The Independent

Do Statins Cause Diabetes and Heart Disease?

Do Statins Cause Diabetes and Heart Disease?: "Nutrition, exercise, and stress management can no longer be considered alternative medicine. They are essential medicine."

Impaired clearance, not overproduction of toxic proteins, may underlie Alzheimer's disease

Impaired clearance, not overproduction of toxic proteins, may underlie Alzheimer's disease

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There's a thank-you card inside you, waiting to be written. Don't take someone else's contributions for granted. We all want to be appreciated. Send that note - you will have NO IDEA how much it will mean - to them, to you. Who knows what beautiful chain of events it will trigger as your gratitude goes out into the world?

Matthew Norman: How did this wastrel ever find his way to the White House? - Matthew Norman, Commentators - The Independent

A review of Bush's memoirs.

Only the British can make "scathing" seem like an understatement.

Letter to a whiny young Democrat | Full Page

Letter to a whiny young Democrat | Full Page

My son is gay « Nerdy Apple Bottom

My son is gay « Nerdy Apple Bottom

The Rent Is Too Damn High Party s Jimmy McMillan at the NY Governor Debate

Healing is magical

“The tendency of nature is to restore the injured body to health, but in order for health to be maintained there must be a change in behavior or understanding. The burnt hand does not return to the fire. Healing includes not only ... the regrowth of damaged skin but the learning of a lesson which previously had been unknown.”

“In order to be healed, the patient must embrace something which was previously outside him or herself, while at the same time returning his or her organism to the care of nature. The intrusive, interventive element may come from God, the spirit, the supernatural, or the surgeon's scalpel, but at any rate it changes the patient intrinsically from the way he or she was before. Healing is magical.”

- Matthew Wood, “Vitalism”

UC Berkeley lawyers meditation class draws crowd

UC Berkeley lawyers meditation class draws crowd

By Little and By Little: A Girl Named Gia and A Blue Bicycle

By Little and By Little: A Girl Named Gia and A Blue Bicycle

Great story about how the Universe provides opportunities when we ask questions and are open.

DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #44: How You Get Unstuck - The Rumpus.net

DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #44: How You Get Unstuck - The Rumpus.net

Rumpus required reading.

Scientists suggest that cancer is purely man-made (The University of Manchester)

Scientists suggest that cancer is purely man-made (The University of Manchester)

News Analysis - When Avandia and Other Drugs Cause Problems They Are Supposed to Prevent - NYTimes.com

News Analysis - When Avandia and Other Drugs Cause Problems They Are Supposed to Prevent - NYTimes.com: "The population is aging, many have chronic diseases. And companies are going after giant markets, huge parts of the population, heavily advertising drugs that are to be taken for a lifetime.

And the way drugs are evaluated, with the emphasis on shorter-term studies before marketing, is not helping, Dr. Carpenter said.

“Here is a wide-scale institutional failure,” he said. “We have placed far more resources and requirements upon premarket assessment of drugs than on postmarket.”"

DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #52: Reach - The Rumpus.net

You MUST read this column. MUST. MUST, MUST, MUST.

Divided they ride - Canada - Macleans.ca

Physically separated bike lanes. So, so awesome. Hello, Toronto planners - are you listening????

100 yo physician

Every living thing yearns to be free

Every living thing yearns to be free
Originally uploaded by Noisypond.

This is a photo I took in 2006 that I apparently didn't think was all that good, but when I looked at it today, it struck me for some reason. I cropped it a little and like it even more.

Christchurch earthquake photos

Christchurch earthquake photos