Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory // University of Notre Dame
Please meet my newest role model: At 102, therapist is too busy to stop working - latimes.com
Study debunks myths on organic farms
The 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.
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #86: Tiny Revolutions - The Rumpus.net
I 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 lover. Perhaps it’s because men are people with bodies full of fears and insecurities and shortcomings of their own.
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 spent nearly two-thirds of that on fundraising.
The NFL star and the brain injuries that destroyed him | Science | The Guardian
If I had a child, I would never let him/her play tackle football ...
Gardasil Researcher Speaks Out - CBS News
VERY interesting article about the HPV vaccine.
Suzuki warns Tory scheme to cancel green energy plans is ‘absolute insanity’ - thestar.com
Something to think about while we're in the throes of Thermageddon ...
A journalist's Jerry Maguire moment. Awesome. Why I quit my job: « Kai Nagata
“Arrival of the Fittest” by Rachel Giese | The Walrus | June 2011
In 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 important protective factors against delinquency: strong family bonds, commitment to education, and aversion to risk. What’s more, these three qualities acted in a kind of feedback loop: the kids who regularly did their homework were also the kids who admired and confided in their parents, and were also the kids who shied away from troublemaking behaviour.
Dinovitzer stresses that these qualities would deter any young person from engaging in crime, whatever their ethnicity or immigration status. It’s just that first generation immigrants — again, across ethnic lines — tend to possess these traits to a greater extent than their peers do. And that makes sense: the traits required for a person to leave behind all that’s familiar and take a chance on making it in a new country — ambition, resilience, perseverance, imagination, optimism — are conducive to the rearing of successful children; those children, in turn, naturally feel an obligation to their self-sacrificing parents. “The kids said they didn’t want to let their parents down,” Levi says. “Their parents had suffered to get here, so they owed it to them to succeed.”
"Worst" analogies found in high school papers.
Some of them are brilliantly funny. ;->
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
