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Wednesday, February 07, 2007
YOU, TOO, CAN LOSE WEIGHT ON THE “McDONALD’S DIET”
Everyone remembers SUPERSIZE ME, in which Morgan Spurlock, an intrepid young film-maker, lived for a whole month on food bought only from McDonald’s….burgers, milkshakes, Coke, etc. And, of course,
By the end of Spurlock’s McDonald’s binge, the film-maker was a depressed lardball with sagging libido and soaring cholesterol. He had gained 11.1 kilograms, a 13 per cent increase in his body weight, and was on his way to serious liver damage.
Which goes to prove…...well, what?
To me, it proves that he was in idiot in his food choices, something I’ve said ever since I heard about the “experiment”. Enter Fredrik Nyström from Linköping University in Sweden.
CAN YOU BELIEVE THE WEATHER…..?
That’s the title of THIS ARTICLE in a recent New Scientist magazine….. It’s major subject is how to measure the accuracy of forecasts, but one paragraph especially caught my eye:
However many weather stations you have they will never be enough. The famous butterfly effect of chaos theory, which can turn a tiny air movement in one part of the globe into a storm thousands of miles away, is all too real: minuscule errors or omissions in the initial conditions can blow up into hugely erroneous forecasts. That chaotic behaviour is why two and three-day forecasts are so much more reliable than five-day forecasts: those extra few days are enough for the weather at a given location to develop in a completely different way.
Keep this in mind….“two- and three-day forecasts are so much more reliable than five-day forecasts….”.....the next time they tell you what our climate is going to be like 50 years from now!!
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
DOES ANYONE OUT THERE KNOW WHAT “STEGOSAURUS” IS…...?
Of course you do…..and if not:
There’s exciting news on the Stegosaurus front!
ARE YOU FEELING UNDERTAXED…..?
My first reaction is “Send the IRS some more of your money, then…..”
And my second is “You must be in the bottom half of the income earners in the U.S.” Because the top half of the wage-earners pays 97% of the income taxes these days…... Furthermore, if you are in the bottom 95%, you’re part of the group that pays only 46% of income taxes. Hard to believe, isn’t it?
...As reported by Congress’ Joint Economic Committee, the richer half of the American population pays almost 97% of income taxes. And most of that — 54% — is paid by those in the top 5%. Those ranked in the top 1% — the richest of the rich — pay more than 34% of all personal income taxes collected by Uncle Sam.
What’s more, the Congressional Budget Office last month found that the after-tax income of those “superrich” actually declined after the Bush tax cuts — by 8.3% from 2000 to 2004.
Are you hearing the “class warfare” rhetoric from politicians who want to run for President in 2008? The talk of “two Americas”? There are two Americas, all right—the America that pays personal income taxes, and the America that doesn’t. The people who are constantly urging you to envy “the rich” are throwing dust in your eyes so you can’t see where your real interest lies…..and ALL of our interest lies in a vibrant economy where every one of us has the chance of a job, of improving our circumstances of life.
Sunday, February 04, 2007
IT’S A VERY SAD DAY FOR ANYONE WHO LOVES BIRDS…...
The whooping crane has been endangered for as long as I can remember…..the population was about 15-20 birds in 1941, migrating between Canada and South Texas, where the CURRENT FLOCK NUMBERS OVER 200. As conservation efforts began to work, and the number of cranes grew, it was decided to start a second flock in another part of the bird’s historic range - this one moving between Florida in the winter and their breeding grounds in Wisconsin in the summer.
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- BlogsForDummies :)
Web resources
- Arts & Letters Daily
- Ravi Zacharias
- Southern Adventist University
- The SAU Biology Deptartment - where I work with a bunch of very neat people.
- Venezuelan news—FROM Venezuela