"Some healthcare trivia: In the United States, what is the No. 1 reason people are admitted to the hospital? Not diabetes, not heart attack, not stroke. The answer is something that isn't even a disease: childbirth ( Read more... )

So who wants to move to Belgium?

speaking of, what the heck lj?! why'd you make it so difficult to access my filter friends page? i enjoyed going there and clicking on my 'people from the hill' group and my 'people from after the hill' group and so forth. yoinks.

ETA: evidently it's back on the pull-down friends menu. good. i missed it.

in case you weren't aware, i'm pretty much a ( Read more... )

ETA: this was a gut reaction post, extreme perspective, explained in the comments. don't hate me.

I got this in my email this morning, from the local homeschool group:

ID State rep proposes financial benefits for parents that teach kindergarten at home.

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yes and more yes

and while i don't buy in too much to celebrity lifestyles and their effect on the rest of the culture, and i can't say the jolie-pitts are some of my favorite celebrities either, i love love they're bringing to light how wonderful it is to not only have children, but to have many. evidently on oprah (i don't know, i don't watch ( Read more... )

okay ( Read more... )

I just read a fascinating article on the HPV Vaccine. You have to register to read it, but it's free ( Read more... )

Through one of the blogs I read I found this article that makes a case for not buying organic foods. Very interesting. And now you know why I don't buy from the organic department at Publix or shop exclusively at The Green Bean. I prefer to drive the 22 miles to get produce and eggs that aren't marked up, are organic (though not certified as such ( Read more... )

I was going about my business, reading through my brother's shared items on my Google Reader (I'm pretty sure if either of us uses one more Google product we'll become like unofficial Google spokespeople or something) this morning when I came across something pretty cool.

One of the articles he shared was this one from mental_floss, about a new, ( Read more... )

but I don't trust the medical community at large.

Interesting article.