One of my favourite local cafe/restaurants, Pistacchio, gave me a large bag of free mussels.

I need to do something with them. Involving cooking. Any offers of help or suggestions?

How smart are octopi?

Large undersea volcano found off Iceland.

Massive volcanic eruptions, rather than meteor, may have killed the dinosaurs.

About the role of homosexual behaviour in nature.

Comparing the effects of low-fat, low-carbohydrate and Mediterranean diets.

People infected with HIV are living closer to normal life expectancies ( Read more... )

I was at a "family" deli in the newish Yarraville shopping complex, it was playing Joy FM. So I definitely bought the goats cheese marinated fetta I was considering. (Which is lovely ( Read more... )

Friday before the January long weekend, bought a new Canon™ bubble-jet printer for slightly more than a colour printer cartridge cost for my HP™ bubble-jet and whose own cartridges (both colour and black, low use versions) together cost more than a black cartridge but less than a colour cartridge for my old printer. While a triple back of the long ( Read more... )

The 2kgs I lost from October to November, I seemed to have put back on. Mind you, I have put 3cm's on around the chest, lost 1cm off my hips and put 1cm on around the waist. And my abs are more defined. Walking most days for an hour with 7.5kgs in each hand encourages muscle development ( Read more... )

An economist’s weight loss plan. Then there is the donation alarm clock.

Books that claim things are getting better.

The “science of happiness” is changing its mind: The most dramatic result is that when the entire range of human living standards is considered, the effects of income on a measure of life satisfaction (the "ladder of life") are ( Read more... )

We cook therefore we think (more and better)! More on cooking as crucial in human evolution.

Archaeologists find Polynesian chicken bones in Chile.

The Edge’s question “what have you changed your mind on” generates lots of responses. Such as on the importance of variance in male-female outcomes.

Paper finds that differences in patient self- ( Read more... )

To lose weight, exercise regularly and don’t have fructrose unless it is embedded in lots of fibre. Via a comment by catsidhe.

The top 10 IT disasters (that didn’t actually kill anyone). Via claidheamhmor.

China has its first lunar satellite.

The power of blogging (1): The US State Department has a team which comments on Middle Eastern blogs ( Read more... )

Didn’t go to William Marshal this year, neither the tourney nor the feast. Had a whole lot of personal issues - a combination of blasts from the pasts and significant nasty anniversary - which I didn’t work through until Friday night, by which point it was a bit late.

Went to the launch of Kerry Greenwood’s new book of Phryne Fisher short stories ( Read more... )

Well, have lost 2kgs since October, making a total of 9kgs lost since January. Not much movement on the stomach though. I lost 4cms off from January to April and bumped around that level since ( Read more... )