this (Banning Wi-Fi From Schools) is rather an interesting article discussing a brouhaha about children with vague symptoms supposedly caused by the school's wi-fi. i have not read the comments yet, so i don't know if any of them mention this point, but my first thought of an explanation for the vague symptoms reported by school students is that ( Read more... )

i have finally finished reading the Harry Potter saga. definitely a saga. i would highly recommend this series to anyone. as i said before the later books are more mature than the first couple, but that is to be expected and started at the right age are a great way to cultivate a young reader's thirst and "passion" for the printed word. the ( Read more... )

i'm finally updating my reading list again. i've been rather busy and have not been devoting much time to reading. this is a sad state of affairs, but at least i seem to be keeping up with the yard work and not letting the inside of the house going to hell in a hand basket. i'm about half-way through "the Order". you can really notice the books ( Read more... )

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i like to have a heaping good dose of science in anything dealing with health and treatments to improve it. Dr. Steven Novella has a fantastic blog entitled NeuroLogicablog in which he covers many topics. in one of his recent post entitled Choosing Your Evidence he discusses the apparent trend in which advocates of complementary and alternative ( Read more... )

if you're willing to shell out a few coins and hand them over to Bart Centre according to this newsweek article (Caring for Pets Left Behind by the Rapture) he'll arrange for your pet(s) to be looked after by those poor saps who are left behind.

(edit 1540) here's a direct link to Eternal Earth-Bound Pets, USA

some of the reporters have called it "the blizzard of 2010" but i think my title is more descriptive. also apparently to technically be termed a blizzard you need a strong wind which we did not have at all. pittsburgh got a lot more snow than the forecasters were initially calling for us to get. 4"-8" late in the day they altered it to 8"-12". ( Read more... )

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