Over the last 15-16 years I've been told by a number of people that I look elderly and ugly. My mirror agrees: Thanks to my complete lack of teeth (I now wear dentures), my upper lip is sunken in; I have extremely deep frown lines from my nostrils to the corners of my mouth; and there is heavy vertical fissuring in my upper lip, as well. I ( Read more... )

I just tasted something heavenly: honeycomb from local hives, unfiltered, unprocessed, uncooked, loaded with pollen and other natural nutrients. If pure gold had a taste, it would be the taste of that honeycomb. Over the years I've eaten plenty of honey, but never honeycomb; I've eaten raw honey, but none as sweet as that. I got it from ( Read more... )

This morning I had what might have been the best dream I've ever had. I was staying with Hades, Persephone, and Their young daughter in Their home, which was located on a nice suburban street much like many of the ones located all over Southern California when I was a child. It was afternoon, perhaps around 7 or so on a Summer day in the Northern ( Read more... )

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/09may_morningplanets/

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/29mar_vesta/

I need data on something that I haven't so far been able to find. It concerns the Permian-Triassic Event, during which Earth's global temperatures heated up to something like 18° Fahrenheit (10° Celsius) or more as a result of extreme volcanism and consequent release of enormous amounts of greenhouse gases combined with marine methane clathrates ( Read more... )

From Rowan Jacobsen's Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis:

There had been real hope among beekeepers, fruit growers, and the general public that CCD would be a one-year blip, like some of the dwindling [honeybee] diseases of years ago. That hope was gone by 2008. Dave Hackenberg's irradiated hives, ( Read more... )

From Rowan Jacobsen's Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural CrisisWhat causes stress in bees? Pretty much the same things that cause stress in people ( Read more... )

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/15mar_messenger/

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