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I never posted a lot of our Barcelona pictures, so I'm going to take this opportunity to show you some pictures of the nativity facade at the Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família (aka Sagrada Familia) a very large and beautiful church in Barcelona that's been under construction for over 80 years.

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NPR's winter songs list (so far)
The Mamas & The Papas - California Dreamin'
The Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town
Led Zeppelin - That's The Way
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Der Leiermann from Franz Schubert's Winterreise
Chuck Mangione - Bellavia
The Be Good Tanyas - The Littlest Birds
Alabama - Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)
Fleet Foxes - White ( Read more... )

Pesticides...blah blah...Union Carbide introduces Sevin (carbaryl)...yadda yadda...methyl isocyanate(MIC). There, now you're caught up.

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When I worked at Walmart, I was forced to hear Christmas music for 6-8 hours a day 3-5 days a week for one month. And this was not even GOOD Christmas music. You'd think I'd hate the stuff now, but I don't. I don't voluntarily listen to it until I drive home for Christmas though ( Read more... )

I don't know if you realized this, but these entries that I've been doing for IYC and previously about scientists, engineers, and inventors, those are not things I know about off the top of my head. I spend time researching every month to find something that I think is interesting and share it here. Sometimes I just stumble on stuff; sometimes I ( Read more... )

IYC: Today I would like to put the limelight on...LIMELIGHT. I used to think limelight meant a bright green stage light. You know, because something under a bright green light would be striking and very eye-catching, the center of attention. But in this case we're not talking about lime, the green fruit, but lime, the calcium mineral, as in ( Read more... )

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I don't know how many of you who read this are Catholic. I'd wager none. But it doesn't matter because this is kind of neat anyway. Roman Catholic churches say the same Mass everywhere on the same day. This means if you went to the Catholic church in Spain or in Mexico or in Texas or in Italy, you'd be hearing the same readings, listening to ( Read more... )

And birth control won! So here it is, everything you ever wanted to know about lady parts and birth control.

To get a background on what exactly hormones are, I think you should first watch the awesome video in this entry. It's about how cells talk to each other. That's essentially what hormones are, cell speech within our bodies. Hormones are ( Read more... )