Oh, boy!

Where did we go wrong? When did we go wrong? Or was it going wrong over a decade rather than one specific day?

If you don’t know what I’m talking about/getting you to know about, then read or listen to or watch today’s news, tomorrow’s news, next week’s news, next month’s news. It will all be the same: the economy, stupid. Or more to the point, you and yours truly, and my life, too: what we eat, what we wear, where we live, how we work (how we work — ha!) and how we play.

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I’m losing my ice.

We may see most of the symptoms, but not the patient or hidden illnesses. The symptoms are many; the most recognized one today is global warming; then there’s the strange, but not so strange, maladies in humans, animals, plants and trees caused by “contaminated” water, bad air, “contaminated” food. And radiation. And more.

It has taken a long time for some people, even those leaders, to accept climate change. It will be beyond them, and us, to accept a harsher fact. And that is, the planet is dying. Many parts of the recipe were already there, like the dwindling number of species.

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Snipped from LiveScientist.com.

Now this is pretty darn cool. I never really knew there was anything special about how sand moved about in a desert. The below article describes how sand is not only moved around by wind, but by electrical static as well. It is said that as the sand moves about the Earth because of wind, it strikes the surface of the Earth and picks up electrons, and along with it, a negative charge. The sand on the ground is then left with a positive charged.

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We have answers!

The Holidays are over. All that food and drink. All that candy and cake. You fear the bathroom scale. You even throw a towel over it to hide this device of sheer terror. You know, though, you must get a reading off the scale. You do the pinch-flab test, but you need more than that. You need a weight reading. Do you think you could have your other half or roommate or friend get on the scale and you take their weight reading as yours. A psychic weight, so to speak. Hell no!

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Snipped from NewScientist.com.

Here is something that I find very interesting. The very same thing that locked away all the carbon from our atmosphere millions of years ago is now being researched to lock it away again. Certain types of grasses (wheat and sorghum) have been found to store away extra minerals and scrape plant materials in little balls called phytoliths, also known as ‘plantstones’. These stones have been found to contain extra carbon that the plant did not use during its photosynthesis.

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Snipped from PhysOrg.com.

Short answer: maybe. It seems that physicians are not taking placebos as lightly as we once thought. The placebo effect, “a therapeutical effect based solely on the power of suggestion” that has showed up in all clinical trials and is commonly used scientifically in pharmaceutical research, is said to be used by 45% of Chicago internists when prescribing to patients.

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