And despite conventional advice to eat less fat, weight loss was greatest among people who ate more yogurt and nuts, including peanut butter, over each four-year period. via nytimes.com An extensive study of over 100,000 men and women over 20 years has had some interesting results about weight gain in midlife. Reducing the fat in […]
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A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: not Beiber but beavers
Sightings near Lake Ontario, much more exciting than Justin! http://ow.ly/5Hn3Z
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A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: babies’ taste in famous painters?
Fascinating research, babies prefer Picasso over Monet http://ow.ly/5GrsT
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A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: villagers prevent felling of 800-year-old oak tree
Villagers and environmentalists in the Aegean province of Denizli have successfully prevented the felling of an 800-year-old oak tree standing in the way of road construction by having it declared a “monumental tree.
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Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Today at the Beach
Rare and perfect summer weather–sunny and 26 (79)–lured me to the beach with M & H. We waded in the water; we collected rocks, just a handful of small ones for me, a lot of medium size ones for H, and M dragged home a bag full of heavy stones. She had a vision: a […]
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Heat and Books
A high today of 33 (91.4F) with humidex that will be in the 40′s (100′s). So although I thought that I would be blogging up a storm after I handed in my draft, I’ve been slow off the mark. It’s much easier to lie around reading when it’s this hot. Today not even that–I’m taking […]
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: At 7 a.m. I Saw
On the path along the railroad tracks this morning, I saw a baby bunny. It had lost some of its roundness already, and looked like a miniature hare standing quite still. I had to shade my eyes to see. Even with sunglasses, the sun was too bright otherwise. There it stood, a silhouette in the […]
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: handwriting is history
One might consider handwriting as a technology — a way to make letters — and conclude that the way of making them is of little moment. But handwriting is bound up with a host of associations and connotations that propel it beyond simply a fine-motor skill. We connect it to personal identity (handwriting signals something […]
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: true love acts as a painkiller
Supportive long-term relationships = less susceptibility to pain for women study http://ow.ly/5y32E
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A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Cakes and Ale: A Review
I read Cakes and Ale by Somerset Maugham for the Slaves of Golconda bookclub. Written in 1930, it is narrated by the midlist writer William Ashenden. As a young man in the 1890′s, Ashenden knew the British literary icon, Edward Driffield (ostensibly based on Thomas Hardy, which Maugham denied). At that time Driffield was a […]
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: macaque takes self-portrait
Monkey borrows photographer’s camera. These are so cute. http://ow.ly/5x3Qu
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A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Jackson Pollock, the science of art
At a glance, a painting by Jackson Pollock (1912 – 1956) can look deceptively accidental: just a quick flick of color on a canvas. A quantitative analysis of Pollock’s streams, drips, and coils, by Harvard mathematician L. Mahadevan and collaborators at Boston College, reveals, however, that the artist had to be slow—he had to be […]
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: library books on U.S. side, checked out Canadian
The Haskell Free Library and Opera House on the Canada-U.S. Border http://ow.ly/5vrsV
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A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Done! And What I’ve Learned About Writing
The revision is back with my intelligent and meticulous editor. She’ll be reading through it and there may still be some tweaking to do, as well as the copy-edit, but the big work is really done. I’m excited…and scared! This has been such a long project. I began, 8 years ago, with an entirely different […]
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: europe gives pedestrians and transit priority over cars!
ZURICH — While American cities are synchronizing green lights to improve traffic flow and offering apps to help drivers find parking, many European cities are doing the opposite: creating environments openly hostile to cars. The methods vary, but the mission is clear — to make car use expensive and just plain miserable enough to tilt […]
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: babushkas: brave, bold singing grannies from the wilds of Russia
In Russian culture, one iconic image is the elderly woman — in Russian, she’s called a “babushka” — sitting on a roadside, selling vegetables from her garden. One group of babushkas from the village of Buranovo, 600 miles east of Moscow, is blowing up that stereotype. The dozen or so women — mostly in their […]
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Is Shyness an Evolutionary Tactic?
In praise of introverts NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/5qKFy
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A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: painting on water
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