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…
Sightings near Lake Ontario, much more exciting than Justin! http://ow.ly/5Hn3Z Filed under: Miscellany
Fascinating research, babies prefer Picasso over Monet http://ow.ly/5GrsT Filed under: Miscellany
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…
via photography.nationalgeographic.com Filed under: Miscellany
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…
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…
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…
via vaido.aminus3.com And what a view! Filed under: Miscellany
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…
Supportive long-term relationships = less susceptibility to pain for women study http://ow.ly/5y32E Filed under: Miscellany
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…
Monkey borrows photographer’s camera. These are so cute. http://ow.ly/5x3Qu Filed under: Miscellany
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,…
The Haskell Free Library and Opera House on the Canada-U.S. Border http://ow.ly/5vrsV Filed under: Miscellany
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…
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…
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…
In praise of introverts NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/5qKFy Filed under: Miscellany
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