Collecting My Thoughts

3496 Brain aging--a test The book Making a good brain great has a quiz for risk factors for diseases of brain aging. The number in paren...

Friday Family Photo Yesterday I decided to banish some old, old warrantees and sales slips (there's not much else to do when the weat...

3494 Why we need dissenters in science Global-warming predictions are currently hampered by uncertainties about the amount of heat and car...

3493 WMD--Women, mothers, daughters In 2003, the U.S. allocated $27 million dollars to support women's programs in Iraq. Under the g...

Being a bilious feminist Apparently, that phrase doesn't appear in all the articles and blogs indexed on the internet. At least, Goo...

Poetry Thursday #7 Truthfully, I have no idea what a prose poem is--today’s assignment for Poetry Thursday. Poetry Previews describes it: ...

3490 Does this smoker bear responsibility for his lung cancer? Was it his pack a day habit that caused his disease, or was it his employe...

Valentine greeting from Haiti My husband called tonight to wish me Happy Valentine's Day. He's in Haiti on a mission trip and it...

Happy Valentine's Day This is a valentine my mother received when she was in Pine View school in Lee County, Illinois, from a schoolmat...

3487 My agenda for the green groups In June, I outlined the changes I'd like to see so we could have a cleaner, healthier, more produ...

Blizzard Warning for Ohio Central Ohio isn't getting it as bad as a bit north and west of us, but so far at 5:15, there are 305 ...

3485 This little piggy This is definitely not on my weight loss plan. And I'm not sure where I would wear that nose. HT Geoff .

3484 Environmental Groups I'm all for taking care of the planet. I wish more people would treat the planet with the respect my mothe...

3483 What I know about women and money It's a bit tedious relabeling old blogs, but I really like this feature in the new Blogger tem...

3482 Can you believe Scripture and be a scientist? Sure. But it makes the academics awfully mad if Christians are more liberal (in the t...

The rhetoric of activism Whether you've marched in an anti-war protest or bombed a research lab, the rhetoric undergirding the action...

3480 What is Love? It's the count down to Valentine's Day. Cha-Ching. I've heard some pretty sappy things on the radio toda...

3479 Butterscotch At coffee this morning my friend AZ asked if I was planning anything different this week while my husband is in Haiti on a...

What I don't understand about Republicans Why are they considered the "social conservatives," when the only three guys who ...

Are government officials blocking your mail? Pat in NC says sending an e-mail from outside the congressperson's district is a hopeles...