This is the second installment of my friend Maggie Barbieri’s murder mystery/comedy/love story series about college professor and part-time sleuth Alison Bergeron. Here is my review of the first one – Tom Faranda’s Folly: Latest Read: "Murder 101" In Extracurricular Activities there is more of just about everything; more dead mangled bodies, more suspects, more … Read more
Anyone interested in the spiritual or interior life should read this amazing collection of letters, with commentary. I read it over the space of about a month, 15 to 20 pages, four or five days a week. I finished three months ago and decided to let it percolate around in my head before posting this. … Read more
Researchers Replicate Study Producing Ethical Embryonic-Like Stem Cells Previously, the Japanese and Wisconsin teams released studies in the medical journals Science and Cell that show how they were able to make adult stem cells revert to their embryonic form. The studies confirm that human skin cells (fibroblasts) can be used to make pluripotent stem cells … Read more
Advancing healthcare technology is great, but it’s also one of the main drivers of healthcare inflation. the NY Times had a big article today in the business section, about using nuclear particle accelerators – "formerly used only for exotic physics research" – but now looking to use them to replace normal radiation therapy for the … Read more
here’s a health feature in the NY Times that says it’seven a bigger deal then your mother told you it was. Why Hand Washing May Be Your Best Medicine – Well – Tara Parker-Pope – Health – New York Times Blog While it may be hard to believe that something as simple as regular hand … Read more
Here are some pix from yesterday. 6:15 in the morning and the boys are up to check out their gifts. Paintball stuff was at the fore. Tim got a new paintball gun marker and Joe a laser sight. I received, from Joe, some “Ting.” Ting is a grapefruit drink from Jamaica which I developed a … Read more
Great day, even though we only had my mother over for the day, having seen my brother Phil and his family last night. And my brother Jim who spent a couple of nights with us, spent today day with his two boys. More pictures tomorrow, but here’s a nice one of Tim helping my mother … Read more
Some views of Christmas trees world-wide. Thank you Bernadette for sending me these. Rockefeller Center in NY city – Trafalgar Square. The tree is a gift from Norway – they’ve been sending a Christmas tree as a gift since 1947 as a token of thanks for Britain’s aid in World War II In Tokyo And … Read more
Catholics only make up about 10% of the population in Great Britain. A distinct minority. However, in terms of Church pracitise, they are now the largest. Britain has become a ‘Catholic country’ – Telegraph Last night, leading figures gave warning that the Church of England could become a minority faith and that the findings should … Read more
This should be good news; we’re one of the few developed countries with a "replacement rate" fertility level. But not everyone is happy about it … It’s mentioned in the excerpt; you’ll have to hit the link for the last paragraph quoting some environmental sourpuss. U.S. Fertility Rate Hits 35-Year High, Stabilizing Population – washingtonpost.com … Read more