It's a little gruesome perhaps. But you can watch his brain being cut (microtomed I think?) live tomorrow morning at this link. There is also a lot of info there about his history.
http://thebrainobservatory.ucsd.edu/hm_live.php

Percentages of C-section births in CT hospitals:
http://www.ctworsttofirst.com/cthospitalstatistics.htm

NO ONE knows if there is manmade climate change happening right now or not! And certainly not Joe Biden.
Palin is painful to listen to.

If you've never seen the Babe the Pig movies, you should. No matter who you are.

From RottenTomatoes:
" This is the stuff of Dickens, told on the scale of Blade Runner and Brazil, with the madcap spirit of The Great Muppet Caper."

Hmm. Everyone else around here seems to have a snowblower. Maybe we should also have one. And soon.

I was looking at Amazon reviews of some of this year's most popular toys. "Squawkers McCaw" the animatronic talking parrot is a big one. Most of the Amazon reviewers are thrilled with it (especially its farting capability), but one of them may be a little optimistic about the current state of the art: "Most of the time it just clearly doesn't ( Read more... )

AWESOME

My husband does a good imitation of a sparrow being spraypainted.

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I've read the book, so I know the basic ideas. I don't like disturbingly violent or gory images though. Is it good enough to be worth seeing? Or should I avoid it - too violent?