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Friend's Stroke: shock, horror, confusion
A very good friend is ill. For years he's known of and been treated for idiopathic hypertension. Seems to run in the family. Sometimes crazily high BP - rather drug-resistant - despite a good diet and definitely not being overweight. So over time many, many tests looking for causes, trying different drugs. It looked under control with diet, ( Read more... ) -
This comes under "We Told You So"
Women stretched to snapping point
Adele Horin
July 4, 2009The 1.5-earner family became the predominant form between 1997 and 2006, from 35 per cent of all couples with children under five to 46 per cent. But life for parents grew harder and less equal. By 2006, all parents were more likely to report feeling stressed ( Read more... ) -
Journeying
From Trip to Minneapolis (June 2009)
Philosophical observations (formatted as poetry)…
Train views are like water,
always the same, changing always
fleeting, glimpsed, gone.
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- Jo Walton
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Colour & Movement
Full moon in luminous dusk sky. "Vivid" winter light festival on. Walked & watched w others on fine cool clear evening. Lovely.
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Hand-Foot Syndrome - cont. Another side-effect
Cancer drug erases fingerprints
Travel warning with capecitabine (Annals of Oncology: Vol 20, No 7, p. 1281)A patient who took a drug for cancer lost his fingerprints, which caused him to be detained for hours when he tried to visit the United States, according to an unusual case reported on Wednesday. The patient was unaware the treatment had ( Read more... ) -
Neil Gaiman's Wedding Poem
A Wedding PoemThis for you, for both of you,
a small poem of happiness
filled with small glories and little triumphs
a fragile, short cheerful song
filled with hope and all sorts of futures
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And we thought they just made those stories up
Art imitates Life imitates Art?A New Zealand couple from Roturua are reportedly on the run after $NZ10 million - instead of $NZ10,000 - was mistakenly deposited in their Westpac bank account.
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Art, Craft, Science - Powerhouse Museum
Please to observe the Sydney Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef (with patterns), the local iteration of a multi-person-created installation which is to be exhibited at our Powerhouse Museum during the Ultimo Science Festival (last year's site linked here) in August 2009. They have workshop meetings on the last Sunday of the month, so there's still some ( Read more... ) -
Magpie Dishonour?
Trying to resist the Pretty, Pretty, Shiny Things!
How cruel is this lioness, tempting, teasing, playing with her prey? Go thou, & save me from temptation. Take them away!
Repeating my earlier entry on the same subject: Magpie Telegraph Alert
My Tormenting Temptress, Elysian One, has had a bit of an unpleasant time and setback recently. She's ( Read more... ) -
Science & Technology, destroying Wonder, Beauty, Art & History
Religion & History through Science
Have you seen the new comprehensive interactive three-dimensional image/model of the Saint Domitilla catacombs, made using laser scanners & digital images by a team lead by Dr Norbert Zimmerman of the Vienna Academy of Sciences (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften - ÖAW on Totenstadt )? (BBC story; START- ( Read more... )