I have been aware the Kenya has erupted in violence over its December election. But as usual, I paid little attention to it other than shaking my head at yet another example of humans doing awful things to each other. But on the blogs today I came across a first hand account of the violence by Wesley Korir, a long distance runner from Kenya who's ( Read more... )

I bet you NEVER would have thought that I would enjoy tucking into a lunch like this:


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I know some of you may simply not want to read this, but the way it's written is pretty amusing all by itself :p

http://www.cracked.com/article_15816_5-most-horrifying-bugs-in-world.html

( Missing Mango (the cat, not the fruit) )

About this time last year I discovered RSS feeds and the vast wealth of science related blogs that exist on the intarwebs. I hooked into Google (RSS) Reader, added feeds with a flying fury, and soon became swamped. I tried to keep up, to read them all and follow their links and watch their articles and listen to their podcasts and take part in ( Read more... )

1. John and I recently tried this fancy organic milk. You've all probably seen it before, the red half-gallon carton with the cow jumping over the earth? We got the whole milk with the added DHA-omega 3, because we'd heard from other people that it's supposed to be really tasty. And it IS - very very tasty. And, we've discovered, it's the perfect ( Read more... )

The next book from my reading list that I'm attempting to tackle is The Emotional Lives of Animals by Mark Bekoff. I say attempting, because after reading the first 24 pages I'm not sure I can stomach my way through all 166 pages ( Read more... )

To Eat as a Dish by Themselves ( Read more... )

So the dudes and dudettes at work enjoy potlucks. We had two last year, one of which I went to Whole Foods and bought ready made salads for, and the other of which I freeloaded. I didn't bring anything but I helped myself to the food. Prior to these events, all the girls at my lunch table gabbed about what they would they would cook for the potluck ( Read more... )