Monthly Archives: April 2002

Waiting for Godot: The Interactive Adventure. I let this load in the background for about 10 minutes before I got it.

Men who drink six cups of tea a day have 60 percent less heart disease.

Woohoo! Lake Effect is back. I was getting ready to take it off my blog list.

My brother commented a few weeks ago that all he really wanted to watch on TV was the NASA channel. I said they should build a big arm on the space station with a camera on the end so you … Continue reading →

Natalie Portman on mideast racism.

Sierra Club sues Tyson Foods over chicken farms.

The head of the FDA wants to cure chronic wasting disease in deer.

Exercise reduces breast cancer risk by 30 to 40 percent.

On Thursday, the Senate voted to reject drilling in ANWR. You can check how your senators voted.

Eating meat tied to cancer risk “Limiting consumption of meat is clearly a good idea, whether ‘white’ or red. A recent study found that the average American diet gets more HCAs from chicken than red meat. Follow AICR�s advice to … Continue reading →

Remember Mike Zellers, author of those nifty vegaterianism and Yoga articles I linked to a while back? Well those pages are gone but Mike’s started a blog called Spacemonk that I know I’ll be watching with interest.

Francis Fukuyama thinks that biotechnology needs to be regulated so that scientists don’t make some fundamental change to the human essence. I just finished reading The Age of Spiritual Machines, in which Ray Kurzweil predicts humans will begin transferring their … Continue reading →

Pictures from Mexico are up.

Major lifestyle changes needed to prevent diabetes “The prevention of diabetes requires substantial rather than modest changes in lifestyle habits,” co-author Dr. Jim I. Mann told Reuters Health. “Our research has shown that to achieve the maximum benefit of exercise, … Continue reading →

I’m back, had a great time, will post pictures soon.