Category: Mind, Body & Health
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Many thanks to my husband for sending me the link to this You Tube video. Enjoy.
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Karl Zimmer, author of the science blog The Loom, has an article in the Science Times section of the NY Times about animal behavior in a crowd – swarms, herds, schools and gaggles. Does this shed light on human swarming instincts? Do we also play follow-the-leader when it comes to our religious, political and cultural…
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After the horrors of plumbophobia , the next big meme in the media : Cough syrups and how bad they are for the youngest and most vulnerable among us. From the MSNBC article: Over-the-counter cough syrups generally contain drugs in too low a dose to be effective, or contain combinations of drugs that have never…
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A few interesting links I picked up over the past week: Morford and the Art of Zen Maintenance The Thinking Baboons Right Brain or Left : Which type are you? JK Rowling vs. Parvati (the deity, not the Hogwarts student) Colbert ,NYTimes columnist?!!
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Early last year I wrote a post on pet euthanasia when the memory of a beloved and very loving pet’s death was painfully fresh in my mind. The article was linked to a Newsweek essay by Jonathan Cooperman who had just gone through the wrenching experience of putting his playful Doberman to sleep. I argued that…
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In October of 2005, just two months after Hurricane Katrina ripped through New Orleans, I wrote this story. After the deadly storm hit and paralyzed the city, a group of employees at the Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans decided to inject nine elderly and critically ill patients in the long-term care unit of the…
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We know from experience and by intuition that it is not so much the source of danger which causes our anxiety but rather our proximity to it . This understanding is reflected in the old adage, "When the cat is away, the mice will play". A bear far down in the valley is not as…
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Do you like hot foods? What is the limit of your personal "heat" index – black pepper, jalapeno, serrano, the slinky Thai pepper or the more daunting Habanero? When does mouth-watering enjoyment deteriorate into eye-watering agony? The Aztecs utilised chilli peppers in a traditional drink. With heat levels spanning a wide range of "burn," chilli…
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Two animal posts in a row – no it’s not going to be a pattern. Having written a harrowing and depressing story yesterday about cruelty to animals, I hope to cheer things up a bit with a heart warming and curious tale of peaceful animal-human co-existence. I have a favorite old Edward Gorey t-shirt. The…
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