’Homesteaders’ try to produce all their own food – WSJ
Jodi and Brian Bubenzer describe themselves as ”homesteaders” who try to produce all their own food, even though nothing in their suburban childhoods prepared them for this existence. They knew nothing about farming until five years ago, when they bought a farm outside …
The Internet is not, in fact, a seething mass of sex criminals just waiting to attack unsuspecting children. Anyone who’s spent any amount of time online knows that, but now we finally have proof. Report Finds Online Threats to Children Overblown – NYTimes.com
The task force, led by the Harvard University’s Berkman Center for …
On Sunday, my pastor mentioned the new violence in Gaza. It surprised me, because I hadn’t read any news reports all weekend long. I spent today getting caught up on the events. Here’s what I found out: Israel attacked Hamas.
Israel launched Saturday morning the start of a massive offensive against Qassam rocket and …
Why Every Week of Pregnancy Counts – WSJ.com:
A study in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology in October calculated that for each week a baby stayed in the womb between 32 and 39 weeks, there is a 23% decrease in problems such as respiratory distress, jaundice, seizures, temperature instability and brain hemorrhages. …
Everything you know about stretching is probably wrong. So say many sports researchers.
When Duane Knudson, a professor of kinesiology at California State University, Chico, looks around campus at athletes warming up before practice, he sees one dangerous mistake after another. “They’re stretching, touching their toes. . . . ” He sighs. “It’s discouraging.” …
I was initially excited about the new MacBook and MacBook Pro models from Apple. Then I noticed that the new MacBook doesn’t include a Firewire port. This is a bit of a big deal for me. My Panasonic video camera requires Firewire to download videos to the computer. I like using my MacBook to download …
Who thought it would be a good idea to let a brutal, repressive regime host the Olympics? As the Olympics kick off, we should all take a close look at what passes for ”security” in the Chinese world:
The Beijing government, for starters, has denied visas to businessmen, backpackers, and middle-aged tourists holding Olympics …
Above: A Chinese propaganda poster from 1986. No wonder Communism has appealed to so many. I would’ve called this The Communists party, but its painter named it Youthful dance steps. Oh well.
Say what you want about China’s Communist leaders, but they get results, and they get them quickly. From the latest …
Above: That is not Tony Snow. Not Depicted: Fan blowing her hair.
Below: Who cares? Not Depicted: Fan blowing their hair.
So, by now you’ve undoubtedly noticed (yeah, like fun you have) that radio and television veteran Tony Snow is no longer supplying the U.S. with its daily news from the White House. Mr. Snow vacated …
In a recent entry (Sunday’s ”Alan Greenspan’s life is for sale. We don’t know where.”) I noted that Mr. Greenspan’s autobiography The Age of Turbulence, now on sale, has received rather odd publicity: some newspapers are running whole articles about the book’s declaration that the U.S. is mainly in Iraq due to oil-related reasons, …