Kevin, M.D. – Medical Weblog: Wear your seatbelts
They typically don’t wear them here. And you always see the head bump on the windshield!
Lots of rollovers of the Japanese SUVs.
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Kuwait Weather
The weather remains unsettled and nicely not too hot.
Here is some of the rain that we had on the weekend. And quite the lightning also in the sky and saw some incredible bolts.
Click here to see a Quicktime movie of the rain pouring down in front of our place. And how do you like the pink place across the way! And our little garden.
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Man races world’s fastest cat
Man races world’s fastest cat – CNN.com
- On a South African track, a rugby star takes on the world’s fastest land mammal
- The cheetah can reach a top speed of 70 mph
- Event was to raise awareness for the cheetah as a threatened species
- Cheetah numbers in wild have been in sharp decline for 100 years
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Healthful Chocolate
Healthful Chocolate – washingtonpost.com
German scientists reviewed a number of studies on different substances containing polyphenols, compounds that seem to have salubrious effects on the human cardiovascular system. They found that, contrary to some assertions, black and green tea appear to have no marked effect on blood pressure. Cocoa-rich diets, on the other hand, had lowered both systolic and diastolic blood pressure in study subjects after only two weeks.
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Is anyone listening?
Pearls Before Breakfast
Can one of the nation’s great musicians, Joshua Bell, cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour?It was captured by hidden cameras and microphones. You can see it and hear it on the Washington Post site.
No one knew it, but the fiddler standing against a bare wall outside the Metro in an indoor arcade at the top of the escalators was one of the finest classical musicians in the world, playing some of the most elegant music ever written on one of the most valuable violins ever made.
Click here for the full article.
And the article’s author responds here to readers responses, where over one hundred said the article made them cry!
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The Dan Brown code – very poorly written prose
Language Log: The Dan Brown code
I don’t think I’d want to say these things about a first-time novelist, it would seem a cruel blow to a budding career. But Dan Brown is all over the best-seller lists now. In paperback and hardback, and in many languages, he is a phenomenon. He is up there with the Stephen Kings and the John Grishams and nothing I say can conceivably harm him. He is a huge, blockbuster, worldwide success who can go anywhere he wants and need never work again. And he writes like the kind of freshman student who makes you want to give up the whole idea of teaching. Never mind the ridiculous plot and the stupid anagrams and puzzle clues as the book proceeds, this is a terrible, terrible example of the thriller-writer’s craft.
I think I also read it on an airplane and wasn’t impressed. And the movie wasn’t great also. Well so much for taste.