Suicide and the Lottery of Second Chances
On New Year’s Eve, 1994, I pulled my beat-up old Ford out from the garage of my mother’s home. I drove out to an empty street six blocks away. The drizzly sky was erupting into a climax of fireworks: blooms of blue and green, mesmerizing yellows, and pulsating reds: floating heavenward, and then hanging there […]
Exercising your brain – how a great podcast can change your future…
Time poor? Join the club! Most of us are. And yet we spent (on average in 2018) an insane 2 hours and 16 minutes per day on social media sites! And I used the word ‘spent’ deliberately because that time is very rarely an investment! It’s gone! It’s not coming back! Those memes and pointless […]
Why we’ll never see an alien calling home…
Most of us have imagined the joy, astonishment, awe or perhaps, fear, of meeting an alien. Some of us even claim to have done so. But unfortunately, even though there are undoubtedly trillions of planets out there, your odds of winning Lotto 10,000 times over are better than you ever communicating with an alien, let […]
That first impression is indelible!
It takes less than 1/20th of a second to decide a man’s sexual orientation. You may be right or wrong but the decision is made. Chances are you also see women with visible tattoos as being more promiscuous. Balding? don’t worry about it… shave your head instead. Then people will see you as more dominant! […]
El Toro Smoker — function and aesthetics in one!
What can you expect from a man who is both a metal sculptor and a BBQ fan? Well… just the most awesome grill you will ever see! The El Toro Bravo™ Smoker is also a grill that resembles a charging bull! Owner-builder Russell Marr came up with the idea years ago while making a traditional firebox […]
Diatom Art – nature under the microscope
You could be forgiven for thinking these are a form of precious stone. You could also be forgiven for knowing little to nothing about these amazing creatures. Diatoms are a form of algae, in fact, a very common phytoplankton. It’s estimated that there could be as many as 200,000 different varieties. They are in such […]
GENETICALLY WE ARE ALL POTENTIAL TERRORISTS…
By Guest Blogger: Ferdi Businger We comfort ourselves with the belief that the Germans and the Japanese people of the 1940’s had some genetic trait that predisposed them to violence, sadism, and war. That this phenomena is confined to race and a period in history. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. I won’t […]
Was your seafood dinner caught by slaves?
Have you ever noticed that huge amounts of packaged seafood – both for pets and humans, are labelled “Produce of Thailand”? Of course some is… there are many, many fish and shrimp farms in the country. But most of that packaged seafood is wild-caught. And some of it is caught by slaves. In recent months […]
Why those long hours are probably killing your bottom line!
Do you work from a home office? You probably made that decision so that you can have time with your family. But do you find it hard to stop? Do you put the kids to bed and ‘go back to the office’? We all worry about long hours affecting our personal health, but what if […]
Can a high carb diet lead to depression?
I‘m just one of the roughly 2.5% of the population afflicted by bi-polar disorder. I don’t remember my first manic episode, but I do recall my first bout of depression. I was just 14. Of course, I didn’t know I was depressed. Nor did my parents, teachers or anyone else. I was simply a ‘misfit’. […]
