Thursday
Jun172010

Japanese Blood Typing

Monday
Jun142010

Quote of the Day

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

Galileo Galilei

Saturday
May082010

Quote Of the Day

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

Tuesday
May042010

Quote Of The Day – read carefully

Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.
--Terry Pratchett
Sunday
Apr042010

Quote of the Day

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Danny Kaye

Sunday
Apr042010

Quote of the Day

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Saturday
Mar132010

quote of the day

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.
--Robert Louis Stevenson
Sunday
Mar072010

quote of the day

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

Henny Youngman

Sunday
Feb212010

quote of the day

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. - Michel de Montaigne
Sunday
Feb142010

quote of the day

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
--George Moore
Saturday
Feb132010

Quote of the day

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

Ambrose Bierce

Saturday
Feb132010

How I held my breath for 17 min

 

In this highly personal talk from TEDMED, magician and stuntman David Blaine describes what it took to hold his breath underwater for 17 minutes -- a world record (only two minutes shorter than this entire talk!) -- and what his often death-defying work means to him. Warning: do NOT try this at home.

Thursday
Feb112010

Your health depends on where you live

Where you live: It impacts your health as much as diet and genes do, but it's not part of your medical records. At TEDMED, Bill Davenhall shows how overlooked government geo-data (from local heart-attack rates to toxic dumpsite info) can mesh with mobile GPS apps to keep doctors in the loop. Call it "geo-medicine."

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Sunday
Jan242010

How to live to be 100+

To find the path to long life and health, Dan Buettner and team study the world's "Blue Zones," communities whose elders live with vim and vigor to record-setting age. At TEDxTC, he shares the 9 common diet and lifestyle habits that keep them spry past age 100.

Sunday
Jan102010

Quote of the day

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. - Nikola Tesla
Monday
Jan042010

do what you love – and keep doing it

Sunday
Dec272009

Damien Rice - The Rat Within The Grain (LIVE)

I know this should be under my music journal, but this sums up my thoughts right now!

Wednesday
Dec232009

Quote of the day

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

  - Hannah Arendt

Thursday
Dec172009

Double Quotes of the Day

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Aldous Huxley

 

 

Give me the place to stand, and I shall move the earth.

Archimedes

Wednesday
Dec162009

Quote of the Day

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. - Albert Einstein