Here is a Taiwanese Whitney Houston Sing-a-Like as discovered in a talent contest. Lin sings the Dolly Parton classic, I Will Always Love You, on a Taiwanese TV talent show competition. (Parton wrote and first recorded the song, which Whitney Houston later recorded.) When I watched this video on April 16th, 2010 at 6:24 am [...]
When I was younger, my wife and I had a back-to-the-land dream. Never got to do it, but it meant simplifying our lives. Here is an interesting post about simplifying one’s life. I do not agree with all 26 points, but I like most of them. http://www.farbeyondthestars.com/ p.s. skip the first several sections of that [...]
DNA. Catches criminals, proves who’s your daddy, helps diagnose and cure diseases, AND proves what you are eating. DNA techniques are so easy and accessible that even high school science students can use them effectively. Two New York City high schoolers worked with scientists at the Rockefeller University and American Museum of Natural History in [...]
Embattled Canadian MP Helena Guergis was once my MP, as I lived in Alliston Ontario for a while. Thus, some of you have been expecting me to comment here on these pages. I consider this news item just too full of “maybe’s” to bother getting into it. The Star is, as usual, digging hard into [...]
A 10-year study of hospital admissions showed a distinct drop in certain types of conditions after the city of Toronto banned smoking in restaurants and bars. The findings were published in Tuesday’s edition of the Canadian Medical Association Journal. The research shows that, in the three-year period after anti-smoking bylaws were implemented in restaurants, hospitalizations [...]
Thanks to Cass and Gerry and Barb, I had a great weekend. Great to have awesome friends that you can laugh with. Great to have a special friend that you can go for walks with and share thoughts with. Oh, and I don’t care what critics say (and you might be one of them) I [...]
We have probably all heard of people who explore caves. Spelunker is the term that refers to a person who explores caves. Well, there are people who explore man-made cave like structures inside cities. Underneath every major city exists many tunnels that are easily large enough for a person to walk through. These are not [...]
