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Zip Lock Omelette

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:06:03 GMT

clipped by: vandamonium

This works great !!! Good for when all your family is together. The best part is that no one has to wait for their special omelet !!! Have guests write their name on a quart-size Ziploc freezer bag with permanent marker.
Crack 2 eggs (large or extra-large) into the bag (not more than 2) shake to combine them. Put out a variety of ingredients such as: cheeses, ham, onion, green pepper, tomato, hash browns, salsa, etc.

Each guest adds prepared ingredients of choice to their bag and shake.

Make sure to get the air out of the bag and zip it up. Place the bags into rolling, boiling water for exactly 13 minutes. You can usually cook 6-8 omelets in a large pot. For more, make another pot of boiling water.
Open the bags and the omelet will roll out easily. Be prepared for everyone to be amazed.

Nice to serve with fresh fruit and coffee cake; everyone gets involved in the process and it's a great conversation piece.

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Tags: omelette

Mother Nature's Smile

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:22:55 GMT

clipped by: gingembre
clipper's remarks:

Clip Source: gingembresplace.blogspot.com

Mother Nature's Smile

Tags: nature, photos, smile

underwater waterfall

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:21:47 GMT

clipped by: mona
clipper's remarks: fascinating - impossible to clip. visit source for full article. not very long and certainly a worth-while read!

Clip Source: www.whoi.edu

Gigantic underwater waterfall reveals our weather's secrets

It is often said that scientists have found out more about the surface of the moon than about what is going on in the depths of the ocean. So let’s take a journey down deep and find out

Imagine a waterfall that is so large it puts all those we know on land into its shadow, one that transports 2,000,000 m³ of water per second and descends almost 3000 m

in the northern North Atlantic , where the winters are cast in almost complete darkness and temperatures seldom creep above zero, the Greenland-Iceland-Scotland ridge separates two of the world’s ocean’s most active regions

In the GIN Seas surface waters are cooled by the icy atmospheric conditions, become heavy and sink to the bottom. These waters are called ‘deepwaters’. They build up behind the ridge, like a bathtub whose tap has been left running, and only through a few narrow but deep ‘bottlenecks’ along the ridge can these waters find their way into the North Atlantic .

Tags: nature, natural phenomenon, phenomenon, climate, amazing, weather

Schizophrenia: The Curse That's Almost a Blessing

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:57:25 GMT

clipped by: Mohir
clipper's remarks: A recent study may have found what kind of process goes awry in schizophrenic brains. Researchers found that DISC1 regulates the migration of new neurons in the adult brain. When the levels of DISC1 were reduced in mice during adult neurogenesis, the newborn neurons sped up and overshot their intended targets within the hippocampus, When the neurons finally reached their destinations, they forged an unusual number of connections with neighboring cells, a series of events that might give rise to the abnormal—and quite crippling—brain functions associated with schizophrenia, according to Hongjun Song, a Johns Hopkins neurologist who also worked on the study. It is possible, Song says, that further research will lead to a drug that treats schizophrenia by restoring normal neurogenesis.

So what evolutionary advantage could schizophrenia-related genes bring to people who have some of the genes but not the disease? For now, this remains one of the many open questions.

Clip Source: discovermagazine.com

Schizophrenia: The Curse That's Almost a Blessing

The disease may be the twisted flipside of an evolutionary boost.

For years, scientists struggled to identify an adaptive advantage that might explain schizophrenia’s persistence. Researchers from various disciplines volleyed ideas back and forth. Some argued that the genes implicated in the disease promoted creativity; others believed that schizophrenics were frustrated cult leaders—unorthodox thinkers constitutionally “engineered” to lead segments of humanity to break off from the herd, but who lacked the charisma to effect much change. None of the theories gained much traction.

Tags: psychology, brain, schizophrenia, evolution

President Bush's Colonoscopy

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:17:36 GMT

clipped by: michellezm
clipper's remarks: Couldn't resist!

Clip Source: www.cartoonist.co.za

Brain by Jonathan Shapiro

Tags: bush, brain, retardation, colonoscopy

Life, 90% unknown

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:52:21 GMT

clipped by: wildcat
clipper's remarks: "We live, in short, on a little-known planet."

Clip Source: www.livescience.com

After 250 Years of Classifying Life, 90 Percent Remains Unknown

BRONX, NEW YORK--Most people can tell the difference between some types of berries, or bugs or trees, but much of the planet's life remains unnamed and unseen.

A stunningly egotistical Swedish naturalist, Carl Linnaeus, tried long ago to set humanity on track to remedy that.

His book, "Systema Naturae," first published in 1735 at 13 pages long, proposed a hierarchical system for classifying plants, animals and minerals (we later chipped away minerals into the domain of geology) and launched an effort to identify and inventory all the world's living things.

Now 250 years after publication of the book's latter editions, scientists still have discovered as few as 10 percent of the species now living on Earth, said Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson, who spoke here last week at an event at the New York Botanical Garden to celebrate a visit of Linnaeus' personal copy of the book's first edition.

Tags: life, earth, ecology, species, classification, biology

1900 vision of the year 2000

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:24:57 GMT

clipped by: mona

Clip Source: bp3.blogger.com

Tags: bleak future, not, too, far, off, in, the, present

About memes and memetics

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:17:30 GMT

clipped by: deusdiabolus
clipper's remarks: Or, why people are more interested in celebrity scandals and silly video clips than things that actually affect their lives. I highly recommend you continue researching the concept of memetics...and consider also how it can apply to vote-based sites such as this one (and Digg, and Reddit, and...)

Clip Source: www.memecentral.com

How do you pronounce "meme"?

"Meem" (rhymes with "dream")

What is a meme?

Memes are the basic building blocks of our minds and culture, in the same way that genes are the basic building blocks of biological life.

Isn't memetics just a fancy name for _________ (fill in the blank with "cultural evolution", "behavioral psychology", "sociobiology", or anything else)? Why is this anything new?

The breakthrough in memetics is in extending Darwinian evolution to culture. There are several exciting conclusions from doing that, one of which is the ability to predict that ideas will spread not because they are "good ideas", but because they contain "good memes" such as danger, food and sex that push our evolutionary buttons and force us to pay attention to them.

Oxford zoologist Richard Dawkins is credited with first publication of the concept of meme in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene.

Tags: meme, memes, memetics, psychology, culture, noology

If Sativex Works, So Does Pot

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:54:54 GMT

clipped by: wildcat

Clip Source: www.reason.com

A new study reported in the journal Pain finds that Sativex, an orally administered cannabis extract spray, is effective at treating neuropathic pain in patients for whom standard painkillers do not provide adequate relief. During the five-week study, 125 subjects with peripheral neuropathic pain continued to take previously prescribed analgesics and achieved additional relief from Sativex, averaging a reduction of about 1.5 points on a 10-point self-reported pain scale, compared to half a point for the placebo spray. The research is part of GW Pharmaceuticals' efforts to gain wider regulatory approval for Sativex, which is approved for treatment of multiple sclerosis in Europe and for treatment of both cancer pain and M.S.-related neuropathic pain in Canada.

Every study that demonstrates Sativex's medical utility also demonstrates marijuana's medical utility, belying the U.S. government's claim that it has none

Tags: sativex, health, medicine, pain treatment, pot, canabis

The face of life

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:56:30 GMT

clipped by: Fast T friend
clipper's remarks: I love watching this face; seems as life almost managed to erase the lines that set apart ethnicity, gender, era and such, leaving in their rigid stead a unique expression of life itself.

Clip Source: www.luminous-landscape.com

Temple Caretaker

Tags: photography, expression, human

33 Reasons Why you shouldn't post your picture on the internet:

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:05:02 GMT

clipped by: Q-tips

Clip Source: www.polyice.com

33 Reasons Why you shouldn't post your picture on the internet:

DISCLAIMER: These are all submissions by others for educational purposes only.

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11.17.2004 - New host found thanks to the many fans and supporters!

Please send your versions to rheewind@hotmail.com

From: Bill

From: Rui from Portugal

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From: Jon

From: Dave

From: Matt

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From: Rich

From: Tim

From: Playfair, NY

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From: Stephen

From: Al, Pasadena

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Tags: humor, funny, cute

Beautiful as a picture (landscape photographs of China)

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:49:58 GMT

clipped by: Fast T friend
clipper's remarks: lu-mi-nous (lue'muh nuhs) adj.
1. radiating or reflecting light; shining; bright.
2. clear; readily intelligible

Clip Source: www.luminous-landscape.com

Net Casting. Guilin, China

Algae Harvest. Guilin, China. October, 2005

Moonlight Fish. Guilin, China. October, 2005

Misty Ridge. Huangshan, China. October, 2005

Porter. Huangshan, China. October, 2005

Tags: art, photography, landscapes, china

Half Man, Half Tree

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:45:17 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: Though, let's be honest, we may be drawn to this by the same impulse that ensures a fascination with 'freaks', isn't it lovely that he seems happy in spite of his condition? Maybe because he is loved.

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Dede, now 35, baffled medical experts when warty "roots" began growing out of his arms and feet after he cut his knee in a teenage accident.

To make ends meet he even joined a local "freak show", parading in front of a paying audience alongside victims of other peculiar diseases.

Dede's problem is that he has a rare genetic fault that impedes his immune system, meaning his body is unable to contain the warts.

"The likelihood of having his deficiency is less than one in a million," Dr Gaspari told the Telegraph.

"Half Man Half Tree", part of the "My Shocking Story" series, will be shown on the Discovery Channel at 9pm on Nov 15.

Tags: immune system, freaks

An Instinct To Swarm

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:08:02 GMT

clipped by: debbyski

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

If you have ever observed ants marching in and out of a nest, you might have been reminded of a highway buzzing with traffic. To Iain D. Couzin, such a comparison is a cruel insult — to the ants.

Americans spend a 3.7 billion hours a year in congested traffic. But you will never see ants stuck in gridlock.

The reason may be that the ants have had a lot more time to adapt to living in big groups. “We haven’t evolved in the societies we currently live in,” Dr. Couzin said.

By studying army ants — as well as birds, fish, locusts and other swarming animals — Dr. Couzin and his colleagues are starting to discover simple rules that allow swarms to work so well. Those rules allow thousands of relatively simple animals to form a collective brain able to make decisions and move like a single organism.

Tags: we, can, learn, from, them

Could this lead to religious profiling?

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:31:08 GMT

clipped by: ljsdesign
clipper's remarks: Remember during World War II we rounded up the Japanese Americans and put them in our own little camps to keep an eye on them.

Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

Civil rights advocates criticized plans by the Los Angeles Police Department to map the city's Muslim communities, calling it racial profiling.

The LAPD's counterterrorism bureau plans to identify Muslim enclaves in order to determine which might be likely to become isolated and susceptible to "violent, ideologically based extremism

"We want to know where the Pakistanis, Iranians and Chechens are so we can reach out to those communities," said Downing, who heads the counterterrorism bureau.

"grave concerns" about the program.

Singling out individuals for investigation, surveillance, and data-gathering based on their religion constitutes religious profiling that is just as unlawful, ill-advised and deeply offensive as racial profiling

The plan "basically turns the LAPD officers into religious political analysts, while their role is to fight crime and enforce the laws

However, another group, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, is considering working with the LAPD on the projec

Tags: civil rights, cost of war, discrimination, eavesdropping, equality, liberal, politics, pandering, war on terror