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Colourful Caterpillars - 24 of nature's most beautiful!

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:39:57 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

These voracious leave eaters whose movements are graceful and fluid have six times as many muscles as a human and can be very harmful to humans. Some color inspiration is harmless, so here are 24 caterpillar inspired palettes.

Caterpillar hair has been known to be a cause of human health problems. Caterpillar hairs sometimes have venoms in them and species from approximately 12 families of moths or butterflies worldwide can inflict serious human injuries

Edible wild fungi: Marasmius oreades

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:36:44 GMT

clipped by: egsnyder
clipper's remarks: One of my favorite wild mushrooms. I've been picking and eating this one for 30 years. It's a great mushroom to dry for long storage and rehydrate any time you're in the mood for mushrooms. Great in stews and soups.

There's nothing like free food. Usually abundant on grassy areas, such as parks, in Eastern Ontario in the fall after heavy rains.

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Marasmius oreades

Marasmius oreades is also known as the scotch bonnet or fairy ring mushroom. The latter name tends to cause some confusion, as many other mushrooms grown in fairy rings (such as the edible Agaricus campestris, the poisonous Chlorophyllum molybdites, and many others).

Many mushroom connoisseurs are fond of M. oreades^[1] and its sweet taste lends it to baked goods that mushroom eaters generally shy away from, such as cookies. Traditionally, the stems (which tend to be fibrous and unappetizing) are cut off and the caps are threaded and dried in strings. The reason why this mushroom is so sweet-tasting is due to the presence of trehalose, a type of sugar that allows M. oreades to cheat death.^[2] When exposed to water after being completely dried out, the trehalose is digested as the cells completely revive, causing cellular reproduction and the creation of new spores to pick up again.

Tags: edible wild, mushrooms, fungi

India has had bird flu but is banning poultry related products from nations that have had it too - I

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:20:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: India has meat eaters but is predominately a vegan nation - but they raise poultry to export and have had outbreaks of avian flu in their flocks. Now they are banning importation of poultry products from other nations that have similarly afflicted.

It all sounds a bit ironic, oxymoronic, and strange. Will they complain when and if other nations ban the import of birds from India?

There are smart ways to break the pandemic threat but India and others are not looking beyond the easy and political.

Clip Source: in.reuters.com

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has imposed restrictions on meat imports, particularly from countries which have seen cases of bird flu, the commerce and industry ministry said on Wednesday.

For countries where bird flu cases have been reported, India has banned imports of live birds, including poultry; bird meat and eggs or their products; pigs and unprocessed pig products; and products intended for use in animal feeding, agriculture or industrial use.

The ministry said the restrictions would apply both to cases of "highly pathogenic" and "low pathogenic notifiable avian influenza".

Tags: avian flu, bird flu, pandemic, bizarre, globalism awry

Are You Vegetarian? How Do You Get Enough Protein?

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:56:19 GMT

clipped by: edwardmasen9
clipper's remarks: Becoming a vegetarian seems to be a popular choice for a different lifestyle, but what about getting enough nutrition? What about protein.

Clip Source: brainblogger.com

If only I had a nickel each time I was asked this question! Well, I am vegetarian, and my meals are balanced and healthy. I have not been diagnosed with deficiencies or malnourishment yet. On the other hand, I feel light and healthy, eat 25% less fat (than meat eaters) on an average, and save significantly on grocery costs.

Tags: blood, body, cholesterol, fiber, grain, lifestyle, meat, nutrition, option, protein

Fires regenerate African grassland

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:50:27 GMT

clipped by: tabsey
clipper's remarks: Australian Aborigines have been doing this for thousands of years.

Clip Source: www.eurekalert.org

Windhoek/Leipzig. Natural grass fires are evidently more important for the ecology of savannahs than has previously been assumed. This is the finding of a study carried out in Etosha National Park in the north of Namibia. It is the first study to have investigated the complex interplay of the factors fire, competition, moisture and seed availability in relation to a grass species. Periodic fires in semi-arid regions can lead to older tufts of grass disappearing, thereby making room for younger grasses. Writing in the Journal of Ecology, the researchers from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), the University of Frankfurt am Main and the University of Cologne say that fire therefore plays an important role in regeneration. The findings are particularly significant for the management of semi-arid nature reserves, in which, in the absence of natural plant eaters, fires are the only practical means of renewing the grass canopy.

Tags: ecology

Evolution in a Bottle

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:35:01 GMT

clipped by: Mohir
clipper's remarks: Over time the bacteria evolved to better suit their environment, adapting to replicate faster on the all-glucose diet. But one colony suddenly took off, consuming the previously indigestible citrate - a molecule that literally would not fit through the original bacteria's membrane. A new breed of E. Coli had evolved to consume the available resources and, over a multi-generational evolutionary battle, came to outperform the original glucose eaters.

Because of the daily samples, there is now a complete genetic paper trail of the changes (although full identification and understanding of the changes will take a little longer). This is an incredible breakthrough in evolutionary research, and a pretty nice argument to break out in the creationism 'debates' ("Prove evolution!" "Okay, I've got it right here IN THIS BOTTLE!")

Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

Forget Chanel No 5 or absinthe, the most exciting thing you can get in a bottle is evolution itself. While it has incredibly obvious results in nature, you can't actually see it happen - something about having to wait millions of years. Scientists in Michigan State University have observed it in the lab, and it only took twenty.

By breeding bacteria in jars Professor Richard Lenski has been able to make a stop-motion animation of evolution in action.

He split a single colony of Escherichia Coli into twelve containers, where each group was then allowed to breed in a glucose-citrate solution (the species of E. Coli chosen can eat glucose but not citrates). Every day samples from each jar were frozen, providing a perfect record of their genetic progress.

Tags: evolution, bacteria

50 Graphic Design Blogs

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:44:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I love top lists! and more if it´s about design, great resource for design eaters... ja ja!

Clip Source: www.davidairey.com

Top 50+ graphic design blogs

It’s not so easy finding quality graphic design authors. So to make things easier for you, here I present my top 50+ graphic design blogs (currently over 70). I’ve categorised these blogs by their Google PageRank (PR), which is Google’s way of determining the authority of a website / blog.

Tags: design, blogs, list

Small Packages Trick People to Eat More

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:35:49 GMT

clipped by: hitchhiker08
clipper's remarks: A marketing gimmick that works...for the manufacturers, that is!

Clip Source: www.livescience.com

Small Packages Trick People to Eat More

If you think buying junk food in small packages will help you eat less, look out —marketers know the truth.

Two new marketing studies found that some people tend to consume more calories when junk food portions and packages are smaller. For some, it's because they perceive small packages to be ... get this ... diet food.

For others, it's just the temptation of small sins.

Already in stores

Manufacturers are releasing more and more products in smaller packages

in smaller packages promoted as having just 100 calories. In terms of sales, the tactic has proven successful, past research shows.

Diet food?

In the other new study, Maura L. Scott at the University of Kentucky and colleagues at Arizona State University assessed people's perceptions and eating habits of M&Ms in regular and miniature packages.

The participants were sorted into two groups: restrained and unrestrained eaters.

restrained eaters

consume more calories

than unrestrained

Tags: diet, junk food, crisps, calories, marketing, packaging, sales

Homophobia free zone.. Sydney pink precincts a stunt?

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:57:15 GMT

clipped by: tdsmum
clipper's remarks: Lunatic councils

What next a green & purple dotted protection zone for smokers & meat eaters?.

Where we would be safe from verbal assaults
and assorted frowns?

Clip Source: news.google.com.au

Pink precincts to protect gays
NEWS.com.au, Australia - 1 hour ago
By Carmel Melouney FIRST, there were nuclear-free zones, then alcohol-free zones. Now Sydney is set to introduce "homophobia-free zones". ...

Gay protection zones a stunt
Daily Telegraph, Australia - 8 hours ago
ABUSE and violence directed at gay people because of their sexuality must always be strongly condemned. The Sunday Telegraph will always support ...

Protection for Oxford Street gays
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - 9 hours ago
City of Sydney council has declared the Oxford Street neighbourhood and other recognised gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender precincts free of homophobic ...

Tags: homophobia-free zones, pink precincts, city of sydney council

Female Mosquitoes: Out for Blood

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 03:15:05 GMT

clipped by: BigME413
clipper's remarks: Many people don't believe me when I say that it's only the female mosquitoes- not the males- that will bite you and suck your blood. But here Wikipedia, the most reputable of sources, proves me to be correct.

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Mosquito

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Both male and female mosquitoes are nectar feeders, but the female of many species is also capable of haematophagy (drinking blood). Females do not require blood for survival, but they do need supplemental substances (like protein and iron) to develop eggs. Prior to and during blood feeding, they inject saliva. The Toxorhynchites species of mosquito never drink blood.^[6] This genus includes the largest of the extant mosquitoes, the larvae of which are predatory on the larvae of other mosquitoes. These mosquito eaters have been used in the past as mosquito control agents with varying success.^[7]

Tags: science

19th-Century Painter Van Gogh Died Of Self-Inflicted Gunshot 29 July 1890

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:23:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: * Born: 30 March 1853
* Birthplace: Groot Zundert, Holland
* Died: 29 July 1890 (self-inflicted gunshot)
* Best Known As: The marvelous painter who cut off his own earlobe

A 19th-century painter, Van Gogh is almost as famous for his mental instability as for his vivid paintings. His career as an artist lasted only 10 years and coincided with frequent bouts of depression and anguish

Among his favorite painters at this time were Jean François Millet, Rembrandt, Honoré Daumier; among his favorite authors, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, and Harriet Beecher Stowe - all of them interested in the poor and dispossessed. Complementing Van Gogh's dismal subject matter of this time were his colors, dark brownish and greenish tones. The masterpiece of the Dutch period is the Potato Eaters (1885), a night scene in which peasants sit at their meal around a table.

Clip Source: www.answers.com

Born on March 30, 1853, at Groot-Zundert in the province of Brabant, Vincent Van Gogh was the son of a Protestant minister.

In early 1877 he clerked in a bookshop in Dordrecht

He left 3 months later to become an evangelist in a poor mining section of Belgium

After much introspection, Van Gogh decided in 1880 to devote his life to art, a profession he accepted as a spiritual calling.

In October 1880 he attended an art school in Brussels, where he studied the rudiments of perspective and anatomy. From April to December 1881 he stayed with his parents, who were then in Etten, and continued to work at his art. At this time his cousin from Amsterdam, a widow with a 4-year-old son, rejected him, and he subsequently formed a close relationship with a pregnant prostitute, a move that precipitated a break with his family.

During his Dutch period (1880-1886) Van Gogh executed works in which his overriding humanitarian concerns were overtly manifest.

Tags: vincent van gogh, dutch impressionist painter

Eat These, Weigh Less?

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:32:58 GMT

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Clip Source: www.realage.com

Eat These, Weigh Less?

Maybe they’re called "magical fruit" in children’s rhymes for a reason . . .

Just not for the flatulence-producing reasons kids obsess about. What really makes beans magical is their potential effect on your waistline: Bean eaters weigh less on average than non-bean-imbibing folks do.

Bean Counting

In fact, bean eaters weigh as much as 6.6 pounds less, according to RealAge expert John La Puma, MD, author of ChefMD's Big Book of Culinary Medicine. (Browse the book online.) Makes sense when you consider beans are full of fiber and protein but low in fat, which means a serving will keep you going far beyond the need-to-munch hour but only make a minor dent in your calorie intake. (Find out which kind of bean packs the biggest antioxidant punch.)

OceansideWealth Launch, pre, past, present, secret whatever

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:10:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Educational Clipmark

Clip Source: www.cartoonstock.com

Man Eaters Cartoons

'And then he yells MAN EATER and I say, MAN EATER?! MOI?!!'

'I'm trying to catch some Rays - and some Trevors and some Gavins...'

'Bob's spearfishing adventure came to a quick end.'

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Common Cents

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:03:57 GMT

clipped by: sillysam

Clip Source: article.nationalreview.com

In a country with less in the way of checks and balances, which can be gamed by adroit lobbyists and litigators, we would be building more nuclear plants and drilling offshore and in ANWR. We would be phasing out the corn-ethanol subsidies that are enriching Iowa farmers and impoverishing Mexican tortilla eaters, and we would be repealing the 54-cent tariff on Brazilian sugar ethanol

But it also has its benefits: Public opinion, when it has changed as it has with $4 gas, has an effect. Environmental restrictionists like Al Gore have been selling a form of secular religion: We have sinned against Mother Earth, we must atone and suffer, there can be no argument, but we must have faith.

That was an appealing argument to many — perhaps most — Americans when gas was selling for $1.40. It has a much more limited appeal now that gas is selling for $4.10. The time may be coming when our lunatic environmental policies are swept away by a rising tide of common sense.

Almonds boost weight loss

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:59:11 GMT

clipped by: Fast T friend
clipper's remarks: According to Wien, “The weight-loss benefits of eating almonds came as something of a surprise, since the study was originally designed to evaluate the cholesterol-lowering effects of almonds. As it turned out, the dieters who ate almonds lost more weight than would be expected if they were taking prescription diet pills.”

Clip Source: www.gvnews.com

If you're searching for a snack food that can help you lose weight and gain health, almonds are an excellent choice. For years, many dieters have shied away from nuts, largely because of their high fat and calorie content.

Lead investigator Michelle Wien, Dr.P.H., R.D., found that when she asked volunteers to include raw or roasted almonds in their calorie-restricted diets, their weight-loss efforts were dramatically accelerated.

The study included 65 overweight and obese adults who were placed on one of two diets designed to promote weight loss. The caloric value and protein content of the two diets were equivalent, but only one included a 3-ounce serving of almonds daily.

After 24 weeks, the two groups showed a striking difference in their weight-loss patterns. The almond-eating group lost 62 percent more weight and 56 percent more body fat than the nut-free group. The almond-eaters also experienced significantly greater reductions in waist circumference and blood pressure.

Tags: diet, almonds, fat, lose