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NEW TECHNOLOGY DOESN’T HAVE TO BE EXPENSIVE OR COMPLICATED REDUCE CALORIES IN COOKED RICE BY UP TO 60% USING SIMPLE NEW COOKING METHOD Although this article for the Durk & Sandy Life Extension News was written on April 1st, it is NOT an April Fools Day joke. This is a very real, very exciting method released by the American … Read more

APPETIZERS Fools need Advice most, but only wise Men are the better for it. — Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted. — Jules Renard It is perfectly okay to write garbage— as long as you edit brilliantly. — C. J. Cherryh Ah, you miserable creatures! You … Read more

APPETIZERS Every time you spend money, you’re casting a vote for the kind of world you want. — Anna Lappe The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax. — Albert Einstein No man ever listened himself out of a job. — Calvin Coolidge If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster. — … Read more

APPETIZERS Theory guides; experiment decides. — motto of analytical chemist Izaak Maurits Kolthoff Theory is a good thing, but a good experiment is forever. — Peter Leonidovich Kapitza, Soviet physicist The future is already here—It’s just not very evenly distributed. — William Gibson, science fiction author   IFOIA, NEW RESOURCE FROM THE REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR … Read more

APPETIZERS But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of a few States only. They would be signals of general alarm … But what degree of madness could ever drive the federal government to such an extremity. — James … Read more

APPETIZERS The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. — James Madison, Federalist No. 48 In 2012, sales of adult diapers [in Japan] surpassed sales of baby diapers … Read more

APPETIZERS I am an advocate of paper money, but that paper money must represent what it professes on its face. I do not wish to hold in my hands the printed lies of government. He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.  — James A. Garfield, twentieth U. S. President If … Read more

REMOTE ISCHEMIC CONDITIONING COULD IT BE AN EXERCISE MIMIC?REDUCING DAMAGE DONE BY EVOLVING HEART ATTACK WITH SIMPLE INEXPENSIVE METHOD A safe, simple, and effective way to reduce the damage resulting from an ongoing heart attack called remote ischemic preconditioning has been described in the Feb. 27, 2010 Lancet.1 A variation of this method, called Enhanced External Counterpulsation (EECP), is used … Read more

APPETIZERS In an honest search for knowledge you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period. — Erwin Schrodinger Being a scientist requires having faith in uncertainty, finding pleasure in mystery, and learning to cultivate doubt. There is no surer way to screw up an experiment than to be certain of its … Read more

APPETIZERS The following short excerpt is from Freehold by Michael Z. Williamson (Baen, 2004): Background: UN vs. FREEHOLD, a former Earth colony, now an independent planet being invaded by the UN, which expects the yokels to roll over and play dead. But, unfortunately for the UN, FREEHOLD isn’t Earth. The convoy was four vehicles with … Read more