Everything is already with us – including heaven and hell. Here’s a bit of heaven…
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.”
Some good tricks here…
According to a recent survey by Finder.com, Americans spent almost $40 billion in 2018 while drunk. As Jimmy Kimmel observed, it “could explain the popularity of Uggs.”
If you have ever been on a NYC subway, you’ll love this…
There are 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
When Is a Vegan Not a Vegan? (Answer: When she has to eat crow.)
My tendency in reading health-related literature is to stay with authors and ideas that support my natural preferences. That’s why I was an early advocate of the Mediterranean diet and then jumped on the Paleo bandwagon. It’s also the reason that prompted me to read The Vegetarian Myth by Lierre Keith. (See my review, above.)
One of the claims Keith makes in her books is that many vegans and vegetarians make a regular habit of “cheating” because their bodies cannot tolerate the nutritional damage that comes from eschewing eggs and flesh completely. She tells an amusing story of being a true believer at a hard-core vegan camp only to discover that they had periodic egg-feasting days that were enjoyed but never discussed.
I was thus amused again to see this bit from Whitney Tilsson:
Yovana Mendoza Ayres, 29, a professional social media influencer known as Rawvana, had made a name for herself on YouTube and Instagram by extolling the virtues of a raw and vegan lifestyle, now often referred to as “plant-based.” Her YouTube channels – she has about 2 million subscribers on her Spanish language channel and another 500,000 in English – are filled with videos of her sharing vegan recipes and skin care routines. On her personal website, she sells meal plans, including a 21-day “Raw Vegan Detox & Yoga Challenge,” to help people lose weight for $49.
… The camera found her seated in front of a salad. Her arms dropping to cover the plate did not stop commenters from identifying a distinctly not plant-based item on her plate: fish.
… In an emotional apology Ayres released on YouTube last week, she explained why she misled her fans. She changed her diet after years of significant health problems that culminated with doctors urging her to eat more food, including protein and eggs, she said.
The lifestyle of fitness, weight loss, and wellness she had sold to her followers had apparently been making her ill.
Here’s Ayres’s emotional apology.
Memorable April Fool’s Day Pranks Pulled by the Media
* In the early 1950s, the BBC aired a “news” item about the spaghetti harvest in Switzerland.
* In 1985, Sports Illustrated published a story by George Plimpton about a Mets pitching phenom named Sidd Finch. According to Plimpton, Finch had a 168-mph fast ball (which he credited to meditations in Tibet), carried a French horn at all times, and wore one hiking boot while pitching.
* In 2004, NPR’s “All Things Considered” ran a story about the USPS’s new “portable zip codes” program. Like people being able to keep their phone number even if they moved, the program was designed to represent “a citizen’s place in the demographic, rather than geographic” landscape.
* In 2008, the BBC showed a video clip of flying penguins as part of its “Miracles of Evolution” series. The idea was that the penguins had evolved in this way in order to escape the harsh weather in the Antarctic by flying to South America’s rainforests.
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Man’s search for meaning. Most of the human population don’t search. And for a very good reason. Meaning for them is immediate, coming as it does from the struggle to survive.
Of those for whom survival is not a challenge, meaning is more elusive. Some find it by submitting to a belief system. Others, that prefer to think independently, have a more difficult time. As near as I can tell, it’s never found through any sort of introspection. If it comes at all it comes from work that has purpose.
The wife of a colleague has devoted her life to helping the deaf to hear through advanced medical technology. Take a look at the responses such people have when they first experience hearing. I can only imagine how meaningful it would feel to know that you gave this gift to someone.
Lions can run as fast as 60 miles an hour.