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Sleep

BBC News report Sleep 'key to longer life' Scientists believe they may have uncovered the reason why women live longer than men - they are better sleepers. A team from the US has found that women tend to sleep more soundly than men. They are also less affected by

Sutton Hoo

I saw my first dead body at Sutton Hoo. True, the chap had been dead for centuries, and was little more than a dark, man shaped bulge against the orange soil, but to a six year old, that's still pretty darned cool. That and the fact that the

Breeding stock

Let it be known that Creatures 3, from Creature Labs, is a wonderfully addictive game. Coupled with the Docking Station, the internet enabled part of the game, it's even better. Do not get this unless you have time to spare. It takes 45 minutes to an hour to

Blogchalk and other animals

Google! DayPop! This is my blogchalk: English, United States, St. Louis, Maplewood, Alison, Female, 26-30! Finally inserted the "spam-away code," a PHP include onto every page of this site. It dumps email harvesting spambots onto a 403: Access Forbidden page. Take that, you slimy spammer! If

Iceland

Report in the BBC News of Iceland glacier flood fears. David Hilliard, Earthwatch Iceland has glaciers and is the world's most volcanic island - a recipe for dramatic events Glaciers, earthquakes, volcanos. Sounds like a place I want to visit.

Understand this?

I'm not the first to comment on Nicholas D Kristof's New York Times article Bigotry in Islam And Here, but I wanted to pick out one piece that seems to have been overlooked. Kristof says: One can dispute that, and it's reasonable to worry

Blogrolls

I got thinking about Blogrolls, the list of links to other blogs you see on most sites. Mine ended up in sections, Friends, Christian, St Louis, and Other, plus a link to GBlogs (blogs by Brits). My list changes often. Eric Raymond's blog Armed and Dangerous just dropped

Summer, spiders, and tails

It's the middle of summer, according to the spiders observed by Fred First in his blog Fragments from Floyd. I would be watching the spiders around here, but they're all in the basement and Quantum the kitten turns out to be an expert bug hunter. The

News

Telegraph report: Fury as academics are sacked for being Israeli, by Charlotte Edwardes, filed: 07/07/2002. Mona Baker, a professor at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), admitted yesterday that she had dismissed Dr Miriam Shlesinger and Prof Gideon Toury because of their nationality. There

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In the Blogosphere Ecosystem, I'm just an Insignificant Microbe. Nice to be loved. The list is created by The Truth Laid Bear. Apparently St Louis had a minor earthquake in the last week. And I missed it!

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