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Living in an area of the country that is prone to tornadoes and has the potential for a huge seismic event thanks to a giant fault line running under the earth’s surface, you sometimes ponder the potential for disaster. You make a preparedness plan in order to be ready for some unpredictable moment in time […]

As a society we may need to rethink using the phrase “you dirty rat” as a putdown. Rodents have gotten a bad rap what with their role in advancing the bubonic plague across Europe back in the 1300s and all. But it may be time for us to forgive and forget. Come on, we’re in […]

We’ve all been there. You take a look at your bank account balance, or glance into your wallet and the money that used to be there is nowhere to be found. It’s gone, that last paycheck, and you have absolutely no idea where it went. The cycle repeats itself next pay period, and you remain […]

If you’re a medical student, or interested in becoming one, I hope you’re prepared to operate on a giant caveman. No, not a prehistoric bearded guy with a sloping brow, bad posture, and a leopard-print loincloth. I’m talking about CAVEman, the gigantic glowing practice dummy for budding surgeons and anatomy classes of the future. CAVE […]

I’m no different from anyone else. Increasing gas prices put a burden on my monthly budget and leave a gaping dark void in my wallet. As someone who travels the highway, byways and back roads at times for my job, watching the numbers on the pump whirl by while I’m filling my tank makes me […]

Have you ever seen a movie like The Butterfly Effect where memory flashbacks are sometimes portrayed like a DVD on fast forward? Well researchers out of the University of Arizona have figured out that this is kind of how the brain consolidates memories from the prior day. In other words, when processing the day’s events, […]

Sleep apnea is an awful, awful condition, and I can only imagine how many pots of steaming java you’d need to go for 20 years without real rest! I have enough trouble staying awake after a good 8 hours plus a nap. My father, among other things, has always had horrible snoring. Over the course […]

There are places in this world where governments and time forgot. The Bluefields in Nicaragua sits at a geographical point which, until recently, was a forgotten world that has very little electricity and a self-polices the residents of fishing villages where boats create the largest commerce. Until the cocaine starting washing up onto the beaches […]

When Saad Tawfiq watched Colin Powell’s presentation to the United Nations on February 5 2003 he shed bitter tears as he realised he had risked his life and those of his loved ones for nothing. Those are the words from an article at The Raw Story that tells of how Tawfiq knew that Saddam Hussein […]