Every once in a while, I notice a new photoessay at Life Magazine’s website regarding a momentous event in world history. Unfortunately, I’ve found navigating Life to be cumbersome looking for other photosets (unless they are on the front page).
I’ve tried to capture a few of my favourites here:
O.k. I’ve always looked at personal health care products (soaps, shampoos, cremes, cosmetics, etc) with a jaundiced eye. Often it industry comes across as unregulated and they make unverified claims of efficacy.
From a Reddit , there was a link to a really good site describing the action of the ingredients in a typical shampoo:
The author does admit that some of the ingredients are only for “psychological” reasons: Fragrance, Panthenol, and Panthenyl Ethyl Ether. The author does argue that the fragrances are important, as an unmodified shampoo would have the smell of melted crayon!
Great article!
Here is a very good article on the utter sham that is Homeopathy at Neurologicablog. I wish we could stamp out these snake oil charlatans. It’s even worse when their cures, or more precisely the lack of them, end up killing people.
This is pretty neat, if you’ve got the time you can build your own “Hobbit House” just like this family did! Not only that, but it’s an eco-friendly house too! Although Simon Dale may have been motivated a little by Frodo and Samwise, the project was really motivated by the idea of reducing the ecological footprint and living in as self sufficient and self reliable way as possible. The house was also very low cost (roughly $6000 CAN) which might be motivation enough for some people. I wonder if such a house could survive the rigours of a Canadian winter?
There is a neat little game at costlife.org called Ayit(*): The Cost of Life that is an interactive game in which you try to keep a family of 5 in Haiti healthy, wealthy and wise. The game teaches you a little about poverty and a little about survival in a a third world country. After playing it for several hours, I only managed to keep the family alive once, with only just enough money to send one person to school…
Definitely informative, and fun to play, but at the same time it’s kind of depressing when it’s so difficult achieve life-goals that we take for granted.
| *-(or possibly Ayitt – I can’t tell if the palm tree in the logo is supposed to be a tree…)
WRIT OF MAINPRIZE, English law. A writ directed to the sheriff (either generally, when any man is imprisoned for a bailable offence, and bail has been refused; or specially, when the offence or cause of commitment is not properly bailable below) commanding him to take sureties for the prisoner's appearance, commonly called mainpernors, and to set him at large. 3 B]. Com. 128. Vide Mainprize.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.
