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Homeopathy is a waste of time, effort and money. It kills. Even the World Health Organization has issued a statement regarding the utter lack of evidence. A BBC piece summarizes their stand. Unfortunately, in an effort to maintain “balance” they also get statements from Paula Ross the chief executive of the Society of Homeopaths who ladles out a crock of shit regarding the “evidence” of homeopathy helping childhood diarrhea. See “Analysis of homeopathic treatment of childhood diarrhea. “ (critique of article appearing in ‘Pediatrics,’ …

I’ve often wanted to try out solar power to offset electricity consumption, but prices and the power output of these systems makes it impractical. Recently, prices have dropped, solar panels have become more efficient and home “plug-and-play” kits are becoming available. For the most part, solar power is still in the realm of environmental enthusiasts and eco-hippies, but I think that it will become more and more mainstream in a few years. Here are a few interesting sites, some informative, some offering commecial products

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I was at a friend’s house on the weekend and he had a jar of ‘peanuts only’ peanut butter (I don’t remember the brand name but it was fairly unique to one of his neighbourhood grocery stores).  I’ve tried other ‘natural’, ‘no sugar added’, ‘peanuts only’ peanut butters and they usually really translate to ‘no flavour’ or ‘stick in your craw’ peanut butter.  This new one was actually decent.  I bought a few bottles — I have peanut butter and jam sandwiches everyday and I thought this would be a …