May 12, 2009 0
“Kitchen Starter Kit”
Check out NYTimes‘ Mark Bittman’s video on how to stock up your kitchen with the cooking tools you actually need.
May 12, 2009 0
Brain gym
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This morning’s All Things Considered featured a brainy piece about mind exercise by Linton Weeks.
Some of the things we learned:
- more sleep, less food, and lots of exercise can make you smarter
- one way to improve your memory is to give it a workout by (drum roll please…….) remembering things
- you can improve sensory memory by closing your eyes and smelling everything in your kitchen
- working memory can be improved by doing something I’m pretty sure no one reading this will actually try:
Name the U.S. presidents, going backward from Barack Obama to John F. Kennedy. Then, arrange them in chronological order starting with Kennedy, assigning each his proper party affiliation (so, Kennedy — Democrat; Johnson — Democrat; etc.). Next, list them alphabetically.
May 12, 2009 0
Don’t drink the water
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Who says investigative journalism is dead?
Chicago Tribune published an investigation in April that uncovered how the city of Crestwood, IL knowingly drew from a contaminated well for the city’s water supply for years.
The story sparked an EPA investigation and calls for health studies on the use of well water.
Just another reason we should be paying attention to where we get our water.
