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Author Archives: Jim deMaine
You dig it out. Do you get to keep it in Boston?
Boston is putting the breaks on people’s attempts to use everyday items to hold parking spots they’ve spent hours digging out from the snow.
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Biggest extinction in Earth’s history caused by global warming leaving ocean animals gasping for breath
Thanks to Ann M for bringing this article to our attention This illustration shows the percentage of marine animals that went extinct at the end of the Permian era by latitude, from the model (black line) and from the fossil … Continue reading
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Ins Holz (In the Woods)
From Aeon: “In most of the world, logging is now largely the work of massive machinery. But in the steeply sloped woods above Lake Ägeri in Switzerland, a combination of chainsaws, jacks, muscles and gravity is still the most effective … Continue reading
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Crane tower sprouts overnight for the 705 Terry project
Last evening the crane tower began to sprout in front of the Frye Museum and just east of Skyline. Today more assembly is taking place.
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The Skyline Chorale performs “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” in the MBR Tuesday evening with special guest Seattle actor Julie Briskman
Come hear Dylan Thomas’ “A Child’s Christmas in Wales,” his eloquent, impish, sassy and insightful essay. Julie Briskman, a Seattle actor who has appeared in theaters across the country, will be joined by The Skyline Chorale, who will interpolate choral selections. … Continue reading
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Abandoning U.S.-Russia nuclear-arms treaty threatens our very existence
By : George P. Shultz and Mikhail Gorbachev Special to The Washington Post More than 30 years have passed since the day the leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union, meeting in Geneva, adopted a joint statement declaring … Continue reading
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A Closer Look
Thank to Peg H for submitting A Closer Look
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What the psychic saw
When the US filmmaker Matthew Palmer’s mother was 28 and childless, she received an unsettling prediction from a psychic: she would have a son, and her husband would die when their son was 13, but it would be ‘okay’. Uninterested … Continue reading
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What Doctors Know About CPR
We are all signed up for CPR unless we indicate otherwise. I think we all wish for a peaceful end, much like that of President George H. W. Bush – with caring family and friends at our bedside. The alternative … Continue reading
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Chanukah at Skyline
We were happy to celebrate the holiday of Chanukah with our friend Rabbi Mirel and his band Shalom Klezmer and neighbors at the First Hill Plaza. Here is a brief clip with one prayerful song. The music, dancing and food were … Continue reading
Even a Little Weight Training May Cut the Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke
From the NYT: “Despite the muscle-building, flab-trimming and, according to recent research, mood-boosting benefits of lifting weights, such resistance exercise has generally been thought not to contribute much to heart health, as endurance workouts like jogging and cycling do. But … Continue reading
Chanukah
Terrorists could not stop Rabbi Shimon Rosenberg from lighting the menorah in Mumbai, India, where his daughter and son-in-law had been murdered just weeks earlier. From the History Channel: The eight-day Jewish celebration known as Hanukkah or Chanukah commemorates the rededication during … Continue reading
How climate change could affect us all – new US government report (buried by release on Black Friday)
(CNN)The average global temperature is much higher and rising more rapidly than “anything modern civilization has experienced,” according to David Easterling, one of the authors of a new US government report that delivers a dire warning about our future. Thousands more could die, … Continue reading
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Best streaming – Netflix, Amazon, HBO and Hulu
From the NYT: Dear Watchers, The holidays can be a stressful time, even in the best of families. So in this month’s streaming roundup, we’ve looked for the most soothing and crowd-pleasing TV series and movies coming to the major … Continue reading
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An unlikely friendship – Maureen Dowd and President George Herbert Walker Bush
From the New York Times by Maureen Dowd “Nobody understood our relationship — least of all us. It was, admittedly, odd. “I like you,” the first President Bush wrote me once, after he was out of office. “Please don’t tell … Continue reading
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Jewish nurse who treated Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect has a powerful message in the face of evil: Love
Thanks to Marilyn W for sending along this CNN report. People greet each other in the sanctuary at Temple Sinai in Pittsburgh before Friday evening Shabbat services. (CNN)A Jewish nurse who took care of the man charged with killing 11 people at … Continue reading
“Tour of Grief”
From the NYT sent in by Pamela P The Orca, Her Dead Calf and Us Among the many quirks of human nature, one that has always struck me as particularly worthwhile is the tendency to project our own feelings onto … Continue reading
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Do we die?
“When the body is no longer able to continue to function in the natural world, a person is said to die. Yet they do not die, but are only separated from the body which was of use to them in … Continue reading
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Arctic fox, Iceland
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