Friday Favorites Part 2
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I have some new women blogger friends whose feeds I ran out of time to read again this week so I wasn’t able to add them to my Friday Favorites. A bunch of severe storms went through here this afternoon then, but now they seem to have past. So I have more time again and decided to do a part 2 of Friday Favorites this week to hightlight some fellow bloggers posts.
Health
At JoLynn Braley’s blog it has been No Excuses Week!
Sally has news about her blog – a new domain! She used to blog at interactivehealth.com.au but now is at InDenialHealth.com!
Environment and Nature
Kim Woodbridge write a really informative post called Green Twitter – Environmental Resources
Judy Haley has a post with the cutest pictures of baby geese: A Family Outing!
Business Ideas
Anita Bruzzese wrote this week about Understanding Why You Really Get Distracted at Work. She points out that it may not be the fault of the other people, it may be your own fault – ask yourself what you do and what you have in your office that sends the message that it is ok to come and talk (and take up your time).
Crystal Clayton explain how businesses can form customer service relationships in You Scratch My Back And I’ll Scratch Yours And You Scratch My Back And …
Denise Wakeman wrote this week about how Public Speaking Can Build Your Business. Unfortunately, I’m way too shy to do it!
Kristen King was featured as Business of the Week on Business on the Mound! Congratulations Kristen!
Elizabeth Potts Weinstein asks us if we Are you stepping up to your own brilliance?
Kids and Parenting
Nicole is always coming up with ways to kids to eat things they wouldn’t normally (or at least I wouldn’t as a kid!) – now she tells us about The Great Big Vegetable Challenge!
Ria has a toddler with severe allergies to peanuts, tree nuts, eggs, and penicillin and today she wrote My Kid with Nut Allergies.
Writing and Blogging
Sharon Hurley Hall has a new series of posts on her blog: Promotion Is Free – Part 1: , Part 2: A Web Presence, Part 3:Forums and Part 4: Article Marketing.
Arachne Jericho wrote a post about Confessions of a Blogger: My Life As Though ‘Twere a Flowchart. Pretty cool. I should do something like this someday.
Top 5 Web Tools to Create Your Own Online Quiz – from Rebecca Leaman. I’ve thought about adding a quiz someday – I’ll have to remember this post and come back to it someday.
Barbara Ling has a series on her blog titled: 21 Days to a More Profitable Blog – the last post was Day 18.
Ellen Wilson blogged about Writing the Wild Within: Part 4 – Standing Out From the Crowd.
Social Media
Daisy Olsen has written a great new post about the social media site Plurk: Plurk. Another Twitter Clone with a really crazy name.
Ruth Marie Sylte gave some advice for using Facebook Facebook: Getting started — and/or taking it further
Personal Growth, Communication and Relationships
Loraleigh Vance gives some really good advice in these posts: How to get the Alcoholic Advantage: Part 1, How to Get the Alcoholic Advantage: Part 2 and How to Stop Playing the Blame Game.
Tammy Lenski asks us this week: The moment you choose to fight: Do you recognize it?
Karen Swim tells us that we should Be Unstoppable!
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Happy Friday!
Cool Science in the news!
Deep in the Amazon
Hard to believe that there are still groups of people who haven’t had contact with the outside world yet isn’t it? Or at least very little contact. Look at these pictures from Brazil – and notice how they are trying to shoot arrows at the plane/helicopter flying over them: PHOTO IN THE NEWS: “Uncontacted” Tribe Seen in Amazon. Learn more about uncontacted groups here: Photos Spur Debate on Protecting “Uncontacted” Tribes. More photos. And mostly unrelated – but I find this picture fascinating: Indigenous Brazilians Protest Dam
Cemetaries and Insect Zombies
So – stonehenge was originally a cemetary: Stonehenge Was Cemetery First and Foremost, Study Says.
Don’t read this is you get grossed out really easily – female jewel wasps find roaches, they sting them twice, not to paralyze them but to make them move sluggishly, the wasps then can grab the roach by its antennae and walk it around like a dog on a leash, lead it to its nest, where it seals it up and lays an egg on its belly for its larva to eat alive: The wasp that walks cockroaches – video included! Parasites are fascinating aren’t they?
Latest News from Mars
Mars Phoenix dug a few centimeters into the Martian soil this week and has taken in some soil samples to analyze! Follow Mars Phoenix on Twitter.
Don’t make me look at you – I’m learning!
This is interesting – when people are trying to figure out something that is difficult to understand they tend to look away from the person who is talking – it is called ‘gaze aversion’. New research shows that “children aged 4-6 are more likely to avert their gaze when they are carrying out a task that they find difficult, or new to them“. This could be very helpful for parents and teachers. When kids look away when trying to grasp new information, it is a good sign that they are learning.
Women, Childcare and the Environment
NPR story: Women’s Rights, Healthy Planet Go Hand-in-Hand
Making Child Care More Affordable: the Family Tax Relief Act of 2008 bill was introduced which would “improve the federal Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit for millions of families, especially the low- and moderate-income families who most need help obtaining affordable, high-quality child care”.
Health in the News
Cool stuff for the future!
A monkey was trained to be able to control a robot arm to feed itself! National Geographic has a video. This is so cool – it could help people who have lost limbs or the use of them someday!
Longevity
It was reported this week that eating less is more important than exercise to live a long life.
Avoid pain!
If you are over 60 – be sure to get a shingles vaccine! Shingles is apparently very painful so why take a chance of getting it if you can avoid it? See: Shingles Pain Prompts Call for Adult Vaccinations
What does your doctor owe you?
JC is continuing the discussion about what patients want from their doctors: Patient Manifesto: Communication and Accessibility.
Weight Loss
Kristen King has had a few posts recently about weight gain and loss: Gaining Weight and Don’t Know Why? 7 Things It Could Be. Then she wrote an informative series on weight loss surgeries: Wrapping Up the Lively Women Weight Loss Surgery Mini-Series: When Is Surgical Weight Loss Really Appropriate?
Healthbolt Carnival
Lastly – you want more good health posts to read? Welcome to the First Ever ‘Healthbolt Carnival’.
Thought for the week from Erika Jurney:
I think in fact that there are 3 weeks of every month when women are pumped full of hormones which mask just how completely irritating other people are.
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May 30, 2008
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Happy Friday!
I don’t know where the week went! I didn’t get as much reading done around the blogosphere – so I think I probably missed some good posts. This is what I have to share though:
Warm weather and kids
For many of us, summer is here and many kids are going swimming to cool off. Its fun but can also be dangerous. Char gives us 10 Tips to Swimming Pool Safety in Summer Swim Safety Tips
Shannon Hutton shares some tips to effectively handle Sibling Rivalry
Relax and Look Around You
I’ve noticed that many people pass by in a hurry and don’t see the little things going on around them – butterflies laying eggs, birds flitting around – Judy reminded us this week about Finding Beauty in Strange Places. Look around, bring your camera and see what you can find.
Heart Health
Ruth had a couple good posts this week about fats and heart health: Meet the Fats and Protect Your Heart and Omega Fatty Acids Lower Levels of Oxidative and Nitrosative Stress
Work and Value
Crystal had a good post this week about “The Value of Value: Snippets On Pricing Our Services” – make sure you know what your work is worth!
A Resignation
The resignation of Susan Orr was written about quite a lot this week: (Why) Did Susan Orr Resign from Population Affairs Post? and Dr. Orr Resigns.
Interesting news bits
Intestinal bacteria promote — and prevent! — inflammatory bowel disease
Researchers from 5 countries to test hygiene hypothesis with EU funding
What’s Phoenix doing now?
Don’t forget to visit the NASA site to see what the Phoenix Mars Lander is doing. You can even follow it on Twitter: http://twitter.com/MarsPhoenix
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May 23, 2008
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Happy Friday!
I found lots of good stuff on the web this week – so I will try to be brief with them so I don’t overwhelm you!
What do you expect from your doctor?
JC at Brain Blogger asks “Patient Manifesto: What Do You Want, Expect and Deserve From Your Doctor?“. He/She is really asking too – “I encourage everyone to comment …”, things to consider: gender, personality, education, accessibility, management style, etc.
Liberty at Healthbolt also reminded us this week of 5 Things Women Do Wrong in the Doctor’s Office: Do You?
Creepy Stuff!
A lot of bloggers (including myself) were thoroughly creeped out by the Purity Ball covered in the New York Times Magazine:
Eeeewwwwww! Two Words that Should NEVER be in the Same Sentence: “Father” and “Virginity”
Work and Stress
JoLynn Braley tells us How To Stay Healthy & Fit While Working From Home
Still experiencing a lot of stress and tension? Tammy Lenski offers A simple meditation for tense and stressful moments
Food, food every where, but you can’t get them to eat a bite of it!
Yuck to Yum shows us how to turn vegetables and chicken into Green Martians on Flying Saucers – if that’s what it takes to get your kids to eat! More Kid friendly recipes including Swamp Monsters and Bugs in Rugs!
Health in the News
U of M study: New blood test reveals risk for metabolic syndrome
Blood test for lung cancer may be possible
Vaccine triggers immune response, prevents Alzheimer’s – just in mice so far!
Researchers find smallpox drug may also target adenovirus – 1 cause of the common cold, adenovirus also causes death in organ transplant recipients
More Health
Fact or Ficton: Obesity is Contributing to Global Warming? – Liz from Healthbolt looks at the facts.
Waking up
One day, you wake up to realize that a particularly vital assumption about the world is wrong. Everyone who buys into it is wrong. Which is almost everyone in the world. Now what?
Humor
Dr. Val tells us Why Men Don’t Write Advice Columns.
And yes, this might offend somebody – “back in the Middle Ages, sex was frowned upon. ‘Carnal relations’, even with one’s wife, were considered filthy.” There was even Penance for Sex.
Deep Stuff to think about
I haven’t had time to read these myself yet – but they are on my to do list:
“Backward Time” in Literature Finds Real-World Parallel
Does Time Run Backward in Other Universes?
My God, It’s Full Of Stars!
There’s a mountain under water near New Zealand covered with tens of millions of starfish: My God, It’s Full Of Stars!. BBC has a video!
Different Perspectives are Good
I’ll leave you for the weekend with a different perspective: an image from NASA of the Earth and Moon as seen from Mars
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May 16, 2008
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Happy Friday!
Learn about gene therapy!
I’m sure you’ve heard of gene therapy- but maybe don’t understand it that well? Scientific American has a nice article explaining it: “How does gene therapy work?“. Its written in plain English and isn’t too long so its a great opportunity to learn about it.
Depression
At b5media it was the Health & Wellness Channel’s monthly theme day and this month was about depression. Many of the bloggers there wrote some nice posts about depression. Here are a few:
Question and Answer session with a long-time sufferer
Breast Cancer Can Cause Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
In Honor Of Mental Health Awareness: Are You REALLY Happy?
Heart Disease And Depression/Anxiety: It Is Directly Related.
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Join The Health & Wellness Channel In Recognizing Mental Health Month!
Labor Pain Relief
At Our Bodies, Our Blog they an Expanded Discussion of Nitrous Oxide for Labor Pain Relief. This isn’t a topic I know much about. Actually, I knew nothing about it, but the discussion seemed very educational to me.
Fibromyalgia
Cynthia Armistead was interviewed by ABC News about Fibromyalgia!
Challenging us to think differently
“Rather than accepting aging as an inevitable aspect of life, they are instead encouraging society to view aging as a disease—something to be treated. This is a profound paradigm shift, but is it any more profound than Copernicus telling people 500 years ago that they were not at the center of the universe? History has a way of demonstrating that the future often turns out much different than most people appreciate and that what constitutes “conventional wisdom” in one era is laughed at and mocked by future generations. Our “acceptance” of death might be one such issue.” from 10 Reasons You Will Live to 1000.
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