Friday Favorites
Happy Friday!
(Short post today, not feeling too well)
Inspiration
Karen Swim has a great post about how you should Embrace your Obstacles to help you to succeed!
Kids and Parenting
ModernMami is looking for some tips on getting her 2 year old to eat more: Feeding My Toddler. Any ideas?
Health
Pain relief - Christina Lasich, MD has a post on her blog about how Hobbies Relieve Pain. When my back hurts its seems at least part of it is due to sitting too long and I’ve found when I spend time doing gardening my back feels much better.
Anita Bruzzese shares some great tips for reducing stress at work: Ten Rules Guaranteed to Cause You Less Stress.
InDenialHealth discusses 5 food myths.
Interesting
A group of people in the Amazon called the Piraha apparently don’t use numbers, at least not like we do. They just have words for relative amounts of things: People Found Who Don’t Use Numbers
Food
Just looking at the pictures of the chicken in this post makes me really hungry - Fry-Baked Chicken! Too bad I’m not much of a cook. I wonder if I can talk my husband into making this?
Fun for the weekend
Judy Haley always seems to get such nice pictures - this week she posted some of a woodpecker feeding its babies: How to Feed a Baby Woodpecker
Have a great weekend!
July 11, 2008
Friday Favorites
Happy Friday!
Announcements
Wendy Piersall of Sparkplugging launched a new project this week called SparkplugU which offers classes to “help you make money from home and start or market your business”!
Sally of InDenialHealth.com announced the launch of two new blogs to her network: InDenialMoney.com and InDenialEarth.com.
Congratulations Wendy and Sally!
An Apology
Mary Robbins from the National Women’s Law Center emailed me earlier about a new national campaign that’s launched: Health Care for America Now - a “$40 million coalition effort to push for quality, affordable health care for every American”. And I completely forgot to blog about it! Sorry about that. Please visit Why Reform Matters for more information.
Health
Liz and Liberty of Healthbolt Carnival posted another edition of the blog carnival this week - lots of good information here - please visit! (They even included a post from me!)
I was also interviewed this week by Hsien-Hsien Lei: What does DNA mean to you? - thanks Hsien!
Work and Business
Anita Bruzzese discussed whether or not is always a good idea to take a promotion that’s been offered to you: You’re Such a Total Dumb**s for Not Taking That Promotion….Or Maybe Not….
Sharon Hurley Hall asks: When Last Did You Pay Yourself?.
Rebecca Leaman shared 4 Ways to Put a PowerPoint Presentation on Your Web Site.
Productivity
Elizabeth Potts Weinstein started a series of posts about ‘Time Perception Tips’ - the first went up this week: The Dog Ate My Blog, or 5 Time Perception Tips, part 1
Writing and Blogging
Arachne Jericho had some Thoughts on Greatness and Blogging this week.
Kristen King asks: Professional Development for Writers: What Organizations Do You Recommend?.
Some Quickies
7 phrases you can’t say in conflict resolution
SPOT-Light HER2 CISH: New Breast Cancer Genetic Test, FDA-Approved
Why Was This Woman Separated from Her Baby?
Autism in Babies: Early Detection By Tracking Eye Movements?
Do schools today kill creativity?
The importance of prenatal vitamins - and a give away
Female College Grads Expect Less
Fun Stuff to end your week with!
Judy Haley at Coffee Jitters has some cute pictures of ducks feeding.
Baby Panda video from National Geographic
Have a great weekend!
June 27, 2008
Friday Favorites
Happy Friday!
Foot Cancer
Yes, you read that right. That’s what I said: Foot cancer. According to a BBC news story “cancers of the foot and ankle are often missed or diagnosed too late” and “survival rates from these particular cancers are poor”. Read “Are you hiding cancer under your socks?” to learn what to look for and to protect yourself from foot cancer.
Disney!
Actually this is more of an autism story than a Disney one, but since I love Disney World, especially EPCOT I had to put it in my Friday Favorites: Autism, Talking Turtles, And The Magic Of Disney.
Weight Loss
Earlier this week I posted about how There’s no magical way to lose weight. You may also be interested in reading the FTC’s Weighing the Evidence in Diet Ads.
And speaking of fitness JoLynn Braley made her first video post this week: Your Weight Loss Mindset - First Video Post!. She did really well with it! And I’ll tell you one thing - that’s something you’re never going to catch me doing! I’m way too shy. If I were to make a video post, I wouldn’t be in it myself! Maybe I’d make a video post of my cats!
Business Stuff
Dr. Patsi at Biz Tips Blog discusses the 3 Biggest Problems for Internet Marketing
Arachne Jericho lists 5 WordPress Plugins That Make Life Easier - I need the ‘No Self Pings’ one real bad!
Crystal Clayton asks “How long can your business last without you?” if you need some time off? Discussion at: Gone Fishin’.
Ethical Marketing
Want to learn how to be a supporter of ethical marketing and Consumer Rights?
Motivation
Need motivation? Find out How to Love Doing Anything!
Cute Stuff
Scroll down to the bottom of this post for a cute picture of a baby bonobo: ‘Love, Sex, and Lies in the Jungle’
and lastly:
Congratulations!
To me and DazzlinDonna! To Donna because her blog SEO Scoop Is 4 Years Old Today! (Not today any more, but the 26th, when the post was written.) To me because I won the random drawing she held! I won an online press kit template. And I swear I didn’t comment just to win something!
Have a great weekend!
June 20, 2008
Friday Favorites
Happy Friday!
Running late today!
I want to live here!
I want to live in the “Kingdom of Women”! In southwest China there is an ethnic group called the Mosuo where women control all the property and determine the family line. They don’t get married either, they have lovers that they stay involved in long term relationships with for as long as they want to. They are starting to have problems due to the encroachment of the outside world. Personally I think they should try to find a way to preserve the basics of their way of life in the modern world. Watch the National Geographic video: VIDEO: China’s “Kingdom of Women”
Houses for bats
The National Wildlife Federation posted an article about how to build a bat house. Bats eat lots of insects including mosquitoes, in fact “a single bat can capture 500 to 1,000 mosquitoes in a single hour”. Learn more at Why I Built A Bat House.
Hula Hoops
The Hula Hoop turned 50 yesterday. I never could use a hula hoop, even when I was a kid. Could you? Can you now?
Milk Safety
Dr. Val has an interview with Gary Rogers, Ph.D., the Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Dairy Science and Professor of Animal Science who explains how milk is processed and why and why raw milk isn’t a good idea in
The US Dairy Council On Milk Safety And The Raw Milk Movement.
Music and Language
I’ve spent a lot of time trying to learn other languages, both Spanish and Mandarin, without much success yet. Some new research shows that “the extra information provided in music can facilitate language learning” and “similar areas of the brain are activated when listening to or playing music and speaking or processing language”. Interesting stuff - read more here: Does music help us learn language?
Old or aging? Learn the difference
Fight Aging explains: “There’s nothing wrong with becoming old, but everything wrong with aging. Old means experienced, invested, wealthier, time-tested and just all-round better for having been around the block. Aging, on the other hand, is the direct result of biochemical damage you picked up along the way” and makes you frail and ill and eventually takes away your life.
Overcoming fear
Liz Strauss explains how achieving goals involves overcoming fears in It Only Seems that You Have to Walk on Water.
Dealing with To-Do’s
DazzlinDonna posted some tips on Dealing With A Massive To-Do List. My to-do list is pretty big. I’m going to have to add dealing with my list to my list.
Parenting tip
Modern Mami shares a tip for getting young children to brush their teeth themselves: Brushing Teeth Technique for Toddlers/Preschoolers.
Food!
Joy at Gourmeted posted how she makes Oatmeal with Honey-Butter Caramel Apples! Damn that looks good! Too bad I’m too lazy to cook much of anything. She also gives tips for feeding ultra-picky eaters.
Science Stuff
PHOTOS: Top Ten New Species of 2007 Named - be sure to look at the pink millipede, its pretty cool looking!
Scientists in Sweden published research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showing that “gay men and straight women share similar traits—most notably in the size of their brains and the activity of the amygdala—an area of the brain tied to emotion, anxiety and aggression”. This adds more evidence that biology rather than environment determines sexual orientation. Read more: Study Says Brains of Gay Men and Women Are Similar and Gay Men, Straight Women Have Similar Brains
And lastly - MarsPhoenix found water ice on Mars: “Are you ready to celebrate? Well, get ready: We have ICE!!!!! Yes, ICE, *WATER ICE* on Mars! w00t!!! Best day ever!!”
Have a great weekend!
June 13, 2008
Friday Favorites - Friday the 13th edition!
Happy Friday - the 13th!
And I thought this Friday was going to be a short post - but then Thursday I found all sorts of interesting news and posts to share!
And I had not realized it was Friday the 13th, until I saw DazzlinDonna’s post today: Using Superstition As A Hook. She says “Make use of the various superstitions and related “holidays” to serve interesting content to your users” - maybe that’s what I’m doing by calling this the ‘Friday the 13th edition’? (But I’ll be honest, nothing else in this post has anything to do with Friday the 13th.)
I’ll go through the more serious stuff first - then the fun things.
Health Care
The National Women’s Law Center tells us about the “Pitifully Inadequate” Health Coverage for the Underinsured.
Reproductive Health
Crunchy Domestic Goddess explains how elective inductions are on the rise in the United States but have certain risks associated with them in Everyone’s eager to meet baby, but are elective inductions safe?
At Our Bodies, Our Blog Christine C. tells us What You Need to Know About the Cost of Mammograms
Autism and Homeschooling
Should kids with autism spectrum disorder be homeschooled or is Mainstreaming better?
Drug Problems
Have you had side effects or a bad reaction to a medication? You might want to read Your Guide to Reporting Problems to FDA
Got Mosquitos?
You may find this interesting and helpful: Is it true that the DEET used in most mosquito repellents is toxic?
Sexism of the 70’s
Flight attendants were expected to wear “kinky leather boots and hot pants or they don’t get the job” - see MomGrind’s Wordless Wednesday: The Glamour of Air Travel (has pictures too).
More Health
Dr. Val explains why drinking raw milk is not a good idea: Is Raw Milk Getting A Raw Deal?
If you or someone you know has peanut allergies, you might want to learn about Peanut Detector Dogs - “special breeds of dogs specially trained to recognize the scent of minuscule amounts of peanuts”. Learn more here also: peanut detector dogs.
This week Rachel had Questions About Medications by Mail
Need to lose weight? Loraleigh Vance tells us about her 6 Secrets to Successful Weight Loss
Learn How to lift without breaking your back.
Need more health information? See Another Healthbolt Carnival.
Useful Stuff
David Bradley of Sciencebase tells us how we can Save Money on Gas
Mother of Confusion gives us tips for 5 yard sale buys to ease the budget
Fun Stuff
Plutoid chosen as name for solar system objects like Pluto.
Bee species outnumber mammals and birds combined.
Mars Update
The Phoenix Mars Lander has finally gotten some martian soil to fall through a metal sieve into the first of eight ovens designed to analyze the soil’s chemical composition. Follow Mars Phoenix on Twitter.
Have a great weekend!
June 6, 2008
Friday Favorites Part 2
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!
Friday Favorites
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.
Have a great weekend!
May 30, 2008
Friday Favorites
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
Have a great weekend!
May 23, 2008
Friday Favorites
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
Have a great weekend!
May 16, 2008
Friday Favorites
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.
See more at:
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.
Have a great weekend!
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