Archive for the 'Health' Category

YOU are an accessory to child labour, murder, rape…

Sunday, October 23rd, 2011

Wake up and smell the coffee, or find the technoserf dead is a must read if you have the latest cell phone on contract. But wait, there is more: are you sitting on a leather couch, watching rugby in your new authorized Springbok jersey?

TGIF?

Thursday, October 13th, 2011

Week after week We wish our lives away For a brief break In a boring struggle to survive…

Histology

Monday, September 19th, 2011

New website is up an running: HistoWeb. This is primarily aimed at serving medical and dental students at the University of Pretoria from outside the firewall. Other students of Histology could also benefit. If you find mistakes, please send me a note. To use the system, read the Need help link at the top left [...]

Wine after 12

Sunday, June 19th, 2011

At the Whole Foods Market in Wellington Florida. Picking up yoghurt and milk to make some yoghurt. And 88% chocolate. And found a 99% Lindt bar. It is 11:41 on Sunday, 19 June 2011 as I check out. Woman behind me is unloading a few bottles of wine. Cashier: “Sorry m”am, we are not allowed [...]

The whales are coming home to roost?

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

Will they bow to the world? I will not go so far as other people to say that there is a direct relationship between the two, but one can’t help but feel a little bit of perverse joy… My sincere apologies to those innocent victims of their government; we feel your pain in South Africa.

Important terminology relevant to our times

Thursday, February 17th, 2011

May you live in interesting times – an ancient Chinese curse – as defined by Kafka, Heller, Hobson, Morton, Sophie, Buridan and Procrustes.

Informed consent

Thursday, December 9th, 2010

If informed consent was really informed, people would most likely not give consent.

“Science Myths”

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

“Science Myths” in K-6 Textbooks and Popular culture The complex and abstract nature of Science makes the subject difficult to understand. But complexity is not the only barrier to our understanding Science. The subject is made much more difficult by the presence of numerous misleading “Science Myths” which circulate in the popular culture, which are [...]

Simply Slim: safe or not?

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

You are all taking a chance with you health and you life. Take a look at: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/bitter-orange/AN01218 With bitter orange, you may develop migraines, fainting, and potentially deadly stroke and heart attack. http://nccam.nih.gov/health/bitterorange/ Many herbal weight-loss products now use concentrated extracts of bitter orange peel in place of ephedra. However, bitter orange contains the chemical [...]

Making my own wine vinegar

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

Using instructions from The Gang of Pour, Hot.Sour.Salty.Sweet. And Umami, pimpernels, The Earth Clinic and nature moms, I am attempting to make my own wine vinegar at home. My starting assembly consists of a glass jar with cotton cloth cover held in place with rubber bands. Some people advise against rubber bands, as they will [...]



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