Moving back to Blogspot....
Here: http://nmawiid.blogspot.com/

"Hunger makes the best sauce, goes the maxim. According to researchers at YaleMedical School, it may make quadratic equations and Kant’s categoricalimperative go down easier too. The stimulation of hunger, theresearchers announced in the March issue of Nature Neuroscience, causesmice to take in information more quickly, and to retain it better —basically, it makes them smarter. And that’s very likely to be true forhumans as well."

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/magazine/10section1C.t-1.html?ex=1323406800&en=06f62b1f071e37ff&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

"Don't adjust your computer screen, your eyes are not fooling you. And no, the images aren't a result of digital enhancement or a Photoshop trick."

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/2353112/detail.html

"...neither chimpanzees nor any of the other 220 species of nonhuman primates have whites of the eyes, at least not that can be easily seen. This means that if their eyes are looking in a direction other than the one in which their heads are pointing, we can easily be fooled about what they are looking at.

Why should humans be so different? And yet we are. We can’t fool anyone. The whites of our eyes are several times larger than those of other primates, which makes it much easier to see where the eyes, as opposed to the head, are pointed. Trying to explain this trait leads us into one of the deepest and most controversial topics in the modern study of human evolution: the evolution of cooperation. "

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/13/opinion/13tomasello.html

"This past Christmas Vacation my brothers, sister, myself and my girlfriend built a scale replica of the battle of Helms Deep, from the second book of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Two Towers penned by the late, great, J.R.R. Tolkien. Here are some pictures"

Out of candy. They build a gingerbread LOTR. No, for real. Here.

Cindy & Bert - Der Hund Von Baskerville



"Here is a 1969/70 video of Cindy & Bert doing "Der Hun VonBaskerville"- a brilliant cover of Black Sabbath's "Paranoid"apparently with lyrics relating Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmesmystery The Hounds of Baskerville. ..."

Also from Mr. Dante - link in previous post.

No contest - the choreography is truly impressive.

I keep getting an error message when I try to embed, but here's the link:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xp179_raffaella-carra-hay-que-venir-al-su

Via Mr. Dante Fontana's Visual Guidance Ltd. Warning - don't go to the site unless you have a lot of time to kill!

Part I



Part II



Part III

"People in Cali, Colombia, are shocked to see the bond between a large African lion and a woman who saved it from abuse, involving long, affectionate kisses and hugs between the pair.

http://mfile.akamai.com/12909/wmv/vod.ibsys.com/2007/0111/10725938.200k.asx

Ana Julia Torres, who runs the Villa Lorena animal shelter in Cali, fed and nursed Jupiter the African lion back to health years ago after it was found abused and emaciated in a traveling circus. "

The video (link above) is something else.
The rest of the story:
http://www.local6.com/news/10726779/detail.html

"Hands over her eyes and her face gripped with terror, the woman's fear of death is all too obvious.

The remarkable mummy was found in a hidden burial vault in the Amazon.

It is at least 600 years old and has survived thanks to the embalming skills of her tribe, the Chachapoyas or cloud warriors.

Eleven further mummies were recovered from the massive cave complex 82ft down.

The vault - which was also used for worship - was chanced upon three months ago by a farmer working at the edge of northern Peru's rainforest. He tipped off scientists who uncovered ceramics, textiles and wall paintings. "

More here

" KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. Jan 10, 2007 (AP)— Barbaro suffered a significant setback in his recovery from laminitis, with damaged tissue removed from his left hind hoof Tuesday night.

Barbaro was being treated aggressively for his discomfort and is in stable condition, according to a statement released Wednesday morning by the University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton Center. "

http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory?id=2784273

"It's hard to find a Web service that doesn't offer a free trial. But just try canceling. We did, and the results weren't always pretty.

It took me less than 5 minutes to sign up for a NetZero dial-up Internet account. But after canceling that account, I spent a week trying in vain to reverse a charge that the service levied after my cancellation request."

List of online business, rated as to the difficulty of cancelling service.

http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,128206/printable.html

"CLEVELAND Jan 8, 2007 (AP)— Van Halen made a "jump" into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Monday along with Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, R.E.M., the Ronettes and Patti Smith. "

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=2778429

Warning: May cause milk to come out of your nose!

http://ignatz.blogspot.com/2007/01/little-richard-translates-for-bush.html

Via Iggy.

"WASHINGTON Jan 7, 2007 (AP)— Two NASA space probes that visited Mars 30 years ago may have stumbled upon alien microbes on the Red Planet and inadvertently killed them, a scientist theorizes in a paper released Sunday.

The problem was the Viking space probes of 1976-77 were looking for the wrong kind of life and didn't recognize it, the researcher said in a paper presented at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle. "

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2776816

"Momofuku Ando, the Japanese inventor of instant noodles, a dish that has sustained American college students for decades has died. He was 96. "

America needs some sort of honor, like a knighthood, to bestow on him.
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=2775136

Pictures of 200 Calories of Various Foods

"Memory Alpha is a collaborative project to create the most definitive, accurate, and accessible encyclopedia and reference for everything related to Star Trek. The English Memory Alpha started in November 2003, and currently counts 22,248 articles."

I'm not sayin' nuthin.....

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Portal:Main