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Archive for October, 2008

31 Oct

Happy Halloween

So does everyone have their costumes on or ready for tonight. It is a rare occurance that All Hallows’ Even falls on a Friday. In fact it is only the 4th time in the last 23 years.
I imagine that with Halloween being on Friday everyone should get lots of “trick or treaters”. There [...]

28 Oct

Purple People Savers?

Can you guess what that lovely purple fruit is to the right? Grapes? Plums? Cherries?
Nope to all of those. They are tomatoes. That’s right, genetically modified tomatoes. Tomatoes that have had anthocyanins, a category of antioxidant pigments, added to their DNA.
Anthocyanins are typically found in blueberries, cranberries and blackberries and other dark red [...]

25 Oct

The Red Hand Means Wait!!!

While I was taking my sabbatical from posting I made a list of things to write about. I was going to wait until later in the week to do this however I happened across a problem today that was on my list.
To the people of Yellowknife: the red hand (or man) at the cross walks means [...]

25 Oct

Health and Reality

Image via Wikipedia

It has been a long while since I last posted. No excuse for it other than laziness. It’s that plain and simple.
I had several of my faithful (used to be anyway) readers send me e-mail over the last 6 weeks to ask how I was doing. Well, I went to the doctor last [...]

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