Friday, August 24, 2012
How to Spot Potential Heroes
www.newser.comWhen he saw the baby falling from a third-floor apartment, all Stephen St. Bernard thought was, "Maybe I can catch her." He sprinted over, and the child hit him with an
If only there were more areas that he felt the government shouldn’t “meddle” in.
The year was 2003 and President Barack Obama, then a seasoned state congressman, was running for the U.S. Senate in Illinois. A reporter can be heard asking him about his stance on abortion during a press conference in Springfield, Ill., and the future president of the United States provides an honest answer..
“I am pro-choice,” a younger Barack Obama replies.
“In all situations, including the late-term thing?” a reporter asks.
“I am pro-choice. I believe that women make responsible choices and they know better than anybody the tragedy of a difficult pregnancy and I don’t think that it’s the government’s role to meddle in that choice.”
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Delayed Development: 20-Somethings Blame the Brain - WSJ.com
I know some 20 somethings that are in this state of not yet full formation. This is comforting:
Many parents of 20-somethings worry that their offspring haven't yet found a career path, gotten married or become financially independent.
These parents should chill out, experts say.
Recent research into how the brain develops suggests that people are better equipped to make major life decisions in their late 20s than earlier in the decade. The brain, once thought to be fully grown after puberty, is still evolving into its adult shape well into a person's third decade, pruning away unused connections and strengthening those that remain, scientists say.
"Until very recently, we had to make some pretty important life decisions about education and career paths, who to marry and whether to go into the military at a time when parts of our brains weren't optimal yet," says neuroscientist Jay Giedd at the National Institute of Mental Health, whose brain-imaging studies of thousands of young people have yielded many of the new insights. Postponing those decisions makes sense biologically, he says. "It's a good thing that the 20s are becoming a time for self-discovery."
Delayed Development: 20-Somethings Blame the Brain - WSJ.com
Many parents of 20-somethings worry that their offspring haven't yet found a career path, gotten married or become financially independent.
These parents should chill out, experts say.
Biologists, psychologists and sociologists are increasingly seeing the years between 18 to 25 as a distinct phase of human development, worthy of much more study. Melinda Beck on Lunch Break has details on Lunch Break. Photo: AP.
"Until very recently, we had to make some pretty important life decisions about education and career paths, who to marry and whether to go into the military at a time when parts of our brains weren't optimal yet," says neuroscientist Jay Giedd at the National Institute of Mental Health, whose brain-imaging studies of thousands of young people have yielded many of the new insights. Postponing those decisions makes sense biologically, he says. "It's a good thing that the 20s are becoming a time for self-discovery."
Delayed Development: 20-Somethings Blame the Brain - WSJ.com
In Honor of Kevins's Birthday
Each number on the dial corresponds to a 7-year period of your life. By taking a standard clock mechanism and slowing it to 1/61320th of the speed of a standard timepiece, artist Betrand Planes’ Life Clock is able to tell time over an 84 year period before it makes one full rotation around the dial.
If you manage to live through a full 360-degree sweep of the year hand, you’re doing pretty darned well.
Monday, August 20, 2012
I have been concerned about this...more than you know
Our government has just purchased ten times the bullets used in the Iraq war.
They are giving them to FEMA, Homeland Security, IRS, Social Security and the Weather Bureau.
There have been jokes but I don't think this is funny. Something is seriously wrong. What if:
I'm not predicting this. I am aware of the threat government is.
This movie trailer may become reality...it may be too late to stop
They are giving them to FEMA, Homeland Security, IRS, Social Security and the Weather Bureau.
There have been jokes but I don't think this is funny. Something is seriously wrong. What if:
- Everyone had to take a mark or die
- Every person in the whole of the USA had to give up their guns, all guns and ammo or die
- Every person identified by outspoken opinions as an enemy of the state dies (that would be people critical of government) I'm marked on this
- Every Person who has wealth that needs to be taken will either give it up or die
- Every Person who does not give up and move into close quarters, camps or cities die
I'm not predicting this. I am aware of the threat government is.
This movie trailer may become reality...it may be too late to stop
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