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Today I was happy to learn that a company in my city which makes tofu and supplies it to the restaurant I was eating at does not use genetically-modified soybeans. Sometimes it is difficult to ask a restaurant if the tofu they use is non-GMO. I have learned that the following questions are useful: Is…

This particular bit of information which was in the news some weeks ago is of interest because it appears to be the first known instance of a drug which can actually cause new brain cells to form: Common Diabetes Drug Found to Stimulate Brain Cell Growth, May Treat Alzheimer’s and Stroke Patients …metformin increased the…

1. In rice cooker add organic brown basmati rice-millet mixture and veggie broth and stir before adding water. Cook. 2. Put rice-millet mixture in wok on med-low setting with organic high-heat safflower oil. Stir. 3. Add farmers market veggies. I added some nice heirloom-type peppers, very tasty tomatoes, broccoli crowns, asian scallions which are a…

Above is a stunningly realistic animation of a new large-scale launch vehicle. Many people seemed to think that when the Space Shuttle program ended that NASA was no longer going to be involved in large-scale launch systems, which is false. I think the press is to blame for this since this is how it was…

This was mentioned incidentally in a previous post but I wanted to give it its own post because it is so cool. This app called aWARemote – remote control for Winamp consists of two parts: the part that is run on the phone or tablet, and the server which is run on the PC. Using…

I was lucky to find a used Ikea Malm dressing table in birch color, which is no longer sold (at stores in my area and on the Ikea USA website). The only available version is white which would look horrendous in my studio since everything else is natural wood color. Apparently I’m not the only…

It looks like the City and/or County of San Francisco has a program to increase water efficiency and install new toilets in apartments. A couple days ago someone came and replaced my older toilet, which I hated, with this extremely cool, new one which uses a fraction of the water the old one did. The…

From time to time most people probably experience times when we feel kind of itchy all over or on certain areas of our bodies. Of course such a feeling can be related to many possible factors including histamine response in the skin. Yet it can also be from organisms such as mites which can live…

A 62-year-old American woman is making her fourth attempt to become the first person to swim from Cuba to the US without the protection of a shark cage. Diana Nyad has already been stung several times by jellyfish but is continuing her 166km (103 mile) journey, team members said. She left the Cuban capital, Havana,…