Archive for the ‘General’ Category

« Older Entries

Raw Food Diet Myths

Sunday, January 29th, 2012

Dr. Michael Greger, M.D. is the director of Public Health and Animal Agriculture in the farm animal welfare division of the Humane Society Of The United States. He regularly reviews medical and nutritional journals to publish reports of the most interesting findings in easy to understand videos. The video posted above comes from his site NutritionFacts.org.

Raw Foodism is a popular diet promoting the belief that it is better for human beings to subsist entirely off of uncooked vegetables,fruits, nuts and seeds…*ONLY*. Though none of the ideas of Raw Foodism are based on actual medical research, the diet is quite popular. In the short 3 minute video above, Dr. Greger debunks some of the more common myths of Raw Foodism. Dr. Greger also provides some valuable safety information for people insisting on eating that way.

Tags: ,
Posted in General | No Comments »

John Lennon

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

Today in 1980 John Lennon was shot to death by a mentally disturbed man.

All my life I’ve heard people talk about where they were when JFK was shot. I could never relate to that, not having been born at the time.

I do remember where I was when John Lennon was shot. I was a sophomore in high school. I remember talking about it in an English class with Mr. Truit and the “cool older kids”. At the time John Lennon had just released his “Double Fantasy” solo album which made me aware of his existence separate from The Beatles.

I remember a discussion about “Imagine” on an old sitcom called “WKRP In Cincinnati” . One of the DJ’s explained how the lyrics meant hope for the future. Lennon, having been influenced by Eastern meditation thought that visualizing such a future might help bring it about and he wrote that song. A station executive in the story read the lyrics and dismissed “Imagine” as communism.

That is always how I liked to think of “Imagine”, as a vision for a future we are all hungry for and how imaging it may bring it about, or a few minutes of joy at that vision.

Posted in General | 3 Comments »

I bought those jeans for $1.50 !

Wednesday, April 20th, 2011

According to this infotainment video the reading I did as a child that told me that Levi Strauss invented blue jeans is not true. The story about gold rush miners needing tougher pants is true, but it was Jacob Davis who came up with the idea of riveting pants together. Davis didn’t have the money to develop his idea so he teamed up with Strauss to pay for the patent.

What is interesting is that the original jeans sold in 1886 for $1.50.

I found this neat, depressing and addictive tool to convert historic prices into contemporary prices. On the positive side of things $1.50 from 1886 is about $35 dollars in 2010 money. You can still buy a pair of Levi’s for about that much if you look around a little.

The price comparison tool can be a lot of fun if you read old books, watch old movies or have heard enough from older relatives about how little they have paid for things. This tool will help you put all of those prices into perspective:

http://www.measuringworth.com/uscompare

In todays prices, the six million dollar man would be the 29 million, 400 hundred thousand dollar man. I think “The 30 Million Dollar Man” sounds catchier :) .

Tags:
Posted in General | No Comments »

« Older Entries