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What Foods Help Prevent Macular Degeneration? What foods help prevent macular degeneration? Leafy green vegetables are a great source of nutrition for healthy eyes. Omega-3 fatty acids are important. Eat your spinach Popeye. These are fish, nuts, and seeds. Salmon, tuna, halibut, mackerel, flaxseeds, pumpkin seeds, soybean oil, walnuts, broccoli, corn, peas, Brussels sprouts, green […]

Raw walnuts contain antioxidants.They also contain triglycerides of the n-3 fatty acid alpha-linolenic acid which is effective in reducing heart risk. There’s one more thing. Important research shows that walnuts may prevent Alzheimer’s disease. Important research shows that walnuts may prevent Alzheimer’s disease.Walnuts (particularly in their raw form) contain the highest level and potency of […]

Real Men Making Dutch Clogs

Who am I to question cultural relativism? Real men have made Dutch clogs for centuries and real people have been wearing the Klomp for centuries. Nevertheless, the beginning of wooden footwear in Europe is not known to be an exact science. The oldest wooden footwear in Europe dates from 1230 and 1280. The evidence of […]

Ferocious Winter Storm In November Of 2014 Claims Several Lives. New York Braces For More Snow. I’ll admit that I’m a fan of The Old Farmer’s Almanac 2015. Armed with the rigorous method of tracking weather patterns, useful analysis can be digested and sent to the public, in order to prepare for the winter. What […]

Planned Obsolescence This act to kill the incandescent light bulb is un-American and is not a fundamental American value. The objective is Planned obsolescence. The producer or manufacturer gains when the consumer is pressured (or conned) into buying another product prematurely, which may involve product engineering. It seems that we have become a throw-away society […]

Annular Solar Eclipse May 10, 2013

Full solar eclipse in Northern Australia (UTC) On May 9-10 UTC, 2013, there will be an Annular solar eclipse that can be viewed from northern Australia and the southern Pacific Ocean, with 6 minutes of visibility from the Pacific Ocean east of the French Polynesia. Viewers in these areas will see the full effect of […]

Watch Comet PanSTARRS March 12-24

The Year Of The Comets In 2013 From March 12 through 24, 2013, about 30 minutes after sunset, be sure to go outside and look to the western skies. You just might see Comet PanSTARRS with the naked eye. The best dates for viewing this comet may be March 12-13. The window of visibility is […]

Meteor Lands In Russia (Video)

A meteor lands in Russia over the Ural Mountains. This wonder of science looks similar to an atomic bomb explosion. Approximately 3,000 buildings were damaged and near 1,000 people were injured. Do they drive on the right side of the road in Russia? The meteor hit above the region of the Chelyabinsk Oblast on Friday.

Free desktop streaming application by Ustream Cairns Eclipse 2012 The total solar eclipse will be streamed online at Cairns and Great Barrier Reef, Australia. You can watch it online, if the clouds break that is. Hello to Australia! This will be live from 5 AM November 14th 2012 (AEST). And this would be November 13, […]

The equinox (around March 20 and September 22) brings us better DX propagation, especially the upper bands. The ten meter band (28000 to 29700 kHz) tends to be at its best near the spring or fall equinox. In fact, the equinoxes are when geomagnetic storms are the strongest. These strong geomagnetic storms can actually be very disruptive to the […]

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