According to TreesForLife.org, Moringa oleifera has great potential in combatting extreme poverty and hunger. The nutritious leaves grow quickly, and in many types of environment, and can feed people as well as livestock and sanctuary animals. Surprisingly, the leaves contain a well balanced profile of the essential amino acids, which is rare for a plant. [...]
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Study links falling minimum wage to obesity
To clarify, the study speaks of “real” minimum wage, which accounts for inflation. When accounting for inflation, the article points out that: minimum wage was—measured in 2007 dollars—$9.15 in 1968 and dropped to around $5.80 in 2007 Big business and right-wingers fight the minimum wage, despite the fact that increasing the minimum wage would help [...]
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V
ABC has reintroduced the Tv-series called V, for visitors. The production quality is higher, naturally than in the 80′s. Some of the faces you’ll recognize from stargate and Lost.
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Mahmoud Vahidnia
Mahmoud Vahidnia is a college student in Iran. After the speech, Vahidnia raised his hand, then for 20 minutes he criticized the Iranian leader over the fierce crackdown on postelection protests, in which the opposition says 69 people were killed and thousands were arrested. May not be everyone’s view, but this showed remarkable courage. Iran [...]
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Neda Soltan’s mother speaks to CNN
Neda was killed in June by a Basiji during the Iran election protests. when they uncovered her face, I saw her. She was absolutely beautiful — with a smile, a beautiful smile. Like an angel. More at CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/11/05/neda.mom.speaks/index.html
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Diet Coke and Mentos, by EepyBird.com
These are old videos for some, but I’d never seen it. Shows the reactions when Mentos is combined with Diet Coke. See more at http://www.eepybird.com/ Post image is from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ShimadaK2007Sept09-MentosGeyser_DSC_3294%2B%2B.JPG
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Spotting Identity Thieves in your Inbox
This morning I received a message from Facebook, asking me to click a button on their email. However, I noticed that when I put my mouse over the update button, the address I would be taken to is: http://www.facebook.com.yy1azsva.eu/globaldirectory/LoginFacebook.php?ref=1371296993220802419758679214228283889232554843&email=xxxx@yourdomain.com As you can see, I would not be taken to facebook.com I would be taken to [...]
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Large Hadron Collider switched on
A quieter relaunch than last year’s launch. But what is a collider? I’ll explain parts what I understand, which isn’t much. Actually, its not what I understand so much as what I can remember reading. A collider is a particle accelerator, from what I gathered. The idea is to accelerate protons and ions to nearly [...]
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Tree-huggin’: coral reef samples to be frozen
Some scientists are preparing to freeze samples from the world’s coral reefs in order to re-introduce them once the planet’s temperature stabilizes. Read more at BBC News More pictures of the reefs can be found here. And some of you may be unaware that the world’s frog population has been dying off. Gatorade may be [...]
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Things that everyone needs
I just discovered the predecessor (not really, but spiritually perhaps) to Sharper Image. HAMMACHER SCHLEMMER & COMPANY, who have apparently been in business for 161 years. Now, these gifts are out of my typical price range. I expect to not receive any of these from anyone, and I won’t be giving any of these. *I [...]
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