Posts tagged “News”

Dangerous Jobs

According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), farm workers are risking their lives every time they enter a manure pit.

Run = Smart

Run = Smart

From the news desk: Jogging May Make You Smarter link via adampsyche

A Bear Suit

To some, Hurtubise is a cult hero. He’s burned through more than $100,000 and gone bankrupt building a 150-pound protective suit of titanium, plastic, chain mail, galvanized steel, rubber and thousands of feet of duct tape. To test his invention, Hurtubise has been run over by a truck, hit by a moving car, smashed in

Obscure Store

In which he posts a few links about birds

Day!

In which he is annoyed by a television anchor

eGads!

Crawling worm lives inside human body – another incident registered in Ulyanovsk region Yeah. Uhm. That’s not so cool. belated link via the mini-wetlog

Wine

Dr. Tedd Goldfinger, a cardiologist in Tucson, Arizona, says alcohol can decrease the tendency of blood to clot and cause heart attacks, and raise good cholesterol levels.” But, “you don’t have to go out and spend $20 or $30 on a bottle of wine.” He said a cheaper one will do. Mmmm … good ol’

Weather Control

A company in the United States claims it has invented a powder that can be used to remove clouds from the sky and even stop the development of hurricanes. [link via me-fi]

Late Fee

Woman returns book missing from Boston library for 80 years Last week, a young woman went to the Boston Public Library to return an 1859 first edition of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection,” a book that has been missing from the library for at least 80 years. A

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.