Well, perhaps it would take a while to die from soda consumption. But, if you drink a great deal of soda, you are more likely to die more quickly than those people who do NOT drink so much soda. Why is that? Because soda is pretty unhealthy stuff. It’s filled with genetically modified high fructose corn syrup, acid, artificial chemicals, salt (which increases the craving while simultaneous quenching and recreating more thirst), sweeteners and adulterants.
Soda has zero nutrition and is HIGHLY addictive. Money maker for the manufacturer, the medical community, the plastic bottle makers. Bad for you, your children, your health. Once you start drinking soda, it’s hard to stop.
Soda Consumption can equal:
Bone Loss | Diabetes | Tooth Erosion and Decay | Sleep Disruption from Caffeine Overdosing | Aspartame Reactions | Obesity | Liver and Kidney Damage | Cirrhosis of the Liver | Parkinson’s Disease
Faith was born with two very deformed front legs. The doctor said she should be put to sleep because she would wear a hole in her chest and chin from pushing herself along the ground. Her mother tried to smother her… but she was rescued by a young man. His whole family nurtured Faith to amazing vitality and inspiration. Video of Faith on OPRAH.
This is a Ustream live streaming video of newly hatched baby owlets being lovingly taken care of by Molly their Mother and McGee their Dad in San Marcos, California. (You may have to wait a few moments for the live feed to appear.)
There’s one egg that hasn’t hatched yet, and Molly has spent all day feeding her newborns. One newborn is off to himself in the right corner. Hope he’s okay! : ) Update: Mumsy just tucked him under
her breast. He’s warm and quiet now. Joy!
A visually stunning trip through the known universe by the American Museum of Natural History. You never knew how small the Earth is, how beautiful, how singular and alone.
Another visual stunning trip through the Universe is the introductory scene from the movie, “Contact” with Jody Foster and Matthew McConaughey. A Must Buy movie, by the way…
From Youtube:
“The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world’s most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History. The new film, created by the Museum, is part of an exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010.”
Director: Carter Emmart
Curator: Ben R. Oppenheimer
Producer: Michael Hoffman
Executive Producer: Ro Kinzler
Co-Executive Producer: Martin Brauen
Manager, Digital Universe Atlas: Brian Abbott
New endless possibilities… Growing new body parts is becoming a reality. One man grew a new esophagus lining, another man grew new muscle tissue. Ears, fingers, bladders, livers, kidneys, hearts, heart valves, more.
Morley Safer interviews several doctors, one whose name is Dr. Badylak, pronounced “Battleax.” Among other things, Dr. Badylak’s team has found that extracellular matrix (ECM) can help create a biologic scaffold for tissue repair and regeneration.
This new “car” has an onboard hydrogen fuel plant. It puts out enough electricity to power your home. And power half your street to boot.
In goes salt water, out comes plain water. Is there a downside? Doesn’t seem to be. Of course, they wouldn’t want to reveal that at this point. This “transport” vehicle, the GM Hy-wire, also dubbed “Vectra,” is A-mazing.
This car is not available for purchase; there’s only one in the entire world. And, the price value is somewhere around $10 million dollars. The research costs would probably make it a billion.
It’s completely non-polluting. What about the manufacturing? Would that be excessively polluting? It has no batteries, therefore no lead, no cadmium, ?. So, what is the “power plant” made of?
It’s computerized. Would that mean a reboot whilst on the freeway? Asphalt screen of death…
Doubtful that Microsoft is involved. And by the design look, Apple isn’t either.
Really this is a rather phenomenal futuristic car. You could use it to power your life, your neighbor’s life, and even your street life.
Sell the extra power back to the grid. I have huge doubts at this point. But, GM has captured the imagination, that’s for sure.
Notes:
It’s supposedly the car of the future.
“…Probably the most advanced power system in the world: a completely non polluting fuel cell that takes hydrogen and produces electricity with the only by-product being a little bit of water vapour.
As if that wasn’t enough, all the controls are “by-wire” with no physical linkages from accelerator, brake or even steering wheel. That means the driver can press a button to change from right hand drive to left hand drive…
Performance
Power: 82 bhp
Top speed: 99 mph
0 – 62 mph: 16.0 seconds
Fuel consumption: Range of 124 miles
They call it the Hy-Wire mainly because it’s drive train consists of a smallish computer cable. Very strange.
GM might be really on to something. It’s hard to believe it’s completely non-polluting. Hydrogen is difficult to produce. It will be fascinating to discover all the little details.
Really, this is quite stunning. The possibilities boggle the mind.
Japanese Roboteers are creating increasingly realistic people lookalikes. Pretty soon, these robots will be able to be sing, dance, perform amazing tasks with flawless execution.
Real People Need Not Apply
Robots could be our future Pop and Rock Idols and Stars, indistinguishable from Humans… Well THAT would be quite… unique…
Did you ever think two chickens could love each other with the purest, utter devotion and to such extraordinary depths? Their love story rivals the world’s greatest.
“Occasionally, there were the soundbursts for their shared moments of displeasure, hurt, sadness, fear, or downright panic, such as the time when Libby got accidentally locked in a barn that was being cleaned and Louie, distressed at the sudden separation, paced frantically up and down the narrow path on the other side of the closed door, crowing his alarm, crying his pleas, clucking his commands, flapping his wings, showering us with a spray of fervid whistles, following us around, then running back to the barn door, clacking at it, knocking on it, then running back to us, whirring his wings, stomping his feet, tapping the ground with his beak, staring intently, and generally communicating Libby’s predicament in every “language” available to him: sound, movement, gaze, color, and certainly scent too…
…Except today. Today, it was Libby who “spoke” for both of them. And, this time, there was no doubt whose voice it was, or what it was saying, because it not only sounded off, it split open the sky, punctured the clouds, issued forth with such gripping force and immediacy that it stopped you dead in your tracks. It was a sound of such pure sorrow and longing, hanging there all alone, in stark and immaculate solitude, high above the din of sanctuary life, like the heart-piercing cry of an albatross. She had started to cluck barely audibly at dawn, when Louie failed to get up and lingered listlessly in their nest. She continued her plaintive murmur into the afternoon, when Louie became too weak to hold his head up and collapsed in a heap of limp feathers. And then, when we scooped him up and quarantined him into a separate room for treatment, her soft lament turned to wrenching wail…”
Well it’s rather nice that he does – for it could mean that there’s still hope for the rest/best of us. He certainly sees the irony and twistiness of it all, and inserts humor into humorless places and humorless faces.
Whether you agree or disagree, it seems a major portion of individuals have been took by hook and crook.
The title of Michael Moore’s new movie is, “Capitalism, A Love Story.”
The story of how love and addiction of money and power has brought ruinous devastation to millions across America – the little folks who dared to believe and trust that their savings would be properly cared for by the powers that be.
Now if you happen to be one of the Smart and Sassy rich who have prospered during this “interesting” time, you probably have few or no complaints.
So, it depends what side you’re on.
Unfortunately, no matter the side you WANT to be on… only those who “fit” the fit, look the look, talk the walk and meet the “bloodlines” regulations will be able to join the rich group. And, you will most likely have to leave your conscience at the door.
The Seaplex research ship is finishing up its exploratory voyage into the Great Pacific Gyre. This gyre is a huge continent-sized area in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that is now serving as a slow swirling repository for plastic bits of debris in every square meter down to a considerable depth…
The Chief Research Scientist offered up a profoundly revealing quote on today’s Seaplex blog:
“The next time we cut the small boat’s engine to pick up a piece of trash, we noticed that the ocean’s surface was covered in polka dots of tiny plastic. Though we’d been pulling up plastic in our nets for days, seeing it freely floating about, not bunched up in a net, was shocking. The magnitude of the problem suddenly came crashing down on me – how could there be this much plastic just floating in a random patch of ocean a thousand miles from land?”
